Teaching someone that doesn't know something forces you to think about almost every single aspect of it, including parts of it that… — Joe Rogan Copy Share Image
I had to adjust to living in a Third World country, which means that things people in the U.S. take for granted-like… — Assata Shakur Copy Share Image
I'm just a skinny kid from Maywood trying to do my best. I never took anything for granted. I never wanted to… — Michael Finley Copy Share Image
Granted you want to go beyond ideas and beyond thought, but that takes years of practice. If you must think, think good… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
[On highly politicized Islamists:] In the name of freedom they demand the right to renounce freedom. In the language of tolerance they… — Phyllis Chesler Copy Share Image
We tend to take things for granted that we've had for long periods of time. Take a moment to appreciate the person… — Pandora Boxx Copy Share Image
I had always felt that I was an observer, never a participant; that I was watching from behind a thick glass wall… — Tana French Copy Share Image
I have noticed that what cats most appreciate in a human being is not the ability to produce food, which they take… — Geoffrey Household Copy Share Image
It's unsettling, to lose the safety of the familiar, even when what's disrupted is an ordinary routine. When I began this poem,… — Mark Doty Copy Share Image
...I am afraid that education is conceived more in terms of indoctrination by most school officials than in terms of enlightenment. My… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
We had principles in mathematics that were granted to be absolute in mathematics for over 800 years, but new science has gotten… — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Copy Share Image
Scouting exposes young men to people and experiences that encourage and nurture positive moral values. But we mustn't take Scouting for granted.… — Wallace G. Wilkinson Copy Share Image
I enjoy the freedom of living alone and not having anyone interfere with my belongings. I mean, I'm quite a selfish human… — Boy George Copy Share Image
These are young people who made mistakes that aren't that different than the mistakes I made and the mistakes that a lot… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The Sixties are most generously described as a time when people took part - when they stepped out of themselves and acted… — Greil Marcus Copy Share Image
You want to trace California's move to the far left, you go back to the 1986 Simpson-Mazzoli bill. Simpson-Mazzoli was where we… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
A god cannot procure death for himself, even if he wished it, which, so numerous are the evils of life, has been… — Pliny the Elder Copy Share Image
I think we take for granted police officers and detectives that walk into some pretty heinous situations, and they really have to… — George Eads Copy Share Image
When I was younger, the main struggle was to be a 'good writer.' Now I more or less take my writing abilities… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
For us, every day is Earth Day. It's like with Women's Day recently, I said, "Every day is women's day - we're… — Maria Cornejo Copy Share Image
We established a regime that left creativity unregulated. Now it was unregulated because copyright law only covered "printing." Copyright law did not… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
If, before undertaking some action, you must obtain the permission of society-you are not free, whether such permission is granted to you… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I am still not taking my "career" in music for granted. It is constantly surprising that it works. Generally my thinking about… — Phil Elvrum Copy Share Image
Both Mum and Dad were converts to Catholicism, and normally if you convert to Catholicism you have thought about it more than… — Tony Abbott Copy Share Image
At the end of the day, I think everybody takes for granted that they get up, get out of bed every morning… — Brock Lesnar Copy Share Image
I came from a house full of books, so I took reading for granted. I was an outdoorsy little kid, too, so… — Tana French Copy Share Image
Privacy, after all, was the most relative of privileges. It was granted us by society under ungenerous conditions, the most fundamental of… — Diana Trilling Copy Share Image
Don't fear your mortality, because it is this very mortality that gives meaning and depth and poignancy to all the days that… — Paul Tsongas Copy Share Image
The one thing about being a creator, about being an artist, is that you get to explore your ideas. We're fortunate that… — Marjorie M. Liu Copy Share Image
To laugh, if but for an instant only, has never been granted to man before the fortieth day from his birth, and… — Pliny the Elder Copy Share Image
Being taken for granted is an unpleasant but sincere form of praise. Ironically, the more reliable you are and the less you… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
I have always been fascinated with guns. I grew up in America so granted, it is part of our heritage and it… — Joe Perry Copy Share Image
It's now taken for granted that women are in bands and you can say feminist things in your songs. But back in… — Kathleen Hanna Copy Share Image
[T]he powers granted by the proposed Constitution are the gift of the people, and may be resumed by them when perverted to… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Nothing evades our attention as persistently as that which we take for granted... the decades roll on without even a suggestion that… — Marion Brady Copy Share Image
I knew that I was loved. And that's such an important thing. And, of course, at such an early age, you take… — Jessye Norman Copy Share Image
It has always puzzled me that so many people have taken it for granted that God favors those who believe in him.… — Raymond Smullyan Copy Share Image
You know, when President Reagan, who was one of my idols, granted amnesty to about three million illegal immigrants it was based… — Jan Brewer Copy Share Image
I like poems that immediately claim my attention, instead of taking my attention for granted. At first read, I want to feel… — James Arthur Copy Share Image
I lived in a world where social arrangements were taken for granted and assumed to be timeless. A child's obligation was to… — Drew Gilpin Faust Copy Share Image
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