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.
Boundaries get blurry and identities can get lost easily. It’s easy to take your partner for granted.
I want people to know that I don’t take for granted what’s been given to me.
I’ve taken for granted that we have clean air to breathe in cities, relatively speaking, and most people have access to clean water. But we can’t take these things for granted.
John Cena has granted more wishes than anybody in history. He goes the extra mile.
Through persistent dedication, Susan B. Anthony, and other remarkable leaders, women were finally granted the right to vote in 1920.
I was working in email in the early days in the late ’80s, and people weren’t using electronic communications at all in the way we take for granted today.
I cannot, or will not, take the freedoms this country offers for granted. But these freedoms have come with a price so many times. The sacrifices made by our veterans are reminders to us of this.
The Sixties are most generously described as a time when people took part – when they stepped out of themselves and acted in public, as people who didn’t know what would happen next, but who were sure that acts of true risk and fear would produce something different from what they had been raised to take for granted.
I never take my things for granted, or the things I’ve been granted will get taken away.
I don’t take for granted that I wake up. I appreciate it when I do, those times when it still happens.
I guess I’m taking for granted how open my parents are.
Today, we’re very dependent on cheap energy. We just take it for granted – all the things you have in the house, the way industry works.
Everything that happens later in life is appreciated in a different way. You can appreciate the thing for what it is, which you couldn’t if you were 25 and had never experienced much else. You would take it all for granted and think that’s what life is like.
The trust of the mass population can no longer be taken for granted.
I can do an hour-long speech about Democrats taking African Americans for granted, and I’d have a line behind me of very prominent African-Americans who would say, ‘Amen.’
Life is a precious gift – a gift we often take for granted until it is threatened.
I’m grateful for what this club has done for me and I love playing for Hibs – I never take that for granted.
Including women in climate policy and solutions can enhance the results, leading to more economic growth and sustainable outcomes. However, we cannot take for granted that gender equality and women’s empowerment in the field of climate change and sustainable development will happen automatically.
I’m very blessed and I don’t take anything for granted.
‘Reality’ is a notion that journalists take for granted.
Everything has been done. It’s not possible to create something completely new, something that has never been seen before. It’s only possible to make new combinations, establish new connections between things we usually take for granted.
President Obama has regularly granted special access to reporters who give him preferential coverage.
One must know the so-called ‘lesson of a downpour.’ A man, caught in a sudden rain en route, dashes along the road not to get wet or drenched. Once one takes it for granted that in rain he naturally gets wet, he can be in a tranquil frame of mind even when soaked to the skin. This lesson applies to everything.
I was originally granted a visa for people of extraordinary abilities, then got a green card thanks to my modelling background and now I am officially an American with dual nationality.
Growing up in England, you’re sort of spoiled, in a way. You sort of take it for granted that within a half-hour’s drive, you could be walking around a stately home from the 1700s. It’s not very hard to do – in California, you’ve got to take a flight!
Since it is not granted to us to live long, let us transmit to posterity some memorial that we have at least lived.
When you hear the word ‘disabled,’ people immediately think about people who can’t walk or talk or do everything that people take for granted. Now, I take nothing for granted. But I find the real disability is people who can’t find joy in life and are bitter.
I had never seen an ocean before I came to Mumbai, something that now we take for granted. But the first time I stood in front of the ocean, it affected me for a week. I had never seen something as enormous. It consumed me completely.
You can’t take your win for granted. Your next win might be your last win or you might never get to your next win, so I can’t imagine not being overcome with joy by winning and never taking winning for granted.
I have been playing for England since I was 18, and while I wouldn’t say I took it all for granted, it just seemed to be a part of my season – to play for Arsenal and to play for England.
I tried never to take anything for granted.
You are always learning; there is a lot of grey; don’t take things for granted.
As a white man who has had privileges that others could not depend on or take for granted, I’ve clearly had advantages over the course of my life.
When you’re nice, people like you and will want to work with you. But it can mean that they take you for granted.
We’ve all had those moments where we take a person for granted.
All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted; when you find it taken for granted, you are unnerved.
I came from a house full of books, so I took reading for granted. I was an outdoorsy little kid, too, so I got the best of both worlds by taking books up trees and reading there.
Injuries give you perspective. They teach you to cherish the moments that I might have taken for granted before.
It’s often taken for granted that the most dominant tech companies control the world’s most important technology and communications platforms. Instead, the truth is that these giants run on top of the world’s most important platform: the mobile communications networks.
You have to work hard not to take your partner for granted, even when you are tired.
I love going out to clubs. Granted, I don’t get hammered or do anything to embarrass myself. I’d call myself wholesome… but it’s not like I only drink milk.
The real end of prayer is not so much to get this or that single desire granted, as to put human life into full and joyful conformity with the will of God.
There are so many surprises in my life; I don’t take anything for granted. I enjoy every experience that comes; I don’t think too far ahead.
The letters, the food – I had no idea I wouldn’t see a shrimp for three years. You don’t look at those little things you take for granted so easy, until you get sat down, get locked up, or get into a position were you see other people who are less fortunate than you – that don’t have anybody.
It’s crucial we make the case for institutions like Nato and the E.U. as foundations for the peace and prosperity we have enjoyed for decades – and which too many people appear to take for granted.
You can’t take life for granted.
Is it rather stupid and dangerous to take Magna Carta so much for granted, as many of us seem to do, and to think of this attitude as ‘very English?’
There’s so much rich interaction with drivers that we take for granted. It seems like a mundane thing, but it turns out to be a really big deal.
Freedom is never granted; it is won.
Latinos have enough voting power now to decide elections, and every smart politician knows this.We can’t afford to give our vote to those who alienate us, but neither to those who take us for granted.
I’m blessed to be able to work at something that I’m good at, and that I love. It’s not something I take for granted.
Steady, firm, and kind government of prisoners is the truest humanity and the best exercise of duty. It is with convicts as with children: unseasonable indulgence, indiscreetly granted, leads to mischiefs which we may deplore but cannot repair.
Don’t take your friends for granted or that everyone is going to be OK.
I was this little kid writing songs. I look back at having that dream, and it’s weird. Being able to do it and live out your dream on any scale is amazing. I don’t take any of it for granted at all.
Sometimes you can get into a phase where you takes things for granted, especially each day. When you go through something life-threatening, something that could change something you love, it makes you appreciate it much more.
But when, in the first setting out, he takes it for granted without proof, that distinctions found in the structure of all languages, have no foundation in nature; this surely is too fastidious a way of treating the common sense of mankind.
All I did was win, win, win. I took winning for granted.
Life doesn’t make any sense unless you can enjoy the journey, and sometimes I take that for granted.
Your talent is your art. It is not to be taken for granted.
Nothing thrills me more than to be good at something. It’s very rewarding, and I feel grateful and blessed, and I never take it for granted.
