Granted Quotes
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Life holds one great but quite commonplace mystery. Though shared by each of us and known to all, seldom rates a second thought. That mystery, which most of us take for granted and never think twice about, is time. Calendars and clocks exist to measure time, but that signifies little because we all know that an hour can seem as eternity or pass in a flash, according to how we spend it. Time is life itself, and life resides in the human heart.
Michael Ende
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Benefits should be granted little by little, so that they may be better enjoyed.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
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When you meet someone you really like and connect with, I think that's very special, and not to be taken for granted.
Aziz Ansari
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You can never say you're big - I don't think you can ever take anything like that for granted.
Chris Martin Coldplay
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I don't understand the theory that nonprofit hospitals that run at forty percent capacity and do not pay taxes should be granted some special privilege. I like level playing fields.
Richard Rainwater
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If you are a kid in Beverly Hills, (I am not putting down people who live in Beverly Hills) if that kid knows private school and a credit card... you can't say the kid is taking life for granted. He is taking the life that was given to him.
Henry Rollins Black Flag
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Let us achieve great things for those who granted us the privilege to serve.
Alex Salmond
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We fully believed, so soon as we saw that woman's suffrage was right, every one would soon see the same thing, and that in a year or two, at farthest, it would be granted.
Antoinette Brown Blackwell
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Don’t take a moment for granted, just because you think you’ll have a thousand more.
Aurora Rose Reynolds
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I was never used to being happy, so that wasn't something I ever took for granted.
Marilyn Monroe
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Little I ask And that little is not granted." There are few crumbs In this world any more.
Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth
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Every original idea is first ridiculed, then vigorously attacked, and finally taken for granted.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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I remember thinking how often we look, but never see ... we listen, but never hear ... we exist, but never feel. We take our relationships for granted. A house is only a place. It has no life of its own. It needs human voices, activity and laughter to come alive.
Erma Bombeck
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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.
John Anthony Frusciante Ataxia
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Do not be misled by the fact that you are at liberty and relatively free; that for the moment you are not under lock and key: you have simply been granted a reprieve.
Ryszard Kapuscinski
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Scouting exposes young men to people and experiences that encourage and nurture positive moral values. But we mustn't take Scouting for granted. You can do nothing more important for young people today than to continue, or begin, your support of Scouting. I have never met anyone with devoted Scouting experience who was not a solid citizen, a loyal friend, and a patriot. We need more of them.
Wallace G. Wilkinson
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Nature has granted to all to be happy, if we did but know how to use her benefits.
Claudius Claudianus
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I'm extremely blessed. There's a lot of people trying to exactly what I'm doing, but I'm a part of that 9.1 percent that's actually having their dream come true. I just don't take that for granted.
Michael B. Jordan
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You have to work hard not to take your partner for granted, even when you are tired.
Nicole Ari Parker-Kodjoe
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Whether religion be true or false, it must be necessarily granted to be the only wise principle and safe hypothesis for a man to live and die by.
John Tillotson
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I took my sight and mobility for granted.
Sue Townsend
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As I get older... I start to realize that life ain't half bad. Each year, I'm amazed that I'm still alive. I don't take any of this for granted, I'm a lucky dude.
Dave Grohl Nirvana
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I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.
Coco Chanel
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I'm still really close with everyone at home and their parents - and their brothers and sisters. I was so, so, so lucky to grow up as part of a community and I don't take that for granted. I try very hard to stay part of it.
Jennifer Garner