Quotes About Things Taken For Granted

#1. i smile. things taken for granted have a way of catching you offguard when you least expect it, and then you're taken by what the portuguese calls saudade, a sense of longing for something, someone not there anymore.

Yeow Kai Chai

#2. 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.

Bertrand Russell

#3. All the things I thought I was - simple and plain and sometime funny - are very small words. They do not begin to describe me. They do not begin to express what is inside of me. I have value, and I have worth. I cannot be replaced like old shoes or taken for granted like tap water.

Adriana Trigiani

#4. Later he decided the specifics were not important, that the true lesson of accidents is not the how or the why, but the taken-for-granted world they exile you from.

Colson Whitehead

#5. 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.

Susan Oliver

#6. The silo was something she had always taken for granted. The priests say it had always been here, that it was lovingly created by a caring God, that everything they would ever need had been provided for. Juliette had a hard time with this story.

Hugh Howey

#7. Freedom is a rare gift ... Quite easily taken for granted and even more easily taken away.

T.T. Escurel

#8. We have all of us to some extent become inured to a culture where viciousness and depravity are simply taken for granted, like some hideous wallpaper we have lived with for years.

Roger Kimball

#9. Not only are police officers often taken for granted, many people are highly vocal about their dislike for cops.

Karen Salmansohn

#10. Once upon a time, soft toys were for babies. Now they're taken for granted as a feature of adult life.

Brian Sutton-Smith

#11. I have learned that some of the nicest people you'll ever meet are those who have suffered a traumatic event or loss. I admire them for their strength, but most especially for their life gratitude - a gift often taken for granted by the average person in society.

Sasha Azevedo

#12. I'm such a jerk; it had never occurred to me that when we look at a photo from the front, the eyes reproduce exactly the position and the vision of the lens; it's these things that are taken for granted and it never occurs to anyone to think about them.

Julio Cortazar

#13. It is always to be taken for granted, that those who oppose an equality of rights never mean the exclusion should take place on themselves.

Thomas Paine

#14. Having established itself securely on shipboard, the chronometer was soon taken for granted, like any other essential thing, and the whole question of its contentious history, along with the name of its original inventor, dropped from the consciousness of the seamen who used it every day.

Dava Sobel

#15. What has come to light is neither nihilism nor cynicism, as one might have expected, but a quite extraordinary confusion over elementary questions of morality - as if an instinct in such matters were truly the last thing to be taken for granted in our time.

Hannah Arendt

#16. Uproar against a new idea, and laws to prevent anybody's accepting it, nearly always can be regarded as a signal that the new idea is just about to be taken for granted ... they didn't start making laws to prohibit the teaching of evolution until everybody was about to take it for granted.

Gwen Bristow

#17. It felt like I'd taken everything for granted up until right now, when suddenly my entire world and all in it became precious and fleeting. I should have paid more attention, soaked it in more. Which you always realize once it's getting too late to do just that.

Sarah Dessen

#18. The teacher pretended that algebra was a perfectly natural affair, to be taken for granted, whereas I didn't even know what numbers were. Mathematics classes became sheer terror and torture to me. I was so intimidated by my incomprehension that I did not dare to ask any questions.

Carl Jung

#19. Culture is the deeper level of basic assumptions and beliefs that are shared by members of an organization, that operate unconsciously and define in a basic 'taken for granted' fashion an organization's view of its self and its environment.

Edgar Schein

#20. I read things like theology, and I read about science, 'Scientific American' and publications like that, because they stimulate again and again my sense of the almost arbitrary given-ness of experience, the fact that nothing can be taken for granted.

Marilynne Robinson

#21. The principal achievement of Europe is peace, which we often forget about as it has become so taken for granted by Europeans.

Dominique De Villepin

#22. The simple process of focusing on things that are normally taken for granted is a powerful source of creativity.

Edward De Bono

#23. 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.

Kathleen Hanna

#24. So many times we look for those things in life we can measure ... The college degree, the money we earn, the success we brag about ... But the little things in life, the minute moments ... not taken for granted, the value of their treasure is substantial all the more.

Samuel S. Sumner

#25. I now know that things I always thought I could depend on can crash in an instant. Because of the love that I have been shown, I now know what it means to be 'beloved.' I now know that no breath is to be taken for granted.

Rebecca Wells

#26. I don't know why, precisely. I believe we were in need of a change. We needed to do things for ourselves. Does that make any sense? To break your own ground and know it's yours, free and clear. Nothing taken for granted.

Eowyn Ivey

#27. To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to be in a position in which almost nothing is so familiar it is taken for granted.

Bill Bryson

#28. Ursula missed the sound of church bells. There were so many simple things she had taken for granted before the war. She wished that she could go back and appreciate them properly.

Kate Atkinson

#29. No, it is not the same, everyday is different and special, never to be taken for granted.

Lynette Ferreira

#30. One of the things I find depressing about some of the upper echelons of Anglicanism on both sides of the Atlantic is that it's sort of taken for granted that we all basically know what's in the Bible, and so we just glance at a few verses for devotional purposes and then get on to the real business.

N. T. Wright

#31. In life, so many things are taken for granted, but one thing I can honestly say is that I took every day, enjoyed the game of putting on that uniform and playing the great game of baseball.

Wade Boggs

#32. What we face is a scared populace, and because it's scared, it's willing to put up with what I think are inevitably more moves toward the constriction of civil liberties, mobility within the country, the ability to travel overseas, all of those things we have long taken for granted.

Michael Scheuer

#33. 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.

Christopher Hitchens

#34. In spite of my wisecracking, pain-in-the-ass ways, I was the clip that held things together. Unnoticed. Taken for granted. Okay, maybe I'm giving myself too much credit here, but I'd be damned if I was gonna keep on being the family paper clip.

Neal Shusterman

#35. I grew up in a church-going family, a very sort of ordinary, middle-of-the-road Anglican family where nobody really talked about personal Christian experience. It was just sort of assumed like an awful lot of things in the 1950's were just sort of taken for granted.

N. T. Wright

#36. When you have things taken away, you promise you'll never take anything for granted ever again.

Chuck Pagano

#37. 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.

James P. Blaylock

#38. I find myself constantly taking apart be taken-for-granted.

Rebekah Nathan

#39. 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.

Lawrence Lessig

#40. When states are absent, rights - by any definition - are impossible to sustain. States are not structures to be taken for granted, exploited, or discarded, but are fruits of long and quiet effort.

Timothy Snyder

#41. Freedom, especially a woman's freedom, is a conquest to be made, not a gift to be received. It isn't granted. It must be taken.

Federico Fellini

#42. The photographs had made him aware how much the street and the buildings meant to him. Like an extended family that he'd taken for granted and ignored, assuming it would always be there. But buildings and roads and spaces were as fragile as human beings, you had to cherish them while you had them.

Rohinton Mistry

#43. Love so strong, without ebb and flow or crests and troughs, indeed lacking any sort of motion so that it had become invisible to him these seven years, part of the order of things outside his head which he had taken for granted.

Abraham Verghese

#44. I don't like being taken for granted anywhere in life. I don't want my vote taken for granted.

Rob Lowe

#45. There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.

Iris Murdoch

#46. For a fraction of a second, we were together, and it had felt divine. Not nice. Not safe. Not taken for granted. It was short and beautiful and painfully memorable. Like the tree I was obsessed with.

L.J. Shen

#47. It may be taken for granted that, rash as the Americans are, when they are prudent there is good reason for it.

Jules Verne

#48. To be moral involves taking a position towards that matrix, thinking critically about what is taken for granted.

Maxine Greene

#49. Sometimes it just feels so amazing to finally stand up for yourself. I highly recommend it. Life is too short to be taken for granted.

Demi Lovato

#50. while modernity is not Christianity, modernity is the product of a Christian civilization. Lately the defects of modernity have been made plain to us while its virtues have been taken for granted.

John Mark Reynolds

#51. Condiments are like old friends - highly thought of, but often taken for granted.

Marilyn Kaytor

#52. The popular will cannot be taken for granted, it must be created.

Herbert Croly

#53. Your innermost core has always been pure. Purity is intrinsic to you, it cannot be taken away.

Rajneesh

#54. The Democratic Party has taken the black community for granted and said, 'This is the most loyal constituency we have. They're not going anywhere.' But the Republican Party has said, 'That's the most loyal constituency Democrats have. They're not going anywhere. We've got to win without them.'

J. C. Watts

#55. When man was created it was not for this purpose
To become taken over and be utterly worthless

Justin Bienvenue

#56. All too often the Democratic Party has taken the black vote for granted, and all too often the Republican Party has written it off.

Jack Kemp

#57. NOTHING SHOULD BE TAKEN FOR GRANTED IN 'EVERYONE ELSE,' WHICH IS AT ONCE LAID-BACK AND RIGOROUSAbout the world we create when we fall in love, and how we navigate the space between us and that separating us from everyone else.

Manohla Dargis

#58. 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.

Jan Peter Balkenende

#59. A woman's love for a man should never be taken for granted. What is life without love?

Lailah Gifty Akita

#60. Universal literacy, taken for granted today, was a direct result of the Reformation's reemphasis upon the centrality of Bible reading,

Gene Edward Veith Jr.

#61. The social side of Washington was to be taken for granted as three-fourths of existence. Politics and reform became the detail, and waltzing the profession

Henry Adams

#62. One devoted to his cat would not leave it long alone. A cat's loyalty is not a thing to be taken for granted, but courted day by day.

Robin Hobb

#63. No, normalcy is taken for granted until it's gone.

Maryanne O'Hara

#64. Too many people realize at the end of their lives that they've taken for granted those who really love them.

Lesley M.M. Blume

#65. Once, she had taken love for granted. Never again. Love was the sun and the moon and the stars in a world that was otherwise cold and dark.

Kristin Hannah

#66. At the very point that I've taken something for granted, I have at that same moment taken it to its grave. And if I look around, I realize I've cultivated quite a cemetery.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#67. As we shall see, the tractable apostrophe has always done its proper jobs in our language with enthusiasm and elegance, but it has never been taken seriously enough; its talent for adaptability has been cruelly taken for granted; and now, in an age of supreme graphic frivolity, we pay the price.

Lynne Truss

#68. Some of the greatest poetry is revealing to the reader the beauty in something that was so simple you had taken it for granted.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#69. Freedom under the law must never be taken for granted.

Margaret Thatcher

#70. So popular is beer, the world's best-selling alcoholic drink, that it is often taken for granted. Yet scientific analysis shows that a glass of beer has within it as many aromas and flavors as fine wine. Not everyone understands this, but an increasing number of people do.

Michael Jackson

#71. Man has no permanent and unchangeable I. Every thought, every mood, every desire, every sensation says "I." And in each case it seems to be taken for granted that this I belongs to the Whole, to the whole man, and that a thought, a desire, or an aversion is expressed by this Whole.

P.D. Ouspensky

#72. I think women are often taken for granted.

Sheila Johnson