We've all had those moments where we take a person for granted.
Whenever I get frustrated, I tell myself, you could be working at a 7-Eleven right now, so never take for granted what you do for a living.
The mightiest love was granted him Love that does not expect to be loved.
I am not taking anything for granted.
I choose to be with him for however many days or minutes we are granted, and to count myself blessed to have them.
Think about it. Right now, a whole generation of young (customers) in the United States has been brought up to take computers for granted. Pointing a mouse is no more mysterious to them than hitting the "on" button on the television is to their parents.
Scientists generally, not just evolutionary biologists, don't take much for granted.
Socialistic practices are now so ingrained in our thinking, so customary, so much a part of our mores, that we take them for granted.
I feel strongly about showing up and being prepared and not taking the opportunity for granted and being conscientious about my fellow co-workers.
It is not always granted to the sower to see the harvest.
You cant take good health for granted.
The difference is that these young people take it for granted that they're going to get whatever they want, and that we almost always took it for granted that we shouldn't. Only, I wonder—the thing one's so certain of in advance: can it ever make one's heart beat as wildly?
Most people are one car wreck away from needing somebody's help. So, I don't take anything for granted much 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.
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.
The pleasure that is granted to me from a sense of duty ceases to be a pleasure at all.
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.
I take it for granted that there's a side of me that loves public action, and there's another side of me that really wants to be alone and work and write. And I've learned to alternate the two as matters develop.
Freedom is like health, it is taken for granted while one has it. One becomes aware of it when it has gone.
We cannot take for granted that the future will be better, and that means we need to work to create it today.