Given Quotes

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.

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

A very honest woman but something given to lie

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

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.

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.

I had this sister that was born who was given up for adoption, and I never knew it.

During much of my life, I was anxious to be what someone else wanted me to be. Now I have given up that struggle. I am what I am.

Now, a lot of people have given up on government. And if youre one of those people, I would ask that you reconsider, because things are changing. Politics is not changing; government is changing.

Life, that can shower you with so much splendour, is unremittingly cruel to those who have given up.

You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned seventy, or given up all hope of the Presidency.

Have you ever walked down the streets of New York and been given the right of way? It's an amazing feeling.

The power to bind and loose to Truth is given: The mouth that speaks it is the mouth of Heaven, The power, which in a sense belongs to none, Thus understood belongs to every one.

I also have to speak out for people around me who are afraid, who think it is not worth it or who have totally given up hope. So I want to set an example: you can do it and this is OK, to speak out.

The legs that I have made are far more perfect than the ones nature would have given me - my mother's side of the family have awful legs.

Do we recognize the platform that Indian cinema has been given? Of course. And typically India of us, we gracefully acknowledge our host's grace and we thank you for celebrating us and our cinema.

God has given me a mule-like stubbornness to stick with a difficult problem and the intuitive powers to conceptualize complex hypothetical situations in my mind.

Shay Given is champing on the door to be involved this weekend

To what extent is any given man morally responsible for any given act? We do not know

What one reads, or rather all that comes to us, is surely only of interest and value in proportion as we find ourselves therein, -- form given to what was vague, what slumbered stirred to life.

If I had but an hour of love,if that be all that is given me,an hour of love upon this earth,I would give my love to thee.

Often you will end up loving the new things you try and even if you don't love it, you've given yourself a new experience.

I am not interested in releasing best of stuff and I have not given my permission. You release best of packages when you're a has-been and have nothing new to offer.

Even though it's my job to be an actor, I have given my life to God.

Any given moment - no matter how casual, how ordinary - is poised, full of gaping life.

I thank the Creator of the universe to have discovered the discipline of music was the greatest gift that I could have been given, the possibility to be a student working in the world.

Reviewers do not read books with much care . . . their profession is more given to stupidity and malice and literary ignorance even than the profession of novelist.

If I have given my all and still do not win, I haven't lost. Others might remember winning or losing; I remember the journey.

I remember, no matter how impossible it seemed that any given day would end, it always did. This one would, too.

It stands to reason that if sacrifices are being given, somebody is collecting sacrifices.

Given the cultural barriers to intersex conversation, the amazing thing is that we would even expect women and men to have anything to say to each other for more than ten minutes at a stretch.

I guess I wish we could talk about: what does it mean to have a politics of intersectionality that also privileges what form of domination is most oppressing us at a given moment in time.

I have thought that wild flowers might be the alphabet of angels, — whereby they write on hills and fields mysterious truths, which it is not given our fallen nature to understand.

Government is the assumption of authority over a given area and all within it, exercised generally for the double purpose of more complete oppression of its subjects and extension of its boundaries.

My wife thinks she's better than me at puzzles. I haven't given in on that one yet.

Microsoft's philosophy is to 'do things better.' And Vista has given us lots of opportunity to do that.

When we realize finally that we aren't God's given children, we'll understand satire. Humor is really laughing off a hurt, grinning at misery.

I know many Catholics love God with all their heart. I have genuine respect for anyone who truly has given their life to Christ. We read about Mother Teresa and what a wonderful example she was.

The visa lottery system poses a national security threat. Under the program, each successful applicant is chosen at random and given the status of permanent resident based on pure luck.

I was never given a trial. I never went before any magistrate, nor did my parents. To this day, I do not know what the charges that were lodged against me or my deceased parents at this time.

I enjoy all aspects of singing and I'm luckily given the choice to be part of different styles of music.

The proper rewards are not simply tacked on to the activity for which they are given, but are the activity itself in consummation.

I don't want anything given to me.

We wanted to give back to the fans what they've given us, and that is unbelievable support thoughout the World Cup

Gideon touched her cheek, lightly, with the tips of his fingers. “Did you know your name means ‘wisdom’? It was very well-given.

I see no good reasons why the views given in this volume should shock the religious views of anyone.

Surely it is a sin to reject the few gifts we are given. Be happy in the flash of time granted to us or hurt forever.

Actually no person owns anything. All belongs to God, but while man is on earth he has the God-given right of possession.

The Curse of Knowledge: when we are given knowledge, it is impossible to imagine what it's like to LACK that knowledge.