Top 100 Quotes About Granted
#1. Free access to the single market will be granted to a country which accepts the four fundamental freedoms of movement of people, goods, services, and capital.
Angela Merkel
#2. Both Mum and Dad were converts to Catholicism, and normally if you convert to Catholicism you have thought about it more than someone who just grew up with it, taking it for granted.
Tony Abbott
#3. When all of your wishes are granted, many of your dreams will be destroyed.
Marilyn Manson
#4. running the lyrics over and over in my head: "I wanna take you for granted. Well I will.
K. Bromberg
#5. At least in the West, politicians, corporations and media moguls can no longer take for granted their power to control the public discourse - and have it go unchallenged.
David Puttnam
#6. Personally, I find it romantic not to be with someone all the time; you don't get used to someone or take them for granted.
Monica Bellucci
#7. To be granted some kind of usable talent and to be able to use it to the fullest extent of which you are capable - this, to me, is a kind of joy that is almost unequaled.
Lawrence Welk
#8. I don't know why, precisely. I believe we were in need of a change. We needed to do things for ourselves. Does that make any sense? To break your own ground and know it's yours, free and clear. Nothing taken for granted.
Eowyn Ivey
#9. To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to be in a position in which almost nothing is so familiar it is taken for granted.
Bill Bryson
#10. When we honestly take stock of our ability, we are then granted the opportunity to improve our circumstance. Accessing where you stand is the only way to stand somewhere else.
Chris Matakas
#11. Every gain made by individuals or societies is almost instantly taken for granted. The luminous ceiling toward which we raise our longing eyes becomes, when we have climbed to the next floor, a stretch of disregarded linoleum beneath our feet.
Aldous Huxley
#12. Little Zac had it easy - but he didn't realize he had it easy, so he took it for granted. I think going through 'Hairspray' and other projects helped me learn about the business and life in general.
Zac Efron
#13. Every woman had a breaking point and Maliah's was incredibly high when it came to Danny. Granted,
Porscha Sterling
#14. In a religiously uniform culture, it is natural for people to take for granted the truth of the prevailing religion and its associated metaphysical propositions.
Richard Posner
#15. We did not - and could not - purchase Earth with money. We have just been granted temporary stewardship.
Ilchi Lee
#16. In other words, more than seventy per cent of American divorces are granted because husbands and wives can not adapt themselves to each other in the matter of how they shall spend their LEISURE hours.
Elsie Lincoln Benedict
#17. It could all end tomorrow, so enjoy what you have and never take it for granted. And never forget to take an easy run for yourself once in a while and just remember why you love to run.
Dathan Ritzenhein
#18. It's an Obama book, certainly. I was delighted, and astonished, to hear recently that he was reading it. It's a book about a new kind of American reality, one that takes diversity for granted. It doesn't celebrate diversity, actually, it just says: this is how we live now.
Teju Cole
#19. So much of what you take for granted is the bedrock of happiness.
Anna Quindlen
#20. All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted; when you find it taken for granted, you are unnerved.
Elizabeth Bowen
#21. People whose wishes get granted often don't turn out to be very nice people.
Terry Pratchett
#22. When I was younger, the main struggle was to be a 'good writer.' Now I more or less take my writing abilities for granted, although this doesn't mean I always write well.
Jonathan Franzen
#23. Sometimes it's easy to get caught up in life and take things for granted.
Karli Perrin
#24. 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.
David Talbot
#25. It is very easy to take for granted the phenomenon that we are each alive, but we must try not to.
Alex Grey
#26. The greatest Church Fathers, for instance, took it for granted that the creation narratives of Genesis could not be treated literally,
David Bentley Hart
#27. Expectations ruin the pleasures of life. To overcome every bad and appreciate every good, consider every day your last and take no one for granted.
Nael Gharzeddine
#28. Freedom is only granted us that obedience may be more perfect.
John Ruskin
#29. The South began acting in outright defiance of the Fourteenth Amendment of 1868, which granted the right to due process and equal protection to anyone born in the United States, and it ignored the Fifteenth Amendment of 1880, which guaranteed all men the right to vote.
Isabel Wilkerson
#30. This is what he knew that Paul didn't: the world was precarious and sometimes cruel. He'd had to fight hard to achieve what Paul simply took for granted.
Kim Edwards
#31. There is in some men a dispassionate neutrality of mind, which, though it generally passes for good temper, can neither gratify nor warm us: it must indeed be granted that these men can only negatively offend: but then it should also be remembered that they cannot positively please.
Sir Fulke Greville
#32. When, in the street, I see a mother walking with her grown-up daughter, I can hardly bear to witness the mother's pride, the softening of her face, her incredulous joy at being granted her daughter's company; and the iron discipline she imposes on herself, to muffle and conceal this joy.
Helen Garner
#33. When I think of my youth, he went in, what we took for granted, what we assumed was for ever certain, for ever permanent.
William Boyd
#34. God became man, granted. The devil became a woman.
Victor Hugo
#35. At the end of the day, I think everybody takes for granted that they get up, get out of bed every morning - just the mere fact that they can stand in front of the mirror and brush their teeth and get in their car and take off? A lot of people take their health for granted.
Brock Lesnar
#36. The humanity of all Americans is diminished when any group is denied rights granted to others.
Julian Bond
#37. We meet a lot of people along this journey. Some of them are sonsabitches and some are special. When you find the special ones you don't take a moment for granted, because you never know when your time with them is gonna be up.
Kim Holden
#38. Bad behavior is seen as something to be noticed, reported on, and analyzed, whereas people who do not lie and cheat are taken for granted.
John Brockman
#39. You trusted me and that I would never betray. Trust, much like a woman's love and affection, and brotherly friendship, is a sacred thing, and should never be lightly given nor abused nor taken for granted.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#40. Sweeter than the stolen kiss Are the granted kisses
Bayard Taylor
#41. Granted, I'm more interested in technology than most people, and less interested in politics than most. But I don't like to think about categories. I really see myself as a general non-fiction writer.
James Gleick
#42. Just because you're from a city ten miles outside of St. Paul. It doesn't mean you don't read magazines, or the incredible Internet, and what's going on in the world. I never, ever take a client, or women, for granted.
Vera Wang
#43. Bad answers for employment questions:
Employer: I see here that you worked for the state for three years. Why did you leave that job?
My parole was granted
Neil Leckman
#44. What further helps to reveal reality is when our personal thinking ceases to take reality for granted.
Criss Jami
#45. Those in the developing world have so few rights - we take a lot for granted in the developed world.
Annie Lennox
#46. Life is a lesson that must never be taken for granted.
Debra Roinestad
#47. She was not granted the luxury of forgetting her lower middle-class existence where life hangs by an unseen thread to every hope and where every slash of disappointment shrinks the life further.
Madhu Vajpayee
#48. A generous donor (who had no doubt lived a life that imperiled his mortal soul) had granted [the Sisters] more than one hundred waterfront acres.
Kristin Hannah
#49. The Gospel is not merely a communication of things that can be known - it is one that makes things happen and is life-changing. The dark door of time, of the future, has been thrown open. The one who has hope lives differently; the one who hopes has been granted the gift of a new life.
Pope Benedict XVI
#50. The right of the police of Boston to affiliate has always been questioned, never granted, is now prohibited ... There is no rightto strike against the public safety by anybody, anywhere, any time.
Calvin Coolidge
#51. We were smack bang in the middle, years from the finish, taking nothing for granted. I
Max Porter
#52. Most of the well-developed world - Australia, Western Europe - they develop their resources base, they inventory it, they develop it, and they view it as a good source of jobs and revenue. We are a country that for too long has taken affordable energy for granted.
John S. Watson
#53. I'm so vigorous, and I so take it for granted, because I've always been a real physical person.
Sally Field
#54. In relationships, everyone makes mistakes. If you are forgiven for yours, don't take it for granted.
Carlos Wallace
#56. We must vigilantly stand on guard within our own borders for human rights and fundamental freedoms which are our proud heritage ... w e cannot take for granted the continuance and maintenance of those rights and freedoms.
John Diefenbaker
#57. What was home, really? Just a place to lay your head.
No. It was so much more than that. It was a place where a person belonged. Where a fellow would be missed. It was a part of a man. Something that couldn't be sold or taken for granted.
Suzanne Woods Fisher
#58. Education is a means of empowerment, never take it for granted.
Always make time for independent learning.
Find your passion in life and pursue it with your heart and soul.
Never stop believing in yourself.
Deborah Gabriel
#59. Don't ever take for granted when people look in your eyes; you have no idea how important it is to be acknowledged. Even if it's an angry stare, because it's when they ignore you, when they look right through you, that you should start worrying.
Cecelia Ahern
#60. Before exulatation had vanished, I felt as if I had been granted a marvellous privilege. Out of the inscrutable waters a beautiful fish had somehow leaped to show me fleetingly the life and spirit of his element.
Zane Grey
#61. I was very small, about 3 or 4 I think, and just wanted to be the people on telly telling these wonderful stories. Obviously the idea grew and matured with me but I can't ever remember wanting to do anything else. I've just sort of taken it for granted all my life that that was what I would do.
David Tennant
#62. Everyone has experienced that truth: that love, like a running brook, is disregarded, taken for granted; but when the brook freezes over, then people begin to remember how it was when it ran, and they want it to run again.
Khalil Gibran
#63. Intellectual freedom means the right to re-examine much that has been long taken for granted. A free man must be a reasoning man, and he must dare doubt what a legislative or electoral majority may most passionately assert.
Robert H. Jackson
#64. Garfield were tasked with disentangling and arranging the fairy lights on the tree and, as she had requested, Rosamunde was granted the honour of placing the charmingly
Rebecca Boxall
#65. Beauty is there to be noticed. Too often it is taken for granted because we are moving too fast to let it in and allow it to deliver its message in us. We need to pay attention. To show indifference to beauty is an insult to its Creator.
Luci Shaw
#66. This time, there were no drugs involved. The hours were completely normal daytime hours. I think we were able to appreciate the interplay, where before we had taken it for granted.
Lindsey Buckingham
#67. Why is it taken for granted that women should earn less than men? No! They have the same rights.
Pope Francis
#68. She recognized that this city was a place that granted you only what you were willing to claim
Earl Lovelace
#69. Our obsession with security is a measure of the power we have granted the future to hold over us.
Wendell Berry
#70. Franklin D. Roosevelt was fortunate: He didn't take office until nearly four years after the Wall Street crash, by which time the Republicans' responsibility for the Depression was taken for granted.
Tina Brown
#71. She took him for granted sometimes. That was the luxury of a long marriage. But she knew that she loved him. She needed him. He was the anchor that kept her from drifting away.
Karin Slaughter
#72. Never throw love away, never neglect it. Never assume you'll find better love somewhere else. Take it wherever you're lucky enough to find it, and always try to return it in kind. Don't take so much for granted.
Patricia Gaffney
#73. To be wise and eke to love,
Is granted scarce to gods above.
Edmund Spenser
#74. Look at everything upside down.Take absolutely nothing for granted.
Dick Francis
#75. 'Rights' are granted; 'duties' are enforced. To speak of rights and duties is to think in terms of authority.
Laurance Labadie
#76. Whenever I get frustrated, I tell myself, you could be working at a 7-Eleven right now, so never take for granted what you do for a living.
Shannen Doherty
#77. He is my one in a million too, my one in a million chance for happiness and love, the two things I thought I would never be granted again in life.
D.M. Omar
#78. In taking the everyday details of life for granted, we fail to appreciate the extraordinary fact that we are conscious at all.
Stephen Batchelor
#79. When we reached the beach, Leif fell to his knees with a dramatic cry. "Solid ground! I'll never take you for granted again."
"Are you going to kiss the sand?" I asked.
"Don't be ridiculous."
"Now I'M the one being silly?"
"Yes.
Maria V. Snyder
#80. Unlike, say, witch-burning, slavery, and apartheid, which were once taken for granted and are now officially outlawed, war is still with us.
Adam Hochschild
#81. Only greatly insolent people establish a religious law which is to be taken for granted by others, which should be accepted by everyone on faith, without any discussion or doubts. Why must people do this?
Leo Tolstoy
#82. Shun to seek what is hid in the womb of the morrow, and set down as gain in life's ledger whatever time fate shall have granted thee.
Horace
#83. I'm really in such a fortunate position to have that foundation with Hall and Oates that lets me do whatever I want. That's the dream of a lot of creative people, and I don't take it for granted. I try to make the most of it.
John Oates
#84. Mr Greenleaf was such a decent fellow himself, he took it for granted that everybody else in the world was decent, too. Tom had almost forgotten such people existed.
Patricia Highsmith
#85. That's not a thing any of us are granted. To go back. Wipe away what later doesn't suit us and make it the way we wish it. You just go on
Charles Frazier
#86. Every job I take, within minutes I'm thinking, 'I can't do this.' I think it's what makes me work. People think I just swagger in and do it. But I doubt myself all the time. It's what pushes me, what makes me work harder. The older I get, the less I take for granted.
Ray Winstone
#87. You've always got to work to your highest ability level. When times are great and restaurants are jamming, that's when some restaurants get sloppy and take things for granted. Never take things for granted.
Michael Symon
#88. Philosophy ought to question the basic assumptions of the age. Thinking through, critically and carefully, what most of us take for granted is, I believe, the chief task of philosophy, and the task that makes philosophy a worthwhile activity.
Peter Singer
#89. The way I see it, the impossible happens all the time; but we're so good at taking it for granted, we forget it was once impossible.
Neal Shusterman
#90. Blacks are supposed to rejoice whenever our way of life becomes more mainstream. We seldom do. For we see in it a sanctioning that can only be granted by white society. In other words: If you're white, it's all right. If you're black, step back.
Lena Williams
#91. The bed was enormous and clearly custom-made. Granted, Vincent was a big man. But even he didn't need all that space, unless he was hosting orgies. Which, for all she knew, was exactly what he did.
D.B. Reynolds
#92. The long view of the Census bureau allows some changes that are taken for granted to be studied in more detail. Everyone knows, for example, that people get married later than they used to.
Bill Dedman
#93. 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.
Hedy Lamarr
#94. I'd like - inviting aliens and have them observe what we do because so much of what we do that we take for granted will just be weird or extraordinary or just plain dumb when observed by an alien from another civilization.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#95. All peoples must be respected, and they must all be granted the same rights.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
#97. You just can't take a day for granted. We had to work really hard for anything, and so that's been instilled in me. And I don't look at myself as better than anybody else, because in an instant everything can change.
Alicia Keys
#98. When granted many years of life, growing old in age is natural, but growing old with grace is a choice. Growing older with grace is possible for all who will set their hearts and minds on the Giver of grace, the Lord Jesus Christ.
Billy Graham
#99. I never, ever took you for granted. We met too late for that; I was nearly thirty-three by then, and my past without you was too stark and insistent for me to find the miracle of companionship ordinary.
Lionel Shriver
#100. I don't want to take fame for granted because that is when you start to think you are better than everyone else. That is when you start thinking that you are someone that you are not.
Mandy Moore
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