(565 quotes found)
“I was never interested in the obvious, or in the details one takes for granted, and everybody seemed to be addicted to the obvious, being astonished by it, and forever harping about the details which I had long ago weighted, measured, and discarded a”
William Saroyan
“Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.”
Saint Augustine
“The Lord grant we may all be tillers of the soil.”
Nikolai Gogol
“O gods, grant me this in return for my piety.”
Catullus
“Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider.”
Francis Bacon
“Still this planet's soil for noble deeds grants scope abounding.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“All we can do is hope and pray - on suggestions Hugh Grant will retire soon”
Colin Firth
“One of the things we look at is a sense of complacency where you take things for granted. He'd probably made that maneuver many, many times, and this time it ended in tragedy.”
Gary Davis
“May your every wish be granted”
Chinese Proverbs
“Most of them do not have access to outdoor activities, which you and I take for granted. In our first year, we took our 100 boys to visit the National Mall, and all of them said they had never been there before.”
John Maxwell
