Given Quotes

I pledged to work for righteousness. God's given me inspiration. God's the boss, he tell me what to do.

It really has lifted my spirits. It's intensified my faith, given me more hope. That's what music does for me.

So given that reality, let us not cast that all of the problems and ills of our society are somehow upon the immigrants who have come to this country.

Having a mate has given me that feeling of safety.

It would be a horrible mistake for black people to say, as some have said, "We don't recognize him..." If you refuse to deal with him (Bush), the resources at his disposal will be given to others.

To know ourselves, is agreed by all to be the most useful Learning; the first Lessons, therefore, given us ought to be on that Subject.

There's a kind of permission for war which can be given only by the world's mood and atmosphere, the feel of its pulse. It would be madness to undertake a war without that permission.

I feel like Ive been engaged to the British Empire since 1980 and tonight you have given me the ring knighthood.

The original Dean Martin Comedy Hour handed me some hysterical sketches. I've got highlights on tons of these variety shows, given to me by their great writers. I'd love to be doing all that again.

You've given me the best of you, but now I need the rest of you.

I've given you my best, why does she get the best of you?

In nature nothing can be given. All things are sold.

It's an honor, indeed I'm glad, to join in giving a warm reception to a book that has given me many delightful moments.

Mystery such as is given of God is beyond the power of human penetration, yet not in opposition to it.

In the '60s, parents were told to let their teens rebel, explore their boundaries. Increasingly the same message is being given to the parents of tweens.

People today sometimes get uncomfortable with empirical claims that seem to clash with their political assumptions, often because they haven't given much thought to the connections.

In the theatre, the actor is given immediate feedback.

The happiest people I know are the ones who have learned how to hold everything loosely and have given the worrisome, stress-filled, fearful details of their lives into God's keeping.

That is the exciting thing: I don't know what God has given me for tomorrow.

What was given to us by the past is adapted to the possibilities of the future.

Canada has given us John Candy and Martin Short and Bill Shatner and Lord knows how many other wonderful performers.

When you're given a newspaper column, you're not being paid to sit on a fence and scratch your chin and say 'On the one hand this' and 'On the other hand that.' You're getting paid for your opinion.

The criterion of mental health is not one of individual adjustment to a given social order, but a universal one, valid for all men, of giving a satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

When I was at college, my nickname was Keds, because I wore Keds. I guess it wasn't really a nickname, because nicknames are usually given to you by people who are your friends and who know you.

Oh, I wish that God had not given me what I prayed for! It was not so good as I thought.

Blessed be Providence which has given to each his toy: the doll to the child, the child to the woman, the woman to the man, the man to the devil!

In the end we can never be given knowledge by others; we can only be stimulated. We must develop our own knowledge.

This is life weve been given, made to be lived out, so... live out loud.

To trifle with Scripture is to deprive yourself of its aid. Reverence it, and look up to God with devout gratitude for having given it to you.

For us, with the rule of right and wrong given us by Christ, there is nothing for which we have no standard. And there is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.

There's an ancient tension between wanting to savor the world as it is and wanting to improve on the world as given.

To whom much is given, much is required.

There is a bizarre notion according to which it is claimed that because men are corrupt, it is necessary to give certain of them all the more power... on the contrary, they must be given less power.

People have to be given permission to write, and they have to be given space to breathe and stumble. They have to be given time to develop and to reveal what they can do.

Both mind and heart when given up to reveries and dreaminess, have a thousand avenues open for the entrance of evil.

We've been given this gift, our planet, and we've found no other place in the universe that we can inhabit. I want to do something to create radical change to help save it. It's our responsibility.

"...All events are blessings given to us to learn from and therefore we should be grateful for the opportunity to grow and evolve into our best selves."

Love and death are the great gifts that are given to us; mostly they are passed on unopened.

The finding of arguments for a conclusion given in advance is not philosophy, but special pleading

If we were all given by magic the power to read each other's thoughts, I suppose the first effect would be to dissolve all friendships.

The one who loves knows better than anyone else how to conduct himself, how to serve the one he loves. Love prescribes an answer in a given situation as no mere rule can do.

My first notebook was a Big Five tablet, given to me [at age five] by my mother with the sensible suggestion that I stop whining and learn to amuse myself by writing down my thoughts.

He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.

One of the joys of cinema is that, given the right circumstances, and the genius director, an incredibly wonderfully actor can become the embodiment of his character.

What is charm then? The free giving of a grace, the spending of something given by nature in her role of spendthrift ... something extra, superfluous, unnecessary, essentially a power thrown away.

I'm blessed. I have a 13-year-old girl's eye and a 14 year-old boy's eye. I've been given the gift of sight by people who decided to donate organs. I try to do as much organ-donor work as I can.

Given the cause nature produces the effect in the briefest manner that it can employ.

Life is known only by those who have found a way to be comfortable with change and the unknown. Given the nature of life, there may be no security, but only adventure.

It is those who are successful, in other words, who are most likely to be given the kinds of special opportunities that lead to further success.

An opportunity was being given to me to do what I had asked of others.