Taking Things For Granted Quotes

“We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.”
― Thomas Fuller

“I could worry about his health but somehow not about my own. We throw ourselves away a little each day.”
― Padma Lakshmi, Love, Loss, and What We Ate: A Memoir

“Certainty is the calm before the storm.”
― Stewart Stafford

“Happiness is like good health. You only miss it when it disappears.”
― Tariq Ali, The Book of Saladin

“You need to understand that some comedy can have consequences.”
― Oscar Auliq-Ice

“There are hundreds of miracles within a single machine. Americans calmly explain these with mathematical formulas. Our difficulty is to learn, theirs to appreciate.”
― Warren Eyster, The Goblins of Eros

“I mean, we assumed that our system was the best. And that had another side effect, which was that, you know, for us, democracy became a little bit like running water, you know? It was just the thing that came out of the tap, and you don't have to do anything in order to get it. And now it turns out that it's not really like that - that, you know, it's not water coming from the tap. It's water from a well, and, you know, everybody has to go and get it. That's a better metaphor. Democracy doesn't work - it becomes fragile and it fails - if there's no participation.”
― Anne Applebaum