Our society has long treated men as machines, as bodies expendable in the name of progress or profit. Men have overruled their pain and soul's delight, taught to think of themselves as "mechanisms". Such an estrangement wounds very deeply; it has gon...
Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider.
He was like a man thinking on an abstract subject all the time.
Happiness is a simple game of lost and found: Lose the things you take for granted, and you will feel great happiness once they are found.
As a modern woman, there are things I take for granted, and that shows up in the way I sit, the way I walk, the way I think, and what I know to be possible.
Having children made us look differently at all these things that we take for granted, like taking your child to get a vaccine against measles or polio.
Since it is necessary to grant six million Filipinos their rights, so that they may be in fact Spaniards, let the government grant these rights freely and spontaneously, without damaging reservations, without irritating mistrust.
We take it for granted sometimes that certain parts of our history are told, and we take it for granted that we know all that stuff, and we move forward along on that basis, but there are also massive gaps, and we have to try to address them.
I have always had this view about the modern education system: we pay attention to brain development, but the development of warmheartedness we take for granted.
You've always got to work to your highest ability level. When times are great and restaurants are jamming, that's when some restaurants get sloppy and take things for granted. Never take things for granted.
And I highly recommend for all the women in the world, even if they're 71, you can never take for granted that he loves you. It's always good to flirt with him. It's a great sport.
I've been lucky. I don't for a minute take for granted the good fortune I have had. You don't like to get ideas above your station, especially a boy from the south side of Glasgow.
It's time for us to start appreciating the little things in our lives that we normally take for granted. They usually lead to bigger and better blessings.
Dr. Alan Grant: [Grant waves a flare, trying to get the attention of the T-Rex, attacking the other car with Lex and Tim inside] Hey!
David Grant: Well, why did you have kids, then? Woody Grant: I like to screw, and your mother's a Catholic, so you figure it out.
Whenever I get frustrated, I tell myself, you could be working at a 7-Eleven right now, so never take for granted what you do for a living.
A maid who laughs is half taken.
Dr. Alan Grant: [seeing the dinosaurs for the first time] How fast are they? John Hammond: Well, we clocked the T-Rex at 32 miles an hour. Dr. Ellie Sattler: T-T-Rex? John Hammond: [nodding] Mm-hm. Dr. Ellie Sattler: You said you've got a T-Rex? John...
The blow is taken on the nose but it's the eyes that cry.
No revenge is more honorable than the one not taken.
Take away the motive, and the sin is taken away.
