Quotes with granted

  • I take it for granted that you do not wish to hear an echo from the pulpit nor from the theological class-room.
  • You must always be puzzled by mental illness. The thing I would dread most, if I became mentally ill, would be your adopting a common sense attitude; that you could take it for granted that I was deluded.
  • I had to adjust to living in a Third World country, which means that things people in the U.S. take for granted-like hot running water whenever you turn on the tap-are not always available.
  • We fully believed, so soon as we saw that woman's suffrage was right, every one would soon see the same thing, and that in a year or two, at farthest, it would be granted.
  • 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.
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  • Voltaire In my life, I have prayed but one prayer: oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Bill Hybels Be wary of insisting that you know better than God about when a prayer request should be granted. God's delays are not necessarily denials. He always has reasons for his 'not yets.
    Too Busy Not to Pray
    Bill Hybels
    American church figure and author (1951 - )
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  • Pietro Aretino I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.
    Pietro Aretino
    Italian writer (1492 - 1556)
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  • Wyndham Lewis ''Revolution'' today is taken for granted, and in consequence becomes rather dull.
    Wyndham Lewis
    British painter and author (1882 - 1957)
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  • Elizabeth Bowen All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted; when you find it taken for granted, you are unnerved.
    Elizabeth Bowen
    Anglo-Irish Novelist (1899 - 1973)
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  • Bill Hybels Before bringing a request to the Lord, it's a good idea to ask: If God granted this request, would it bring glory to him? Would it advance his kingdom? Would it help people? Would it help me to grow spiritually?
    Too Busy Not to Pray
    Bill Hybels
    American church figure and author (1951 - )
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  • Beck Being able to take musical ideas through every iteration is attractive to me. Granted, not everyone's going to want to listen to that, but it should exist.
    Beck
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1970 - )
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  • Joyce Brothers Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.
    Joyce Brothers
    American psychologist and columnist (1927 - 2013)
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  • Blaise Pascal Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Derek Walcott Break a vase, and the love that reassembles the fragments is stronger than that love which took its symmetry for granted when it was whole.
    Derek Walcott
    Saint Lucian poet and playwright, winner Nobel Prize in Literature (1930 - 2017)
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  • John Gay But his kiss was so sweet, and so closely he pressed, that I languished and pined till I granted the rest.
    John Gay
    British playwright and poet (1685 - 1732)
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  • A. W. Tozer Christianity takes for granted the absence of any self-help and offers a power which is nothing less than the power of God.
    A. W. Tozer
    American Christian pastor, preacher and author
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  • Ryszard Kapuscinski 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
    Polish foreign correspondent and journalist (1932 - 2007)
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  • Audre Lorde Even the smallest victory is never to be taken for granted. Each victory must be applauded.
    A Burst of Light: and Other Essays (2017) 115
    Audre Lorde
    American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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  • Aldous Huxley Every gain made by individuals or society is almost instantly taken for granted.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Samuel Johnson Every other author may aspire to praise; the lexicographer can only hope to escape reproach, and even this negative recompense has been yet granted to very few.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Adam Garcia Families, particularly, tend to be the ones that you take the most for granted. They seem to slip under the radar, all those important things - it almost becomes second nature to do so.
    Adam Garcia
    Australian actor (1973 - )
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  • John Ruskin Freedom is only granted us that obedience may be more perfect.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • George Orwell Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Ralph W. Sockman 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.
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