For Granted Quotes
In the realm of scientific observation, luck is granted only to those who are prepared.
So she enjoyed herself heartily, and found, what isn't always the case, that her granted wish was all she had hoped.
It must not simply be taken for granted that a given set of ill-assorted people, for no other reason than because it is Christmas, will be joyful to be reunited and to break bread together.
My quarrel with the advocates of contraceptives lies in their taking for granted that ordinary mortals cannot exercise self-control.
I try and take everyone's ideals, common morals, flip them around, make people look at them differently, question them, so that you're not always taking things for granted.
I was never happy as a child, so it wasn't something I took for granted.i did'nt grow up as an average, american child. An average child grows up with an expectation of being happy.
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
The one thing about being a creator, about being an artist, is that you get to explore your ideas. We're fortunate that we're in the position to do that, and I don't take it for granted.
Everyday I look in the mirror and make sure I don't pinch myself so I don't wake up. I don't take it for granted. All the time I say: 'Why me?'
I feel that it's nothing if not an incredible privilege to be able to get up on stage and play for people, and I don't ever take it for granted.
The magic of procedure: do this after that and thus before so; then your wish will be granted.
I'm just a skinny kid from Maywood trying to do my best. I never took anything for granted. I never wanted to come off like some kind of big-headed, conceited athlete.
Before, it came easy for me. I don't have two speeds anymore. I need to focus on the small things that I once took for granted.
I have been so damn lucky to be able to do what I love my entire life. I never take that for granted.
With Marguerite, he wanted only time—more and more time—and he was granted it, nighttimes and daytimes and nighttimes again.
It's very easy for a church just to slide along from week to week, taking it for granted that we do our services like this and that, and we celebrate the sacraments like this and that.
I feel like before I came to the planet I asked God for the gift of music. I didn't want to come here without the gift of music and God granted it to me.
The way I see it, the impossible happens all the time; but we're so good at taking it for granted, we forget it was once impossible.
You have to work hard not to take your partner for granted, even when you are tired.
I guess I probably took New York for granted. Growing up, playing in the street, going down to the Avenue to the record store and to the grocery store and stuff like that.
I'm not only a romanticist but a romantic myself. I take it for granted the originality matters.
I am still not taking my "career" in music for granted. It is constantly surprising that it works. Generally my thinking about the future has this assumption of an impending apocalypse.
A god cannot procure death for himself, even if he wished it, which, so numerous are the evils of life, has been granted to man as our chief good.
Most things don't stay the way they are for very long. I take nothing for granted and try to be ready for the change that's soon to come.
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.
Never take anyone for granted. Never take anyone's kindness for their weakness. What's once yours could easily turn into a memory.
I think that what art can do is refresh our sense of justice, wake us up to what we've taken for granted in the political realm, as in the other realms.
Film acting would be about 80 percent better than it has been lately if actors did their homework, if they didn't have egos that took the size of their talent for granted.
The Supreme Court has only granted citizenship to the children born to legal immigrants, not illegal.
When one has children one has no privacy. They take it for granted that what is yours is theirs, personal things and the secrets of your heart, as well as possessions.
I suppose the things that you always take for granted, that you don't even notice, are what you miss the most.
I love this country because I didn't always have it. Freedom, food, water that is clean, Constitution - these are not things I take for granted.
I realize I can never take my success for granted. It's not attractive for anyone to be like that.
If I am proud of anything, it is that I have been granted the privilege of living in the land which God promised our forefathers to give us, as it is written.
I will just take the chance that the language will still be relevant in 100 years, which is something we cannot take for granted with a language that is spoken by 330,000 people.
Nothin' taken for granted, just learn from my mistakes. My will too strong, my spirit's somethin' they can't take.
Aggression, like every other part of human behavior we take for granted, is a challenging engineering problem!
Today we take it for granted that war happens in smaller, poorer and more backward countries.
Volunteering is so pervasive it's invisible. We take for granted all the things that have been pioneered by concerned, active volunteers.
That's what a community is: taking for granted certain assumptions, not having to start from zero every time. This is no longer true.
I think that there is generally less of a community and that the fragmentation of the left is a symptom. I think that it is less and less possible to take for granted certain cultural references.