Given Quotes

The Nobel Prize has given me, for the first time in my life, the feeling that my literature could be appreciated on an international level.

Our task is to harness the God-given energy of this German nation to stand firm for the Truth.

Just because you're married [to the president] doesn't mean you've given up your right to have and opinion.

We are all given a gift of existence and of being sentient beings, and I think true happiness lies in love and compassion.

He enjoys that perfect peace, that peace beyond all understanding, which comes to its maximum only to the man who has given up golf.

It takes quite a while for the living to catch up with the believing, but of course it can. As we live up to the highest light we have, more light is given.

Experiences aren't given to us to be 'got over,' otherwise they would hardly be experiences.

Even people who don't share my specific faith (denomination, beliefs, etc.) are typically enthusiastic about my profession of faith in God and my commitment to living to God-given standards.

There were many occasions in my career where I could have given up, where I asked myself whether I would ever make it.

All love is sweet, given or received.

Any given thing on the face of the earth could reveal the history of all things

For this is the most civil sort of lie That can be given to a man's face. I now Say what I think.

But in the UK, I've given up any hope of being considered a director.

Lacking many of the essential implements, it irritated me to be reduced to impotence in the face of artistic projects to which I had passionately given myself.

But as for activism, my parents did what they could, given the constraints, but were never involved in the causes I think of when I think of activists.

Do you require yourself to remember? In order to live as you can and should, you first must remember who you are and what you’ve been given.

No single piece of macroeconomic advice given by the experts to their government has ever had the results predicted.

Vaccines are not traditionally big money makers. They're given once or a few times in one's life, so they're never going to be blockbusters.

Whatever happens, the path of virtue should not be given up.

There has always been quite a strong black and white art tradition in Australia, with quite a large contingent of cartoonists, given the size of the population.

The statesman who yields to war fever must realise that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events.

If you're not optimistic on some level, then you've given up.

Joseph Stalin is a titan of thought. His name is to be given to an entire century.

The connoisseur of painting gives only bad advice to the painter. For that reason I have given up trying to judge myself.

People want Art. And they are given it. But the less Art there is in painting the more painting there is.

Farmers have about given up hope of getting farm relief and have decided to fertilize instead.

I continue to believe, contrary to the given wisdom, that it's more interesting to have an album - or, indeed, an individual song - which has variety rather than homogeneity.

Achievement is by all accounts to a great extent a matter of clinging after others have given up.

Growing up in England, people told you why you couldn't do things. Suddenly, I had a publisher banging on my door, and was given the creative green light to simply make.

It's a spirit that was given me and the relationships and meeting all these great people, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong; through Max I met a lot of people too. My first album was with Benny Carter.

I guess the verdict is in - I am not a sociopath. It's not effective or productive not to be nice. It would undermine the goals I want to achieve on any given day.

God has given us control over one thing in our lives - our thoughts.

By no means. I have just given you my serious and well-considered profession of faith. Although a firm friend of order, I am (in the full force of the term) an anarchist. Listen to me.

My heart gives thanks for empty moments given to dreams, and for thoughtful people who help those dreams come true

We cannot tolerate comments of such hatred, such anti-Semitism, such intolerance. And these comments are all the more troubling given that we know of Iran's nuclear ambitions.

I think we are all the sum of that which has happened in our lives. And if you're successful, it would be wrong to think that you'd be more successful had something been easier. That's not a given.

Answers given with authority negate the search for truth.

As an American I am not so shocked that Obama was given the Nobel Peace Prize without any accomplishments to his name, America gave him the White House based on the same credentials.

No one who has come to true greatness has not felt in some degree that his life belongs to the people, and what God has given them he gives it for mankind.

Shoes are the first adult machines we are given to master.

The only way I like to see cops given flowers is in a flower pot from a high window.

When you give yourself away you find that a new and more real self has somehow been given to you.

A youth to whom was given So much of earth, so much of heaven.

Prudence supposes the value of the end to be assumed, and refers only to the adaptation of the means. It is the relation of right means for given ends.

A very honest woman but something given to lie

The possible solutions to a given problem emerge as the leaves of a tree, each node representing a point of deliberation and decision.

Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast. Yet it must be confessed that wit given an edge to sense, and recommends it extremely.

My true-love hath my heart, and I have his, By just exchange, one for the other given; I hold his dear, and mine he cannot miss, There never was a better bargain driven.

Look wise, say nothing, and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought.

Any subject is suitable provided it is of sufficient interest, but the design must be very carefully considered, and plenty of time and thought given to its construction.