Granted Quotes - Page 39

• Harmony between two individuals is never granted-it has to be conquered indefinitely.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Two, Harmony, Individual

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• Privacy, after all, was the most relative of privileges. It was granted us by society under ungenerous conditions, the most fundamental of them that whether for pain or profit, by design or accident, we not call public attention to ourselves.

  Diana Trilling

  Pain, Design, Attention

  Diana Trilling (1981). “Mrs. Harris: the death of the Scarsdale diet doctor”, Harcourt

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• Our obsession with security is a measure of the power we have granted the future to hold over us.

  Wendell Berry

  Future, Obsession, Security

  Wendell Berry (2015). “The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture”, p.50, Counterpoint

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• I grew up taking it for granted that missionaries were what American boys grew up to be.

  Huston Smith

  Boys, Grew Up, Grew

  "Huston Smith: Rock star of religions turns 90" by Heidi Benson, www.sfgate.com. May 21, 2009.

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• It seems to me the mark of a civilized society that certain privileges should be taken for granted such as education, health care and the safety to walk the streets.

  Alan Bennett

  Taken, Civilization, Safety

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• Humiliation, slavery, fear have perverted us to the bone; we no longer look like men... . Men must be granted the respect due to them.

  Mohammed Dib

  Men, Looks, Slavery

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• A lot of the changes are so gradual that they don't even qualify as news, or even as interesting: they're so mundane that we just take them for granted. But history shows that it's the mundane changes that are more important than the dramatic 'newsworthy' events.

  Robert D. Kaplan

  Interesting, Important, Events

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• When we speak our words to God with thanksgiving and release them with the faith that our requests will be granted, we put ourselves in a position to receive. God does not change and nature's laws are absolute and impartial. Thus, prayer has the potential for changing us. It connects us with God's spirit, and it is the key to His kingdom. Whatever your religious persuasion, it's a good thing to start every day with prayer.

  Donna Fargo

  Religious, Prayer, Law

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• Granted, this system is insane, but we must not let sanity stand in the way of airport security.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Humorous, Food

  Dave Barry (2003). “Boogers Are My Beat: More Lies, but Some Actual Journalism”, p.182, Crown Archetype

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• Education in my family was not merely emphasized, it was our raison d'être. Virtually all of our aunts and uncles had Ph.D.s in science or engineering, and it was taken for granted that the next generation of Chu's were to follow the family tradition. When the dust had settled, my two brothers and four cousins collected three MDs, four Ph.D.s and a law degree. I could manage only a single advanced degree.

  Steven Chu

  Brother, Cousin, Uncles

  Steven Chu - Biographical, www.nobelprize.org. 1997.

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• Food is "everyday"-it has to be, or we would not survive for long. But food is never just something to eat. It is something to find or hunt or cultivate first of all; for most of human history we have spent a much longer portion of our lives worrying about food, and plotting, working, and fighting to obtain it, than we have in any other pursuit. As soon as we can count on a food supply (and so take food for granted), and not a moment sooner, we start to civilize ourselves.

  Margaret Visser

  Food, Fighting, Long

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• I'm sorry if I took some things for granted, I'm sorry for the chains I put on you. But more than anything, I'm sorry for myself for living without you.

  Brenda Lee

  Sorry, Sadness, Chains

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• Whatever lives is granted breath But by the grace and sufferance of Death.

  Countee Cullen

  Life And Death, Grace, Life Is

  Countee Cullen, Gerald Lyn Early (1991). “My soul's high song: the collected writings of Countee Cullen, voice of the Harlem Renaissance”, Doubleday Books

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• The way to get killed around machinery was to take things for granted.

  Richard McKenna

  Machines, Way, Taking Things For Granted

  Richard McKenna (2010). “The Sand Pebbles”, p.13, RosettaBooks

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• At a certain point, if you work really hard and you get good and people like your work, you do deserve the fame - but you shouldn't take it for granted.

  Jon Lovitz

  People, Like You, Fame

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I count my blessings every day, quite honestly, because I take nothing for granted.

  Mario Andretti

  Blessing, Honestly, Take Nothing For Granted

  "KNBR Conversation, with Mario Andretti". Interview with Bob Fitzgerald and Rod Brooks, www.sfgate.com. August 25, 2012.

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• All too often the Democratic Party has taken the black vote for granted, and all too often the Republican Party has written it off.

  Jack Kemp

  Party, Taken, Black

  "Kemp Courts Harlem Voters With Open Arms, Little Hope". www.nytimes.com. September 7, 1996.

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• The Sixties are most generously described as a time when people took part - when they stepped out of themselves and acted in public, as people who didn't know what would happen next, but who were sure that acts of true risk and fear would produce something different from what they had been raised to take for granted.

  Greil Marcus

  People, Risk, Different

  Greil Marcus (2013). “The Doors: A Lifetime of Listening to Five Mean Years”, p.56, PublicAffairs

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• At least in the West, politicians, corporations and media moguls can no longer take for granted their power to control the public discourse - and have it go unchallenged.

  David Puttnam

  Media, Moguls, Corporations

  "Post-Leveson, the press must become as accountable as the rest of us" by David Puttnam, www.theguardian.com. September 11, 2012.

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• You can never say you're big - I don't think you can ever take anything like that for granted.

  Chris Martin

  Thinking, Bigs

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• No, I think the future of humanity will be like the past, we'll do what we've always done and there will still be human beings. Granted, there will always be people doing something different and there are a lot of possibilities.

  Octavia Butler

  Past, Thinking, People

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• Animals in general have always been my passion, project, crusade - whatever you want to call it! The ocean is such a huge, beautiful thing that I feel like we all take for granted.

  Aimee Teegarden

  Beautiful, Ocean, Passion

  "Beautiful Wave Star Aimee Teegarden Talks Surfer Boys And More!". Interview with Kaitlin Menza, www.seventeen.com. May 12, 2012.

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• I think I've been wishing for celebrity for so long that I've got used to being someone who's petitioning the establishment for acceptance... my whole schtick, my whole identity, is so wrapped up in being a petitioner that I don't really know how to react now that petition has been granted.

  Toby Young

  Acceptance, Thinking, Long

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• In many ways, people growing up with the Web and now the Semantic Web take the power at their fingertips for granted.

  Tim Berners-Lee

  Growing Up, People, Way

  "Web inventor: Online life will produce more creative children". www.cnn.com. October 10, 2005.

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• I can say sincerely, don't take your voice for granted. It is truly what makes us all equal.

  2 Chainz

  Voice, Equal, Sincerely

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

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