Sentences with phrase «good things for granted»

Intimacy suffers when people stay focused on the things that aren't going well or take the good things for granted.

We take all good things for granted.

They know how to please their men, they don't take good things for granted as their western counterparts.

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One of the best things you can do is to apply for grants and scholarships.

He's best known for writing the Serenity Prayer («God grant me the serenity to accept the things I can not change, the courage to change the things I can...»).

It is to manifest to human beings the great love of God, poured out for us in the passion of the Christ, so that we will be led to love God in return and not take God's love for granted.50 Jesus tells her in her visions, «I shall make all things well... All shall be well.»

12 It may well be a legitimate and well - founded thesis of the philosophy of nature (and in what follows we will confidently take it for granted) that infra - human living things are not reducible to purely material factors.

Sister Mary Corita chose to answer these questions with the words of William Sloane Coffin: «Because we love the world, we pray now, O [God], for grace to quarrel with it, O Thou whose lover's quarrel with the world is the history of the world... Lord, grant us grace to quarrel with the worship of success and power... to quarrel with all that profanes and trivializes [people] and separates them... number us, we beseech Thee, in the ranks of those who went forth from this place longing only for those things for which Thou dost make us long, [those] for whom the complexity of the issues only served to renew their zeal to deal with them, [those] who alleviated pain by sharing it; and [those] who were always willing to risk something big for something good... O God, take our minds and think through them, take our lips and speak through them.

He saw that «new occasions» not only «teach new duties» but that they also «make ancient good uncouth» and that our responsibility, granted the relativism that attaches to all our experience and our statement, is to think afresh, on the basis of the general apostolic witness and with due regard for earlier Christian teaching, as well as in the light of our own experience of «newness of life,» so that what we have to say is nove (newly said) and often is also nove (the saying of new things).

Sometimes these have been granted out of genuine respect for the office; sometimes as a means of gaining the benefits that come from supporting a good thing.

Today's generation of Catholics is being infuenced by a much more nourishing diet than was available in the 1970s, and takes for granted the good things available: the Catechism of the Catholic Church, World Youth Day, St JPII's Theology of the Body, the New Movements, Veritatis Splendor, Benedict XVI's teaching on the relationship between faith and reason, and his emphasis on truth, beauty and a personal encounter with Christ, to name just a few.

The whole purpose of fasting during Ramadan is not to just refrain from food or drink, but to remember those who are in need and feel for them as well as be grateful for what we have in things we take for granted everyday.

gratitude journal sounds like a good idea esp when we have so much good going around, we just take things for granted, no?

I think we fans are taking things for granted, even Chelsea, Man city, Man utd cant find a good CB that settles so fast.

There's basically no sense in allowing a player leave for free.The disgraceful thing is he's our best player and you're letting him go for free.PSG have also given us the chance to include Lucas Moura / Blaise Matuidi in the deal.Why not take Matuidi and run.Then go all out to find his replacement before the season starts.I just don't see sense in keeping him.Common sense tells us that he should be sold.You're not granted the title with or without him and just so you know, teams have won the EPL with wingers who are not better than Sanchez.Arsene should be smart before it's too late.I said weeks ago that if he knows in his heart that he's going to sell he had better do it quickly before teams start placing mammoth prices on their players as they'll know that desperation of suitors grows towards the end of the window.

You've done really well I must say.It's a shame people think you are ignorant but don't know they also pass ignorant comments against you.As for Laczette the only thing which can hold back the move now is the transfer fee as he wants to leave.For Lemar, it's been stated that AS Monaco don't want to sell but if Arsenal increase their first bid very significantly they might just give in so I doubt Lemar is coming.For Sanchez it could be that he's staying because it's been proven that he contradicted himself unknowingly in the interview which he granted.

This is a winnable game for Norwich, and Grant Holt will spear head the good things up front for the Canaries.

Granted, many of the things I learned will be helpful for you as well, but each machine is different and you may not only discover what you shouldn't do with your machine, but you may find that it's more capable than you thought!

Granted, some of these baby names inspired by Greek mythology are a little unusual and definitely not something you typically hear everyday, but for those who are looking for truly unique names, that could be a good thing!

So yes, while I enjoy good food and want my kid to appreciate the finer things in life, I also want him to have the humility, perspective, and self - discipline not to take them for granted, feel entitled, or turn up his nose at a nutritionally sound lunch if an when it happens to fall below Cordon Bleu standards.

«We want to solve some of the problems in Grant Park — pedestrian movement through the park, reduction of the impact of the roadway system, better facilities for staging events and moving things around so we don't impact just one place in Grant Park,» said Edward Uhlir, a former Chicago Park District official who now is an assistant to Daley and director of the Millennium Park project.

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As for granting more than a year in future renewal debates, Flanagan said, «If things get better, I think there's an open opportunity to expand that.»

In each case, an expert group calls for, among other things, supporting more postdocs and graduate students on training grants and fellowships instead of on professors» research grants, employing more staff scientists in permanent posts and fewer temporary trainees to do scientific work, providing higher pay and better working conditions for postdocs, and publishing information on the career outcomes of departments» and labs» graduate students and postdocs.

It may be a good thing, like an invitation to teach for a year at a different institution, or something apparently bad, like not getting a grant renewed, being denied tenure, or being forced to relocate.

That's a good interface for things like modern smartphones or tablets,» Pandarinath says, «which would open a whole new realm of function beyond communication: surfing the Web, playing music, all sorts of things able - bodied people take for granted.»

As it turns out, being well doesn't have to be complicated; the ordinary things we take for granted — like reggae music, gratitude, and sunshine — can have extraordinary effects on our health.

Another great thing about focusing on health and fitness (which go hand in hand) and not focusing on weight is that when you're not actually depriving yourself (granted you have to eat WFPB but you can make AMAZING recipes with this diet... I found even pasta was fine for me, but I used quinoa and / or lentil pasta, Ancient Harvest is really good) you don't end up binging on junk food.

I've experienced a lot growing up here but I have come to realize that you all know so much better than me and if there's one thing I'm sure of, it's that I don't want to take this beautiful state for granted ever again!

But his latest feature, «Suburbicon,» provides reason for hope: for one thing, it's based on an»80s Coen brothers screenplay (rewritten by Clooney and his long - time writing and producing partner Grant Heslov) and it's a dark James Cain «Double Indemnity» story starring Clooney's «Oceans» co-star Matt Damon as a hapless miscreant — no one plays dumb and funny better — and an adept cast of smart comedy actors, including Julianne Moore as his wife and Oscar Isaac as the suspicious insurance man hounding them.

Overall its an interesting list tt shake things up a bit, but I wld however replace Darkest Hour w Lady Bird in best pic, Villeneuve w PTA (who seems destined to be ignored come Oscar time) for his sublime Phantom Thread, Bening w Huppert, & lastly, Grant w either Hammer or Jenkins.

Larry Sanders may not do many things well, but he's a world champion of taking people for granted.

By learning a new language, or learning to use an existing language in new domains and contexts, students are able to notice, compare and reflect on things previously taken for granted; to explore their own linguistic, social and cultural practices as well as those associated with the target language.

We used to take it for granted that people knew we were doing good things.

A final legislative rule can not be made effective in less than 30 days after publication, unless it is granting an exemption, relieving a restriction, or for «good cause,» which includes such things as emergencies.

It's become sure a regular thing, we've started to take it for granted here in America, and now the rest of the world gets to enjoy it as well.

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It's easy to forget this, to take it for granted when things are going well, even to get frustrated and unappreciative.

As in all good books, I learned a lot of things I didn't know before, like the invention of one of the carnival attractions we all take for granted, the economic depression (recession?)

Well I suppose like the days before cellphones, TV's, laptops and all the other things we take for granted one day we'll look back and say» In my day we had to buy books, and store them on racks we called bookshelves.»

But the best thing about opening an RESP for your child is that it makes you eligible for the Canada Education Savings Grant (CESG).

Don't take for granted the good things that are right in front of you.

For some reason we forgot that you can't grant mortgages to people with poor credit and little ability to pay them back and expect good things to happen.

Without good credit many things that you take for granted will become difficult.

One of the best things you can do is to apply for grants and scholarships.

Locally born Canadians may take jobs, homes, cars and a good education for granted because they have never had to experience being without these things.

After getting Regroup, it is a good idea to then aim for the nodes that grants AP - gaining abilities for doing things such as driving and riding chocobos.

It's telling that perhaps the best thing about it is that it grants you useful rewards for the single - player campaign.

Granted, these two examples are both from Japanese games, and therefore it might be down to one of two things: either a culture difference — as dialogue is often structured differently in anime, manga and the like — or the need for better Western localisation.

As is tradition for the series, there's a codec filled with optional conversations to further add colour to the story as well as some truly strange but amusing topics that you'd think would be the last thing on people's minds when on a mission to save the world, though it does grant some quirky and very Metal Gear character to the game.