#granted

The principal achievement of Europe is peace, which we often forget about as it has become so taken for granted by Europeans. ↗

— Dominique de Villepin

#achievement #become #europe #europeans #forget

The most important of all rights is the right to life, and I cannot foresee a day when domesticated animals will be granted that right in law. ↗

— J. M. Coetzee

#day #domesticated #foresee #granted #i

I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: "O Lord make my enemies ridiculous." And God granted it. ↗

— Voltaire

#granted #i #lord #made #make

As is the case with many Middle Eastern nations, women are nowhere near equal to men when it comes to basic freedoms and rights that we take for granted every day. ↗

— Ginny B. Waite

#case #comes #day #eastern #equal

Break a vase, and the love that reassembles the fragments is stronger than that love which took its symmetry for granted when it was whole. ↗

— Derek Walcott

#fragments #granted #love #stronger #symmetry

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. ↗

— Toby Young

#been #being #celebrity #establishment #got

I don't take anything for granted. ↗

— Steve Yzerman

#granted #i #take

I take it for granted that you do not wish to hear an echo from the pulpit nor from the theological class-room. ↗

— Asa Gray

#granted #hear #i #nor #pulpit

I think that every year that the New York City Ballet is alive is worthy of celebration. Because otherwise the terrible thing is just that we take it for granted. ↗

— John Guare

#ballet #because #celebration #city #every

I mean that'd be great if we could continue to be staples of alt-rock radio. I don't take that for granted. ↗

— Davey Havok

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