Granted Quotes

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.

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

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.

If I could be granted a wish, I'd shine in your eye like a jewel.

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.

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

When Hegel later became a man of influence' he insisted that the Jews should be granted equal rights because civic rights belong to man because he is a man and not on account of his ethnic origins or his religion.

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.

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.