Granted Quotes - Page 31

• Love is a command to rise to one's highest potential, the best and noblest vision of ourselves. Love is a reward, the greatest we can earn, granted to us for the moral qualities we have achieved in our lives.

  Helen Mirren

  Inspirational, Love Is, Self Love

  "Fictional character: Ayn Rand". "The Passion of Ayn Rand", www.imdb.com. 1999.

  26 Copy quote

  Show source

• People take it for granted that the physical world is both ordered and intelligible. The underlying order in nature - the laws of physics - are simply accepted as given, as brute facts. Nobody asks where they came from; at least not in polite company. However, even the most atheistic scientist accepts as an act of faith that the universe is not absurd, that there is a rational basis to physical existence manifested as law-like order in nature that is at least partly comprehensible to us. So science can proceed only if the scientist adopts an essentially theological worldview.

  Paul Davies

  Order, Law, People

  33 Copy quote

• Crisis or transition of any kind reminds us of what matters most. In the routine of life, we often take our families-our parents and children and siblings-for granted. But in times of danger and need and change, there is no question that what we care about most is our families! It will be even more so when we leave this life and enter into the spirit world. Surely the first people we will seek to find there will be father, mother, spouse, children, and siblings.

  M. Russell Ballard

  Mother, Children, Father

  10 Copy quote

• We cannot take for granted that the future will be better, and that means we need to work to create it today.

  Peter Thiel

  Mean, Needs, Today

  Peter Thiel, Blake Masters (2014). “Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future”, p.151, Crown Business

  14 Copy quote

  Show source

• Imagine what will happen to this nation if large numbers of American women start using the Wonderbra. It will be catastrophic. The male half of the population will be nothing but mindless drooling Zombies of Lust. Granted, this is also true now, but it will be even worse.

  Dave Barry

  Men, Numbers, Lust

  Dave Barry (2012). “The Greatest Invention in the History of Mankind Is Beer: And Other Manly Insights from Dave Barry”, p.40, Andrews McMeel Publishing

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• Motherhood has brought me many joys and insights, but the new perspective it granted me on the role I had inadvertently played in young women's lives for the 2 decades I spent in the modeling industry was downright sobering.

  Carre Otis

  Motherhood, Perspective, Joy

  "Ending the Myth" by Carré Otis, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 8, 2011.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• It has always puzzled me that so many people have taken it for granted that God favors those who believe in him. Isn't it possible that the actual God is a scientific God who has little patience with beliefs founded on faith rather than evidence?

  Raymond Smullyan

  Believe, Taken, People

  Raymond Smullyan (1983). “Five Thousand B.C. and Other Philosophical Fantasies”, p.33, Macmillan

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• The question is not whether we wish to see everybody as well off as possible. Among men of good will such an aim can be taken for granted. The real question concerns the proper means of achieving it. And in trying to answer this we must never lose sight of a few elementary truisms. We cannot distribute more wealth than is created. We cannot in the long run pay labor as a whole more than it produces.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Running, Real, Taken

  Henry Hazlitt (2010). “Economics in One Lesson: The Shortest and Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics”, p.146, Crown Business

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• You are well equipped with an incredible potential for absorbing knowledge.  Let your imagination, the key to learning and memory, unleash that brain power and propel you along at ever-increasing speeds. It’s not an exclusive path with access granted only to those with a special gift for learning. It is, instead, available to everyone who has a brain. Anything’s possible.

  Dominic O'Brien

  Memories, Keys, Imagination

  14 Copy quote

• Do not be misled by the fact that you are at liberty and relatively free; that for the moment you are not under lock and key: you have simply been granted a reprieve.

  Ryszard Kapuscinski

  Keys, Liberty, Locks

  7 Copy quote

• There are two great gifts which God, in his love for man, has granted from on high: the priesthood and the imperial dignity.

  Justinian I

  Men, Two, His Love

  73 Copy quote

• Within the model minority rhetoric, Asian Americans are represented as “good” minorities and African Americans are represented as “bad” minorities. Here, the achievements of Asian Americans are used to discipline African Americans. As model minorities, Asian Americans achieved the status of “honorary Whites”. Again it is important to point out that the honorary whiteness of Asian Americans was granted at the expense of Blacks. It is also significant that as “honorary Whites,” Asian Americans do not have the actual privileges associated with “real” whiteness.

  Jennifer Lee

  Real, Discipline, Achievement

  13 Copy quote

• Hope is not a granted wish or a favor performed; no it is far greater than that. It is a zany, unpredictable dependence on a God who loves to surprise us out of our socks.

  Max Lucado

  Hopeful, Wish, Favors

  Max Lucado (2013). “Grace for the Moment: Morning and Evening Devotional Journal”, p.161, Thomas Nelson Inc

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• Let us not take what we eat for granted; let us view our meals as an opportunity to give our Lord praise.

  Dillon Burroughs

  Opportunity, Views, Giving

  4 Copy quote

• Salvation for a race, nation or class must come from within. Freedom is never granted; it is won. Justice is never given; it is exacted.

  A. Philip Randolph

  Race, Class, Justice

  "A. Philip Randolph, a Biographical Portrait". Book by Jervis Anderson, epigraph, p. vii, 1973.

  139 Copy quote

  Show source

• The human spirit is not indestructible; but a courageous few discover that, when in hell, they are granted a glimpse of heaven.

  Anthony Storr

  Heaven, Glimpse, Spirit

  Anthony Storr (2005). “Solitude: A Return to the Self”, p.61, Simon and Schuster

  14 Copy quote

  Show source

• One must know the so-called 'lesson of a downpour. A man, caught in a sudden rain en route, dashes along the road not to get wet or drenched. Once one takes it for granted that in rain he naturally gets wet, he can be in a tranquil frame of mind even when soaked to the skin. This lesson applies to everything.

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo

  Rain, Men, Mind

  Tsunetomo Yamamoto (2001). “The Hagakure - The Way of the Samurai”, p.60, BoD – Books on Demand

  16 Copy quote

  Show source

• When life is good do not take it for granted as it will pass. Be mindful, be compassionate and nurture the circumstances that find you in this good time so it will last longer. When life falls apart always remember that this too will pass. Life will have its unexpected turns.

  Ajahn Brahm

  Fall, Life Is Good, Lasts

  300 Copy quote

• If gays are granted rights, next we'll have to give rights to prostitutes and to people who sleep with St. Bernards and to nail biters.

  Anita Bryant

  Sleep, Gay, Rights

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  33 Copy quote

  Show source

• Up until the late unpleasantness of the Civil war, then, the right of secession was more or less taken for granted in many quarters, and there has never been any amendment or even a Supreme Court decision saying it's improper. - Samual Francis, Secession May Be Legal But Not Expedient, Conservative Chronicles
  If there be any among us who wish to dissolve the Union or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed, as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.

  Thomas Jefferson

  War, Taken, Errors

  8 Copy quote

• Such a little thing really, a kiss... most people don't give it a moment's consideration. They kiss on meeting, they kiss on parting, that simple touching of flesh is taken entirely for granted as a basic human right.

  Sarah Kay

  Taken, Kissing, Simple

  9 Copy quote

• Even if you're inches away from the finish, never take success for granted.

  Dean Karnazes

  Success, Inches, Ifs

  Dean Karnazes (2012). “Run!: 26.2 Stories of Blisters and Bliss”, p.89, Rodale

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• FREEDOM CANNOT BE LICENSED, liberties cannot be regulated and rights cannot be granted. History teaches us that when the rights and liberties of a free people have restrictions upon them, they cease to be freedoms and rights. Instead, the government becomes like a king, bestowing privileges upon the chosen few and servitude upon everyone else.

  Steve Kubby

  Kings, Rights, Government

  5 Copy quote

• In order to expand the gaming population, it is taken for granted that we need to offer games to satisfy veteran gamers. At the same time, I believe that we need to make a new proposal, so that those who do not play games can say, 'I can do it' and, 'I want to touch it.'

  Satoru Iwata

  Believe, Taken, Order

  27 Copy quote

• To the individual believer indwelt by the Holy Spirit there is granted the direct impression of the Spirit of God on the spirit of man, imparting the knowledge of His will in matters of the smallest and greatest importance. This has to be sought and waited for.

  G. Campbell Morgan

  Christian, Men, Matter

  G. Campbell Morgan (2004). “God's Perfect Will”, p.157, Wipf and Stock Publishers

  20 Copy quote

  Show source