Given Quotes

Language was not given to man: he seized it.

I wouldn't have dared ask God for all that He's given me. I couldn't have done it on my own. I thank God every day for what I have.

When the will is given, the battle is ended.

I'd never touch anything. I think it's foolhardy to play around with the face that you've been given. To have a little snip or a tuck, I think, is really quite obscene.

Trash has given us an appetite for art.

The virtue of contentment is the acquiescence of the mind in the lot God has given

Use the talents God has given you to make the world better for your having been in it.

I'm great at a deathbed. I've never given tranquillisers or psychiatric medicine. I've given love and fun and creativity and passion and hope, and these things ease suffering.

If one has not given everything, one has given nothing.

To be a storyteller is to be able to speak truth, to be able to use your imagination, to use the creative gifts that the Creator has given you.

I feel as a horse must feel when the beautiful cup is given to the jockey.

I believe that I definitely wasn't given this voice just to sing. I think it was given to me for a bigger purpose.

He will be our comfort and solace, our guide and counselor, our salvation and exaltation, for "there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved."

We only want that which is given naturally to all peoples of the world, to be masters of our own fate, not of others, and in cooperation and friendship with others.

Business purpose and business mission are so rarely given adequate thought is perhaps the most important cause of business frustration and failure.

You'll be surprised what someone is able to handle given no other choice.

All the reading she had done had given her a view of life that they had never seen.

I really believe in the goodness of Canadians. The idea that everyone should be given an equal opportunity to succeed in this country and particularly for children.

Anything that is of value in life only multiplies when it is given.

Mathematics has given economics rigor, but alas, also mortis.

Your sexual attributes are simply chemistry and setups within your DNA. They are given by agreement as gifts for you to experience in this life.

The body is given out on loan - don't waste it and expect to use it tomorrow.

From Gadamer I learned that to understand a given thinker requires one to presuppose that he is right.

... Our ability to reason has not given us special status, only a greater responsibility.

So great an advantage is given to sin and Satan by your temper and disposition, that without extraordinary watchfulness, care, and diligence, they will prevail against your soul.

I have given up considering happiness as relevant.

Man could escape danger only by renouncing adventure, by abandoning that which has given to the human condition its unique character and genius among the rest of living things.

I had an Aston Martin phone worth ?15,000 given to me as a present. I dropped it in a gin and tonic about 15 seconds after opening it.

I was given two weeks to walk again, so I hooked up with a trainer, and he... had me walking. I'll never forget that, it was grueling.

To those who much has been given, much is expected.

Most writers are trying to find what they think or feel. . . not simply working from the given, but toward the given, saying the unsayable and steadily asking, "What do I really feel about this?

It is the soldier, not the poet, who has given us freedom of speech.

The bigger your mission becomes, the greater inspiration you will be given.

I have tried to avoid long numerical computations, thereby following Riemann's postulate that proofs should be given through ideas and not voluminous computations.

What does it mean, exactly, for a given system to be a "neural correlate of consciousness"?

I know there are people who believe you should forgive and forget. For the record, I'd like to say I'm a big fan of forgiveness as long as I'm given the opportunity to get even first.

Anybody who told you to be yourself simply couldn't have given you worse advice.

Cowards live for the sake of living, but for heroes, life is a weapon, a thing to be spent, a gift to be given to the weak and the lost and the weary, even to the foolish and the cowardly.

When I was in love there was somebody in the world who was more important than me, and that, given all that happened at the fall of man, is a miracle, like something God forgot to curse.

Every woman needs one man in her life who is strong and responsible. Given this security, she can proceed to do what she really wants to do-fall in love with men who are weak and irresponsible.

No one's ever really given me any style advice. I wear what I want, and it doesn't matter what other people think.

At a given instant everything the surgeon knows suddenly becomes important to the solution of the problem. You can't do it an hour later, or tomorrow. Nor can you go to the library and look it up.

It’s the combination of improbability with an independently given pattern that discredits chance.

You have given me Your love, filling the world with Your gifts.

Good engineering is characterized by gradual, stepwise refinement of products that yields increased performance under given constraints and with given resources.

The one perfectly divine thing, the one glimpse of God's paradise given on earth, is to fight a losing battle - and not lose it.

To whom much is given, much is expected. I do believe this. It's embedded in me.

Friendship is given us by nature, not to favor vice, but to aid virtue.

Tradition and conscience are the two wings given to the human soul to reach the truth.

Your spiritual gifts were not given for your own benefit but for the benefit of others, just as other people were given gifts for your benefit.