Given Quotes
Business is no longer a matter of profits alone. Profits must come through public confidence, and public confidence is given to any merchant in proportion to the service which he gives to the public.
You are born with a character; it is given, a gift, as the old stories say, from the guardians upon your birth...Each person enters the world called.
The highest compliments leaders can receive are those that are given by the people who work for them.
Given the difficulty of resisting such temptations over the longer run, a proper concern for the welfare of congressional souls may well be the ultimate argument in favor of term limitations.
Children from a given family background, when put in schools of different social compositions, will achieve at quite different levels.
When I was taking my canoeing lessons I was given this oar to practice with, and I decided to have everyone sign it. All the cast and crew signed it and now I'm going to frame it.
The events we most desire do not happen; or, if they do, it is neither in the time nor in the circumstances when they would have given us extreme pleasure.
We are making our appearance on the stage of mortality in the greatest dispensation of the gospel ever given to mankind, and we need to make the most of it.
Softball has given me so much in life. It's taught me the kind of person I want to be, and given me a sweet sisterhood. It even led me to my husband.
Only with our government are you given a certificate at birth, a license at marriage, and a bill at death.
We cannot, even given our most imaginative efforts, construct a concept of Self that does not impute some causal influence of prior mental states on later ones.
The purpose of The Motherhood Manifesto is: mothers really need to be given the ability to parent.
I'm very happy to sing whatever I'm singing. I've always enjoyed any role I've been given at a certain time. They've all been favourites, they've all been wonderful pieces to play.
Hockey has given me everything, most importantly it brought me to Swift Current, where I met my wife Deb.
Profit is proof that the capitalist has given something to society that it cherishes more than the material wealth it has given to the businessman.
Who in the same given time can produce more than others has vigor; who can produce more and better, has talents; who can produce what none else can, has genius.
"What would you call the highest happiness, Lewie?" he asked. "The sense of competence," was the answer, given without hesitation.
I would love to have a photographic memory. It would come in handy with the rants I'm given on Scrubs... often on short notice!
The only way to find out anything about what kinds of lives people led in any given period is to tunnel into their records and to let them speak for themselves
And nobler is a limited command, Given by the love of all your native land, Than a successive title, long and dark, Drawn from the mouldy rolls of Noah's Ark.
A heavy warning used to be given that pictures are not rigorous; this has never had its bluff called and has permanently frightened its victims into playing for safety.
It's really been a better situation for me being with the Crush than it would if I were with the Broncos because this has given me a lot more broad range
Given the professionalism of Michigan teachers, I think they're not teaching because of the financial rewards.
This knight was indeed a valiant gentleman; but not a little given to romance, when he spake of himself.
We live in a hemisphere whose own revolution has given birth to the most powerful force of the modern age; the search for freedom and self fulfillment of man.
There was an awful rainbow once in heaven: We know her woof, her texture; she is given In the dull catalogue of common things. Philosophy will clip an angel's wings.
I have met with women whom I really think would like to be married to a Poem and to be given away by a Novel.
I don't think it is given to any of us to be impertinent to great religions with impunity.
I can see how, given a certain degree of sensitivities, proclivities and rage, I could have ended up differently.
We believe the 36, nearly 40, billion pound discount given for a right to buy houses took a million houses out of the public housing sector which is desperately needed for rent.
While you are upon earth, enjoy the good things that are here (to that end were they given), and be not melancholy, and wish yourself in heaven.
Four years was enough of Harvard. I still had a lot to learn, but had been given the liberating notion that now I could teach myself.
In any given moment we are either practicing mindfulness, or defacto, we are practicing mindlessness.
Innocence is drowned in anarchy. The best lack conviction given time to think, and the worst are full of passion without mercy.
It may be that universal history is the history of the different intonations given a handful of metaphors.
If you want to know what a given society believes in, look at what its largest buildings are devoted to.
The benefits of the constitution and laws are alike for all; and the great Elohim has given me the privilege of having the benefits of the constitution and the writ of habeas corpus.
Nature confesses that she has bestowed on the human race hearts of softest mould, in that she has given us tears.