“End-of-the-world stories tend to ring true. I've always been drawn to them, but as I wrote my own, I found surprising pleasure in creating a world that is so radically changed, yet where there's so much meaning and value in every small and ordinary thing we have, and take for granted: hot showers, enough food, friends, routines.” WorldEndsEnoughStoriesValuesFoundMy OwnPleasureChangedCreatingOrdinaryHotRingsGrantedSurprisingShowersEnd Of The WorldOrdinary Things Author:Karen Thompson Walker
“Labor should not be about creating monuments on hills or statues in parks. Labors monuments and statues are when a young person can find a job, when a person with disability can get access to the ordinary life that others take for granted.” ShouldPersonsJobsYoungCreatingOrdinaryLaborAccessGrantedHillsParksDisabilityStatuesMonumentOrdinary Life Author:Bill Shorten
“It's unsettling, to lose the safety of the familiar, even when what's disrupted is an ordinary routine. When I began this poem, I was grieving for the loss of my old barbershop in Manhattan, and wondering at the strangeness of my new one. I didn't have any idea the poem would break into the underworld, opening a deeper subject: the continuing force of the old griefs routine helps to mediate, and my strange, sheer wonder at my own survival. Where's home now? In the contingent present, in which anything can disappear, and where we're sometimes granted some form of grace.” IdeasSometimesHelpingHomeFormForceLosesMy OwnLossGriefWonderBreakGraceSubjectsStrangeSurvivalOrdinarySafetyDeeperDisappearFamiliarOpeningGrantedGrievingRoutineContinuingSheerManhattanStrangenessUnderworldBarbershop Author:Mark Doty
“My quarrel with the advocates of contraceptives lies in their taking for granted that ordinary mortals cannot exercise self-control.” SelfLyingWomenExerciseOrdinaryMortalsGrantedSelf ControlQuarrelsContraceptives Book:Through Self-control Source: Through Self-control
“Looking at America's history, ordinary people did something extraordinary. Leaders risked their lives for freedoms that we take for granted today.That's what instills confidence. That's us. We will move forward and prosper because that's who we are as Americans.” PeopleTodayAmericaMovingLeaderOrdinaryExtraordinaryMoving ForwardGrantedWho We AreOrdinary PeopleInstill Author:Scott Walker
“I grew up in a church-going family, a very sort of ordinary, middle-of-the-road Anglican family where nobody really talked about personal Christian experience. It was just sort of assumed like an awful lot of things in the 1950's were just sort of taken for granted.” ChristianChurchTakenMiddleGrewGrew UpOrdinaryAwfulGrantedTaken For GrantedMiddle Of The Road Author:N. T. Wright
“Once we have taken the backward step to an abstract view of our whole system of beliefs, evidence, and justification, and seen that it works only, despite its pretensions, by taking the world largely for granted, we are not in a position to contrast all these appearances with an alternative reality. We cannot shed our ordinary responses, and if we could it would leave us with no means of conceiving a reality of any kind.” IfsWorldKindMeanWholeRealityBeliefViewsStepsTakenPositionOrdinaryEvidenceResponseAppearanceDespiteGrantedAlternativesAbstractContrastJustificationShedPretensionConceiving Author:Thomas Nagel
“I think that those of us who are ordinary disappear easily into the backdrop of life and we take things for granted. We often wake up in our lives and wonder how we got there. But the characters I create, the people I am drawn to, are quite extraordinary (and not always in wholesome ways), and they offer us the chance to understand who we really are and how we became who we are.” PeopleThinkingWayCharacterChanceWonderOur LivesOffersOrdinaryWake UpExtraordinaryDisappearGrantedWho We AreBackdropTaking Things For Granted Author:Chris Abani
“A related recurring theme is the exploration of how we take for granted the things in our immediate environment that are common and ordinary. Existential blindness, of sorts.” CommonEnvironmentOrdinaryGrantedRelatedThemeExplorationExistentialBlindnessRecurringRecurring Themes Author:Vera Nazarian
“I would not take for granted that my personal life - because I knew better than anybody - that it was just a life. It was surprisingly an ordinary life.” OrdinaryGrantedPersonal LifeOrdinary Life Author:Jane Pauley
“I never, ever took you for granted. We met too late for that; I was nearly thirty-three by then, and my past without you was too stark and insistent for me to find the miracle of companionship ordinary.” PastThreeMetsLateOrdinaryMiracleGrantedThirtyToo LateCompanionshipWithout YouMy PastStarks Book:We Need To Talk About Kevin Source: We Need To Talk About Kevin