Granted Quotes

And a democracy can't exist without free speech and the right to assemble. And that's what Americans tend to forget. And they're born into a culture where they take all of their freedoms for granted.

Kosovo is a small country but it also has a lot of riches that were granted to us by God.

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

At about twelve I just knew, something clicked, and I knew I wanted to be an actor and my parents, to their credit, granted this 12 year old girl a chance to give it a try.

I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: "O Lord make my enemies ridiculous." And God granted it.

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

I have always had this view about the modern education system: we pay attention to brain development, but the development of warmheartedness we take for granted.

Whether the prayer of Seneca was granted we do not know; but, as we do not again hear of Marcus, it is probable that he died before his father, and that the line of Seneca, like that of so many great men, became extinct in the second generation.

The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.

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

I don't ever take anything for granted.

All I ever wanted really, and continue to want out of life, is to give 100 percent to whatever I'm doing and to be committed to whatever I'm doing and then let the results speak for themselves. Also to never take myself or people for granted and always be thankful and grateful to the people who helped me.

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

In the best farce today we start with some absurd premise as to character or situation, but if the premises be once granted we move logically enough to the ending.

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

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

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

I hope this view of the question may be a mistaken one, because it does not seem to me very unlikely that the suffrage will be granted to women.

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

Today, many people take for granted the notion that people whose lives are going to be very heavily affected by public policies should have a say in how they are formulated and carried out.

What Bill Clinton did to us was cruel. The White House gave my attorneys indications that there was a good chance for my clemency to be granted. I had to prepare myself for being released because there was no sign that my petition would be denied.

The most important of all rights is the right to life, and I cannot foresee a day when domesticated animals will be granted that right in law.

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

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

I have not been that wise. Health I have taken for granted. Love I have demanded, perhaps too much and too often. As for money, I have only realized its true worth when I didn't have it.

I developed a really strong work ethic, and I don't take anything for granted.

We often take for granted that our lights will come on when we flip the light switch, but the reality is that our reliability standards and the current state of the transmission grid leave us all vulnerable to blackouts.

In the back of my mind, I can never forget this could be gone tomorrow - and at this point I think the odds are against me... the chances of succeeding in this business are slim to none; there's only a handful of people that have long careers. You have to put in the work, you can never be satisfied, never take it for granted.

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.

Never just run through a study because you happen to be familiar with it, but use it to see what you can get from it on this new day which has been granted you.