Given Quotes

I think that you make the best choice with the information that you have before you at that given time.

Nothing is given so profusely as advice.

Such is the nature and make-up of the French that they are only good at the start. Then they are worse than devils, but, given time, they're less than women.

Frank [Zappa] said he probably would have been a major criminal, given his brain power and his attention to detail, had he not been a composer. But being a composer is not something you can't help.

Scripture doesn't promise that God will remove temptation, only that you'll be given strength to withstand it.

I felt bad for that world that we have given a generation of kids.

Retaining our capacity for reason is common sense, but definite conclusions and beliefs keep us from seeing life as it really is at any given moment.

But then again, you know, the pimp in TAXI DRIVER has this reason, given the environment he was living in.

Every child of Heavenly Father born in the world is given at birth, as a free gift, the Light of Christ.

It's always more comforting to know that in any given corner of any room or any location you're on, you can make a photograph that you'll appreciate.

There is a plan to this universe. There is a high intelligence, maybe even a purpose, but it's given to us on the installment plan.

A good name is what is given you by others and that which has been earned by you.

We've also had comments in relation to Donald Trump's comments in respect of investment in Scotland- the UK government has never given Mr Trump awards or appointments.

It is delightfully easy to thank God for the grace we ourselves have received, but it requires great grace to thank God always for the grace given to others.

There is no mercy in trading life for life. And certainly no righteousness. Mercy, once given, cannot be taken back.

Use him wisely. Few have been given such a weapon by the gods or Fates before.

I kinda have the opposite of ADD. I have a hyper-focused disorder, where if there's a given task in front of me I really concentrate on that.

Individuals achieve optimal stupidity when they're given substantial powers while being insulated from the results of their actions.

When we are given gifts, we must be quick and able to accept them.

People will not bear it when advice is violently given, even if it is well founded. Hearts are flowers; they remain open to the softly falling dew, but shut up in the violent downpour of rain.

There are two kinds of homeland: one that is given is like a negative, and one that you have to conquer is like the positive.

There was my mom and I had a wife for a long time and now there is my fianc-e. Eileen is in a long line of women who have given me orders.

I think you have to be true to the script that you're given.

Dad has, and had, a deservedly glowing reputation. However, this belief in 'reputation first' seems to have given rise to his fears of what might be rumored after his death.

I would have given you the world if you had given me the chance.

I tend not to hang with 'the crowd' because I believe that at any given moment in history, the crowd is only standing somewhere because some lone, brave nutjob broke down the walls for them first.

Just to set the record straight, a salary for a given on-screen performance does not include the right to invade anyone’s privacy, to destroy someone’s sense of self.

Success is doing the best you possibly can with what you've been given. There are an alarming number of wealthy failures in the world today.

I haven't given up on the possibility that sweet reason will prevail.

Not only is America a country where torture is now policy. It's now outsourced. It's given to companies at a cost-plus basis. It's a triple whammy of surreal, absolute madness.

When our needs are permitted to grow to an extremity, and all visible hopes fail, then to have relief given wonderfully enhances the price of such a mercy

We professional athletes are very lucky. Unlike most mortals, we are given the privilege of dying twice - once when we retire and again when death takes us.

Love is not a given, it's a state that we work toward and experience gradually.

Management cannot solve problems. Nor can it stir creativity of any sort. It can only manage what it is given. If asked to do more, it will deform whatever is put into its hands.

Government has no money of its own. All it does is take resources from one group and given them to another.

Adaptability is being able to adjust to any situation at any given time.

When the public starts classifying you as thoughtful, someone given to serious issues, you find yourself declassified as a humorist.

Now you've given them hope, and they're unhappy. So the blame is all yours.

I want to dedicate the rest of my life to spreading the love of Christ. Because God has done so much for me and has given me this platform to speak into millions of lives, I feel it is my duty...

A lot of new American directors have had mentors who have given them advice. And some of them have had the way paved for them by huge Hollywood directors who saw a younger version of themselves.

My step-dad is probably the greatest man I've ever known. The best advice I've ever been given was when he told me to enjoy my life because one day I'm not going to be as agile as I am now.

Who is going to cast out an error to which he has given birth and replace it with an adopted truth?

I think America needs us. 'Duck Dynasty' has given some hope to bringing the family back. I want to set that example.

There's nothing shocking inherently about that, given that so much of the way that artists are taught is by copying old master paintings.

The beloved may be treacherous, greasy-headed and given to evil habits, or else it can be a man in his late forties who works too much, or it can be an alarm clock.

In 2004, I went to Israel and gave a speech that resulted in guns and ammunition being given to the South Sudanese rebels, specifically Commanders Athol's and Yaka's armies.

You can assess a culture to a degree by the way they receive movies and how they receive a given celebrity.

We were all given our opportunities to be ourselves. A little bit of ourselves.

Trout was petrified there on Forty-second Street. It had given him a life not worth living, but I had also given him an iron will to live. This was a common combination on the planet Earth.

Knowledge is observation and is given to those who would look.