Granted Quotes

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

I don't take anything for granted.

Do not be misled by the fact that you are at liberty and relatively free; that for the moment you are not under lock and key: you have simply been granted a reprieve.

People sort of take it for granted, but the more you see of the media world the more you appreciate a paper like the Times where its family continues to invest in editorial quality and I think it's the truly is the best paper in the world.

No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the only one alive, and quite a number fondly believe their wish has been granted.

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

Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life. Too many of us divide and dissipate our energies in debating actions which should be taken for granted.

You get into your late fifties, people start falling like flies all around you. I don't take life for granted any more. I'm really glad to be here.

No other country on earth could have provided such tremendous opportunities and we should never take the privilege of our citizenship for granted.

I'm still really close with everyone at home and their parents - and their brothers and sisters. I was so, so, so lucky to grow up as part of a community and I don't take that for granted. I try very hard to stay part of it.

I think we take it for granted that if you are with your husband after 30 years, then he is the love of your life.

Never take anything for granted.

All too often the Democratic Party has taken the black vote for granted, and all too often the Republican Party has written it off.

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.

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.

There are two other SLA members who have been granted immunity and then also, one of the SLA members had confessed to two other people, and those people, I'm sure, will be called as witnesses, as they were at the grand jury.

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.

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.

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

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.

Music - that's been my education. There's not a day that goes by that I take it for granted.

I don't ever take anything for granted.