Granted Quotes

I've been been on the cover of TV Guide, on every single talk and entertainment show except Letterman. It's interesting being older and dealing with this kind of success. I'm more appreciative of it now, and I don't take it for granted.

I was in my yard and thought that the tree was a living being. We take trees for granted. We don't believe they are as much alive as we are.

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

In life, so many things are taken for granted, but one thing I can honestly say is that I took every day, enjoyed the game of putting on that uniform and playing the great game of baseball.

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

Granted, the writers, directors, producers, and that community make a great deal of money. But they might be choosing to do a whole lot of other things for the living they make.

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

The real end of prayer is not so much to get this or that single desire granted, as to put human life into full and joyful conformity with the will of God.

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

I'm very blessed and I don't take anything for granted.

Everybody gets everything handed to them. The rich inherit it. I don't mean just inheritance of money. I mean what people take for granted among the middle and upper classes, which is nepotism, the old-boy network.

At a certain point, if you work really hard and you get good and people like your work, you do deserve the fame - but you shouldn't take it for granted.

Granted, there are times when, for business reasons, you do something that's more mainstream. But even then, I try to find something that has a dark or subversive aspect.

How quickly we forget God's great deliverances in our lives. How easily we take for granted the miracles he performed in our past.

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

My goals have gone from being an all-star to just being able to play basketball. I always took for granted that I could play. Now I know what a gift it is.

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

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.

Every time I score the passion comes out and I try to relay that back to the fans and to the players and the staff how grateful I am to be playing for such a good football club. The fans have taken well to me. I am part of the furniture at Everton, but I don't take it for granted.

Although we take it for granted, sanitation is a physical measure that has probably done more to increase human life span than any kind of drug or surgery.

What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their experiments lead.

The principal achievement of Europe is peace, which we often forget about as it has become so taken for granted by Europeans.

Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.

But his kiss was so sweet, and so closely he pressed, that I languished and pined till I granted the rest.

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.

Time granted does not necessarily coincide with time that can be most fully used.

The lands granted were in the occupancy of savages and situated in a wilderness, of which the government had never taken possession, and of which it could not with its own citizens ever have taken possession.

One of my fantasies in my life has been that I was granted access with a camera to go back in time, and to film the actual campaign of Alexander crossing into India through Iran and Persia.

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