Top 1200 Life For Granted Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

Prayer is the greatest force that we can wield. It is the greatest talent which God has granted us. He has given it to every Christian.

Maturity - among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates.

So she enjoyed herself heartily, and found, what isn't always the case, that her granted wish was all she had hoped.

In many ways, people growing up with the Web and now the Semantic Web take the power at their fingertips for granted.

My battles have been against federal actions that exceed the powers our Founders granted to the federal government in the constitution.

A Negro woman has the same kind of problems as other women, but she can't take the same things for granted.

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

I'm happy for all the small things a man never gets around to putting his finger on - the things we take for granted.

God has granted me today a very particular fondness for requesting of Him that same virtue of ever choosing the worst and that which is contrary to my own liking.

You can take for granted that people know more or less what a street, a shop, a beach, a sky, an oak tree look like. Tell them what makes this one different.

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 really appreciate my performing so much better, as I get older. I don't take it for granted anymore. I really relish it and love it.

Your talent is your art. It is not to be taken for granted.

Animals in general have always been my passion, project, crusade - whatever you want to call it! The ocean is such a huge, beautiful thing that I feel like we all take for granted.

Having children made us look differently at all these things that we take for granted, like taking your child to get a vaccine against measles or polio.

If gays are granted rights, next we'll have to give rights to prostitutes and to people who sleep with St. Bernards and to nail biters.

To [man] it is granted to have whatever he chooses, to be whatever he wills.

In order to succeed we need leaders of inspired idealism, leaders to whom are granted great visions, who dream greatly and strive to make their dreams come true; who can kindle the people with the fire from their own burning souls. The leader for the time being, whoever he may be, is but an instrument, to be used until broken and then to be cast aside; and if he is worth his salt he will care no more when he is broken than a soldier cares when he is sent where his life is forfeit in order that the victory may be won.

The easily ridiculed, so-so status quo often hides Herculean efforts by those whom we take for granted, and who, working in the shadows, guarantee civilization instead of chaos.

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

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.

Hope is not a granted wish or a favor performed; no it is far greater than that. It is a zany, unpredictable dependence on a God who loves to surprise us out of our socks.

This is the charged, the dangerous moment, when everything must be re-examined, must be made new, when nothing at all can be taken for granted.

Boundaries get blurry and identities can get lost easily. It's easy to take your partner for granted.

I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it.

For so long people have just taken what I do for granted. It is not easy to do year-in, year-out, to win Grand Slams and be No. 1.

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

My time in non-league definitely grounded me and taught me to take nothing for granted - there was no glamour involved, that is for sure.

It is only by questioning what people take for granted, what people hold to be true, that we can break through the hypnosis of social conditioning.

Nothing evades our attention as persistently as that which we take for granted... the decades roll on without even a suggestion that perhaps the whole matter must be rethought

Break a vase, and the love that reassembles the fragments is stronger than that love which took its symmetry for granted when it was whole.

The first thing that we wanted to make clear is that nobody has to trust anybody. We don't take people's trust for Telegram for granted.

I'm really, really grateful. I don't take anything for granted.

You are the Creator of your reality... you were granted this ability. You have free will... you are an unlimited aspect, a portion of God... of the Creator... of All That Is.

The soul contains the event that shall befall it, for the event is only the actualization of its thoughts; and what we pray to ourselves for is always granted.

I may not expect every single show to sell out and I never take everything for granted, but you still know you're going to get a certain amount of people.

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

Through space-based climate studies, my colleagues and I have learned that a stable and comfortable climate is not something to take for granted.

To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to be in a position in which almost nothing is so familiar it is taken for granted.

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.

[In the case of] dangerous exercise of other powers, not granted by the said compact, the states, who are parties thereto, have the right, and are duty bound, to interpose for arresting the progress of the evil.

Well, one thing, you got to stand in a courtroom and listen to a judge sentencing you to 25 years in prison before you realize that freedom of expression can no longer be taken for granted.

If somebody knew every time they did something it was going to be a hit there would never be any failures. Sadly, that's not how it works. You take nothing for granted.

Our prayers are granted as soon as we have prayed, even though the process of fulfilling our requests has not yet begun.

I never took the game for granted as far as not having to work on what I needed to do to accomplish all of the things that I wanted to accomplish.

There's a million ways to live on this thing called a planet, I'mma live everyday, I ain't takin' nothing for granted.

Female actors' contribution to films are at par with male actors. So just because they signed the film, they can't be taken for granted.

We humans have existed in our present form for about a hundred thousand years. I believe that if during this time the human mind had been primarily controlled by anger and hatred, our overall population would have decreased. But today, despite all our wars, we find that the human population is greater than ever. This clearly indicates to me that love and compassion predominate in the world. And this is why unpleasant events are "news"; compassionate activities are so much a part of daily life that they are taken for granted and , therefore, largely ignored.

Film acting would be about 80 percent better than it has been lately if actors did their homework, if they didn't have egos that took the size of their talent for granted.

You never take your fans for granted. You always appreciate them every show, night in, night out.

Think of the undying glory that hangs around the ancient name of Africa and forget not that you are native-born American citizens, and as such, you are justly entitled to all the rights that are granted to the freest.

I try to take all of my experiences in and not take anything for granted.

Drafting a constitution is only the first step. The constitution has to be granted legitimacy by open discussion and a fair, representative referendum.

To all the parents out there, thank you for allowing me to be a role model for your children. I really, really do not take that for granted.

It's very important to keep yourself fit when you are young. Many people take youth for granted and start taking care of their health only as they get older.

As a child, my father taught me to never take my freedoms for granted. He challenged me to fight for what is right.

What mattered to her was that she loved God, whether or not He granted her the consolation and joy of His felt presence.

It made me have a much greater understanding of loss, of loneliness, and the level of intense tragedy that so many people have experienced in this world, I take a lot less for granted.

Don't fear your mortality, because it is this very mortality that gives meaning and depth and poignancy to all the days that will be granted to you.

There are no absolutes in relationships. You can't take anything for granted. You can count on absolutely nothing but the unexpected. You only get in trouble when you start thinking that you're some kind of exception to the rule.