Best 239 quotes in «granted quotes» category

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

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 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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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 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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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 anything for granted, because tomorrow is not promised to any of us.

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.

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.

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

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

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, 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.

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

Freedom under the law must never be taken for granted.

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 became man, granted. The devil became a woman.

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