Best 239 quotes in «granted quotes» category

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

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

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

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 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.

All peoples must be respected, and they must all be granted the same rights.

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.

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

But we cannot just take this historical fact for granted. We must make it live.

Assistance granted to the unemployed does not dispose of unemployment. It makes it easier for the unemployed to remain idle.

Awareness requires a rupture with the world we take for granted; then old categories of experience are called into question and revised.

Bad music is often the result of an attempt by the untrained, something that takes for granted that you're very highly trained.

Beginning to create again was something that I took for granted but I never will take it for granted again.

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.

But his kiss was so sweet, and so closely he pressed, that I languished and pined till I granted the rest.

Clean water and access to food are some of the simplest things that we can take for granted each and every day. In places like Africa, these can be some of the hardest resources to attain if you live in a rural area.

Certainly, in Italy, nobody takes light for granted.

Children often have been likened to scientists. Both ask fundamental questions about the nature of the universe. Both also ask innumerable questions that seem utterly trivial to others. Finally, both are granted by society the time to pursue their musings.

Cubanas are very strong women. So don't mess with us, don't take us for granted!

Democrats, too often, take blacks for granted, and Republicans, too often, simply ignore black voters.

Day after day we must remember we can take freedom for granted. Day after day we must keep the bond between freedom and other values in mind.

Don't fear your mortality, because it is this very mortality that gives meaning and depth and poignancy to all the days that will be granted to you.

Don't take things for granted.

Don't take anything for granted. If you don't believe in yourself, nobody else will. Have a little more confidence.

Don't take anything for granted, because tomorrow is not promised to any of us.

Drafting a constitution is only the first step. The constitution has to be granted legitimacy by open discussion and a fair, representative referendum.

Even if you're inches away from the finish, never take success for granted.

Every rep that you take off, somebody else gets another look. That's just how I am. It's not a matter of being paranoid, it's a matter of being confident and not taking anything for granted.

Every gain made by individuals or society is almost instantly taken for granted.

Even the smallest victory is never to be taken for granted. Each victory must be applauded.

Everything about Mark Zuckerberg is pure hacker. Hackers don't take realities of the world for granted; they seek to break and rebuild what they don't like. They seek to outsmart the world.

Families, particularly, tend to be the ones that you take the most for granted. They seem to slip under the radar, all those important things - it almost becomes second nature to do so.

Freedom under the law must never be taken for granted.

Few of us are granted the grace to know ourselves, and until we do, maybe the best we can do is be consistent.

Freedom, especially a woman's freedom, is a conquest to be made, not a gift to be received. It isn't granted. It must be taken.

Freedom is like health, it is taken for granted while one has it. One becomes aware of it when it has gone.

Freedom is never granted. It is earned by each generation.

God gives us the ugliness so we don't take the beautiful things in life for granted.

God became man, granted. The devil became a woman.

God has granted me today a very particular fondness for requesting of Him that same virtue of ever choosing the worst and that which is contrary to my own liking.

Granted that every war is madness-civil war, fratricide, is the worst of all; it reaches deeper into ugliness, cruelty and absurdity.

Good kids are like sunsets. We take them for granted.

Granted there are only seven stories in the universe. And I agree with that. But give me a great variation of those stories. And literate.

Health is the greatest of God's gifts, but we take it for granted; yet it hangs on a thread as fine as a spider's web and the tiniest thing can make it snap, leaving the strongest of us helpless in an instant.

Harmony between two individuals is never granted-it has to be conquered indefinitely.

How insensitive, inartistic, unscientific, and ungracious it is to take anything for granted!

He is annoyed with their lack of interest, their blithe ignorance of the arbitrary genetic lottery that has granted them their privileged lives.

His own faith, however, was not lacking in virtues since it consisted in acknowledging obscurely that he would be granted much without ever deserving anything.

Holy Purity is granted by God when it is asked for with humility.

Human life occurs only once, and the reason we cannot determine which of our decisions are good and which bad is that in a given situation we can make only one decision; we are not granted a second, third, or fourth life in which to compare various decisions.