Granted Quotes

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.

A Negro woman has the same kind of problems as other women, but she can't take the same things for granted.

Well, one thing, you got to stand in a courtroom and listen to a judge sentencing you to 25 years in prison before you realize that freedom of expression can no longer be taken for granted.

Father was the eldest son and the heir apparent, and he set the standard for being a Rockefeller very high, so every achievement was taken for granted and perfection was the norm.

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

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.

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.

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.

Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means that you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.

Your talent is your art. It is not to be taken for granted.

The Free State men, myself among them, took it for granted that Missouri was a slave state.

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

They decided that unpaid leave could only be granted through the decision of a council that consisted almost entirely of scientists who couldn't understand my reasons for wanting to go so. They said no, no unpaid. So I immediately resigned.

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.

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.

But when, in the first setting out, he takes it for granted without proof, that distinctions found in the structure of all languages, have no foundation in nature; this surely is too fastidious a way of treating the common sense of mankind.

I feel I have to work hard to nurture whatever talent I have as an actor. I feel like it's not natural to me. So I don't take it for granted... What I think is my natural ability - which is writing - I think I totally take that for granted.

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

Today, we're very dependent on cheap energy. We just take it for granted - all the things you have in the house, the way industry works.

Having children made us look differently at all these things that we take for granted, like taking your child to get a vaccine against measles or polio.

I definitely got to a point where I realize how unusual it is to be able to play large, sold-out shows 30 years into a rock and roll career. I don't take it for granted.

Life holds one great but quite commonplace mystery. Though shared by each of us and known to all, seldom rates a second thought. That mystery, which most of us take for granted and never think twice about, is time.

Families, particularly, tend to be the ones that you take the most for granted. They seem to slip under the radar, all those important things - it almost becomes second nature to do so.

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

Day by day we should weigh what we have granted to the spirit of the world against what we have denied to the spirit of Jesus, in thought and especially in deed.

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.

When we shoot 24, there are so many things I have to worry about, from the script to technical things to my performance, that I don't have a second to be bored or take anything for granted. We produce 24 hours of film a season, which is like making 12 movies.