Quotes About Granted

For more than two centuries, the defenders of liberty have put their lives on the line, because they have known that we cannot take our freedoms for granted.

The films I'm planning and doing are a mix of different things, but it doesn't mean that I'm going to stop doing comedy. That's something I love doing and I can't take that for granted.

The playoffs is ? I think I took it for granted a little bit. My first two years I kind of just thought that always happened, I guess.

We hardly find traces of information about their presence. One didn't take notice of the dogs, because their presence was taken for granted.

I could have told, just looking at him, that that was the tone he would use asking a question. A tone that took it for granted any question he asked was going to be answered because he asked it. I don't like it and I know of no way anybody is ever going to make me like it.

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

You get your visions through whatever gate you're granted.

The degree to which the opportunity to use power effectively is granted to or withheld from individuals is one operative difference between those companies which stagnate and those which innovate.

He who prays without confidence cannot hope that his prayers will be granted.

minorities granted a crumb of political autonomy in exchange for providing an optical simulation of cultural diversity in their country of residence

The Thing about people who wanted to show you things was that sometimes their interest in granting you knowledge was laced with a little voyeuristic sadism. They were waiting for the Look or the Reaction, and they didn't care what it was so long as it inflicted some kind of discomfort.

You are an exalted creature, with a spark of the divine within you that nothing you do can extinguish; and you have been granted life in order to give, because it is in giving that we receive....

St. Augustine said, The very pleasures of human life men acquire by difficulties. There are times when the entire arrangement of our existence is disrupted and we long then for just one ordinary day - seeing our ordinary life as greatly desirable, even wonderful, in the light of the terrible disruption that has taken place. Difficulty opens our eyes to pleasures we had taken for granted.

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

Because it's free, easy to use, and high-quality, photography is now a fixture in our daily lives - something we take for granted.

I think being a writer is being heavily attuned to the absolute absurdity of things you take for granted, and I think that having actual parents who lived through the Cultural Revolution who are also interested in literature, they're also very attuned to those moments.

I think people take for granted the success of the original content at A&E Networks and in building brands. People have selective memory on how long that takes.

Don't take for granted how much of an impact making small changes can have.

It's an honor to be selected to the All-Star Game. It's not something I take for granted.

The detailing on the sets of 'Gandhi' was very minute. There was immense discipline and nothing was taken for granted.

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

Confidence is sky high, but we're also all very grounded. We know, in football, nothing can be taken for granted.

The trust of the mass population can no longer be taken for granted, and any continuation of the 'grand illusion' is dangerous for leaders in today's world.

I've been blessed with talents to play this game and been put on a stage to impact a lot of people. I don't want to take that for granted.