Taken For Granted Quotes

Taken For Granted Quote of the day

Unity cannot be taken for granted.

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.

Nothing is going to be handed to you -- you have to make things happen.

Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means that you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.

It is very easy to take for granted the phenomenon that we are each alive, but we must try not to.

Condiments are like old friends - highly thought of, but often taken for granted.

To be moral involves taking a position towards that matrix, thinking critically about what is taken for granted.

Nothing taken for granted; everything received with gratitude; everything passed on with grace.

Our present control of the sea is so absolute that it is sometimes taken for granted.

Like winds and sunsets, wild things were taken for granted until progress began to do away with them

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.

I want justice to be so pervasive that it will be taken for granted, just as injustice is taken for granted today.

Your talent is your art. It is not to be taken for granted.

The simple process of focusing on things that are normally taken for granted is a powerful source of creativity.

I think women are often taken for granted.

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.

There is absolutely nothing that can be taken for granted in this world.

No 'we' should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people's pain.

Even the smallest victory is never to be taken for granted. Each victory must be applauded.

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.

Blessings taken for granted are often forgotten.

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.

All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted; when you find it taken for granted, you are unnerved.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Without a yardstick sometimes the high points can be taken for granted.

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.

The popular will cannot be taken for granted, it must be created.

I don't take anything for granted.

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.

Why is it taken for granted that women should earn less than men? No! They have the same rights.

I want to become acutely aware of all I've taken for granted.

Caring about what you are doing is considered either unimportant or taken for granted.

Freedom is like health, it is taken for granted while one has it. One becomes aware of it when it has gone.

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.

Ive never taken for granted what weve had, not for one single game, not one single practice, ... Ive truly been blessed.

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

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.

Nothin' taken for granted, just learn from my mistakes. My will too strong, my spirit's somethin' they can't take.

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.

[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.

...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.

Every original idea is first ridiculed, then vigorously attacked, and finally taken for granted.

When you meet someone you really like and connect with, I think that's very special, and not to be taken for granted.

It may be taken for granted that, rash as the Americans are, when they are prudent there is good reason for it.

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.

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.