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  • Your talent is your art. It is not to be taken for granted. -- Paula Abdul
  • Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means that you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life. -- Joyce Brothers
  • I want justice to be so pervasive that it will be taken for granted, just as injustice is taken for granted today. -- Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
  • All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted; when you find it taken for granted, you are unnerved. -- Elizabeth Bowen
  • 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. -- Bertrand Russell
  • One very important aspect of motivation is the willingness to stop and to look at things that no one else has bothered to look at. This simple process of focusing on things that are normally taken for granted is a powerful source of creativity. -- Edward de Bono
  • I think women are often taken for granted. -- Sheila Johnson
  • Revolution today is taken for granted, and in consequence becomes rather dull. -- Wyndham Lewis
  • There is absolutely nothing that can be taken for granted in this world. -- Robert Anton Wilson
  • There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship. -- Iris Murdoch
  • Condiments are like old friends - highly thought of, but often taken for granted. -- Marilyn Kaytor
  • No 'we' should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people's pain. -- Susan Sontag
  • Even the smallest victory is never to be taken for granted. Each victory must be applauded... -- Audre Lorde
  • Why is it taken for granted that women should earn less than men? No! They have the same rights. -- Pope Francis
  • The simple process of focusing on things that are normally taken for granted is a powerful source of creativity. -- Edward de Bono
  • It is always to be taken for granted, that those who oppose an equality of rights never mean the exclusion should take place on themselves. -- Thomas Paine
  • Being taken for granted is an unpleasant but sincere form of praise. Ironically, the more reliable you are and the less you complain, the more likely you are to be taken for granted. -- Gretchen Rubin
  • So much of liberalism in its classical sense is taken for granted in the west today and even disrespected. We take freedom for granted, and because of this we don't understand how incredibly vulnerable it is. -- Niall Ferguson
  • Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life. Too many of us divide and dissipate our energies in debating actions which should be taken for granted. -- Ralph W. Sockman
  • Freedom can never be taken for granted. Each generation must safeguard it and extend it. Your parents and elders sacrificed much so that you should have freedom without suffering what they did. Use this precious right to ensure that the darkness of the past never returns. -- Nelson Mandela
  • I have learned that some of the nicest people you'll ever meet are those who have suffered a traumatic event or loss. I admire them for their strength, but most especially for their life gratitude - a gift often taken for granted by the average person in society. -- Sasha Azevedo
  • I try to encourage people to think for themselves, to question standard assumptions... Don't take assumptions for granted. Begin by taking a skeptical attitude toward anything that is conventional wisdom. Make it justify itself. It usually can't. Be willing to ask questions about what is taken for granted. Try to think things through for yourself. -- Noam Chomsky
  • All the things I thought I was - simple and plain and sometime funny - are very small words. They do not begin to describe me. They do not begin to express what is inside of me. I have value, and I have worth. I cannot be replaced like old shoes or taken for granted like tap water. -- Adriana Trigiani
  • Periods of cooperation between political parties shouldn't be taken for granted; they are a stunning human achievement. -- Paul Bloom
  • I don't like being taken for granted anywhere in life. I don't want my vote taken for granted. -- Rob Lowe
  • Patriotism is strong nationalistic feeling for a country whose borders and whose legitimacy and whose ethnic composition is taken for granted. -- Michael Ignatieff
  • It may be taken for granted that, rash as Americans usually are, when they are prudent, there is good reason for it. -- Jules Verne
  • Yet food is something that is taken for granted by most world leaders despite the fact that more than half of the population of the world is hungry. -- Norman Borlaug
  • A time is marked not so much by ideas that are argued about as by ideas that are taken for granted. The character of an era hangs upon what needs no defense. -- Lawrence Lessig
  • Father was the eldest son and the heir apparent, and he set the standard for being a Rockefeller very high, so every achievement was taken for granted and perfection was the norm. -- David Rockefeller
  • Being taken for granted is an unpleasant but sincere form of praise. Ironically, the more reliable you are, and the less you complain, the more likely you are to be taken for granted. -- Gretchen Rubin
  • I still make sure to go, at least once every year, to a country where things cannot be taken for granted, and where there is either too much law and order or too little. -- Christopher Hitchens
  • 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. -- Larry Flynt
  • We don't really make bad records, though some people might like some more than others. And we have never really done a bad show. So I think in a way maybe we've been taken for granted. -- Tom Petty
  • As our cities have developed, they've built sometimes small villages or communities that were in place. And we've taken for granted all of that child care, the neighbourliness, the help that you get from people nearby. -- Susan Oliver
  • 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. -- Hedy Lamarr
  • 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. -- Wade Boggs
  • The media tends to portray the teenage world as one where drinking and sex is taken for granted. In fact, I think most teenagers don't drink, are unsure of themselves, and feel awkward around members of the opposite sex. -- Louis Sachar
  • The horrors of the Second World War, the chilling winds of the Cold War and the crushing weight of the Iron Curtain are little more than fading memories. Ideals that once commanded great loyalty are now taken for granted. -- Jan Peter Balkenende
  • Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life. Too many of us divide and dissipate our energies in debating actions which should be taken for granted. -- Ralph W. Sockman
  • I lived in a world where social arrangements were taken for granted and assumed to be timeless. A child's obligation was to learn these usages, not to question them. The complexities of racial deportment were of a piece with learning manners and etiquette more generally. -- Drew Gilpin Faust
  • I now know that things I always thought I could depend on can crash in an instant. Because of the love that I have been shown, I now know what it means to be 'beloved.' I now know that no breath is to be taken for granted. -- Rebecca Wells
  • 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. -- N. T. Wright
  • Unity cannot be taken for granted. -- Jomo Kenyatta
  • Blessings taken for granted are often forgotten. -- Elisabeth Elliot
  • Freedom under the law must never be taken for granted. -- Margaret Thatcher
  • Character is formed out of those small decisions taken for granted -- Luthando Daniels
  • I want to become acutely aware of all I've taken for granted. -- Sylvia Plath
  • The popular will cannot be taken for granted, it must be created. -- Herbert Croly
  • Without a yardstick sometimes the high points can be taken for granted. -- Jasper Fforde
  • Every gain made by individuals or society is almost instantly taken for granted. -- Aldous Huxley
  • Traveling can never be taken for granted, no matter how meticulous the preparations. -- Eugene Linden
  • Nothing taken for granted; everything received with gratitude; everything passed on with grace. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
  • Every original idea is first ridiculed, then vigorously attacked, and finally taken for granted. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Caring about what you are doing is considered either unimportant or taken for granted. -- Robert M. Pirsig
  • Life is a thin narrowness of taken-for-granted, a plank over a canyon in a fog. -- Rose Wilder Lane
  • When you have things taken away, you promise you'll never take anything for granted ever again. -- Chuck Pagano
  • Our present control of the sea is so absolute that it is sometimes taken for granted. -- Chester W. Nimitz
  • If we continually take others for granted, that which we've been granted will soon be taken. -- Terry Crouson
  • It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you. -- Dick Cheney
  • A woman's love for a man should never be taken for granted. What is life without love? -- Lailah Gifty Akita
  • It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you. -- Dick Cheney
  • Like winds and sunsets, wild things were taken for granted until progress began to do away with them -- Aldo Leopold
  • To be moral involves taking a position towards that matrix, thinking critically about what is taken for granted. -- Maxine Greene
  • Nothin' taken for granted, just learn from my mistakes. My will too strong, my spirit's somethin' they can't take. -- Slim the Mobster
  • For as long as anyone can remember, reliable, cheap electricity has been taken for granted in the United States. -- Alex Berenson
  • Too many people realize at the end of their lives that they've taken for granted those who really love them. -- Lesley M.M. Blume
  • Ive never taken for granted what weve had, not for one single game, not one single practice, ... Ive truly been blessed. -- Peyton Manning
  • In the Far East, it is taken for granted that the training of a monk is physically rigorous and academically challenging. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
  • She didn't want to be reminded of her past or how different her present was from the future she'd taken for granted. -- Freya North
  • When you meet someone you really like and connect with, I think that's very special, and not to be taken for granted. -- Aziz Ansari
  • It may be taken for granted that, rash as the Americans are, when they are prudent there is good reason for it. -- Jules Verne
  • The principal achievement of Europe is peace, which we often forget about as it has become so taken for granted by Europeans. -- Dominique de Villepin
  • Freedom is like health, it is taken for granted while one has it. One becomes aware of it when it has gone. -- Henry Wallich
  • Some of the greatest poetry is revealing to the reader the beauty in something that was so simple you had taken it for granted. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • All too often the Democratic Party has taken the black vote for granted, and all too often the Republican Party has written it off. -- Jack Kemp
  • The social side of Washington was to be taken for granted as three-fourths of existence. Politics and reform became the detail, and waltzing the profession -- Henry Adams
  • Sometimes it just feels so amazing to finally stand up for yourself. I highly recommend it. Life is too short to be taken for granted. -- Demi Lovato
  • 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. -- James A. Baldwin
  • Yes, I know. Death sits with his key in my lock. Not one day is taken for granted. Even nursery rhymes have put me in hock. -- Anne Sexton
  • Friendship is a simple thing, and yet complicated; friendship is on the surface, something natural, something taken for granted, and yet underneath one could find worlds. -- Jamaica Kincaid
  • Being born and raised as a Californian, I somewhat ignorantly had taken for granted the diversity and liberal mindset that shaped my childhood and adult life. -- Carre Otis
  • 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. -- Pete Sampras
  • Instead, I was interested in what I guess I could call narrative indeterminacy, in questioning the apparent, taken-for-granted authority of any particular representation of the events in question. -- Peter Straub
  • Remember, remember, this is now, and now, and now. Live it, feel it, cling to it. I want to become acutely aware of all I've taken for granted. -- Sylvia Plath
  • You are a woman who is beautifully created by the love of God and should not be taken for granted because you are the precious daughter of God. -- Carl Lomer Abia
  • If you do not achieve your God-given goals, it does not mean God has not given the power. It rather means you have taken His power for granted! -- Israelmore Ayivor
  • We live in a very peculiar world. Democracy isn't discussed, as if it was taken for granted, as if democracy had taken God's place, who is also not discussed. -- Jose Saramago
  • I've always assumed he'd be around to be, you know, yelled at and taken for granted. And of course I was wrong. Nobody's going to put up with that forever. -- MaryJanice Davidson
  • 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. -- Keith Ellison
  • It seems to me the mark of a civilized society that certain privileges should be taken for granted such as education, health care and the safety to walk the streets. -- Alan Bennett
  • I think that what art can do is refresh our sense of justice, wake us up to what we've taken for granted in the political realm, as in the other realms. -- Robert Hass
  • [T]he presence of feminism in our lives is taken for granted. For our generation, feminism is like fluoride. We scarcely notice we have it - it's simply in the water. -- Amy Richards
  • We have all of us to some extent become inured to a culture where viciousness and depravity are simply taken for granted, like some hideous wallpaper we have lived with for years. -- Roger Kimball
  • ...had always taken for granted that the whole world was in a state of constantly fluctuating madness, and that a neurosis was not an illness, but a fact of life, like pimples. -- Anne Fortier
  • I continue to believe when I said in Hanover, that the E.U. remains one of the world's great political and economic achievements, and that those achievements should not be taken for granted. -- Barack Obama
  • I'm amazed at what I have taken for granted. How to truly take in our situation I don't know, but I wish I had started asking myself that question earlier than I did. -- Marilynne Robinson
  • You could not turn off love- even the rather absent, sometimes taken for granted love- the way you'd turn off a faucet. Love ran from the heart and the heart had it's own imperatives -- Stephen King
  • The long view of the Census bureau allows some changes that are taken for granted to be studied in more detail. Everyone knows, for example, that people get married later than they used to. -- Bill Dedman
  • My years with failing vision have prompted me to learn about the nature of the eye and the incredible gift of sight, which I had always taken for granted until it began to slip away. -- Henry Grunwald
  • It must not simply be taken for granted that a given set of ill-assorted people, for no other reason than because it is Christmas, will be joyful to be reunited and to break bread together. -- M. F. K. Fisher
  • The question is how to bring a work of imagination out of one language that was just as taken-for-granted by the persons who used it as our language is by ourselves. Nothing strange about it. -- Robert Fitzgerald
  • For something to be great, there has to be some kind of trial or some type of struggle that actually makes it special or valuable to you. Otherwise, anything could be easily taken for granted. -- Hayley Williams
  • Only greatly insolent people establish a religious law which is to be taken for granted by others, which should be accepted by everyone on faith, without any discussion or doubts. Why must people do this? -- Leo Tolstoy
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