Beauty is there to be noticed. Too often it is taken for granted because we are moving too fast to let it… — Luci Shaw Copy Share Image
We live in a very peculiar world. Democracy isn't discussed, as if it was taken for granted, as if democracy had taken… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
So popular is beer, the world's best-selling alcoholic drink, that it is often taken for granted. Yet scientific analysis shows that a… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
Ingratitude is surely the chief of the intellectual sins of man. He takes his political benefits for granted, just as he takes… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Each human being has been granted a virtue: the capacity to choose. For he who does not use this virtue, it becomes… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Last summer was probably the biggest disappointment of my career, but now I have something bad with which to balance the good.… — Brian O'Driscoll Copy Share Image
It's important to begin to even consider whether countries can become something that looks very different because people tend to take their… — Juan Enriquez Copy Share Image
We know from myths and fairy tales that there are many different kinds of powers in this world. One child is given… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
Like winds and sunsets, wild things were taken for granted until progress began to do away with them. Now we face the… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
We humans...are seriously flawed. The things that are the most necessary, the most critical to us, are the things we take most… — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
The ultimate touchstone of friendship is not improvement, neither of the other nor of the self: the ultimate touchstone is witness, the… — David Whyte Copy Share Image
Church membership is a gift. A gift must be treasured. It should not be taken for granted or considered lightly. Because it… — Thom S. Rainer Copy Share Image
The freedom of thought and action we Americans enjoy today seems as natural as the air we breathe. But there is a… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
God who created us has granted us the faculty of speech that we might disclose the counsels of our hearts to one… — Saint Basil Copy Share Image
In general it may be said that the things which we take for granted without inquiry or reflection are just the things… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Now, some people do this for shock value. Shock is just another uptown word for surprise. Granted it has a different quality… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
What a cruel thing is war: to separate and destroy families and friends, and mar the purest joys and happiness God has… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
I know never to take a wine for granted. Drawing a cork is like attendance at a concert or at a play… — Gerald Asher Copy Share Image
Motherhood is so honorable a thing that nothing - no convention - can possibly make it dishonorable; and from the standpoint of… — Ben Lindsey Copy Share Image
Clean water and access to food are some of the simplest things that we can take for granted each and every day.… — Marcus Samuelsson Copy Share Image
Drafting a constitution is only the first step. The constitution has to be granted legitimacy by open discussion and a fair, representative… — Emma Bonino Copy Share Image
Granted, not really a joke, but how often do you get a mic in your hand? You know? So. I am sorry… — Janeane Garofalo Copy Share Image
Growing up in England, you're sort of spoiled, in a way. You sort of take it for granted that within a half-hour's… — Rupert Friend Copy Share Image
Today, as we look back on the history of our nation and take note of how far we have come as a… — Sam Brownback Copy Share Image
Doras II was a somewhat absentminded king, It is said, when Death came to summon him, Doras granted Death the usual formal… — Diana Wynne Jones Copy Share Image
My parents always taught me never to take anything for granted because it can be taken away from you like that, especially… — Lance Gross Copy Share Image
There are no absolutes in relationships. You can't take anything for granted. You can count on absolutely nothing but the unexpected. You… — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
With virtually no knowledge of or interest in history, the masses simply take their unprecedented high living standards under capitalism for granted. — Ralph Raico Copy Share Image
The right of the police of Boston to affiliate has always been questioned, never granted, is now prohibited… There is no rightto… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
One very important aspect of motivation is the willingness to stop and to look at things that no one else has bothered… — Edward de Bono Copy Share Image
“It felt like I'd taken everything for granted up until right now, when suddenly my entire world and all in it became… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
So obscure are the greatest events, as some take for granted any hearsay, whatever its source, others turn truth into falsehood, and… — Tacitus Copy Share Image
Make no mistake, abortion-on-demand is not a right granted by the Constitution. No serious scholar, including one disposed to agree with the… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
We take so many of our freedoms for granted nowadays - I can travel where I like, I can have a baby… — Dan Stevens Copy Share Image
The question is how to bring a work of imagination out of one language that was just as taken-for-granted by the persons… — Robert Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Private travel into foreign countries can be requested without conditions [...]. Permission will be granted instantly. Permanent relocations can be done through… — Gunter Schabowski Copy Share Image
“Contentment is an asset that we take for granted until we lose it. It's the brother of happiness, the sister of peace… — Joan Marques Copy Share Image
I've just always been very aware and careful of everything, so that I can be ready for the perfect opportunities as they… — Katy Perry Copy Share Image
I want to leave my readers with a sequence of ideas/phrases that makes them question something they'd taken for granted. Or that… — Aaron Belz Copy Share Image
Hope is not a granted wish or a favor performed; no it is far greater than that. It is a zany, unpredictable… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image