Most things don't stay the way they are for very long. I take nothing for granted and try to be ready for the change that's soon to come.
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.
More immediately, by waxing soulful you will have granted yourself the possibility of ecstatic participation in what the ancients considered a divinely animated universe. And on a day to day basis, folks, it doesn't get any better than that.
You are always learning; there is a lot of grey; don't take things for granted.
I'm not only a romanticist but a romantic myself. I take it for granted the originality matters.
We know from myths and fairy tales that there are many different kinds of powers in this world. One child is given a light saber, another a wizard's education. The trick is not to amass all the different kinds of power, but to use well the kind you've been granted.
Without a yardstick sometimes the high points can be taken for granted.
The moral imperative to make big changes is inescapable. . . that what we take for granted may not be here for our children
Few of us are granted the grace to know ourselves, and until we do, maybe the best we can do is be consistent.
It has been an amazing presidential election in 2016. AMAZING. And I don't take it for granted. This sort of race comes along once every century or so.
Certainly, in Italy, nobody takes light for granted.
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.
For so long people have just taken what I do for granted. It is not easy to do year-in, year-out, to win Grand Slams and be No. 1.
The business of judging a headline AFTER you read the copy is wrong. It takes for granted that everybody reads the copy.
Sight is something you take for granted until you think you might lose it.
Do not personally give any more conscious consideration, either of you, to events that you do not want to happen. Any such concentration, to whatever degree, ties you in with those probabilities, so concentrate upon what you want, and as far as public events are concerned, take it for granted that sometimes even men are wiser than they know.
For our people, butterflies are a symbol of hope. It's said that if you capture one in your hands and whisper your dreams to it, it will carry them up to the heavens so that the wish can be granted.
All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted; when you find it taken for granted, you are unnerved.
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.
Whatever lives is granted breath But by the grace and sufferance of Death.
