Given Quotes
Time spent in a casino is time given to death, a foretaste of the hour when one's flesh will be diverted to the purposes of the worm and not of the will.
The central Christian belief is that Christ's death has somehow put us right with God and given us a fresh start.
Even the nonreligious may exercise aesthetic judgment in matters of religion, and indeed our age has given the unbelieving a sophisticated taste in religious literature.
The difference between acting badly or brilliantly is not based on your ability, but on the state of your mind and/or body in any given moment.
I just remind myself that the gifts I have, I've been given for a reason and that every day brings new opportunities to use them.
Women have worked hard; starved in prison; given of their time and lives that we might sit in the House of Commons and take part in the legislating of this country.
Artists are not your art monkeys. They are your collaborators. They should be given all due consideration to follow their journey.
Hours of crisis often call for sacrifice. In matters of consequence, when have doubt and fear given the best advice? Why not heed faith, courage, and honor?
The most dangerous tendency of the modern world is the way in which bogus theories are given the force of dogma.
The man who can speak acceptably is usually given credit for an ability out of all proportion to what he really possesses.
Never say about anything, "I have lost it," but only "I have given it back." Is your child dead? It has been given back. Is your wife dead? She has been returned.
An Israeli man's life was saved when he was given a Palestinian man's heart in a heart transplant operation. The guy is doing fine, but the bad news is, he can't stop throwing rocks at himself.
The blues are what I've turned to, what has given me inspiration and relief in all the trials of my life.
I could throw a pass to a spot as well as anyone who ever lived - But that's a God-given talent. I could never stand back and flick the ball 60 yards downfield with my wrists like Dan Marino does.
The last of human freedoms - the ability to chose one's attitude especially an attitude of gratitude in a given set of circumstances especially in difficult circumstances.
The prize I value most was given to me 60 years ago. I was named the girl with the cleanest fingernails.
The secret of popular writing is never to put more on a given page than the common reader can lap off it with no strain whatsoever on his habitually slack attention.
Given how few young people actually read the newspaper, it's a good thing they'll be reading a newspaper on a screen.
I think that there should be a Gaius Baltar Award for Moral Cowardice given out to people every year.
Wisdom is meaningless until your own experience has given it meaning, and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
I can't cuss and tell jokes the rest of my life. I gotta say something meaningful. I gotta give something back to a Creator who has given so much to me.
The stars, that in their courses roll, Have much instruction given; But Thy good Word informs my soul How I may climb to Heaven.
We are given over to absolute solitude. No one can speak with us and no one can speak for us; we must take it upon ourselves, each of us must take it upon himself.
I think I may be a better person for having given serious time and thought and effort to gardening.
Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it.
There are people who have too much space between their ears, and given the time, do nothing but free fall forever inside their head. It's a spooky thing to be left alone inside an angry innerverse.
I believe that given the audience attention level, we could do an even more compelling 90 minutes.
A classic is the term given to any book which comes to represent the whole universe, a book on a par with ancient talismans.
Committee, n.: A group of people that, when given the task of deciding whether to start array indices from either 0 or 1, compromises to declare that they are to start from 0.5.
A new question has arisen in modern man's mind, the question, namely, whether life is worth living...No sensible answer can be given to the question...because the question does not make any sense.
We can't know at any given time how God will bless our faithful witness. So the apparent numerical growth of the church is never a good guide to how faithful we have been in evangelism.
The World we all share is given to us in trust. Every choice we make regarding the earth, air, and water around us should be made with the objective of preserving it for all generations to come.
No use to preach to the working-man courtesy & politeness when at the same time the working-man is not given working conditions under which he can stay polite and soft-mannered.
I never wanted to be a literary writer. I wanted to be an entertainer. All I wanted was to give what a lot of writers had given me: a good time on a bad day.
Give as few orders as possible," his father had told him once long ago. "Once you've given orders on a subject, you must always give orders on that subject.
I think my capacity to change has given me tremendous happiness, because who I am today I am completely content to be.
America is indeed a revelation, though not quite the one that was planned. Given a clean slate, man, it was hoped, would write the future. Instead, he has written his past.
It was instilled in me that the money I was given was not to be lost or spent on any other purpose.
Everything is given by God. All talent, creativity, ability, insight, and strength comes from him. In our own strength we can do nothing.
The power of the Holy Spirit cannot be successfully duplicated. If a person is supernaturally changed and given a love for God's glory, God did it.
People, if given the choice between anarchy and dictatorship, will always choose dictatorship because anarchy is the worst dictatorship of all.
A life to hold, or to see slip through uncaring and inattentive hands, but always a life. And given one, we wish for two, or three, or more, so easily forgetting the one we had was spent unwisely
But, hey I did everything the right way and earned my spot in this game, nothing was given to me.
So there is a personal sense of style for a given work - I don't like a general style, but every work has its own style, and I want to create a style for every work.