Given Quotes

God has given each normal person a capacity to achieve some end. True, some are endowed with more talent than others, but God has left none of us talentless.

I am still a journeyman actor and a peace and justice activist. I'm a pilgrim trying to win my freedom and serve as best I can in the time I have, with this gift I've been given.

Manual labor to my father was not only good and decent for it's own sake but, as he was given to saying, it straightened out one's thoughts.

To underestimate one's thirst, to pass a given landmark to the right or left, to find a dry spring where one looked for running water - there is no help for any of these things.

good people managers are likely to listen more than they speak. Perhaps that's why we were given two ears and only one mouth.

I know a love may be revived which absence, inconstancy, or even infidelity has extinguished, but there is no returning from a dTgovt given by satiety.

We’ve been given the covenant community because we need each other, and together we’ll be more mature, experience more life, and know more joy than we ever would apart from one another.

Anything that is worth doing has been done frequently. Things hitherto undone should be given, I suspect, a wide berth.

I have known no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect, either physical or spiritual, for what the gods had given him.

Given how well the cards have been dealt to someone like myself, I think there's an inherent obligation to try to reach out and make a difference.

Today, she had yielded the sovereignty of her country to Eugenides, who had given up everything he had ever hoped for, to be her King.

I directed before I was even in television; I directed in the theatre for seven years, so that was my trade anyway. But in the UK, I've given up any hope of being considered a director.

I find it next to impossible to remain politely silent when people prate to me about the glory of being given another chance to live happily ever after!

The US government is usually on the wrong side against the poor and downtrodden, because the wrong side is the right side, given the class interests upon which the [US] policy is fixed.

It's strange how parts come along, how life lives us, and what we get to do with the abilities that are given us.

You made a decision given your life circumstances and you have to be ok with that. Regrets that can't be change is just torturing yourself.

Science is definitely part of America's infrastructure, the engine of prosperity. And yet science is given almost no visibility in the media.

It's a miracle that David Bowie, Lou Reed and Iggy Pop are actually still alive today, given how hard they lived.

A leader's responsibility to his team is paramount. It overshadows even his own personal feelings at any given time.

Given the events of even the 19th century, Zionism was inevitable. Given the events of the 20th century, Israel was inevitable.

Every ballet, whether or not successful artistically or with the public, has given me something important.

We will in fact encourage them to commit more suicides. We have given them death and poison.

In growing up, I was a child of the movies. I went to the movies every given opportunity, and that's pretty much what has informed a lot of my choices.

What I love about what digital entertainment has done is that they've given real creative freedom to folks like myself who are doing really groundbreaking stuff.

In Calcutta alone, we have given more than 1,000 children in adoption. I cannot calculate how many babies we get a year. But we never refuse anybody. Everybody is most welcome.

For everything that God desires to do in the earth, He enters into partnership with those to whom He has already given dominion.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

My path was to be an actor and it’s been very good to me in life. It’s broadened my horizons and given me a lot of gifts.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

All love is sweet, given or received.

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