Granted Quotes

Although we take it for granted, sanitation is a physical measure that has probably done more to increase human life span than any kind of drug or surgery.

What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their experiments lead.

Everybody gets everything handed to them. The rich inherit it. I don't mean just inheritance of money. I mean what people take for granted among the middle and upper classes, which is nepotism, the old-boy network.

At a certain point, if you work really hard and you get good and people like your work, you do deserve the fame - but you shouldn't take it for granted.

Granted, there are times when, for business reasons, you do something that's more mainstream. But even then, I try to find something that has a dark or subversive aspect.

How quickly we forget God's great deliverances in our lives. How easily we take for granted the miracles he performed in our past.

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.

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.

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.

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.