Best 239 quotes in «granted quotes» category

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

Pardon is granted to necessity.

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!

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Take nothing for granted as beautiful or ugly.

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.

Sweeter than the stolen kiss Are the granted kisses

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

The great ones never take fundamentals for granted.

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

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

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.