Best 239 quotes in «granted quotes» category

Thank God for the day. Thank God for the morning. Won't take this here for granted; no, good Lord, I gots to get on it.

That general warrants, whereby an officer or messenger may be commanded to search suspected places without evidence of a fact committed, or to seize any person or persons not named, or whose offence is not particularly described and supported by evidence, are grievous and oppressive, and ought not to be granted.

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 act of living had been enjoyable; at some point when I was not paying attention, it had turned into a different sort of experience, to whose grimness I had grown so accustomed that I now took it for granted.

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 business of judging a headline AFTER you read the copy is wrong. It takes for granted that everybody reads the copy.

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 gift of independence once granted cannot be lightly taken away again.

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

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.

The Free State men, myself among them, took it for granted that Missouri was a slave state.

The great ones never take fundamentals for granted.

The humanity of all Americans is diminished when any group is denied rights granted to others.

The inscrutable wisdom through which we exist is not less worthy of veneration in respect to what it denies us than in respect to what it has granted.

The magic of procedure: do this after that and thus before so; then your wish will be granted.

[The necessary and proper clause] neither enlarges any power specifically granted; nor is it a grant of any new power to Congress; But it is merely a declaration, for the removal of all uncertainty, that the means of carrying into execution those otherwise granted are included in the grant.

The pleasure that is granted to me from a sense of duty ceases to be a pleasure at all.

The opportunity to live and experience life inspires me. Watching others not take it for granted inspires me. Using time to create something timeless through creativity and proactivity inspires me.

There are two other SLA members who have been granted immunity and then also, one of the SLA members had confessed to two other people, and those people, I'm sure, will be called as witnesses, as they were at the grand jury.

There are positively no mental, physical or moral attainments too lofty for the Negro to accomplish if granted a fair and equal opportunity.

The reader can't take much for granted in a fiction where the scenery can eat the characters.

There is in some men a dispassionate neutrality of mind, which, though it generally passes for good temper, can neither gratify nor warm us: it must indeed be granted that these men can only negatively offend: but then it should also be remembered that they cannot positively please.

There is absolutely nothing that can be taken for granted in this world.

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 no fool like a careless gambler who starts taking victory 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Unity cannot be taken for granted.

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

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 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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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