Granted Quotes
-
I think I've begun to take for granted how easily information can swirl around me.
-
I am a white guy in America with an education, albeit high school, but a pretty good one. Another guy from a different demographic or different ethnicity in America can look at me and say, "You take a lot for granted." Well... okay. I just live in a white male American reality, where I hear you but I don't know if I necessarily read you.
-
I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.
-
When you meet someone you really like and connect with, I think that's very special, and not to be taken for granted.
-
If we tried to rely entirely on reason, and pressed it hard, our lives and beliefs would collapse - a form of madness that may actually occur if the inertial force of taking the world and life for granted is somehow lost. If we lose our grip on that, reason will not give it back to us.
-
What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their experiments lead.
-
I'm ready, ... It was a little bit of a scare and a rocky summer, but the time to take stuff for granted is over. There's some relief but the journey's not over. I've got to live up to the trade and the expectations.
-
In 2012, I was diagnosed with melanoma - skin cancer - and had to get surgery on my left foot. I was out for four weeks - no dancing, no walking, nothing! It was horrible, but it taught me patience and to never take for granted the simple things we have.
-
I'm just a skinny kid from Maywood trying to do my best. I never took anything for granted. I never wanted to come off like some kind of big-headed, conceited athlete.
-
I learned at an early age that every breath that we take is borrowed. We need to be thankful for our life and never take it for granted.
-
Don't get caught up in other people's expectations. Don't take anything for granted, either.
-
When I was a struggling actress in New York in my 20s I worked in a burger joint called Diane's Uptown. I actually loved waiting tables. I still keep who I was in my mind and never take anything for granted.
-
A favor is half granted, when graciously refused.
-
And so my brother Gilbert and I, brought up without a formal religion, remained throughout our lifetimes just what Father was, freethinkers. And, likewise, doubters and dissenters and perhaps Utopians. Father's rule had been 'Question everything, take nothing for granted,' and I never outlived it, and I would suggest it be made the motto of a world journalists' association.
-
In many parts of the country, water is a precious resource which we can no longer simply take for granted.
-
Acting is something that I've done since I was so young. I always felt - certainly as a teenager - really cynical about acting. I definitely didn't feel like it was something I wanted to do, and so I really took it for granted.
-
Bad music is often the result of an attempt by the untrained, something that takes for granted that you're very highly trained.
-
We're so lucky to take being alive for granted.
-
You have to work hard not to take your partner for granted, even when you are tired.
-
Blessings taken for granted are often forgotten.
-
Growing up in England, you're sort of spoiled, in a way. You sort of take it for granted that within a half-hour's drive, you could be walking around a stately home from the 1700s. It's not very hard to do - in California, you've got to take a flight!
-
It's not a bad idea to occasionally spend a little time thinking about things you take for granted. Plain everyday things.
-
Both Mum and Dad were converts to Catholicism, and normally if you convert to Catholicism you have thought about it more than someone who just grew up with it, taking it for granted.
-
With R-rated movie you're not dealing with the restrictions imposed by the FCC. They're self-imposed. In a way, that does make it harder. You actually have to think about it, as opposed to just taking for granted that you're not going to be able to do this.
