Best 239 quotes in «granted quotes» category

There is one thing, and only one thing, in which it is granted to you to be free in life, all else being beyond your power: that is to recognize and profess the truth.

There is sense in hoping for recognition in a distant future only when we take it for granted that mankind will remain essentially unchanged, and that whatever is great is not for one age only but will be looked upon as great for all time.

Unity cannot be taken for granted.

The soul contains the event that shall befall it, for the event is only the actualization of its thoughts; and what we pray to ourselves for is always granted.

This is the charged, the dangerous moment, when everything must be re-examined, must be made new, when nothing at all can be taken for granted.

Traveling can never be taken for granted, no matter how meticulous the preparations.

There's nothing you can take for granted; not a single day, not a single minute, not a single relationship.

The transgender community deserves the dignity and respect that most people take for granted.

This was not a spurr-of-the-moment decision. Do not take me for granted... again.

Today, many people take for granted the notion that people whose lives are going to be very heavily affected by public policies should have a say in how they are formulated and carried out.

Too many people realize at the end of their lives that they've taken for granted those who really love them.

To thee only God granted A heart ever new: To all always open; To all always true.

Volunteering is so pervasive it's invisible. We take for granted all the things that have been pioneered by concerned, active volunteers.

We have to recognize that the reason that the global order that we've enjoyed and almost take for granted over the last several years exists is that after World War II, the United States and its allies tried to build an antidote to what they had seen between World War I and World War II. There, they'd seen protectionism, beggar-thy-neighbor trading policies, so they said, we'll build an open international economy. And they did that.

We are too involved in materialistic things, and they don't satisfy us. The loving relationships we have, the universe around us, we take these things for granted.

We forget that our bodies are the most valuable, precious thing we have and take that miracle of life for granted.

Whatever lives is granted breath But by the grace and sufferance of Death.

We take things that would have struck us as miraculous five years ago for granted. Like Pokémon Go would have been insane, and now it's just like, "Oh, okay.

We've all had those moments where we take a person for granted.

We often take for granted the notion that some people are insiders, while others are outsiders. But such a notion is a social contrivance, that, like virtually every public construct, is a legacy of a primordial and tribal mentality.

We take everything for granted, but when I'm with Angeline, I see the world through new eyes. She makes my world better. It's why she's so great.

We take for granted electricity, water, even concerts. Count your blessings.

We [with Neal Dodson and Corey Moosa] spent a lot of time writing, for lack of a better word, this manifesto about what we wanted to do. We wanted to find work that was relevant socially and that didn't take audiences for granted.

When will the arbitrary be granted the place it deserves in the formation of works and ideas?

What we take for granted might not be here for our children.

When a man takes a woman for granted, he still looks for reassurance that she is still right there.Copyright © by Sherry Argov

When it comes to matters of health, it's the one thing you can't control. Being healthy is the crown that only the sick can see. A lot of times, we take it for granted. But the few times that I've seen loved ones in the hospital or not being able to do something they could normally do, it really sucks.

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

Whenever you get involved with talking about rights, you're talking about being a citizen. You're talking about being a citizen in capitalism; you're talking about what rights are granted to what identities, under what laws, and all that is a big mix. Marriage is, among many other things, a formality to channel capital through a family. And that's why the big DOMA lawsuit was about paying too many taxes! "I wouldn't have had to pay all these taxes if Theodora had been Theo" - that was the big tagline. It's all about protecting assets.

You are always learning; there is a lot of grey; don't take things for granted.

Without a yardstick sometimes the high points can be taken for granted.

With Marguerite, he wanted only time—more and more time—and he was granted it, nighttimes and daytimes and nighttimes again.

You have to be a pretty miserable person to not enjoy making movies. It's something I always dreamed about. I do not take it for granted.

You can't take life 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.

You have to decide if you're going to wilt like a daisy or if you're just going to go forward and live the life that you've been granted.

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.

You have to work hard not to take your partner for granted, even when you are tired.

Aggression, like every other part of human behavior we take for granted, is a challenging engineering problem!

You know, you can't always criticize without somebody being at the end of the stick. And she perhaps did not always grant credit to her opponents for their motives, any more than they granted credit to her for hers.

A birthday wish granted 23 years late is still a birthday wish granted.

A favor tardily bestowed is no favor; for a favor quickly granted is a more agreeable favor.

A good or great performance is like peeling an onion; in every scene you reveal another layer, something the audience hasn't seen until then. They stay involved because they are constantly learning about and discovering the character they are watching. They can't take you for granted and it keeps them hooked.

Your innermost core has always been pure. Purity is intrinsic to you, it cannot be taken away.

Even the most beautiful of the stars are taken for granted night after night.

Wait a minute. He eyed her suspiciously. "Is that my shirt?" She looked down at herself and shrugged. "Doesn't everyone have a Catacombs shirt?" "Probably most of the people we know, but if you look closely the one you're wearing says Grant on the sleeve." "Oh, is that your name? I just assumed someone granted me this T-shirt.

When you take your belief for granted, failure takes you for rides.

As is the case with many Middle Eastern nations, women are nowhere near equal to men when it comes to basic freedoms and rights that we take for granted every day.

And, granted, for a long time, the European has been dominant in certain parts of this Western Hemisphere, but by the end of the 21st century, it's over.

A philosopher is a sort of intellectual yokel who gawks at things that sensible people take for granted.