Top 1200 Taken For Granted Quotes & Sayings

Revolution today is taken for granted, and in consequence becomes rather dull.

Freedom under the law must never be taken for granted.

The lands granted were in the occupancy of savages and situated in a wilderness, of which the government had never taken possession, and of which it could not with its own citizens ever have taken possession.

It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you.

I think women are often taken for granted.

I don't like being taken for granted anywhere in life. I don't want my vote taken for granted.

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

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.

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

You knew that what is given or granted can be taken away, that what is begged can be refused; but that what is earned is kept.

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

Creativity is an energy. It's a precious energy, and it's something to be protected. A lot of people take for granted that they're a creative person, but I know from experience, feeling it in myself, it is a magic; it is an energy. And it can't be taken for granted.

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

Some of the greatest poetry is revealing to the reader the beauty in something that was so simple you had taken it for granted.

The detailing on the sets of 'Gandhi' was very minute. There was immense discipline and nothing was taken for granted.

Freedom cannot be granted. It must be taken.

I'm thankful for my family's health, that everybody's healthy. That's something that can be taken for granted, so I'm grateful for that.

Life is a thin narrowness of taken-for-granted, a plank over a canyon in a fog.

For as long as anyone can remember, reliable, cheap electricity has been taken for granted in the United States.

I think part of our faults as humans is that we are very arrogant and I think we have taken many things for granted because of the way European have taken us, which is a failure and for them to totally come out and accept is a failure.

Education is taken for granted. Teaching shops are different from building character.

The principal achievement of Europe is peace, which we often forget about as it has become so taken for granted by Europeans.

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.

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

I never take my things for granted, or the things I've been granted will get taken away.

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

Traveling can never be taken for granted, no matter how meticulous the preparations.

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

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.

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

Blessings taken for granted are often forgotten.

We've shown people that you don't have to be taken for granted. You don't have to settle for less!

The gift of independence once granted cannot be lightly taken away again.

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

The trust of the mass population can no longer be taken for granted.

Confidence is sky high, but we're also all very grounded. We know, in football, nothing can be taken for granted.

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

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

When you have things taken away, you promise you'll never take anything for granted ever again.

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

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.

Once upon a time, soft toys were for babies. Now they're taken for granted as a feature of adult life.

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

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.

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.

There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.

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

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

uproar against a new idea, and laws to prevent anybody's accepting it, nearly always can be regarded as a signal that the new idea is just about to be taken for granted. ... they didn't start making laws to prohibit the teaching of evolution until everybody was about to take it for granted.

Periods of cooperation between political parties shouldn't be taken for granted; they are a stunning human achievement.

Every gain made by individuals or society is almost instantly taken for granted.

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

Nothing should be taken for granted, even if everybody believes it.

Injuries give you perspective. They teach you to cherish the moments that I might have taken for granted before.

Life is a thin narrowness of taken-for-granted, a plank over a canyon in a fog. There is something under our feet, the taken-for-granted. A table is a table, food is food, we are we - because we don't question these things. And science is the enemy because it is the questioner. Faith saves our souls alive by giving us a universe of the taken-for-granted.

Unity cannot be taken for granted.

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

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

In the Far East, it is taken for granted that the training of a monk is physically rigorous and academically challenging.