Freedom is never granted. It is earned by each generation.
Imagine the one god himself has reversed his clock and reversed your regrets. Imagine knowing the bone-deep truth that whatever impossibility would make you truly happy has been granted. Imagine knowing you can once again hold your lost lover or your newborn child. Imagine what you feel during those first seconds of knowing. Now, imagine those first seconds last for days on end. . . . . Like I said, I'm a chemist. It's all coming back to me. p62
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.
I took my sight and mobility for granted.
You have to work hard not to take your partner for granted, even when you are tired.
Granted that I must die, how shall I live?
It is very easy to take for granted the phenomenon that we are each alive, but we must try not to.
Freedom is like health, it is taken for granted while one has it. One becomes aware of it when it has gone.
Look closely and you will find that people are happy because they are grateful. The opposite of gratefulness is just taking everything for granted.
What we take for granted might not be here for our children.
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.
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.
Every gain made by individuals or societies is almost instantly taken for granted. The luminous ceiling toward which we raise our longing eyes becomes, when we have climbed to the next floor, a stretch of disregarded linoleum beneath our feet.
Privacy is a privilege not granted to the aged or the young.
People don't want to be understood - I mean not completely. It's too destructive. Then they haven't anything left. They don't want complete sympathy or complete understanding. They want to be treated carelessly and taken for granted lots of times.
If associations to control burglary and murder were tolerated we should take it for granted that the members should all be burglers and murderers.
You can't break poor people mentality. Once you grow up poor, you don't take anything for granted. It can have the negative side also because you can never truly be relaxed.
Private travel into foreign countries can be requested without conditions [. . . ]. Permission will be granted instantly. Permanent relocations can be done through all border checkpoints between the GDR into the FRG or Berlin (West).
The government of the Union, then,. . . is, emphatically, and truly, a government of the people. In form and in substance it emanates from them. Its powers are granted by them, and are to be exercised directly on them, and for their benefit.
Listening is so basic that we take it for granted. Unfortunately, most of us think of ourselves as better listeners than we really are.