Definition of Granted

Granted Quotations

In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility - I welcome it.
John F. Kennedy

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

It was the labor movement that helped secure so much of what we take for granted today. The 40-hour work week, the minimum wage, family leave, health insurance, Social Security, Medicare, retirement plans. The cornerstones of the middle-class security all bear the union label.
Barack Obama

I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.
Coco Chanel

Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.
Blaise Pascal

When all of your wishes are granted, many of your dreams will be destroyed.
Marilyn Manson

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
George Orwell

When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
Aldous Huxley

But his kiss was so sweet, and so closely he pressed, that I languished and pined till I granted the rest.
John Gay