Zitat des Tages über Gewährt / Granted:
Patriotism is strong nationalistic feeling for a country whose borders and whose legitimacy and whose ethnic composition is taken for granted.
But when, in the first setting out, he takes it for granted without proof, that distinctions found in the structure of all languages, have no foundation in nature; this surely is too fastidious a way of treating the common sense of mankind.
Don't take for granted that the worthiness of your cause will win you allies; bring it down to a scale that people can relate to.
Your talent is your art. It is not to be taken for granted.
The Free State men, myself among them, took it for granted that Missouri was a slave state.
I'm still really close with everyone at home and their parents - and their brothers and sisters. I was so, so, so lucky to grow up as part of a community and I don't take that for granted. I try very hard to stay part of it.
I try to keep my head on straight and take nothing for granted.
My public image is so low-key, but I get to travel the world and still have an audience and it's really amazing. I don't take that for granted.
It was the labor movement that helped secure so much of what we take for granted today. The 40-hour work week, the minimum wage, family leave, health insurance, Social Security, Medicare, retirement plans. The cornerstones of the middle-class security all bear the union label.
I don't take anything for granted. In the beginning, my parents put a lot of money on the table so I could live my dream, without putting any pressure on us. We made our own way. But I've seen so many players come and go that I never, not for one minute, thought I could rack up millions on the tour.
All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted; when you find it taken for granted, you are unnerved.
Most of us readily take things for granted that at an earlier time remained to be discovered.
I take it for granted that you do not wish to hear an echo from the pulpit nor from the theological class-room.
Awareness requires a rupture with the world we take for granted; then old categories of experience are called into question and revised.
I always had a curiosity about Texas. I had a curiosity about small-town life, although, granted, Odessa's not a tiny town.
In 2003, he was hit by a subway in Prague and lost both of his legs. It made me realize that we take for granted every step we take, and my brother now has to physically challenge himself to take each step in his prosthetic.
Personally, I find it romantic not to be with someone all the time; you don't get used to someone or take them for granted.
I'm so vigorous, and I so take it for granted, because I've always been a real physical person.
I don't take a scene or word for granted.
I think I've been wishing for celebrity for so long that I've got used to being someone who's petitioning the establishment for acceptance... my whole schtick, my whole identity, is so wrapped up in being a petitioner that I don't really know how to react now that petition has been granted.
Having a multi-cultural background has granted me access into different ideologies, cultures, and ways of living. It has shaped who I am and how I participate in the world.
Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means that you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.
When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
If I could be granted a wish, I'd shine in your eye like a jewel.
Today, as we look back on the history of our nation and take note of how far we have come as a people, we are reminded that we owe a great debt to those who fought valiantly for the freedoms that we easily take for granted.
We take food for granted, but it isn't a luxury for many people.
Those three years on 'Loving' were instrumental in helping me move through the next few years of work, where it was hit or miss. I was on series that would get canceled, then I would be a movie that wouldn't come out or do as well as I hoped. You learn that you have to just keep plugging away and never take anything for granted.
And, granted, for a long time, the European has been dominant in certain parts of this Western Hemisphere, but by the end of the 21st century, it's over.
Granted, we need to have a sound immigration policy that allows people into our country who are going to produce more than they are going to consume, but the bottom line is illegal aliens consume far more of our tax resources than they generate.
We've all had those moments where we take a person for granted.
I try to be professional; I try to be on time. I don't take anything I have for granted. That's my definition of success.
Granted, the writers, directors, producers, and that community make a great deal of money. But they might be choosing to do a whole lot of other things for the living they make.
One thing must be granted to the rich: they are goodnatured.
People thought I was funny, so I kind of took entertaining for granted... it was inevitable that I'd start giving little performances.
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.
I feel strongly about showing up and being prepared and not taking the opportunity for granted and being conscientious about my fellow co-workers.
