I was a kid when I did the hit show ‘Kasturi’ in 2007. Maybe stardom went to my head and I thought I was bigger than I actually was. I took everything for granted.
It was taken for granted that we had to make something of ourselves. Not much was said about it; it was just in the atmosphere of the home.
I also take it as granted that every created thing, and consequently the created monad also, is subject to change, and indeed that this change is continual in each one.
Teaching is good for me. It forces me to articulate ways of doing things or rules of thumb that I’ve sort of taken for granted.
I don’t take anybody for granted, but I see myself beating each and every fighter that I face.
Extreme nationalism and Bolshevism have broken up the old world, a new world is in the making. It is literally true that old things are passing away; all things may become new, granted we have wise, unselfish, and determined guides.
We must never forget that Singapore is home for all races and this harmonious relationship must not be taken for granted.
Although we take it for granted, sanitation is a physical measure that has probably done more to increase human life span than any kind of drug or surgery.
The reason behind Hrithik being the best dancer is that he never takes his work for granted.
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.
I cannot be expected to behave like a film star when I have decided to serve my people. They have voted for me with expectations, and I cannot take them for granted.
Sometimes clubs take their ownership of a young player for granted and do not necessarily do the best thing for their development.
With the approaching winter the air quality in many Indian cities, especially in Delhi, becomes a public health hazard. Something so fundamental as breathing easy can no longer be taken for granted. It’s a wake-up call worthy of a civic revolution.
In all affairs it’s a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.
It is motivating seeing how powerful it is when people come together and show support for a fantastic organisation like the NHS. We are very lucky to have it. We should appreciate it and not take it for granted.
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.
No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the only one alive, and quite a number fondly believe their wish has been granted.
The first thing you have to do is make sure you’re still wanted back. I never take that for granted any more.
I mean that’d be great if we could continue to be staples of alt-rock radio. I don’t take that for granted.
I always had a curiosity about Texas. I had a curiosity about small-town life, although, granted, Odessa’s not a tiny town.
And, granted, for a long time, the European has been dominant in certain parts of this Western Hemisphere, but by the end of the 21st century, it’s over.
Cubanas are very strong women. So don’t mess with us – don’t take us for granted!
I always tell myself… that the faith I have is a gift, so I shouldn’t take that for granted. And so when people are struggling and feel they have no faith at all, I shouldn’t say, ‘Well, it’s their fault.’
I have not been that wise. Health I have taken for granted. Love I have demanded, perhaps too much and too often. As for money, I have only realized its true worth when I didn’t have it.
When you go for first date, you are so conscious about what you are wearing, how you smell, how much money you have in your wallet. You have to plan the day – you have to plan the traffic – but in a relationship, you take all the things for granted.
The absence of state capacity – that is, of the services and protections that people in rich countries take for granted – is one of the major causes of poverty and deprivation around the world.
We can take these things for granted, when we have everything on a plate.
I don’t take for granted all the blessings that I have, and as soon as I heard about Computers for Youth, I really wanted to be involved. Anyone who knows me knows how much time I spend on computers. I’m a computer addict. Every young person deserves to have a computer in his or her home.
Happiness is perhaps painlessness, a state one rarely appreciates. Happiness, then, is very much like a great talent. It rarely gets appreciated and is taken for granted.
I never take for granted how great Australia is and how well I have been treated here, so thank you for this chance at making a good life.
History is imperfect and biased, and it always, always has omissions. The most common omissions are the bits that the writer of that history took for granted that his readers would know.
Labour long ago realised it could no longer automatically assume that it would win elections in Glasgow and other places where it has taken people’s votes for granted for decades – as we have seen across Scotland at local council and Holyrood elections.
When you are growing up to even be involved in a Scotland squad is a massive achievement, to go on and play for your country is an amazing thing, something I will never take for granted.
I try to keep my head on straight and take nothing for granted.
Some sectors have a monopoly position, and football certainly does. If I am dissatisfied with my football club’s facilities or the players on the pitch, I’m not about to go and purchase my season ticket from the club down the road. That loyalty should be treasured and not taken for granted.
I think that when you emigrate, when everything you took for granted disappears, it’s a kind of loss of innocence. When you’re a kid, the world as you know it is just there. Suddenly, you emigrate and that’s no longer the case. It’s a break in reality that parachutes you into adulthood.
Most of us readily take things for granted that at an earlier time remained to be discovered.
One of the things I find depressing about some of the upper echelons of Anglicanism on both sides of the Atlantic is that it’s sort of taken for granted that we all basically know what’s in the Bible, and so we just glance at a few verses for devotional purposes and then get on to the real business.
‘Playboy’ operated with a patina of civility that granted the average man a presumption of pleasure that went one way – his. And that permission flourished in the psyches of all kinds of men.
Postmodernism is, of course, the dead end from which hauntology starts – but one of its role is to denaturalise what postmodernism has taken for granted, to conceive of postmodernism as a condition in the sense of a sickness.
Let sovereignty be granted us over a portion of the earth’s surface large enough to satisfy our rightful requirements as a nation. The rest we shall manage for ourselves.
People come up to me and pay their respects by telling me how I was a big part of their childhood. I do not take that for granted, not for one second.
As trust in institutions erodes, the basic assumptions of fairness, shared values, and equal opportunity traditionally upheld by ‘the system’ are no longer taken for granted.
All too often the Democratic Party has taken the black vote for granted, and all too often the Republican Party has written it off.
Unlike life, a work of art never gets taken for granted: it is always viewed against its precursors and predecessors.
I find that the kinds of music I’m drawn to are those that a lot of people take for granted.
You don’t get this opportunity many times in life to compete against the best in the world every night. I certainly didn’t expect to have 10 or 11 years of chances at it, so I don’t want to take that for granted.
God who created us has granted us the faculty of speech that we might disclose the counsels of our hearts to one another and that, since we possess our human nature in common, each of us might share his thoughts with his neighbor, bringing them forth from the secret recesses of the heart as from a treasury.
Granted, I’ve changed internally as I’ve gotten older – I take it easy, I know when to stop and take care of myself, I laugh much more and with my belly and soul – but this comes from the confidence and acceptance that comes with maturity.
It’s an honor to be selected to the All-Star Game. It’s not something I take for granted.
It took me months and months to get back to normalcy – to have a glass of wine at dinner, to go out to a movie with my wife. Just those normal things that you take for granted I wasn’t able to do for a long time.
Don’t take for granted how much of an impact making small changes can have.
I developed a really strong work ethic, and I don’t take anything for granted.
In many ways, people growing up with the Web and now the Semantic Web take the power at their fingertips for granted.
But his kiss was so sweet, and so closely he pressed, that I languished and pined till I granted the rest.
You sort of take your freedom for granted sometimes.
And a democracy can’t exist without free speech and the right to assemble. And that’s what Americans tend to forget. And they’re born into a culture where they take all of their freedoms for granted.
