#granted

I think foreign countries really do like it when American artists sing in their language. And when you go over there and say, 'Hi, how are you?' in their language, they love it. It makes them feel like you're doing it just for them. We in America take so much for granted. ↗

— Natalie Cole

#american #artists #countries #doing #feel

It's hard now to imagine that kind of travel and the daily tasks they simply took for granted. If a wagon axle broke, you had to stop and carve a new one. To cross a river, you sometimes had to build a raft. ↗

— James Houston

#build #carve #cross #daily #granted

The horrors of the Second World War, the chilling winds of the Cold War and the crushing weight of the Iron Curtain are little more than fading memories. Ideals that once commanded great loyalty are now taken for granted. ↗

— Jan Peter Balkenende

#cold #cold war #commanded #crushing #curtain

We've all had those moments where we take a person for granted. ↗

— Laura San Giacomo

#had #moments #person #take #those

I don't ever take anything for granted. ↗

— Kate Mara

#ever #granted #i #take

What Bill Clinton did to us was cruel. The White House gave my attorneys indications that there was a good chance for my clemency to be granted. I had to prepare myself for being released because there was no sign that my petition would be denied. ↗

— Leonard Peltier

#because #being #bill #bill clinton #chance

I kind of always took it for granted the fact that my parents were Olympic medalists. ↗

— Taylor Phinney

#fact #granted #i #kind #olympic

What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their experiments lead. ↗

— Norbert Wiener

#before #begin #experiments #granted #infinitely

Your talent is your art. It is not to be taken for granted. ↗

— Paula Abdul

#granted #taken #taken for granted #talent #your

I want justice to be so pervasive that it will be taken for granted, just as injustice is taken for granted today. ↗

— Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

#i #injustice #just #justice #pervasive