Well, one thing, you got to stand in a courtroom and listen to a judge sentencing you to 25 years in prison before you realize that freedom of expression can no longer be taken for granted.
In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.
You are a woman who is beautifully created by the love of God and should not be taken for granted because you are the precious daughter of God.
My years with failing vision have prompted me to learn about the nature of the eye and the incredible gift of sight, which I had always taken for granted until it began to slip away.
The principal achievement of Europe is peace, which we often forget about as it has become so taken for granted by Europeans.
It's now taken for granted that women are in bands and you can say feminist things in your songs. But back in the early '90s, there was a lot of violence at Bikini Kill shows that people don't realize happened.
She didn't want to be reminded of her past or how different her present was from the future she'd taken for granted.
To them, as to Magnus, time was like rain, glittering as it fell, changing the world, but something that could also be taken for granted.
Remember, remember, this is now, and now, and now. Live it, feel it, cling to it. I want to become acutely aware of all I’ve taken for granted.
For something to be great, there has to be some kind of trial or some type of struggle that actually makes it special or valuable to you. Otherwise, anything could be easily taken for granted.
Father was the eldest son and the heir apparent, and he set the standard for being a Rockefeller very high, so every achievement was taken for granted and perfection was the norm.
A time is marked not so much by ideas that are argued about as by ideas that are taken for granted. The character of an era hangs upon what needs no defense.
Franklin D. Roosevelt was fortunate: He didn't take office until nearly four years after the Wall Street crash, by which time the Republicans' responsibility for the Depression was taken for granted.
I still make sure to go, at least once every year, to a country where things cannot be taken for granted, and where there is either too much law and order or too little.
For as long as anyone can remember, reliable, cheap electricity has been taken for granted in the United States.
The long view of the Census bureau allows some changes that are taken for granted to be studied in more detail. Everyone knows, for example, that people get married later than they used to.
There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.
Too many people realize at the end of their lives that they've taken for granted those who really love them.
If he set out right now to make a list of the things he had taken for granted in his life, he’d go broke buying paper.
As our cities have developed, they've built sometimes small villages or communities that were in place. And we've taken for granted all of that child care, the neighbourliness, the help that you get from people nearby.
The horrors of the Second World War, the chilling winds of the Cold War and the crushing weight of the Iron Curtain are little more than fading memories. Ideals that once commanded great loyalty are now taken for granted.
