Best 239 quotes in «granted quotes» category

If a German company takes over 51 percent of an Indian one, it is given far-reaching controlling rights. But if an Indian company owns the majority of a German company, it is granted only very limited influence. That is unfair.

If associations to control burglary and murder were tolerated we should take it for granted that the members should all be burglers and murderers.

If, before undertaking some action, you must obtain the permission of society-you are not free, whether such permission is granted to you or not. Only a slave acts on permission. A permission is not a right.

I feel lucky that I'm working at all. I don't take any job for granted. I enjoy this. It's all enjoyable for me. It's all part of it.

I feel strongly about showing up and being prepared and not taking the opportunity for granted and being conscientious about my fellow co-workers.

If I find myself half-carelessly taking lapses for granted, "Oh, that's what they always do." "Oh, of course she talks like that, he acts like that," then I know nothing of Calvary love.

I honestly consider that the greatest gift to me, is the reaction that I get from my work. That is a given which I never, ever take for granted. But to be given that by audiences, individuals, on the street, in the theater, is an extraordinary feeling.

If somebody knew every time they did something it was going to be a hit there would never be any failures. Sadly, that's not how it works. You take nothing for granted.

If you go back to Adam Smith, you find the idea that markets and market forces operate as an invisible hand. This is the traditional laissez-faire market idea. But today, when economics is increasingly defined as the science of incentive, it becomes clear that the use of incentives involves quite active intervention, either by an economist or a policy maker, in using financial inducements to motivate behavior. In fact, so much though that we now almost take for granted that incentives are central to the subject of economics.

If you refuse where you have always granted you invite to theft.

I grew up taking it for granted that missionaries were what American boys grew up to be.

I have granted you much that you asked: and yet you never cease to ask of me. He who refuses nothing, Atticilla, will soon have nothing to refuse.

I guess the main thing is, you unconsciously take things for granted, and you think the audience is with you, because you're with yourself.

I have learned yet again (this has been going on all my life) what folly it is to take any thing for granted without examining it skeptically.

I have no lucky charm. I am 100 percent superstition-free, and I take nothing for granted.

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

I kind of always took it for granted the fact that my parents were Olympic medalists.

I love this country because I didn't always have it. Freedom, food, water that is clean, Constitution - these are not things I take for granted.

I learned that once it's over, it's really over, and to not take anything for granted.

I learned at an early age that every breath that we take is borrowed. We need to be thankful for our life and never take it for granted.

I live life and I don't take it for granted.

I'll never take for granted the opportunity to put on a Dodger uniform.

I love going out to clubs. Granted, I don't get hammered or do anything to embarrass myself. I'd call myself wholesome but it's not like I only drink milk.

I'm not cruel, sir, I won't shoot you in the guts, but I will make you realize how much you took your toes for granted.

I'm a lucky guy. I don't take for granted, for one minute, what I do.

I'm so thankful. I've been blessed. I never took it for granted.

I'm not only a romanticist but a romantic myself. I take it for granted the originality matters.

I'm sorry if I took some things for granted, I'm sorry for the chains I put on you. But more than anything, I'm sorry for myself for living without you.

I'm not saving lives. I'm singing and I should go placidly and joyously through the whole thing and work hard and not take it for granted. It's great to have this gift.

I'm so vigorous, and I so take it for granted, because I've always been a real physical person.

In the realm of scientific observation, luck is granted only to those who are prepared.

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

In 1956 I was granted the biggest reward of my career: my wife, Josée Jongen.

In taking life for granted, we fail to notice it.

In his 1930 book, Dirac took for granted that measurements could be made, but was very vague about what was actually involved.

I now know that things I always thought I could depend on can crash in an instant. Because of the love that I have been shown, I now know what it means to be 'beloved.' I now know that no breath is to be taken for granted.

It cannot be denied that God in choosing and destining Mary to be the Mother of his Son, granted her the highest honor.

I really appreciate my performing so much better, as I get older. I don't take it for granted anymore. I really relish it and love it.

I promised myself that no matter where I went, what I did, I'd never take anything for granted again.

I, quite frankly, am grateful for every day. I don't take anything for granted.

I suppose one gets to know men quickest by the things they take for granted.

I think one of the things about being around for a while and getting to know yourself is that when you do have these positive experiences, you don't take them for granted - you identify them and you make the most of them. I don't know - it's kind of cool getting old in a lot of ways.

I think I've begun to take for granted how easily information can swirl around me.

It has been an amazing presidential election in 2016. AMAZING. And I don't take it for granted. This sort of race comes along once every century or so.

It is the activity of the intellect that constitutes complete human happiness - provided it be granted a complete span of life, for nothing that belongs to happiness can be incomplete.

It is not always granted to the sower to see the harvest.

I think that there is generally less of a community and that the fragmentation of the left is a symptom. I think that it is less and less possible to take for granted certain cultural references.

I think women are often taken for granted.

It is also, I would guess, a universal that in all societies people value respectability granted to them.

It is extremely difficult for our contemporaries to conceive of the conditions of free banking because they take government interference with banking for granted and as necessary.