Granted Quotes

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.

I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Just because you're from a city ten miles outside of St. Paul. It doesn't mean you don't read magazines, or the incredible Internet, and what's going on in the world. I never, ever take a client, or women, for granted.

Great God of the Ants, thou hast granted victory to thy servants. I appoint thee honorary Colonel.

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.

And, granted, for a long time, the European has been dominant in certain parts of this Western Hemisphere, but by the end of the 21st century, it's over.

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

Human rights are not a privilege granted by the few, they are a liberty entitled to all, and human rights, by definition, include the rights of all humans, those in the dawn of life, the dusk of life, or the shadows of life.

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.

Today, as we look back on the history of our nation and take note of how far we have come as a people, we are reminded that we owe a great debt to those who fought valiantly for the freedoms that we easily take for granted.

There is so much that people take for granted.

Extreme nationalism and Bolshevism have broken up the old world, a new world is in the making. It is literally true that old things are passing away; all things may become new, granted we have wise, unselfish, and determined guides.

The sun is the most important thing in everybody's life, whether you're a plant, an animal or a fish, and we take it for granted.

Most of us readily take things for granted that at an earlier time remained to be discovered.

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

But we cannot just take this historical fact for granted. We must make it live.

Children today will grow up taking for granted that an African-American or a woman can, yes, become the president of the United States.

Let sovereignty be granted us over a portion of the earth's surface large enough to satisfy our rightful requirements as a nation. The rest we shall manage for ourselves.

Looking at America's history, ordinary people did something extraordinary. Leaders risked their lives for freedoms that we take for granted today.That's what instills confidence. That's us. We will move forward and prosper because that's who we are as Americans.

Granted there are only seven stories in the universe. And I agree with that. But give me a great variation of those stories. And literate.