Given Quotes

No rural community, no suburban community, can ever possess the distinctive qualities that city dwellers have for centuries given to the world.

Women can feel inspired by the story. People who haven't been traditionally given a chance to use their skills or shine are given a chance, and they prevail.

The city and province were given up to anarchy; the coloured people, elated with victory, proclaimed the slaughter of all whites, except the English, French, and American residents.

If I live the life I'm given, I won't be scared to die.

You’ve got to be crazy! It’s too late to be sane, too late. You’ve got to go full tilt bozo... ‘Cause you’re only given a little spark of madness... and if you lose that, you’re nothing

Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the numbers of books that were written because authors couldn't find anyone to talk to.

Poetry is fact given over to imagery.

Arithmetic is a kind of knowledge in which the best natures should be trained, and which must not be given up.

I try to make the best of the opportunities that have been given to me.

I am deeply reminded that our life’s journey is a gift, not a given, and that we can never truly know how long the journey will last. All we can do is decide how it unfolds.

Advances have fallen, generally, for everything except the biggest potential bestsellers. Given all the changes, both economic and technological, SF hasn't done too badly.

I believe in celebrating the female figure and embracing what we've been given, not hiding that.

Caring for our seniors is perhaps the greatest responsibility we have. Those who walked before us have given so much and made possible the life we all enjoy.

I'm like the universe; either expanding or contracting at any given moment. The most that I had put on was about 35, 36 pounds, and I've taken all of that off.

Dancers are stripped enough onstage. You don't have to know more about them than they've given you already.

I've been given an opportunity right now and I'm going to run through a wall to try to take advantage of it.

Nothing is given to mankind and what little men can conquer must be paid for with unjust death. But man's grandeur lies elsewhere, in his decision to rise above his condition.

The more people are involved in a given task, the more potential agreements need to be negotiated to do anything, and the greater the transaction costs.

If God had intended me to make excuses for who I am, He would have given me better excuses.

The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world.

I mean, the world has already done a big, big effort to forget debt to countries heavily indebted and with low income. And that has given good chances to countries to get out of poverty.

For the resolving powers of our scientific instruments decide, at a given moment, of the size and the vision of our Universe, and of the image we then make of ourselves.

The highest principles for our aspirations and judgments are given to us in the Jewish-Christian religious tradition.

When malice is joined to envy, there is given forth poisonous and feculent matter, as ink from the cuttle-fish.

I think twins can sometimes be shoved into the same mold and they can start to feel like they're not being given a chance to develop their own identities.

What a picture of a better world you have given us, Mozart!

The best advice my mom has ever given me is to never give up. She believes when one door shuts, another door opens. Always, always move forward.

You can tell an honest artist from one who's just given all their songs.

God, help me remember that when I admit and accept the truth, I'll be given the power and guidance to change.

A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. [The Second Law of Robotics]

Given the scope of the tragedy from last week, I am glad to reassure the people of New York and Washington, D.C. that their air is safe to breath and their water is safe to drink.

When one is engaged in a desperate defense of one's world and its values, nothing can be given away, any breach in the walls might be fatal, every point must be defended to the death.

There are hundreds of Canadian communities that have given more thought to hiring their rink manager than they have to electing their member of Parliament.

I try to use all of my senses when describing a setting, and try to think of everything that would impact a character in any given scene.

I'll be with The Goat until the fall. Then I've been given three plays to look at and there have been a couple of films have come over the desk. I will probably not do either one of them.

The America I know is great - not because government made it great but because ordinary citizens like me, like my father and like you are given the opportunity every day to do extraordinary things.

The child has a primary need to be regarded and respected as the person he really is at any given time, and as the center - the central actor - in his own activity.

Music is given to us specifically to make order of things, to move from an anarchic, individualistic state to a regulated, perfectly concious one, which alone insures vitality and durability.

In reading, a lonely quiet concert is given to our minds; all our mental faculties will be present in this symphonic exaltation.

Physical infidelity is the signal, the notice given, that all fidelities are undermined.

Only for the sake of the hopeless ones have we been given hope.

Desire, both the whispers and the shouts, is the map we have been given to find the only life worth living.

I see God through my children. I speak to God through my children. I am humbled for the blessings He has given me.

And not a vanity is given in vain.

That soul is dead to which the Spirit of Christ is not given in the work of regeneration; and all its works are dead works.

I accept my body. I accept how I am and make the best of what I am given. Children orientate towards examples. That's why I talk solely positive about my body in front of my daughter.

I'd be more frightened by not using whatever abilities I'd been given. I'd be more frightened by procrastination and laziness.

Small things are best: Grief and unrest To rank and wealth are given; But little things On little wings Bear little souls to Heaven.

Just imagine if I would have come back to Germany with a victory. I had nothing to do with the Nazis, but they would have given me a medal. After the war I might have been considered a war criminal.

A man who's never seen war is like a woman who's never given birth - soft in the head.