I would say that in this world, the greatest source of inequality has been special privileges granted by government.
Sight is something you take for granted until you think you might lose it.
Suicides pay the world a bad compliment. Indeed, it may so happen that the world has been beforehand with them in incivility. Granted. Even then the retaliation is at their own expense.
Without a yardstick sometimes the high points can be taken for granted.
The day it all changed. The day I stated never to take anything for granted. The day I learned to take charge of my life. It was the day I was diagnosed with cancer.
Our ability to perceive the world around us seems so effortless that we tend to take it for granted.
We take a lot for granted as second wave feminists, what our mothers and aunts did for us.
I'm not cruel, sir, I won't shoot you in the guts, but I will make you realize how much you took your toes for granted.
I don't take any day for granted anymore.
Most of us were not afraid of death, only of the act of dying; and there were times when we overcame even this fear. At such moments we were free-men without shadows, dismissed from the ranks of the mortal; it was the most complete experience of freedom that can be granted a man.
Gratitude takes nothing for granted, is never unresponsive, is constantly awakening to new wonder.
I'm not only a romanticist but a romantic myself. I take it for granted the originality matters.
It must not simply be taken for granted that a given set of ill-assorted people, for no other reason than because it is Christmas, will be joyful to be reunited and to break bread together.
Don't fear your mortality, because it is this very mortality that gives meaning and depth and poignancy to all the days that will be granted to you.
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.
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.
A Negro woman has the same kind of problems as other women, but she can't take the same things for granted.
I think I've begun to take for granted how easily information can swirl around me.
It is extremely difficult for our contemporaries to conceive of the conditions of free banking because they take government interference with banking for granted and as necessary.
We have to recognize that the reason that the global order that we've enjoyed and almost take for granted over the last several years exists is that after World War II, the United States and its allies tried to build an antidote to what they had seen between World War I and World War II. There, they'd seen protectionism, beggar-thy-neighbor trading policies, so they said, we'll build an open international economy. And they did that.