#granted

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. ↗

— Mo Brooks

#bottom #bottom line #consume #country #far

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. ↗

— Sam Brownback

#come #debt #easily #far #fought

This time, there were no drugs involved. The hours were completely normal daytime hours. I think we were able to appreciate the interplay, where before we had taken it for granted. ↗

— Lindsey Buckingham

#appreciate #before #completely #completely normal #daytime

I worked three and then six hours a day in my studio with strict discipline and emotion. I obtained awards usually granted to other foreigners during the end-of-year admission tests. ↗

— Ralph Allen

#awards #day #discipline #during #emotion

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

— Laura San Giacomo

#had #moments #person #take #those

Sometimes people take it for granted that they had success, especially nowadays when you have instant stardom. A lot of people feel entitlement and nobody is entitled to anything. ↗

— Donny Osmond

#entitled #entitlement #especially #feel #granted

Day after day we must remember we can take freedom for granted. Day after day we must keep the bond between freedom and other values in mind. ↗

— Jan Peter Balkenende

#between #bond #day #freedom #granted

No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the only one alive, and quite a number fondly believe their wish has been granted. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#been #believe #ever #fondly #granted

To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this matter for experience. A flash, and where previously the brain held a dead fact, the soul grasps a living truth! At moments we are all artists. ↗

— Arnold Bennett

#artists #brain #dead #experience #fact

Life holds one great but quite commonplace mystery. Though shared by each of us and known to all, seldom rates a second thought. That mystery, which most of us take for granted and never think twice about, is time. ↗

— Michael Ende

#commonplace #each #granted #great #holds