Granted Quotes

Granted, in order to give selflessly, one often starts giving selfishly. As Tiresias said to Odysseus: "Honey ... you don't get through hell in a hurry"

In the Far East, it is taken for granted that the training of a monk is physically rigorous and academically challenging.

Granted you want to go beyond ideas and beyond thought, but that takes years of practice. If you must think, think good thoughts, happy thoughts, and constructive thoughts.

One unconsciously takes it for granted that doer and sufferer think and feel alike, and according to this supposition we measure the guilt of the one by the pain of the other.

It was granted to me alone to discover all the new phenomena in the sky and nothing to anybody else. This is the truth which neither envy nor malice can supress.

If associations to control burglary and murder were tolerated we should take it for granted that the members should all be burglers and murderers.

In the best farce today we start with some absurd premise as to character or situation, but if the premises be once granted we move logically enough to the ending.

And after September the 11th, the United States Congress also granted me additional authority to use military force against al Qaeda. . . .

Ingratitude is surely the chief of the intellectual sins of man. He takes his political benefits for granted, just as he takes the skies and the seasons for granted.

I think that sometimes I've been a little too nice. I think you have to have a balance. When you're too nice people take you for granted, they take you for a fool I think.

Children today will grow up taking for granted that an African-American or a woman can, yes, become the president of the United States.

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.

I grew up taking it for granted that missionaries were what American boys grew up to be.

Rights give rise to legal claims. Ultimately, the more rights animals are granted, the greater the legal lien exercised on their behalf against the liberty and property of people.

I hope to be granted asylum. Deportation [ from Germany] that would be a death sentence for me.

Be careful what you ask of Heaven; it might be granted.

I'm so thankful. I've been blessed. I never took it for granted.

They took it for granted that if they went he would go also, but really they scarcely cared. Thus children are ever so ready, when novelty knocks, to desert their dearest ones.

In Europe, charters of liberty have been granted by Power. In America ... charters of power [are] granted by liberty.

You take for granted the details that make something look real. It can still look fabulous, but if you add a light switch, a vent, or the notion of air conditioning, it can look real.

I left acting for 15 years, and I think it's really nice to have another life. I took too much for granted when I was younger.

I would not take for granted that my personal life - because I knew better than anybody - that it was just a life. It was surprisingly an ordinary life.

I feel like sometimes people on television shows can start taking things for granted, or they don't want to be here or something like that.

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

I do feel like it's so important not to take that for granted - that opportunity to share your ideas with intelligent, beautiful people.

When we're younger we take our bodies for granted because they're top-notch. You don't always think in the long run.

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

Granted, terrorism is a real problem everywhere. But you can't prevent it. Terrorists are nutcases who are hellbent on killing people for ideology. That's pretty hard to stop.

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.

At a certain point, if you work really hard and you get good and people like your work, you do deserve the fame - but you shouldn't take it for granted.

When I was younger, the main struggle was to be a 'good writer.' Now I more or less take my writing abilities for granted, although this doesn't mean I always write well.

I ask of any God, of any gods, that if they give immortality, I hope to be granted oblivion also.

Let neither tear nor reproach besmirch this declaration of the mastery of God who, with magnificent irony, granted me both the gift of books and the night.

We live in a very peculiar world. Democracy isn't discussed, as if it was taken for granted, as if democracy had taken God's place, who is also not discussed.

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.

It's important to begin to even consider whether countries can become something that looks very different because people tend to take their countries for granted.

It may be taken for granted that, rash as the Americans are, when they are prudent there is good reason for it.

I've just always been very aware and careful of everything, so that I can be ready for the perfect opportunities as they come. I don't take anything for granted or wait for anything to come to me.

He had been granted his life's wish-but conditionally.

The richest treasure God has for you are the people in your life. Give thanks and don't take them 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.

One realizes how we take water for granted and how important it is to have it in order to stay alive. Beyond the drinking of it, let's not forget the hygiene.

This is what he knew that Paul didn't: the world was precarious and sometimes cruel. He'd had to fight hard to achieve what Paul simply took for granted.

I get to wake up and do what I love every day and I don't take that for granted. I feel grateful for it every day.

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

It's wonderful to have money. But It's good that I know what the other side is like. I don't take for granted what I have now.

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.

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

Most people are one car wreck away from needing somebody's help. So, I don't take anything for granted much anymore.

As a modern woman, there are things I take for granted, and that shows up in the way I sit, the way I walk, the way I think, and what I know to be possible.