Granted Quotes - Page 5

• I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it.

  Voltaire

  Funny, Life, God

  Letter to M. Damilaville, 16 May 1767

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• I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring.

  James Whistler

  Heaven, Intelligence, Genius

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• How quickly we forget God's great deliverances in our lives. How easily we take for granted the miracles he performed in our past.

  David Wilkerson

  Past, Christian Inspirational, Miracle

  David Wilkerson (2012). “God Is Faithful: A Daily Invitation into the Father Heart of God”, p.247, Baker Books

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• We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.

  Cynthia Ozick

  Thanksgiving, Thank You, Thankful

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• The simple process of focusing on things that are normally taken for granted is a powerful source of creativity.

  Edward de Bono

  Powerful, Taken, Creativity

  Edward De Bono (1992). “Serious Creativity: Using the Power of Lateral Thinking to Create New Ideas”, Harpercollins

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• Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life. Too many of us divide and dissipate our energies in debating actions which should be taken for granted.

  Ralph Washington Sockman

  Life, Taken, Passion

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• I took it all for granted, I'm sorry to say.

  Dorothy McGuire

  Sorry, Saying Sorry, I'm Sorry

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

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• Instead, I was interested in what I guess I could call narrative indeterminacy, in questioning the apparent, taken-for-granted authority of any particular representation of the events in question.

  Peter Straub

  Taken, Events, Narrative

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• For so long people have just taken what I do for granted. It is not easy to do year-in, year-out, to win Grand Slams and be No. 1.

  Pete Sampras

  Taken, Winning, Years

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Patriotism is strong nationalistic feeling for a country whose borders and whose legitimacy and whose ethnic composition is taken for granted.

  Michael Ignatieff

  Country, Strong, Taken

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• Awareness requires a rupture with the world we take for granted; then old categories of experience are called into question and revised.

  Shoshana Zuboff

  World, Rupture, Awareness

  Shoshana Zuboff (1988). “In the Age of the Smart Machine: The Future of Work and Power”, New York : Basic Books

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• Revolution today is taken for granted, and in consequence becomes rather dull.

  Wyndham Lewis

  Taken, Dull, Today

  Wyndham Lewis (1969). “Wyndham Lewis: an anthology of his prose”

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• The horrors of the Second World War, the chilling winds of the Cold War and the crushing weight of the Iron Curtain are little more than fading memories. Ideals that once commanded great loyalty are now taken for granted.

  Jan Peter Balkenende

  Crush, Loyalty, Memories

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• I think we take it for granted that if you are with your husband after 30 years, then he is the love of your life.

  Sue Townsend

  Husband, Thinking, Years

  Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. January 20, 2007.

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• Between believing a thing and thinking you KNOW is only a small step and quickly taken.

  Mark Twain

  Believe, Taken, Thinking

  Mark Twain (2003). “Tales of Wonder”, p.322, U of Nebraska Press

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• Your innermost core has always been pure. Purity is intrinsic to you, it cannot be taken away.

  Rajneesh

  Taken, Purity, Maldives

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• The enlightened give thanks for what most people take for granted.

  Michael Beckwith

  Taken, People, Giving

  FaceBook post by Michael Bernard Beckwith from Apr 29, 2016

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• Yet food is something that is taken for granted by most world leaders despite the fact that more than half of the population of the world is hungry.

  Norman Borlaug

  Taken, Leader, Population

  Norman Ernest Borlaug (1971). “Mankind and Civilization at Another Crossroad”

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• Music - that's been my education. There's not a day that goes by that I take it for granted.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Music

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• You have to decide if you're going to wilt like a daisy or if you're just going to go forward and live the life that you've been granted.

  Kevin Costner

  Live Life, Daisies, Express Yourself

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• It's human nature to start taking things for granted again when danger isn't banging loudly on the door.

  David Hackworth

  Inspirational, Giving Up, Doors

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• When something does not insist on being noticed, when we aren't grabbed by the collar or struck on the skull by a presence or an event, we take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.

  Cynthia Ozick

  Gratitude, Skulls, Taken For Granted

  "Noted with pleasure". The New York Times Archives, www.nytimes.com. 1984.

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• I have learned that some of the nicest people you'll ever meet are those who have suffered a traumatic event or loss. I admire them for their strength, but most especially for their life gratitude - a gift often taken for granted by the average person in society.

  Sasha Azevedo

  Gratitude, Taken, Loss

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• While feeling far less injured by toil than my friends took for granted I must be, I yet was always aware of the strong probability that my life would end as the lives of hard literary workers usually end, - in paralysis, with months or years of imbecility.

  Harriet Martineau

  Strong, Years, Feelings

  Harriet Martineau (2015). “Harriet Martineau's Autobiography (Vol. I: Abridged, Annotated)”, p.118, BIG BYTE BOOKS

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• Marriage accustomed one to the good things, so one came to take them for granted, but it magnified the bad things, so they came to feel as painful as a grain in one's eye. An open window, a forgotten quart of milk, a TV set left blaring, socks on the bathroom floor could become occasions for incredible rage.

  Marilyn French

  Eye, Milk, Tvs

  Marilyn French (2011). “The Women's Room”, p.253, Hachette UK

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