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
Whatsoever then you have well in this world, when you recollect to have done any thing good, be very fearful about it,… — Pope Gregory I Copy Share Image
Everyone has experienced that truth: that love, like a running brook, is disregarded, taken for granted; but when the brook freezes over,… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
They don't fund the arts enough and they so often take words and music for granted and performers for granted - particularly… — Judith Durham Copy Share Image
Sometimes when you come from outside a discipline you pay attention to things that insiders take for granted. I admit that sometimes… — Vito Acconci Copy Share Image
It is dangerous to take human freedom for granted, to regard it as a prerogative rather than as an obligation, as an… — Abraham Joshua Heschel 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
More immediately, by waxing soulful you will have granted yourself the possibility of ecstatic participation in what the ancients considered a divinely… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
She didn't want to be reminded of her past or how different her present was from the future she'd taken for granted. — Freya North Copy Share Image
These political passions are born of a hunger so deep that it touches on the spiritual. Or they were for me, and… — Lierre Keith Copy Share Image
Was I insane? Maybe. But then, there were many different kinds of insanity. Aunt Rose had always taken for granted that the… — Anne Fortier Copy Share Image
Philosophy is a necessary activity because we, all of us, take a great number of things for granted, and many of these… — Karl Popper 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
Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
I was never used to being happy, so that wasn't something I ever took for granted. I did sort of think, you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
From my years of teaching creative writing, I know that new writers take the setting for granted, as simply a place to… — Garry Disher Copy Share Image
Why does everyone take for granted that we don't learn to grow arms, but rather, are designed to grow arms? Similarly, we… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In 1956 I was granted the biggest reward of my career: my wife, Josée Jongen. — Bobbejaan Schoepen Copy Share Image
[With R-rated movie] you're not dealing with the restrictions imposed by the FCC. They're self-imposed. In a way, that does make it… — Seth MacFarlane Copy Share Image
Today, many people take for granted the notion that people whose lives are going to be very heavily affected by public policies… — Barney Frank Copy Share Image