Quotes with taken-for-granted

Quotes 101 till 120 of 286.

  • Barry Sanders I'm from Kansas, so there were a lot of vacant lots and open fields to tackle each other in so we could avoid tackling each other on the street. But running on the street and trying not to get taken down on the concrete, that will make you fast, that's for sure.
    Barry Sanders
    American football player (1968 - )
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  • Audie Murphy I'm glad that it didn't take as long to get Shepard off the ground as it's taken this series. I'd begun to think the Congo would be ahead of us in the space race before Whispering Smith ever got on the air.
    Audie Murphy
    American soldier, actor and songwriter (1925 - 1971)
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  • Derek Jarman I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.
    Derek Jarman
    British movie maker, artist, writer (1942 - 1994)
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  • Joe E. Lewis I've been on such a losing streak that if I had been around I would have taken General Custer and given points.
    Joe E. Lewis
    American writer
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  • Ben Affleck I've consciously taken on material that's a bit too much for me but not an overreach. The first movie, just about performances. 'The Town,' I learned how to work broader material, develop tension, direct bigger scenes, action sequences. 'Argo,' I experimented with film stock, widened the scope of my geography.
    Ben Affleck
    American actor and filmmaker. (1972 - )
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  • A. R. Ammons If a poem is each time new, then it is necessarily an act of discovery, a chance taken, a chance that may lead to fulfillment or disaster.
    A. R. Ammons
    American poet (1926 - 2001)
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  • Archer J. P. Martin If every conceivable precaution is taken at first, one is often too discouraged to proceed at all.
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  • Emily Dickinson If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.
    Emily Dickinson
    American poet (1830 - 1886)
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  • Barbara W. Tuchman If I had taken a doctoral degree, it would have stifled any writing capacity.
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    American historian (1912 - 1989)
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  • Mickey Mantle If I knew I was going to live this long, I'd have taken better care of myself.
    Mickey Mantle
     
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  • Samuel Butler If life must not be taken too seriously - then so neither must death.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Billy Wilder If there's anything I hate more than not being taken seriously, it's being taken too seriously.
    Source: The Bright Side of Billy Wilder
    Billy Wilder
    Austrian-American filmmaker, screenwriter, producer and artist (1906 - 2002)
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  • Alphonse Karr If we are to abolish the death penalty, I should like to see the first step taken by my friends the murderers.
    Alphonse Karr
    French writer and editor of Le Figaro (1808 - 1890)
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  • Bo Bennett If you have not taken the time to define what happiness means to you, what have your spent your whole life pursuing?
    Source: Year to Success
    Bo Bennett
    American author (1972 - )
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  • Margaret Thatcher If you lead a country like Britain, a strong country, a country which has taken a lead in world affairs in good times and in bad, a country that is always reliable, then you have to have a touch of iron about you.
    Margaret Thatcher
    British Prime Minister (1979-1990) (1925 - 2013)
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  • Bill Flores Imagine having all of your freedoms taken away, being forced to work against your will, and constantly living under the threat of violence - in short, being forced to live as a slave. Sadly, this situation is a reality for millions of children, women, and men each year as part of the global human trafficking industry.
    Bill Flores
    American businessman and politician (1954 - )
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  • Bianca Kajlich In 2003, he was hit by a subway in Prague and lost both of his legs. It made me realize that we take for granted every step we take, and my brother now has to physically challenge himself to take each step in his prosthetic.
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  • Gloria Steinem In a general way, anything that affects men is taken more seriously than anything that affects only women.
    Gloria Steinem
    American feminist writer (1934 - )
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  • Bertrand Russell In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Brit Hume In America today, if your sensibilities are offended by something that has happened, you get an enormous amount of credibility and are taken very seriously.
    Brit Hume
    American journalist and political commentator (1943 - )
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