Given Quotes

I cheerfully quit from life as if it were an inn, not a home; for Nature has given us a hostelry in which to sojourn, not to abide.

Learned behaviors have replaced the biologically given ones.

America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked 'insufficient funds.'

I wanted to create a voyage to the moon just for her, but what I should have given her was a real journey on earth.

God designed all Mankind should at all times know, what he wills them to know, believe, profess, and practice; and has given them no other Means for this, but the Use of Reason.

Mary Matalin and James Carville have given me more hope when it comes to love and relationships than any romance book or chick flick ever.

Chess will always be in the doldrums as a spectator sport while a draw is given equal mathematical value as a decisive result.

My only goal is to stay focused on my craft and make sure my life is as sharp as it can be to attack any character that is given to me.

I feel like confidence is something that ebbs and flows. I was given a lot of love and attention from my family growing up, so for sure I had a natural confidence.

Its going to seem idiotic to say this, but I think that at a given moment we all need a place to ourselves where we can refuge ourselves and cut ourselves off from the world.

Given the loss of a child or the birth of a child or anything like that, I think it's just I'm more moved by life, the older I get, so it's easier to connect to the characters that I play.

Andy [Murray] is one of the premier workaholics. He's given himself a lot of opportunities through that.

When a consumer derives value - especially from something that was given to him for free - he becomes the best kind of evangelist.

I have the world heavyweight title not because it was 'given' to me, not because of my race or religion, but because I won it in the ring through my own boxing ability.

Power is not anything that's given away. Power is something you have to compete for.

Friendship freely given and gratefully received is one of life's greatest gifts.

ALL THOUGHTS WHICH HAVE BEEN EMOTIONALIZED, (given feeling) AND MIXED WITH FAITH, begin immediately to translate themselves into their physical equivalent or counterpart.

I look as young as a person can look given how old I am.

Given the nonsense that is turned out daily by the Holocaust industry, the wonder is that there are so few skeptics.

Do not always ask when you pray, but instead affirm that God's blessings are being given, and spend most of your prayers giving thanks.

I want to get to the stage where nobody can tell how a picture of mine is done. What's the point of that? Simply that I want nothing but emotion given off by it.

Can you imagine me calling myself "Ruiz"? "Pablo Ruiz"? "Diego-José Ruiz"? Or "Juan-Népomucène Ruiz"? I was given I don't know how many names.

I've never cackled with laughter at a single line I've ever written. None of it has given me pleasure.

I have a brother who practiced every bit as much as I did, but he never made pro. In order to make it as a pro you have to develop your God-given skills.

Why are you smiling?' 'I'm relieved,' I said honestly. 'I was worried I'd given myself cadmium poisoning, or I had some mysterious disease. This is just someone trying to kill me.

Each human being was given two qualities: power and the gift. Power directs us towards our destiny; the gift obliges us to share with others what is best in us.

About the nature of human beings. I discovered that confronted by temptation, we will always fall. Given the right circumstances, every human being on this earth would be willing to commit evil.

Given that we are passing the climate change bill, which is based on the supposition that the climate is getting warmer, let me point out that it is now snowing outside, in October.

If you get a chance to act in a room that somebody else has paid rent for, then you're given a free chance to practice your craft.

Give plenty of what is given to you, And listen to pity's call. Don't think the little you give is great, And the much you get is small.

The colored planes, as much by position and dimension as by the greater value given to color, plastically express only relationships and not forms.

Our greatest blessings come to us by way of madness, provided the madness is given us by divine gift.

I have neither silver nor gold, but I bring with me the most precious thing given to me: Jesus Christ.

In fall 1967, I was given leave of absence by the National Public Affairs Research Foundation to move to Redondo Beach, California, to work on a short-term research contract with TRW.

To each man at his birth nature has given some fault.

The choices we've made throughout our lives affect whatever happens to us in any given moment.

It is a very poor consolation to be told that the man who has given one a bad dinner, or poor wine, is irreproachable in private life. Even the cardinal virtues cannot atone for half-cold entrees.

When God gives you a vision and darkness follows, wait. God will bring the vision He has given you to reality in your life if you will wait on His timing. Never try to help God fulfill His word

The creativity of childhood was often surrendered amid feelings of unworthiness. So the idea that ­others are demanding to be given it back - to be "taught" - is disturbing.

I hope that people look at my whole career and appreciate that I've given everything that I've got.

Somebody came up to me after a talk I had given, and say, "You make mathematics seem like fun." I was inspired to reply, "If it isn't fun, why do it?"

I learned at an early age that I was given something special when I was born, and that was the gift of music.

The cross is not only imposed upon the saints as their burden, but bequeathed unto them as their legacy. It is given unto them as an honor and privilege.

If you're given champagne at lunch, there's a catch somewhere.

There were a lot of answers I might've given, from "I knew that" to "LIAR!" to "Yeah right, and I'm Zeus." - Percy, after Quintus says that he is Daedalus

Through salvation our past has been forgiven, our present is given meaning, and out future is secured.

People aren't things to be molded; they are lives to be unfolded. And that's what true leaders do. They unfold the lives of others and help them reach their God-given potential.

The United States is not overdeployed or overextended with deployments in 150 countries on any given year. On any given week we have about 65 deployments.

Out of our deepest memories come the forgotten forms of the past, given new life by the living sentience of an ancient and eternal forest.

People often say 'I live for my art.' Bullshit! If you are given a talent it's to be used. It's not in the private domain.