You have amazing gifts. Don't squander them. Don't give them out meaninglessly, don't abuse them, don't take them for granted. You are… — Paullina Simons Copy Share Image
My father taught me about having principles and how to treat people with respect. My aunt also taught me how to keep… — George Clooney Copy Share Image
People are taking it for granted that [the Negro] ought not to work with his head. And it is so easy for… — Paul Laurence Dunbar Copy Share Image
I can't tell you the thrill and joy of when I was cast in my first Broadway show. Granted, it was 'Starlight… — Bryan Batt Copy Share Image
I never took the game for granted as far as not having to work on what I needed to do to accomplish… — Allen Iverson Copy Share Image
When I think back on all the blessings I have been given in my life, I can't think of a single one,… — Jack Handey Copy Share Image
In life, so many things are taken for granted, but one thing I can honestly say is that I took every day,… — Wade Boggs Copy Share Image
The most Blessed Virgin Mary, in the first instant of her conception, by a singular grace and privilege granted by almighty God,… — Pope Pius IX Copy Share Image
Holy obedience confounds all bodily and fleshly desires and keeps the body mortified to the obedience of the spirit and to the… — Francis of Assisi Copy Share Image
When I started out as a model, I took things for granted. Because I bagged work thanks to my looks, I didn't… — Bipasha Basu Copy Share Image
If you follow the course of one man through constant practice, your intelligence would have to be crude indeed for you not… — Cennino Cennini Copy Share Image
Unaccountable private power concentrations that dominate economic and social life have the means to seek to "regiment the public mind," and become… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I'm not going to get involved in a debate with you. Just remember this: the gods give, and the gods take away.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Nothing could be taken for granted. Women who loved you tried to cut your throat, while women who didn't even know your… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Thinking in terms of risk certainly has its unsettling aspects (...), but it is also a means of seeking to stabilise outcomes,… — Anthony Giddens Copy Share Image
If you just casually look at a baby, it doesn't look like there's very much going on there, but they know more… — Alison Gopnik Copy Share Image
The issue of racism happens all over the world. Granted, people - especially Americans - don't know the the Canadian culture. But… — Stephan James Copy Share Image
I've always believed it's important to make the invisible visible. And valuing that which has been taken for granted is something that… — Ai-jen Poo Copy Share Image
It is only by questioning what people take for granted, what people hold to be true, that we can break through the… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Most of what's around us we take for granted. We ignore it. Appreciation-spending time looking for the good-helps us overcome one of… — Peter McWilliams Copy Share Image
Friendship is a simple thing, and yet complicated; friendship is on the surface, something natural, something taken for granted, and yet underneath… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
Whenever anybody gets involved in politics, its always exciting for me because we take for granted our freedoms and our abilities to… — Emily Saliers Copy Share Image
The greatest gift you will ever have is your life, and the second greatest gift-which you give yourself-is courage to live it… — Sonia Friedman Copy Share Image
Our rights are not granted by governments. They are inherent to our nature. But it's entirely the opposite for governments: their privileges… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
I think people in England take things for granted, we complain about our NHS system and yes it's not perfect but believe… — Alesha Dixon Copy Share Image
Standing center stage in the six foot circle of wood cut from the stage of the Ryman is something I never take… — Blake Shelton Copy Share Image
We can lose so much of what we've gained in terms of the kind of democratic freedoms and market-based economies and prosperity… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
What use is my mind? Granted that it enables me to hail a bus and to pay my fare. But once I… — Edgar Degas Copy Share Image
[In the case of] dangerous exercise of other powers, not granted by the said compact, the states, who are parties thereto, have… — James Madison Copy Share Image
I think foreign countries really do like it when American artists sing in their language. And when you go over there and… — Natalie Cole Copy Share Image
There is sense in hoping for recognition in a distant future only when we take it for granted that mankind will remain… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
There is one thing, and only one thing, in which it is granted to you to be free in life, all else… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Historical fiction of course is particularly research-heavy. The details of everyday life are there to trip you up. Things that we take… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
We, after a certain age, after college, are so consumed about what we want to achieve in life, and we fiercely are… — Ranbir Kapoor Copy Share Image
I love when a director shows up with a lot of energy, and different ideas about how to change things and do… — Bailey Chase Copy Share Image
Having lived through the transition from totalitarianism, I am acutely mindful of the need to never take for granted the basic freedoms… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
You proclaim that one should die for the highest virtues, because you take it for granted that nobody's been living for them,… — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
It was granted to me alone to discover all the new phenomena in the sky and nothing to anybody else. This is… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
That's an interesting question. I would say that in general Americans know very little about the law. It's one of those things… — Christopher Darden Copy Share Image
You don’t have a right to the cards you believe you should have been dealt with. You have an obligation to play… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image