Granted Quotes

People take reality for granted.

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.

You never can take for granted that you have a job.

I don't take anything for granted.

I worked three and then six hours a day in my studio with strict discipline and emotion. I obtained awards usually granted to other foreigners during the end-of-year admission tests.

I count my blessings every day, quite honestly, because I take nothing for granted.

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

I want justice to be so pervasive that it will be taken for granted, just as injustice is taken for granted today.

I think I've begun to take for granted how easily information can swirl around me.

No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the only one alive, and quite a number fondly believe their wish has been granted.

I always had a curiosity about Texas. I had a curiosity about small-town life, although, granted, Odessa's not a tiny town.

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.

Drafting a constitution is only the first step. The constitution has to be granted legitimacy by open discussion and a fair, representative referendum.

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.

All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted; when you find it taken for granted, you are unnerved.

Granted, we need to have a sound immigration policy that allows people into our country who are going to produce more than they are going to consume, but the bottom line is illegal aliens consume far more of our tax resources than they generate.

You never take your fans for granted. You always appreciate them every show, night in, night out.

This time, there were no drugs involved. The hours were completely normal daytime hours. I think we were able to appreciate the interplay, where before we had taken it for granted.

I can say sincerely, don't take your voice for granted. It is truly what makes us all equal.

It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you.

You know, we have to take these characters - who, granted, have their separate personalities but, on a lot of levels, are pretty two-dimensional - and make them into people with flaws, with insecurities.

Since it is not granted to us to live long, let us transmit to posterity some memorial that we have at least lived.

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.

It's always important to recognize your situation and not take it for granted.

The popular will cannot be taken for granted, it must be created.

The first thing you have to do is make sure you're still wanted back. I never take that for granted any more.

I'm so vigorous, and I so take it for granted, because I've always been a real physical person.

After a long day, my favorite way to unwind is by going running. Not exactly the most relaxing activity, granted, but I always imagine I'm sweating out all the things weighing on my mind.

You kind of took it for granted around the Yankees that there was always going to be baseball in October.

We've all had those moments where we take a person for granted.

I don't take things for granted, because everything feels more fragile. It's made me wonder about mortality and how long you've got somebody in the world. I'm more fearful than I used to be.

I don't take a scene or word for granted.

Beginning to create again was something that I took for granted but I never will take it for granted again.

I take it for granted that you do not wish to hear an echo from the pulpit nor from the theological class-room.

I think that every year that the New York City Ballet is alive is worthy of celebration. Because otherwise the terrible thing is just that we take it for granted.

I mean that'd be great if we could continue to be staples of alt-rock radio. I don't take that for granted.

Freedom granted only when it is known beforehand that its effects will be beneficial is not freedom.

There are two other SLA members who have been granted immunity and then also, one of the SLA members had confessed to two other people, and those people, I'm sure, will be called as witnesses, as they were at the grand jury.

Education is important because, first of all, people need to know that discrimination still exists. It is still real in the workplace, and we should not take that for granted.

I'm a chatterbox.

No other country on earth could have provided such tremendous opportunities and we should never take the privilege of our citizenship for granted.

I consider myself an artist. God granted me some gifts so that I could express myself artistically.

I don't take my fans' love and dedication for granted.

I just learned not to take a single thing for granted, and I think it just is extraordinary.

We have been given the trust and goodwill of New Zealanders. I do not take that trust for granted, and I never will.

A lot of people are surprised to hear that an actor studied for two or three years. They take the craft for granted and wanna just wake up and be an actor.

I never take anything for granted. I may slip any minute.

The day I take either my body or my work for granted will be the day you hear that I've smashed every inch of myself to pieces.

I am not unaware of the saying that more tears have been shed over wishes granted than wishes denied.

I always was one who didn't take things for granted. But I think I do appreciate things more now. The small moments of joy that we find each day are so much more precious now than when I looked at them before.

In many ways, people growing up with the Web and now the Semantic Web take the power at their fingertips for granted.

I also take it as granted that every created thing, and consequently the created monad also, is subject to change, and indeed that this change is continual in each one.

Those in the developing world have so few rights - we take a lot for granted in the developed world.

You can't take life for granted.

Firstly, people take for granted that the E.U. has created the biggest economic space in the world.

I don't ever take anything for granted.

You can never say you're big - I don't think you can ever take anything like that for granted.

When you're in danger of losing a thing it becomes precious and when it's around us, it's in tedious abundance and we take it for granted as if we're going to live forever, which we're not.

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

If I could be granted a wish, I'd shine in your eye like a jewel.

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.

I think we really feel like Crowdrise could be something that, 20 years from now, people take for granted because that's just how you do it, like if you're going to raise money for something, that's how you do it.

Sometimes people take it for granted that they had success, especially nowadays when you have instant stardom. A lot of people feel entitlement and nobody is entitled to anything.

Being born and raised as a Californian, I somewhat ignorantly had taken for granted the diversity and liberal mindset that shaped my childhood and adult life.

I have always been fascinated with guns. I grew up in America, so, granted, it is part of our heritage, and it is written into the laws of how this country is run.

I kind of always took it for granted the fact that my parents were Olympic medalists.

It is also, I would guess, a universal that in all societies people value respectability granted to them.

Through persistent dedication, Susan B. Anthony, and other remarkable leaders, women were finally granted the right to vote in 1920.

I grew up taking it for granted that missionaries were what American boys grew up to be.

In July, 1892, fate suddenly granted me financial independence.

Certainly, in Italy, nobody takes light for granted.

I think in part the reason is that seeing an economy that is, in many ways, quite different from the one grows up in, helps crystallize issues: in one's own environment, one takes too much for granted, without asking why things are the way they are.

One thing must be granted to the rich: they are goodnatured.

In sum, we took energy for granted, assuming when we flipped the switch, the lights would go on and assuming that there would always be plenty of cheap fuel for our vehicles.

I guess they just took it for granted that that was what I was interested in and let nature take its course.