Top 1200 Took For Granted Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

Success has been a gradual thing; it hasn't been overnight. So I appreciate everything and never take it for granted.

My Dad took a workshop from a photographer who worked at the Toledo Blade, a newspaper I delivered. I knew this photographer's work. My Dad took a night class from him at the University of Toledo. Without that class, I wouldn't have become a photographer, because my Dad came home and taught me what he learned in class.

We should never take democracy for granted. Democracy can emerge and develop, but it can also decay.

I think we all take the vada pav for granted, like we take the special people in our lives.

I think that my favorite album has to be 'The Fix' because I was in a very comfortable place. Mentally, financially... I was in a great place. Def Jam really took care of me, Lyor Cohen took care of me and that's why that great. Kanye West was just starting off and being the great producer that he is - it came out incredible.

I'm totally an empath, and I'm so susceptive to being walked on and being taken for granted.

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.

Those in the developing world have so few rights - we take a lot for granted in the developed world.

People look at black pride in America and sport's impact on it. In the major cities it took off the first time Jackie Robinson stole home. In the deep South, it started with Eddie Robinson, who took a small college in northern Louisiana with little or no funds and sent the first black to the pros and made everyone look at him and Grambling.

The truth is, he almost wasn't a senator at all. In 1972, shortly after his improbable victory, but before he took the oath of office, my father went to Washington to look at his new office space. My mom took us to go buy a Christmas tree. On the way home, we were in an automobile accident. My mom, Neilia, and my sister, Naomi, were killed.

The greater the artist, the greater the doubt; perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.

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

All peoples must be respected, and they must all be granted the same rights.

As I get older... I start to realize that life ain't half bad. Each year, I'm amazed that I'm still alive. I don't take any of this for granted, I'm a lucky dude.

I don't know where you're reading all this stuff, but it's pretty accurate, yes. It was in 1942. I was on a ship called the Accelo(ph) coming back from the Red Sea and we were sunk off the coast of Africa by a German submarine. And I was in a lifeboat for 14 days and landed and lived with the Pondos in South Africa while - who took care of us and took care of me. I had some wound in my left leg.

I never hung around people who took hard drugs, and much less hung around artists who took hard drugs. All I know is that people should listen to their bodies more. The body is a temple. We aren't here forever. Take care of that space suit and make the best of it till the wheels fall off.

Let him who has granted a favour speak not of it; let him who has received one, proclaim it.

We bought property after Iniki in '92. I figured we'd never find better bargains. As it turned out, we didn't get a bargain, but we did find the spot we wanted to live on. It actually took a couple years to secure that spot. Then, after we moved, it took over 10 years to start construction on the house. It's still a work in progress.

The modern labor movement that began around the mid-19th century has given us many of the basic working rights that we now take for granted.

Freedom, especially a woman's freedom, is a conquest to be made, not a gift to be received. It isn't granted. It must be taken.

To thee only God granted A heart ever new: To all always open; To all always true.

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.

When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

Women are just as violently minded as men are, but with men, it's taken for granted.

Manet wanted one day to paint my wife and children. Renoir was there. He took a canvas and began painting them, too. After a while, Manet took me aside and whispered, 'You're on very good terms with Renoir and take an interest in his future - do advise him to give up painting! You can see for yourself that it's not his metier at all.

Benefits should be granted little by little, so that they may be better enjoyed.

What further helps to reveal reality is when our personal thinking ceases to take reality for granted.

When I was 13 or 14, I took seven months off from touring. I did a lot of weekend gigs in Louisiana. We have fairs and festivals every weekend. But I took seven months off. That's when I really started digging deep. I wrote a couple songs that year that I still play every now and then for people.

This is something that I do consider to be good advice: I took my first paycheck and I put it in the goddamn bank. Then I took my second paycheck and put it in the goddamn bank. I had seen the roller coaster of my father's career - top of the world, then unemployed - and I never wanted to take a job because I needed money.

We take so many of our freedoms for granted nowadays - I can travel where I like, I can do any job I want - but I think chivalry has been lost a little bit.

I took theatre and stuff in college, then I took a bunch of different acting classes here in L.A. Sometimes when I have a hard audition, I'll call my acting coach and he'll come help me. I actually get more nervous in acting class than I do at an actual audition. It's actually a really great way to get over your nerves.

We must never forget that Singapore is home for all races and this harmonious relationship must not be taken for granted.

The pleasure that is granted to me from a sense of duty ceases to be a pleasure at all.

We have been given the trust and goodwill of New Zealanders. I do not take that trust for granted, and I never will.

Personally, I find it romantic not to be with someone all the time; you don't get used to someone or take them for granted.

His own faith, however, was not lacking in virtues since it consisted in acknowledging obscurely that he would be granted much without ever deserving anything.

When you don't take what you have for granted, you constantly try to re-prove yourself to yourself rather than to other people.

The man who has received a benefit ought always to remember it, but he who has granted it ought to forget the fact at once.

You get into your late fifties, people start falling like flies all around you. I don't take life for granted any more. I'm really glad to be here.

It's strange that those we miss the most Are those we take for granted.

Some athletes take what we have for granted. They kind of feel, 'I'm here, and I earned this, so people who are not on this level should just give me what I want and move out the way.'

And after September the 11th, the United States Congress also granted me additional authority to use military force against al Qaeda. . . .

Every three seconds in the developing world, a child dies needlessly due to lack of basic health care and other things we all take for granted.

When all of your wishes are granted, many of your dreams will be destroyed.

I learned that once it's over, it's really over, and to not take anything for granted.

Heaven can wait, but I cannot. I cannot take for granted that time is on my side.

Assistance granted to the unemployed does not dispose of unemployment. It makes it easier for the unemployed to remain idle.

God became man, granted. The devil became a woman.

The issue of racism happens all over the world. Granted, people - especially Americans - don't know the the Canadian culture. But if you look outside this country, it's a problem all around the planet.

When a man takes a woman for granted, he still looks for reassurance that she is still right there.

Here in Britain, black people are disproportionately targeted, arrested and imprisoned for drug offences, while organised and violent crime are granted a massive source of revenue.

Granted, there's been mistakes made immaturely, but a marriage is a marriage.

The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.

I ask of any God, of any gods, that if they give immortality, I hope to be granted oblivion also.

I'm extremely blessed. There's a lot of people trying to exactly what I'm doing, but I'm a part of that 9.1 percent that's actually having their dream come true. I just don't take that for granted.

The mightiest love was granted him Love that does not expect to be loved.

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

Being able to take musical ideas through every iteration is attractive to me. Granted, not everyone's going to want to listen to that, but it should exist.

Darwin found out that when you took horses up to the high country in the Middle East, they would then grow long hair after a season or two. But when you took them - these long-haired horses - back into the low, hot country, they wouldn't get rid of the long hair, just in case, for about four generations.

Free access to the single market will be granted to a country which accepts the four fundamental freedoms of movement of people, goods, services, and capital.