Quotes on Granted

Having lived through the transition from totalitarianism, I am acutely mindful of the need to never take for granted the basic freedoms of thought, expression and belief that democracy brings.

We cannot take for granted that the future will be better, and that means we need to work to create it today.

And yet not a dream, but a mighty reality- a glimpse of the higher life, the broader possibilities of humanity, which is granted to the man who, amid the rush and roar of living, pauses four short years to learn what living means

Be sceptical, ask questions, demand proof. Demand evidence. Don't take anything for granted. But here's the thing: When you get proof, you need to accept the proof. And we're not that good at doing that.

The federal government is acknowledged by all to be one of enumerated powers. The principle, that it can exercise only the powers granted to it . . . is now universally admitted.

I think the single biggest thing that money gave me-and obviously I came from a place where I was a single mother and it really was hand to mouth at one point. It was literally as poor as you can get in Britain without being homeless at one point. If you've ever been there you will never, ever take for granted that you don't need to worry. Never.

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.

We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.

A poet or philosopher should have no fault to find with his age if it only permits him to do his work undisturbed in his own corner; nor with his fate if the corner granted him allows of his following his vocation without having to think about other people.

You get into your late fifties, people start falling like flies all around you. I don't take life for granted any more. I'm really glad to be here.

So much of what you take for granted is the bedrock of happiness.

I am not unaware of the saying that more tears have been shed over wishes granted than wishes denied.

Yet food is something that is taken for granted by most world leaders despite the fact that more than half of the population of the world is hungry.

Earth as an ecosystem stands out in the all of the universe. There's no place that we know about that can support life as we know it, not even our sister planet, Mars, where we might set up housekeeping someday, but at great effort and trouble we have to recreate the things we take for granted here.

That's not a thing any of us are granted. To go back. Wipe away what later doesn't suit us and make it the way we wish it. You just go on

Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means that you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.

The time for your labor has been granted.

The mightiest love was granted him _x000D_ Love that does not expect to be loved.

Like winds and sunsets, wild things were taken for granted until progress began to do away with them

I took it for granted that there must be a few men left in the world who had that kind of strength. I assumed that those men would also be looking for women with principle. I did not want to be among the marked-down goods on the bargain table, cheap because they’d been pawed over. Crowds collect there. It is only the few who will pay full price. "You get what you pay for.

If, before undertaking some action, you must obtain the permission of society-you are not free, whether such permission is granted to you or not. Only a slave acts on permission. A permission is not a right.