Granted Quotes

Every original idea is first ridiculed, then vigorously attacked, and finally taken for granted.

I appreciate everything that I have, versus taking it for granted.

Many words have been granted me, and some are wise, and some are false, but only three are holy: "I will it!

And that night we knew that to hold the body of women in our arms in neither ugly nor shameful, but the one ecstasy granted to the race of men.

When you meet someone you really like and connect with, I think that's very special, and not to be taken for granted.

We can lose so much of what we've gained in terms of the kind of democratic freedoms and market-based economies and prosperity that we've come to take for granted.

I continue to believe when I said in Hanover, that the E.U. remains one of the world's great political and economic achievements, and that those achievements should not be taken for granted.

Sweeter than the stolen kiss Are the granted kisses

You never can take for granted that you have a job.

In 1956 I was granted the biggest reward of my career: my wife, Josée Jongen.

I'm sorry if I took some things for granted, I'm sorry for the chains I put on you. But more than anything, I'm sorry for myself for living without you.

I don't take it for granted, because I saw the fruits of Stan's [Lee] 50-year labor, and I didn't have to wait 50 years myself.

Last summer was probably the biggest disappointment of my career, but now I have something bad with which to balance the good. I will no longer take anything for granted.

The right of the police of Boston to affiliate has always been questioned, never granted, is now prohibited.... There is no rightto strike against the public safety by anybody, anywhere, any time.

The citizen takes his city for granted far too often. He forgets to marvel.

Being born and raised as a Californian, I somewhat ignorantly had taken for granted the diversity and liberal mindset that shaped my childhood and adult life.

I love going out to clubs. Granted, I don't get hammered or do anything to embarrass myself. I'd call myself wholesome but it's not like I only drink milk.

Most of us take seeds for granted. The fate of human kind is resting on these genetic resources: Seeds. So nothing could be more important.

I choose to be with him for however many days or minutes we are granted, and to count myself blessed to have them.

I always promised myself that if I was in position to be successful, I wouldn't take it for granted, because I know in the past how hard I've worked.

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."

You can never say you're big - I don't think you can ever take anything like that for granted.

I love Dead Ringers. A democratic set, the work was taken seriously.

It has been an amazing presidential election in 2016. AMAZING. And I don't take it for granted. This sort of race comes along once every century or so.

Cassie Wright knows, the moment you make yourself available to any man, he starts to take you for granted

I have found a much greater appreciation of Buddhism because I couldn't take it for granted here in exile.

I find that the kinds of music I’m drawn to are those that a lot of people take for granted.

Nothing can be taken for granted and this great achievement is now under assault by Russia. But what we did in my time is no less honorable. It is for the present generation to defend.

So easy to take it for granted, but this is something no normal human was made to see. The world of magic has blessed me with wonders and it's only right to stop every now and then to appreciate it.

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.

We may well ask, What causes induce us to believe in the existence of body? but 'tis vain to ask. Whether there be body or not? That is a point which we must take for granted in all our reasonings.

At least in the West, politicians, corporations and media moguls can no longer take for granted their power to control the public discourse - and have it go unchallenged.

Even if you're inches away from the finish, never take success for granted.

I try not to take for granted how lucky we are to have life and breath and opportunity. Once we've got that, we can conquer anything.

Granted there are only seven stories in the universe. And I agree with that. But give me a great variation of those stories. And literate.

I learned at an early age that every breath that we take is borrowed. We need to be thankful for our life and never take it for granted.

Let us not take what we eat for granted; let us view our meals as an opportunity to give our Lord praise.

The principal achievement of Europe is peace, which we often forget about as it has become so taken for granted by Europeans.

If what we think now is different from what we thought then, we can take it for granted that what we think in a year will be different again.

I always remind my kids that hard work pays off. They see that I take nothing for granted in life. It helps them stay grounded.

To be wise and eke to love, Is granted scarce to gods above.

Granted that every war is madness-civil war, fratricide, is the worst of all; it reaches deeper into ugliness, cruelty and absurdity.

We all have an interest, and a duty to future generations, to ensure that the benefits of mobility that we now take for granted, do not place an intolerable burden on our environment

I'm glad you were both here," I finally manage, thinking how strange it is to be standing with the two people who made you, something most kids take for granted every day of their lives.

At about twelve I just knew, something clicked, and I knew I wanted to be an actor and my parents, to their credit, granted this 12 year old girl a chance to give it a try.

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

we do not believe until we want a thing and feel that we shall die if 'tis not granted to us, and then we kneel and kneel and believe, because we must have someone to ask help from.

There is hardly anything that an ingenious mind cannot bring itself to doubt, granted sufficient industry and application.

Take nothing for granted as beautiful or ugly.

When the eye wakes up to see again, it suddenly stops taking anything for granted.