Given Quotes

In some ways, I lament the introduction of civilisation on such a huge scale, because it has given us a lot of room to abuse each other, which we continue to do.

A little while alone in your room will prove more valuable than anything else that could ever be given you.

Who would not shudder if he were given the choice of eternal death or life again as a child ? Who would not choose to die ?

Whenever you read interviews with actors, they always seem to be given three months to do something - get fat, get skinny, learn card tricks.

[Elijah Wood] is a really fully-rounded, amazing human being, and I feel incredibly lucky, especially given how closely we have to work together.

The human intellect owes its superiority over that of the lower animals in great measure to the stimulus which alcohol has given imagination.

Given a rich environment, learning becomes like the air—it’s in and around us.

Reforesting the earth is possible, given a human touch.

People who are given whatever they want soon develop a sense of entitlement and rapidly lose their sense of proportion.

It's amazing the life that I?m living today, and I count my blessings every day for the gifts that God has given me.

Failure is not tied to money; it is a mindset. Failure is when we accept the lot we are given.

Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me

No government may remain strong by ignoring the commandments given to Moses on Mount Sinai.

When all names and forms have been given up, the real is with you. You need not seek it.

Let the word and the legend go before you. Let the world go before you. Let your shadow grow. Let it grow hair on its face. Let it become dark. Given time, words may even enchant an enchanter.

I'm immensely grateful for the precious gift my mother has given me. She is my hero today and every day.

In football, the hero and legend status is given out far too easily for me.

For the most part, I feel really comfortable with what I've given to the people. I want to give it to them again.

The logical process will often be the safe one. I tend, when I'm given that choice, to go the way that's not safe.

We're all endowed with God-given talents. Mine happens to be hitting people in the head.

The Ricky Hatton that beat Kostya Tszyu in 2005 can beat Floyd Mayweather, he was so focused and in such amazing physical shape that he would have given anybody at that level a tough time.

Of all rewards none [is] more liberal than those given to secret agents.

There is a great deal that either has to be given up or be taken away from you if you are going to succeed in writing a body of work.

Even for learned men, love of fame is the last thing to be given up.

It's interesting that in those countries like Taiwan or Korea, where nuns are given equal opportunities for study and practice, they also develop great social awareness.

You should quit trying only after two conditions have been met: 1.) You've given yourself a legitimate shot. 2.) Trying is no longer fun.

Much has been given us, and much will rightfully be expected from us. We have duties to others and duties to ourselves; and we can shrink neither.

To each is given a certain inward talent, a certain outward environment or fortune; to each by wisest combination of these two, a certain maximum capacity.

Loving service anonymously given may be unknown to man-but the gift and the giver are known to God.

This obstinate will to personal happiness is the cause of unrest and division in your soul. Give it up and work against it: the rest will be given you without effort.

To be given dominion over another is a hard thing; to wrest dominion over another is a wrong thing; to give dominion of yourself to another is a wicked thing.

At the toughest times I recalled how the children and the elderly looked at me with trustful eyes. Your faith has given me strength.

I guess I am just not the marrying type. I have given it a few chances, and it just goes haywire after a month or two. I am on wife number five right now, maybe five's a charm?

I have been given a lot of roles that are downtrodden, mammy-ish.

I have worked like a galley slave throughout these eight years, morning till night, and I have given all I could to this work. I am happy with the results.

We therefore need to know the gifts given us by God, so that we may use them, for by these we shall be saved.

The strange anthropological lesson of social media is that human beings, if given a choice, often prefer to socialise alone.

True love's the gift which God has given to man alone beneath the heaven.

Some feelings are to mortals given With less of earth in them than heaven.

My hates have always occupied my mind much more actively and have given greater spiritual satisfactions than my friendships.

An economist is a man that can tell you...what can happen under any given condition, and his guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's too.

Life is simply time given to man to learn how to live.

Power is not a material possession that can be given, it is the ability to act. Power must be taken, it is never given.

Providence has given human wisdom the choice between two fates: either hope and agitation, or hopelessness and calm.

A real capitalist knows that $10 given today does a lot more good than $100 given 10 years from now.

The cow can be saved only if buffalo-breeding is given up.

The hardest thing I have done is given up power.

We've given up making a living, its all this crazy love poetry now!

To have given pleasure to one human being is a recollection that sweetens life.

Christianity at any given time is strong or weak depending upon her concept of God.