Granted Quotes - Page 29

• Granted, I could go out and lose everything (by) gambling and drinking, but there's no sense in denying it. It's in my blood.

  John Daly

  Drinking, Gambling, Blood

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• When I look out the window, I exhale a prayer of thanks for the color green, for my children's safety, for the simple acts of faith like planting a garden that helped see us through another spring, another summer. And I inhale some kind of promise to protect my kids' hopes and good intentions we began with in this country. Freedom of speech, the protection of diversity - these are the most important ingredients of American civil life and my own survival. If I ever took them for granted, I don't know.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Motivational, Summer, Country

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• When you're in danger of losing a thing it becomes precious and when it's around us, it's in tedious abundance and we take it for granted as if we're going to live forever, which we're not.

  John McGahern

  Forever, Losing, Abundance

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• Many of us understand giving, but some of us may still be confused about the meaning of forgiveness. Some people may go through life in a groveling mode, mistakenly believing they have to receive forgiveness from others. Forgiveness offers more than a reprieve granted to us by another person. True forgiveness is a process of giving up the false for the true and allows us to rid our thinking of rigid ideas. We can develop the flexibility to change our mind and our behavior patterns to higher and greater expressions and find new avenues to freedom.

  John Templeton

  Giving Up, Confused, Believe

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• There's really no substitute for working hard. I think that's my biggest talent. There are always people who are funnier and more talented than I am, but I don't take anything for granted and I commit myself 100% to each of my roles.

  Ken Jeong

  Work, Thinking, People

  "Ken Jeong of "The Hangover Part II" The funniest doctor in America makes a house call". Interview with Kam Williams, www.philasun.com. May 30, 2011.

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• Respect your body: you can only climb a mountain if you give your body the attention it deserves. You have all the time that life grants you, as long as you walk without demanding what can't be granted. If you go too fast you will grow tired and give up half way there. If you go too slow, night will fall and you will be lost. Enjoy the scenery, take delight in the cool spring water and the fruit that nature generously offers you, but keep on walking.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Giving Up, Spring

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• Each human being has been granted a virtue: the capacity to choose. For he who does not use this virtue, it becomes a curse - and others will always choose for him.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Inspiration, Doe

  Paulo Coelho (2015). “Warrior of the Light -”, p.25, Booklassic

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• When will the arbitrary be granted the place it deserves in the formation of works and ideas?

  Andre Breton

  Ideas, Arbitrary, Formation

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• This devotion, so great and so confident, to the august Queen of Heaven, has never forth with such brilliancy as when the militant Church of Go has seemed to be endangered by the violence of heresy spread abroad, or by an intolerable moral corruption, or by the attacks of powerful enemies. Ancient and modern history and the more sacred annals of the Church bears witness to public and private supplications addressed to the Mother of God, to help She has granted in return, and to the peace and tranquillity which She has obtained from God.

  Pope Leo X

  Mother, Queens, Powerful

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• We take it for granted we know the whole story - We judge a book by its cover and read what we want between selected lines.

  Axl Rose

  Inspirational, Book, Judging

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• During the year 1957, I experienced, by the grace of God, a spiritual awakening which was to lead me to a richer, fuller, more productive life. At that time, in gratitude, I humbly asked to be given the means and privilege to make others happy through music. I feel this has been granted through His grace. ALL PRAISE TO GOD.

  John Coltrane

  Spiritual, Gratitude, Mean

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• Few of us are granted the grace to know ourselves, and until we do, maybe the best we can do is be consistent.

  Andre Agassi

  Grace, Being The Best, Consistent

  Andre Agassi (2009). “Open”, p.202, Vintage

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• It's so easy in life for us to receive blessings, many of them almost uncounted, and have things happen in our lives that can help change our lives, improve our lives, and bring the Spirit into our lives. But we sometimes take them for granted. How grateful we should be for the blessings that the gospel of Jesus Christ brings into our hearts and souls. I would remind all of you that if we're ever going to show gratitude properly to our Heavenly Father, we should do it with all of our heart, might, mind, and strength-because it was He who gave us life and breath

  David B. Haight

  Gratitude, Jesus, Father

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• The government has granted itself power it is not entitled to. There is no public oversight. The result is people like myself have the latitude to go further than they are allowed to.

  Edward Snowden

  Government, People, Results

  "Edward Snowden: the whistleblower behind the NSA surveillance revelations". www.theguardian.com. June 11, 2013.

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• Privacy is a privilege not granted to the aged or the young.

  Margaret Laurence

  Privilege, Privacy, Young

  1964 The Stone Angel, ch.1.

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• In truth, one cannot, it seems, oppose mechanism and finalism, one cannot oppose mechanism and anthropomorphism, for if the functioning of a machine is explained by relations of pure causality, the construction of a machine can be understood neither without purpose nor without man. A machine is made by man and for man, with a view toward certain ends to be obtained, in the form of effects to be produced.

  Georges Canguilhem

  Men, Views, Long

  "Knowledge of Life".

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• The great ones never take fundamentals for granted.

  Twyla Tharp

  Fundamentals, Great Ones

  Twyla Tharp, Mark Reiter (2003). “The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life”, Simon and Schuster

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• It is not simply to be taken for granted that the Christian has the privilege of living among other Christians. Jesus Christ lived in the midst of his enemies.
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  So the Christian, too, belongs not in the seclusion of a cloistered life but in the thick of foes. There is his commission, his work.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Christian, Jesus, Taken

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Samuel Wells (2015). “Life Together”, p.7, SCM Press

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• It's been my habit of mind, over these years, to understand that every situation in which human beings are involved can be turned on its head. Everything someone assures me to be true might not be. Every pillar of belief the world rests on may or may not be about to explode. Most things don't stay the way they are very long. Knowing this, however, has not made me cynical. Cynical means believing that good isn't possible; and I know for a fact that good is. I simply take nothing for granted and try to be ready for the change that's soon to come.

  Richard Ford

  Believe, Mean, Knowing

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• Why you fool, it's the educated reader who can be gulled.  All our difficulty comes with the others.  When did you meet a workman who believes the papers?  He takes it for granted that they're all propaganda and skips the leading articles....He's our problem.  We have to recondition him.  But the educated public, the people who read the high-brow weeklies, don't need reconditioning.  They're all right already.  They'll believe anything.

  C. S. Lewis

  Education, Believe, People

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• For prayer is request. The essence of request, as distinct from compulsion, is that it may or may not be granted.

  C. S. Lewis

  Prayer, Essence, May

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.97, Simon and Schuster

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• No 'we' should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people's pain.

  Susan Sontag

  Pain, Taken, People

  Susan Sontag (2013). “Regarding the Pain of Others”, p.7, Macmillan

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• Human rights are not a privilege granted by the few, they are a liberty entitled to all, and human rights, by definition, include the rights of all humans, those in the dawn of life, the dusk of life, or the shadows of life.

  Kay Granger

  Rights, Liberty, Shadow

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• I think in part the reason is that seeing an economy that is, in many ways, quite different from the one grows up in, helps crystallize issues: in one's own environment, one takes too much for granted, without asking why things are the way they are.

  Joseph Stiglitz

  Growing Up, Thinking, Asking Why

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• Culture is the deeper level of basic assumptions and beliefs that are shared by members of an organization, that operate unconsciously and define in a basic 'taken for granted' fashion an organization's view of its self and its environment.

  Edgar Schein

  Fashion, Taken, Self

  "Organizational Culture and Leadership: A Dynamic View". Book by Edgar Schein, 1985.

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