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

Quote by Paula Abdul about art, magic, talent

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider.

Quote by Kevin Bacon

One realizes how we take water for granted and how important it is to have it in order to stay alive. Beyond the drinking of it, let's not forget the hygiene.

Quote by Kim Basinger about drinking, water, order

America stands for liberty, for the pursuit of happiness and for the unalienable right for life. This right to life cannot be granted or denied by government because it does not come from government, it comes from the creator of life.

Quote by George W. Bush about rightness, life, liberty, god, happiness

Your letter of excuses has arrived. I receive the letter but do not admit the excuses except in courtesy, as when a man treads on your toes and begs your pardon - the pardon is granted, but the joint aches, especially if there is a corn upon it.

Quote by George Gordon Byron about man

Families, particularly, tend to be the ones that you take the most for granted. They seem to slip under the radar, all those important things - it almost becomes second nature to do so.

Quote by Adam Garcia about family, nature, things

And I highly recommend for all the women in the world, even if they're 71, you can never take for granted that he loves you. It's always good to flirt with him. It's a great sport.

Quote by Salma Hayek about sport, world, good, good luck

To get a name can happen but to few; it is one of the few things that cannot be brought. It is the free gift of mankind, which must be deserved before it will be granted, and is at last unwillingly bestowed.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about gifts, name, things

I consider myself an artist. God granted me some gifts so that I could express myself artistically.

Quote by Don Johnson about gifts, artists, god

Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.

Quote by Aldous Huxley about people, infinite, human imperfections, things

As our cities have developed, they've built sometimes small villages or communities that were in place. And we've taken for granted all of that child care, the neighbourliness, the help that you get from people nearby.

Quote by Susan Oliver about country, help, children, people

Time granted does not necessarily coincide with time that can be most fully used.

Quote by Tillie Olsen about time

What we took as a privilege, the Americans took for granted.

Quote by Michael Parkinson about americans

Belief is a wise wager, granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false. If you gain, you gain all, if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.

Quote by Blaise Pascal about faith, truth, nothing

It is already difficult to realize that a mere twenty years ago poverty was taken almost for granted over most of the earth's surface.

Quote by Lester B. Pearson about poverty, earth

There is no Good without Evil as there cannot be Evil without Good. By wanting Good, Man’s Sacred Self looks towards the future, towards Destiny and this is why Man wants Good to be granted to the future, to the yet unknown Destiny that once...

Quote by Sorin Cerin about good, good luck, destiny, future, past, self-control, knowledge, man

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.

Quote by Michael Ende about time, thinking, life

Star Star, my only star, in the poverty of the night, alone, for me, alone, you shine, in loneliness you shine; But, for me, star that never will stop from lighting, a too short time is granted you, you lavish me a light that...

Quote by Giuseppe Ungaretti about poetry, celebrity, solitude, despair, poverty, night, light, nothing, time