(570 quotes found)
“God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right even though I think it is hopeless.”
Chester W. Nimitz
“Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means that you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.”
Dr. Joyce Brothers
“But his kiss was so sweet, and so closely he pressed, that I languished and pined till I granted the rest.”
John Gay
“And the sea will grant each man new hope . . . his sleep brings dreams of home.”
Christopher Columbus
“I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.”
Coco Chanel
“If I could be granted a wish, I'd shine in your eye like a jewel.”
Bette Midler
“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
“To think creatively, we must be able to look afresh at what we normally take for granted.”
George Kneller
“Grant stood by me when I was crazy, and I stood by him when he was drunk, and now we stand by each other.”
William Tecumseh Sherman
“If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party”
Dag Hammarskjold