Granted Quotes

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

I would not take for granted that my personal life - because I knew better than anybody - that it was just a life. It was surprisingly an ordinary life.

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

Maturity - among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates.

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider.

No, I think the future of humanity will be like the past, we'll do what we've always done and there will still be human beings. Granted, there will always be people doing something different and there are a lot of possibilities.

In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.

The horrors of the Second World War, the chilling winds of the Cold War and the crushing weight of the Iron Curtain are little more than fading memories. Ideals that once commanded great loyalty are now taken for granted.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

As is the case with many Middle Eastern nations, women are nowhere near equal to men when it comes to basic freedoms and rights that we take for granted every day.

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

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.