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There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship. -- Iris Murdoch
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
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
Snow isn't just pretty. It also cleanses our world and our senses, not just of the soot and grime of a Fife mining town but also of a kind of weary familiarity, a taken-for-granted quality to which our eyes are all too susceptible. -- John Burnside
I think it's like that for people who don't remember 1969 first-hand. It's that sense of 'old hat.' Of 'been there, done that.' Space shuttles, space stations, communications satellites, GPS - they're all part of our everyday, taken-for-granted world in 2009, not part of an incredible odyssey. -- David Weber
Unity cannot be taken for granted. -- Jomo Kenyatta
Blessings taken for granted are often forgotten. -- Elisabeth Elliot
I think women are often taken for granted. -- Sheila Johnson
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
Without a yardstick sometimes the high points can be taken for granted. -- Jasper Fforde
Revolution today is taken for granted, and in consequence becomes rather dull. -- Wyndham Lewis
The popular will cannot be taken for granted, it must be created. -- Herbert Croly
Your talent is your art. It is not to be taken for granted. -- Paula Abdul
Traveling can never be taken for granted, no matter how meticulous the preparations. -- Eugene Linden
There is absolutely nothing that can be taken for granted in this world. -- Robert Anton Wilson
Every gain made by individuals or society is almost instantly taken for granted. -- Aldous Huxley
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
Condiments are like old friends - highly thought of, but often taken for granted. -- Marilyn Kaytor
Life is a thin narrowness of taken-for-granted, a plank over a canyon in a fog. -- Rose Wilder Lane
Our present control of the sea is so absolute that it is sometimes taken for granted. -- Chester W. Nimitz
When you have things taken away, you promise you'll never take anything for granted ever again. -- Chuck Pagano
No 'we' should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people's pain. -- Susan Sontag
If we continually take others for granted, that which we've been granted will soon be taken. -- Terry Crouson
Even the smallest victory is never to be taken for granted. Each victory must be applauded... -- Audre Lorde
Periods of cooperation between political parties shouldn't be taken for granted; they are a stunning human achievement. -- Paul Bloom
It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you. -- Dick Cheney
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
I don't like being taken for granted anywhere in life. I don't want my vote taken for granted. -- Rob Lowe
To be moral involves taking a position towards that matrix, thinking critically about what is taken for granted. -- Maxine Greene
Like winds and sunsets, wild things were taken for granted until progress began to do away with them -- Aldo Leopold
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
For as long as anyone can remember, reliable, cheap electricity has been taken for granted in the United States. -- Alex Berenson
Nothin' taken for granted, just learn from my mistakes. My will too strong, my spirit's somethin' they can't take. -- Slim the Mobster
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
Patriotism is strong nationalistic feeling for a country whose borders and whose legitimacy and whose ethnic composition is taken for granted. -- Michael Ignatieff
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
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
Ive never taken for granted what weve had, not for one single game, not one single practice, ... Ive truly been blessed. -- Peyton Manning
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
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
All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted; when you find it taken for granted, you are unnerved. -- Elizabeth Bowen
Freedom is like health, it is taken for granted while one has it. One becomes aware of it when it has gone. -- Henry Wallich
It may be taken for granted that, rash as Americans usually are, when they are prudent, there is good reason for it. -- Jules Verne
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
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
It may be taken for granted that, rash as the Americans are, when they are prudent there is good reason for it. -- Jules Verne
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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'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
[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
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
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
...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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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