Took For Granted Quotes

19 quotes by 18 authors

As a boy Id often spend my days biking on riverbeds and arroyos and come home exhausted. I realize now how much I took for… — Tom Hanks
My goals have gone from being an all-star to just being able to play basketball. I always took for granted that I could play. Now… — Rebecca Lobo
Beginning to create again was something that I took for granted but I never will take it for granted again. — Lou Gramm
Before, it came easy for me. I don't have two speeds anymore. I need to focus on the small things that I once took for… — Michael Phelps
I keep thinking of the gifts of my own upbringing, which I once took for granted: I can read any book I choose and comprehend… — Helen Prejean
To simplify things down to their real essence, whenever things go wrong in our lives, whenever our plans go awry and the things we took… — Tony Clark
Anarcho-syndic alism took for granted that working people ought to control their own work, its conditions, the enterprises in which they work, along with communities,… — Noam Chomsky
There was a good deal to be said, Hilary decided, for middle age and infirmity. The years in which one demanded much of life were… — Elizabeth Goudge
I was never used to being happy, so that wasn't something I ever took for granted. I did sort of think, you know, marriage did… — Marilyn
This is what he knew that Paul didn't: the world was precarious and sometimes cruel. He'd had to fight hard to achieve what Paul simply… — Kim Edwards
The way I approached a question, my habit of mind, the way I looked at things, what I took for granted - all this was… — Simone de Beauvoir
In prison, I fell in love with my country. I had loved her before then, but like most young people, my affection was little more… — John McCain
Most great works of the imagination were meant to make you feel like a stranger in your own home. The best fiction always forced us… — Azar Nafisi
...also took for granted that secret services were the only real measure of a nations political health, the only real expression of its subconscious. — John le Carre
What was wrong with me? I had a decent life. I was healthy. I wasn't starving or maimed by a land mine or orphaned. Yet… — Jodi Picoult
She thought of death like the seam of a hem: each time you lose someone close, it unraveled a little. You could still go along… — Jodi Picoult
Nor would anybody suspect. If was one thing all people took for granted, was conviction that if you feed honest figures into a computer, honest… — Robert A. Heinlein
I had always felt that I was an observer, never a participant; that I was watching from behind a thick glass wall as people went… — Tana French
A red traffic light loomed, and Cecilia slammed her foot on the brake. The fact that Polly no longer wanted a pirate party was breathtakingly… — Liane Moriarty

Who Wrote These Took For Granted Quotes

18 authors contributed a total of 19 Took For Granted Quotes as follows: