When you do anything for eight or nine years, you start getting a little comfortable; you start taking things for granted.

...To the Dolphin alone, beyond all other, nature has granted what the best philosophers seek: friendship for no advantage

I don't take anything for granted. I know there are a million and one dudes who are rapping, wishing they were in my shoes.

Personally, I find it romantic not to be with someone all the time; you don't get used to someone or take them for granted.

I always had a curiosity about Texas. I had a curiosity about small-town life, although, granted, Odessa's not a tiny town.

Assistance granted to the unemployed does not dispose of unemployment. It makes it easier for the unemployed to remain idle.

I can't take nothing for granted. I have to really protect myself - either get out of bounds or continue to finish the play.

As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.

With Marguerite, he wanted only time—more and more time—and he was granted it, nighttimes and daytimes and nighttimes again.

I play this game with my son called Never Seen. We try to see new things every day, and we do. I don't take that for granted.

There is always a temptation to take things for granted, to get lazy, and to presume that the reader knows more than they do.

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

We can make life in the computer. Granted, it's limited, but we have learned what it takes in order to actually construct it.

Seeing someone that you can relate to in the media is everything as a child, and a lot of people are not granted that luxury.

We, on the other hand, must take for granted that the things that exist by nature are, either all or some of them, in motion.

It's wonderful to have money. But It's good that I know what the other side is like. I don't take for granted what I have now.

That's why I named my album 'The Life,' because it's appreciating life and not taking it for granted and living it day by day.

You knew that what is given or granted can be taken away, that what is begged can be refused; but that what is earned is kept.

One doesn't soon forget the natural beauty of Washington, although those of us who live here do sometimes take it for granted.

In his 1930 book, Dirac took for granted that measurements could be made, but was very vague about what was actually involved.

Most people who use the Internet seem take its nature and characteristics for granted, like we take air and water for granted.

I don't ever take anything for granted. I know... people would kill for the opportunity to play on festival stages and whatnot.

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.

Let us not take for granted that life exists more fully in what is commonly thought big than in what is commonly thought small.

The day I take either my body or my work for granted will be the day you hear that I've smashed every inch of myself to pieces.

Bad music is often the result of an attempt by the untrained, something that takes for granted that you're very highly trained.

Teaching is good for me. It forces me to articulate ways of doing things or rules of thumb that I've sort of taken for granted.

When you don't take what you have for granted, you constantly try to re-prove yourself to yourself rather than to other people.

Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means that you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.

Don't take for granted that the worthiness of your cause will win you allies; bring it down to a scale that people can relate to.

I'll never take for granted the amazing relationship me and my husband have, because I know so few are lucky enough to have that!

I have multiple lines and am licensing multiple projects, but I am still hands-on. It feels special. I don't take it for granted.

Some of the most provocative TV that I'm inspired by is in the U.K. You guys take it for granted, but in America, we can't do it.

The sun is the most important thing in everybody's life, whether you're a plant, an animal or a fish, and we take it for granted.

How quickly we forget God's great deliverances in our lives. How easily we take for granted the miracles he performed in our past.

A lot of us take the game for granted, but that's not the case for me. I'm truly humbled by the game and when I say it, I mean it.

I think the success that I have is due to hard work and destiny. It is important to stay grounded and not take things for granted.

Sometimes clubs take their ownership of a young player for granted and do not necessarily do the best thing for their development.

Because it's free, easy to use, and high-quality, photography is now a fixture in our daily lives - something we take for granted.

In the late '80s and early '90s, I took success for granted, winning four or five tournaments a year. I just expected to win them.

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

They don't fund the arts enough and they so often take words and music for granted and performers for granted - particularly women.

I've directed all my videos throughout my whole career, 'cause that's leeway. I was granted that opportunity to be able to do that.

You can't take a single day for granted in the National Football League. Every single day, you need to earn your spot on the roster.

Through persistent dedication, Susan B. Anthony, and other remarkable leaders, women were finally granted the right to vote in 1920.

Socialistic practices are now so ingrained in our thinking, so customary, so much a part of our mores, that we take them for granted.

Granted that every war is madness-civil war, fratricide, is the worst of all; it reaches deeper into ugliness, cruelty and absurdity.

Shun to seek what is hid in the womb of the morrow, and set down as gain in life's ledger whatever time fate shall have granted thee.

The biggest thing I have learned is you can't take anything for granted. You have to work as hard as you can every night, regardless.

That's what a community is: taking for granted certain assumptions, not having to start from zero every time. This is no longer true.

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