Granted Quotes

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.

I just learned not to take a single thing for granted, and I think it just is extraordinary.

We take food for granted, but it isn't a luxury for many people.

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.

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.

The most important of all rights is the right to life, and I cannot foresee a day when domesticated animals will be granted that right in law.

One thing must be granted to the rich: they are goodnatured.

When all of your wishes are granted, many of your dreams will be destroyed.

The first thing you have to do is make sure you're still wanted back. I never take that for granted any more.

I have not been that wise. Health I have taken for granted. Love I have demanded, perhaps too much and too often. As for money, I have only realized its true worth when I didn't have it.

We often take for granted that our lights will come on when we flip the light switch, but the reality is that our reliability standards and the current state of the transmission grid leave us all vulnerable to blackouts.

In the back of my mind, I can never forget this could be gone tomorrow - and at this point I think the odds are against me... the chances of succeeding in this business are slim to none; there's only a handful of people that have long careers. You have to put in the work, you can never be satisfied, never take it for granted.

In sum, we took energy for granted, assuming when we flipped the switch, the lights would go on and assuming that there would always be plenty of cheap fuel for our vehicles.

Never just run through a study because you happen to be familiar with it, but use it to see what you can get from it on this new day which has been granted you.

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.

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 invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.

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

Why does a man take it for granted that a girl who flirts with him wants him to kiss her - when, nine times out of ten, she only wants him to want to kiss her?

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.

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.