Best 239 quotes in «granted quotes» category

Let him who has granted a favour speak not of it; let him who has received one, proclaim it.

Let sovereignty be granted us over a portion of the earth's surface large enough to satisfy our rightful requirements as a nation. The rest we shall manage for ourselves.

Life holds one great but quite commonplace mystery. Though shared by each of us and known to all, seldom rates a second thought. That mystery, which most of us take for granted and never think twice about, is time.

Life is a gift. Never take it for granted.

Life is precious and it's what you do with it that keeps you alive on the inside.It's not enough just to live and take that gift for granted.Each one of us has fears,but the more we work to overome them,the more we are able to enjoy our lives.

Listening is so basic that we take it for granted. Unfortunately, most of us think of ourselves as better listeners than we really are.

Look at everything upside down.Take absolutely nothing for granted.

Maybe you once were excited about that person God supernaturally brought into your life as a marriage partner, but now all the excitement has worn off. Don’t’ allow that sense of a miracle to slip away. Don’t get so familiar with each other that you take one another for granted.

Many words have been granted me, and some are wise, and some are false, but only three are holy: "I will it!

Men are often miserable in relationships because they feel their partner takes them for granted, or shows him no appreciation for the things he gets right.

More immediately, by waxing soulful you will have granted yourself the possibility of ecstatic participation in what the ancients considered a divinely animated universe. And on a day to day basis, folks, it doesn't get any better than that.

Miroslav Holub seems to expect his readers to act like scientists, who are curious in every direction, take nothing for granted, and are willing to accept any truth, however unexpected.

My public image is so low-key, but I get to travel the world and still have an audience and it's really amazing. I don't take that for granted.

Most of us readily take things for granted that at an earlier time remained to be discovered

Most of us take for granted that time flies, meaning that it passes too quickly. But in the mindful state, time doesn't really pass at all. There is only a single instant of time that keeps renewing itself over and over with infinite variety.

My broad sense of this is that authors like Smil really paint the clear picture, and once you see that, it's kind of Oh, of course. That's such a primal thing to all these physical services that we take for granted.

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

Nature has granted to all to be happy, if we did but know how to use her benefits.

Nature has granted the use of life like a loan, without fixing any day for repayment.

No relationships should be taken for granted. They are what life is all about, the whole point. How we cultivate our relationships is often the greatest determinant of the type of life we get to live.

Nothing evades our attention as persistently as that which we take for granted... the decades roll on without even a suggestion that perhaps the whole matter must be rethought

Nothing more excellent or valuable than wine was every granted by the gods to man.

Pardon is granted to necessity.

Our prayers are granted as soon as we have prayed, even though the process of fulfilling our requests has not yet begun.

One of the reasons so many singles are dissatisfied is that they're looking for a change in status to define their significance, rather than finding a purpose in life, granted by God, that gives them significance regardless of the status they're in.

Our obsession with security is a measure of the power we have granted the future to hold over us.

Poland is at the center of European civilization. It has contributed mightily to that civilization. It is doing so today by being magnificently unreconciled to oppression. Poland's struggle to be Poland and to secure the basic rights we often take for granted, demonstrates why we dare not take those rights for granted.

Privacy is a privilege not granted to the aged or the young.

Pure, existential space was regularly winking at me, each time in a more impressive manner, and this sensation of total freedom attracted me so powerfully that I painted some monochrome surfaces just to 'see,' to 'see' with my own eyes what existential sensibility granted me: absolute freedom!

Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.

Socialistic practices are now so ingrained in our thinking, so customary, so much a part of our mores, that we take them for granted.

Sight is something you take for granted until you think you might lose it.

Reason and emotion counsel and supplement each other. Whoever heeds only the one, and puts aside the other, recklessly deprives himself of a portion of the aid granted us for the regulation of our conduct.

Scientists generally, not just evolutionary biologists, don't take much for granted.

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.

So when I feel the spirit upon me it's something I don't take it for granted, and I don't think I'm solely responsible for these things.

So much of what you take for granted is the bedrock of happiness.

Take nothing for granted. Make an emotional discovery as often as you can find one in every scene. Ask yourself: What is new?

State inspection laws, health laws, and laws for regulating the internal commerce of a State, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c. are not within the power granted to Congress. ... Inspection laws, quarantine laws, health laws of every description, as well as laws for regulating the internal commerce of a State, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c., are component parts of this mass. No direct general power over these objects is granted to Congress, and, consequently, they remain subject to State legislation.

Surely it is a sin to reject the few gifts we are given. Be happy in the flash of time granted to us or hurt forever.

Sweeter than the stolen kiss Are the granted kisses

Take nothing for granted as beautiful or ugly.

The extent to which we take everyday objects for granted is the precise extent to which they govern and inform our lives.

That's what a community is: taking for granted certain assumptions, not having to start from zero every time. This is no longer true.

The apostles were very sure that everything of theirs which had to do with salvation was a gift to them from God. 'Increase our faith'. They did not presume that the fullness of faith would come to them merely because they freely opted for it. They believed, rather, that it was a gift of God which would have to be granted to them.

The attraction of dating is that you don't take yes for granted - - you're fully engaged, there's seductiveness, tension.

The biggest thing I have learned is you can't take anything for granted. You have to work as hard as you can every night, regardless.

The day I take either my body or my work for granted will be the day you hear that I've smashed every inch of myself to pieces.

The drives you take for granted ("I'm a hetero/homosexual," "I'm attracted to children/adults," "I'm aggressive/not aggressive," and so on) depend on the intricate details of your neural machinery.

Teaching someone that doesn't know something forces you to think about almost every single aspect of it, including parts of it that you could sort of take for granted.