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Granted Quotes - Page 6

I took it all for granted, I'm sorry to say.

"Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

A favor tardily bestowed is no favor; for a favor quickly granted is a more agreeable favor.

"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 267, Epigrams, LXXXII. 1, 1922.

The Free State men, myself among them, took it for granted that Missouri was a slave state.

Buffalo Bill (1879). “The Life of Hon. William F. Cody, Known as Buffalo Bill, the Famous Hunter, Scout, and Guide: An Autobiography”, p.125, U of Nebraska Press

I don't take anything for granted.

"I don't take anything for granted". Interview with Greg Prato, bravewords.com. May 24, 2016.

My broad sense of this is that authors like Smil really paint the clear picture, and once you see that, it's kind of Oh, of course. That's such a primal thing to all these physical services that we take for granted.

"THE BILL GATES INTERVIEW: An energy miracle is coming, and it's going to change the world". Interview with Drake Baer, www.businessinsider.com. February 22, 2016.

I am not unaware of the saying that more tears have been shed over wishes granted than wishes denied.

Aung San Suu Kyi's speech to parliament in Westminster Hall, www.theguardian.com. June 21, 2012.

'Reality' is a notion that journalists take for granted.

"Bad press: a new play gives journalists a voice" by Andrew O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. October 11, 2012.

Most things don't stay the way they are very long.

Richard Ford (2012). “Canada”, p.202, A&C Black

Listening is so basic that we take it for granted. Unfortunately, most of us think of ourselves as better listeners than we really are.

Michael P. Nichols (2009). “The Lost Art of Listening, Second Edition: How Learning to Listen Can Improve Relationships”, p.11, Guilford Press