Quotes of: Taken-for-granted Keyword

Animals in general have always been my passion, project, crusade - whatever you want to call it! The ocean is such a huge, beautiful thing that I feel like we all take for granted.

Aimee Teegarden

Why is the poem called 'The Road Not Taken,' when it's about the road that was taken?

John Alejandro King

I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.

Winston Churchill

What is taken for oneself is usually not a small piece.

Ethiopian

There is a saying about surgeons, meant as a reproof: "Sometimes wrong; never in doubt." But this seemed to me their strength. Each day surgeons are faced with uncertainties. Information is inadequate; the science is ambiguous; one's knowledge and ab...

Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science

This is perhaps as good a place as any to point out that what distinguishes many reformers from those who cannot accept their proposals is not their greater philanthropy, but their greater impatience. The question is not whether we wish to see everyb...

Economics in One Lesson: The Shortest & Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics

The little kids by the water threw their hands in the air and squealed, chasing each other in circles. It was hard to believe that I’d ever been that small. That young. That happy and clueless. They had pain ahead. Heartbreak. Loss. They didn’t k...

Breakable

To think of our prayers as just ‘causes’ would suggest that the whole importance of petitionary prayer lay in the achievement of the thing asked for. But really, for our spiritual life as a whole, the ‘being taken into account,’ or ‘conside...

Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer

I thought about the earth then, really thought about it, the tsunami's and earthquakes and volcanoes, all the horrors I haven't witnessed but have changed my life, the lives of everyone I know, all the people I'll never know. I thought about life wit...

This World We Live In

So obscure are the greatest events, as some take for granted any hearsay, whatever its source, others turn truth into falsehood, and both errors find encouragement with posterity.

The Annals of Imperial Rome

Shiloh showed him what he could ask of his men, and indeed what he MUST ask of them.

The Man Who Saved the Union: Ulysses Grant in War and Peace

Gen. Scott saw more through the eyes of his staff officers than through his own.

The Man Who Saved the Union: Ulysses Grant in War and Peace

To take for granted one's blessings is a damage to the soul, and in time one will lose them, simply from lack of care. One should never tire of nourishing and treasuring all that is lovely.

Tathea

Nature" is another name for the miracles that are so commonplace in our lives that we take for granted and have grown used to seeing them.

Women's Wisdom: 'The Garden of Peace' for Women

Keith: Sometimes God grants us sustenance. But God also grants us deliverance. It’s only a matter of time.

Honest Wrestling: Questions of Faith When Attacked by Life

We often take for granted that our lights will come on when we flip the light switch, but the reality is that our reliability standards and the current state of the transmission grid leave us all vulnerable to blackouts.

Richard Burr

The State Energy Program, it provides grants to States and directs funding to State energy offices. The States use these grants to address their energy priorities, program funding to adopt emerging renewable energy and energy-efficient technologies.

Rosa DeLauro

I did a little movie called 'Touch of Pink,' where I played a Cary Grant-type guy, which I thought was a lot of fun, and I thought I was moderately successful in my own interpretation of Cary Grant.

Kyle MacLachlan

Few states, they have the international borders, state borders; in India, there is so much diversity in system. Unity in diversity is our system, so therefore, you cannot take for granted, whatever you do.

Mamata Banerjee

You can take for granted that people know more or less what a street, a shop, a beach, a sky, an oak tree look like. Tell them what makes this one different.

Neil Gaiman

God be praised for his gracious long suffering towards me in sparing my life so long. Grant, gracious God, that I may make a good use of the time that thou mayest be pleased yet to grant me for repentance.

Patrick Gordon