Top 1200 Taking Life For Granted Quotes & Sayings

Life is a series of pulls back and forth. You want to do one thing, but you are bound to do somehing else. Something hurts you, yet you know it shouldn't. You take certain things for granted, even when you know you should never take anything for granted.

If a guy is taking his girl for granted, he really deserves a slap, with a baseball bat.

I appreciate everything that I have, versus taking it for granted.

It's human nature to start taking things for granted again when danger isn't banging loudly on the door.

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.

If you are a kid in Beverly Hills, (I am not putting down people who live in Beverly Hills) if that kid knows private school and a credit card... you can't say the kid is taking life for granted. He is taking the life that was given to him.

My quarrel with the advocates of contraceptives lies in their taking for granted that ordinary mortals cannot exercise self-control.

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.

I am still not taking my "career" in music for granted. It is constantly surprising that it works. Generally my thinking about the future has this assumption of an impending apocalypse.

I have always found myself trying to study and analyze the world around me - not just taking everything for granted and following whatever is popular.

If we tried to rely entirely on reason, and pressed it hard, our lives and beliefs would collapse - a form of madness that may actually occur if the inertial force of taking the world and life for granted is somehow lost. If we lose our grip on that, reason will not give it back to us.

I am not taking anything for granted.

When the state imposes the death penalty, it proclaims that taking one human life counterbalances the taking of another life. This assumption is profoundly mistaken.

It's very important to keep yourself fit when you are young. Many people take youth for granted and start taking care of their health only as they get older.

A 1990 Gallup poll found that 77 percent of Americans polled said abortion was the taking of human life. I agree, and believe that taking the life on an innocent child is unjust.

There is no fool like a careless gambler who starts taking victory for granted.

Children today will grow up taking for granted that an African-American or a woman can, yes, become the president of the United States.

And realize that life is the best thing ever, and that you have no business taking it for granted. Care so deeply about its goodness that you want to spread it around. Take money...and give it to charity. Work in a soup kitchen. Be a Big Brother or Sister...You want to do well, but if you do not do good too, then doing well will never be enough.

All those months of taking it for granted that Peeta thought I was wonderful are over. Finally, he can see me for who I really am. Violent. Distrustful. Manipulative. Deadly. And I hate him for it.

I guess I'm taking for granted how open my parents are.

In Bollywood, once an actor becomes a fairly established name, he or she usually starts taking things for granted.

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 invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.

What is being black? It's making the most of your life, not taking a single moment for granted. Taking something that's seen as a struggle and making it work for you, or you'll die inside. Not to say that my struggle is like the collective struggle of black America. But maybe my struggle is similar to one black dude's.

I'm not taking anything for granted at all.

In taking life for granted, we fail to notice it.

That's what a community is: taking for granted certain assumptions, not having to start from zero every time. This is no longer true.

I find it completely irrational to say someone who stands up for life for children is taking the life of adult. It's completely inconsistent with the values of the pro-life movement that are very passionate about protecting life, not taking life.

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

Rose and Dimitri moved almost as one entity, like a matched pair of wolfes or lions, both wary and deadly as they studied their surroundings, taking no detail or person for granted.

The staging for 'Monsters' is all about me getting free. In the beginning I'm like tied, in a dark place... until I am scared no more, and I'm taking the lead of my life, I'm being the queen of my life, I'm ruling the world! In the end I'm taking a risk, but I'm taking the leap of faith.

Of the many things we have done to democracy in the past, the worst has been the indignity of taking it for granted.

The enlightened give thanks for what most people take for granted.... As you begin to be grateful for what most people take for granted, the vibration of gratitude makes you more receptive to good in your life.

I hope my career will be long-term. It's not something I'm taking for granted, but we try to plan that way.

When the eye wakes up to see again, it suddenly stops taking anything for granted.

I would not take for granted that my personal life - because I knew better than anybody - that it was just a life. It was surprisingly an ordinary life.

The way forward does not lie in amateur and comically timeless linguistic sociology which takes 'forms of life ' for granted (and this is what philosophy has been recently), but in the systematic study of forms of life which does not take them for granted at all. It hardly matters whether such an inquiry is called philosophy or sociology.

I am not taking for granted a call-up to the England squad or making any assumption about my future international career.

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.

Look closely and you will find that people are happy because they are grateful. The opposite of gratefulness is just taking everything for granted.

Having children made us look differently at all these things that we take for granted, like taking your child to get a vaccine against measles or polio.

Say a child raises this beautiful beet. It's going to give her a sense of ownership, and that changes everything. You stop taking things for granted; you become less wasteful.

The Tamil audience has accepted me and given me a place to establish myself. I'm not taking things for granted... I've learnt the language.

In taking the everyday details of life for granted, we fail to appreciate the extraordinary fact that we are conscious at all.

That's why I named my album 'The Life,' because it's appreciating life and not taking it for granted and living it day by day.

There's so much to appreciate about my life every single day, and I make a big point of taking time to smell the roses and noticing how lucky I am. I never want to take that for granted.

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

People take love's continuity for granted, just as they take their body's continuity for granted. They don't realize that the best thing about love is its regular presence. Once you can establish that, it's an added foundation to your life.

The way I see it, the impossible happens all the time; but we're so good at taking it for granted, we forget it was once impossible.

With time, the one thing that I have learnt is, never taking the opportunity for granted.

I just say 'Amen' a lot. It's just about being grateful and never taking things for granted.

I'm very fortunate to be in the position that I am, to be able to play the sport that I love every single day. I'm never taking that for granted.

I'm not taking for granted being managed by Roc Nation. They have a lot of relations, and they have a reach that I clearly could benefit from.

The danger is that you can wind up doing tourist pictures. I want to see it fresh and see the little bits of everyday life that a native might take for granted, but that are special to the place, while at the same time, not taking a picture that would be a tourist cliché.

When you do anything for eight or nine years, you start getting a little comfortable; you start taking things for granted.

Taking experimental results and observations for granted and putting the burden of proof on the theory means taking the observational ideology for granted without having ever examined it.

Look around at the azaleas making fuchsia star bursts in spring; look at a full moon hanging silver in a black sky on a cold night. And realize that life is glorious, and that you have no business taking it for granted.

I feel like sometimes people on television shows can start taking things for granted, or they don't want to be here or something like that.

Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.

We will have to give up taking things for granted, even the apparently simple things.