Great God of the Ants, thou hast granted victory to thy servants. I appoint thee honorary Colonel.
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.
And I highly recommend for all the women in the world, even if they’re 71, you can never take for granted that he loves you. It’s always good to flirt with him. It’s a great sport.
Now everyone takes it for granted that you can look up movie reviews, track locations, and order stuff online. I wish there was a way we could take it away from people for a day so they could remember what it was like without it.
I came from a background where access to museum culture was rarely granted, and, when you got it, people wondered what the hell you were doing there.
We take a lot for granted as second wave feminists, what our mothers and aunts did for us.
We often take for granted that our lights will come on when we flip the light switch, but the reality is that our reliability standards and the current state of the transmission grid leave us all vulnerable to blackouts.
My kids are coming up in a different time then me. Interracial couples are of the norm. With me, it’s about making sure my kids understand the importance of education and having opportunities that I didn’t. My goal as a parent is to make sure they don’t take what they have for granted.
The first award that I recall having received was in the form of a scholarship when I was studying in the 5th standard. I was granted this scholarship for achieving academic excellence, and it continues to be one of the high points in my life.
When things don’t go your way, you brush it aside and carry on. Don’t take what you have for granted. Enjoy what you have.
We’re just not the type of artists that take anything for granted and just feel like, ‘Oh yeah, you just know something great is going to happen.’ We’re not like that.
People take reality for granted.
I’m sometimes asked if I get bored with talking about ‘Kevin,’ and of course, the short answer is yes. Nevertheless, after a long slog in the literary trenches, I never take a single reader for granted and always remind myself that for new readers the unfolding story is fresh.
We didn’t have a lot when I was growing up, and it’s the best thing that happened to me because I appreciate everything. I developed a strong work ethic, and I don’t take anything for granted.
Because it’s free, easy to use, and high-quality, photography is now a fixture in our daily lives – something we take for granted.
At 80 million, millennials, born between 1980 and 2000, are the largest generation in history. Yet they are a demographic Congress has historically either taken for granted or ignored altogether.
Bose did not die in 1945. It is wrong. It is a conspiracy of Nehru and the Japanese. Subhash Chandra Bose sought shelter in Russia and was granted asylum. Jawaharlal Nehru knew everything.
Low prices at Walmart are a given. Customers almost take that for granted. But they also want to save time, and that goal is increasing in importance relative to just saving money.
I want people to have clean water. People in this country take it for granted, the ability to drink clean water whenever they want. There are millions of people far less fortunate in this world, and it’s my duty to do as much as I can to change that. I don’t see that as insurmountable at all.
The things that made me were the highs and the lows – that’s what made me the cricketer I was when I retired. And the lows do a lot to give you a real kick up the backside in making sure you never take things for granted.
One of my fantasies in my life has been that I was granted access with a camera to go back in time, and to film the actual campaign of Alexander crossing into India through Iran and Persia.
In life, try your best to do the right thing. Have fun while you’re alive. Take advantage of every asset you have. Don’t take anything for granted.
In life, so many things are taken for granted, but one thing I can honestly say is that I took every day, enjoyed the game of putting on that uniform and playing the great game of baseball.
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.
You can’t take anything for granted so I have to keep working.
I don’t ever take anything for granted. I know… people would kill for the opportunity to play on festival stages and whatnot.
You never can take for granted that you have a job.
I don’t take anything for granted.
Chances have been taken, opportunities granted, and because of such, I find myself in a position where some of my biggest dreams are in arm’s reach.
From my years of teaching creative writing, I know that new writers take the setting for granted, as simply a place to set the action, but setting is a vital element in fiction writing and deserves serious treatment.
If you just casually look at a baby, it doesn’t look like there’s very much going on there, but they know more and learn more than we would ever have thought. Every single minute is incredibly full of thought and novelty. It’s easy as adults to take for granted everything it took to arrive at the state where we are.
I think you cannot be too complacent. I think that’s dangerous, and you cannot take anything for granted.
My battles have been against federal actions that exceed the powers our Founders granted to the federal government in the constitution.
I worked three and then six hours a day in my studio with strict discipline and emotion. I obtained awards usually granted to other foreigners during the end-of-year admission tests.
Personally, I find it romantic not to be with someone all the time; you don’t get used to someone or take them for granted.
I never took anything for granted.
I take it for granted that you do not wish to hear an echo from the pulpit nor from the theological class-room.
Awareness requires a rupture with the world we take for granted; then old categories of experience are called into question and revised.
Americans have an interesting conundrum, a black and white line: You’re on one side or the other of Puritanism or licentiousness. But that gray area where people abide, between their ears or on the Internet, needs to be fleshed out more in terms of permission granted.
Every three seconds in the developing world, a child dies needlessly due to lack of basic health care and other things we all take for granted.
I love working; I don’t take things for granted, so I just love to do what I do whilst it lasts.
Sometimes we spend more efforts with people that are strangers in terms of making an impression than the person that’s closest to us. And you just gotta remember not to take for granted that person that’s closest to you.
Beginning to create again was something that I took for granted but I never will take it for granted again.
Our democracy is not something to be taken for granted. You have to fight for it. You have to commit yourself to working for it – for the long haul.
For example, for me, my brother helped me get a manager, which I don’t take for granted. It’s tough getting a manager, let alone one that actually cares about you and is smart. But from there, no one’s going to cast me just because I’m James Franco’s little brother.
We take our health for granted until something awful happens.
But we have seen amazing things, good and bad, happen in this game, so you can never take anything for granted. I certainly don’t. There are no guarantees, whether it is good bad or indifferent you just work hard to push the odds in your favour as regards myself and the team.
Can you imagine being Leonardo Da Vinci in the 1400s trying to describe his ideas for machines that would allow humans to fly to the average person of his time? This is hundreds of years before the invention of electricity, the internal combustion engine, and many other things we take for granted today.
If there is one thing that COVID-19 has shown us, it’s the little things that we likely took for granted that made our lives seem normal.
Preparation is such a big thing and you should never take that for granted.
Traditionally, royal females who have not had the luck to become queens regnant have been granted very limited roles. They have been expected to look pretty, be discreet, do charitable good deeds, and – if married to princes or kings – be quietly supportive and, above all, fertile.
Don’t take people for granted.
I wasn’t granted the opportunity to fight some of the best guys in the world. And that was something that was not on my end by any sense of the imagination.
I don’t like being taken for granted anywhere in life. I don’t want my vote taken for granted.
We are lucky to live on such a planet, and we should not take it for granted. After my space experience, I am a lot more tolerant of people and opinions, of everything.
We take miracles for granted on a daily basis.
I read things like theology, and I read about science, ‘Scientific American’ and publications like that, because they stimulate again and again my sense of the almost arbitrary given-ness of experience, the fact that nothing can be taken for granted.
