A Quote by Carlos Fuentes

The citizen takes his city for granted far too often. He forgets to marvel.

Carlos Fuentes

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Citizen City Far Forgets Granted His Marvel Often Takes Too

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Carlos Fuentes
Mexican - Novelist
November 11, 1929 - May 15, 2012

We Bengalis are querulous, arrogant, oversensitive and far, far too emotional. We cry too often and laugh too hard. We wave our passions like bright flags. Calcutta is our city.

Victor Banerjee

Ingratitude is surely the chief of the intellectual sins of man. He takes his political benefits for granted, just as he takes the skies and the seasons for granted.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Stretching his hand up to reach the stars, too often man forgets the flowers at his feet.

Jeremy Bentham

A man is a better citizen of the United States for being also a loyal citizen of his state and of his city; for being loyal to his family and to his profession or trade; for being loyal to his college or his lodge.

Louis D. Brandeis

And each forgets, as he strips and runs With a brilliant, fitful pace, It's the steady, quiet, plodding ones Who win in the lifelong race. And each forgets that his youth has fled, Forgets that his prime is past, Till he stands one day, with a hope that's dead, In the glare of the truth at last.

Robert W. Service

Democrats, too often, take blacks for granted, and Republicans, too often, simply ignore black voters.

Tavis Smiley

It is an art form to hate New York City properly. So far I have always been a featherweight debunker of New York; it takes too much energy and endurance to record the infinite number of ways the city offends me.

Pat Conroy

Breast cancer takes the lives of many of our loved ones, and often far too soon.

Mike Parson

A man who has been in danger, When he comes out of it forgets his fears, And sometimes he forgets his promises.

Euripides

He that forgets his friend is ungrateful to him; but he that forgets his Saviour is unmerciful to himself.

John Bunyan

The royalists of the economic order have conceded that political freedom was the business of the government, but they have maintained that economic slavery was nobody's business. They granted that the government could protect the citizen in his right to vote, but they denied that the government could do anything to protect the citizen in his right to work and his right to live. Today we stand committed to the proposition that freedom is no half-and-half affair. If the average citizen is guaranteed equal opportunity in the polling place, he must have equal opportunity in the market place.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

Sometimes Aristotle analyses his terms, but very often he takes them for granted; and in the latter case, I think, he is sometimes deceived by them.

Gilbert Murray

There are three signs of senility. The first sign is that a man forgets his theorems. The second sign is that he forgets to zip up. The third sign is that he forgets to zip down.

Paul Erdos

asically, we got to know other and openly trade stories, and had some time to prep. As far as the 'going too far' thing, the great thing about film art is that you can go too far, and with multiple takes nobody has to see it.