Taking Each Other For Granted Quotes

#1. Working away from my husband for long periods is good and bad. It stops us taking each other for granted and gives us space, but I miss him terribly.

Helen Mirren

#2. Look closely and you will find that people are happy because they are grateful. The opposite of gratefulness is just taking everything for granted.

David Steindl-Rast

#3. Having children made us look differently at all these things that we take for granted, like taking your child to get a vaccine against measles or polio.

Melinda Gates

#4. We were smack bang in the middle, years from the finish, taking nothing for granted. I

Max Porter

#5. In fact, we will have to give up taking things for granted, even the apparently simple things. We have to learn to understand nature and not merely to observe it and endure what it imposes on us. Stupidity, from being an amiable individual defect, has become a social crime.

John Desmond Bernal

#6. Feminism" means taking for granted that woman and man are meant to complement each other while sharing equal dignity, equal rights, and equal humanity - nothing more and nothing less.

Mitch Finley

#7. The way to get killed around machinery was to take things for granted.

Richard McKenna

#8. Oh well, thought Jane, that's how men are. He's probably taking it for granted. She found it very pleasant to be taken for granted by Stan

Beverly Cleary

#9. It's human nature to start taking things for granted again when danger isn't banging loudly on the door.

David Hackworth

#10. He would have to ask questions constantly, take nothing for granted. There would be so many opportunities to miss the obvious, so many chances to misunderstand, so many ways of taking the wrong path. 11

Isaac Asimov

#11. Humans were so ignorant, taking for granted what they received from each other, never knowing the energy they passed between themselves.

Kim Harrison

#12. God would have us cherish even the smallest of blessings, for in taking a blessing for granted we are well on our way to taking it to its grave.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#13. 'Sweet Dreams' is such a dark-sounding song, but it's about not taking anything for granted; share yourself with others after you have first spent some time with yourself.

Angel Olsen

#14. I came from a house full of books, so I took reading for granted. I was an outdoorsy little kid, too, so I got the best of both worlds by taking books up trees and reading there.

Tana French

#15. As readers, we have gone from learning a precious craft whose secret was held by a jealous few, to taking for granted a skin that has become subordinate to principles of mindless financial profit or mechanical efficiency, a skill for which governments care almost nothing.

Alberto Manguel

#16. Taking friendships for granted is one of the surest ways of ending them. Unless nourished, they tend to wither and die. Unless we earnestly desire its continuance we should never start a friendship any more than we would a love affair.

Alice Hegan Rice

#17. I don't believe in God, but I have this idea that if there were a God, or destiny of some kind looking down on us, that if he saw you taking anything for granted he'd take it away.

Hugh Laurie