Given Quotes

Feet were made, not given for dancing, but to walk modestly, not to leap impudently like camels.

Human beings being what they are, order spreads, given half a chance, almost as fast as confusion.

I've given up reading the papers. Since the world's so obviously bent on killing itself, I decided months ago to sit back and let it.

Socrates said the unexamined life is not worth living. But the over-examined life makes you wish you were dead. Given the alternative, I'd rather be living.

It is not virtuous in any way to put yourself down, or to punish yourself, because you do not feel you have lived up to your best behavior at any given time.

It's the greatest of Southern honors . . . to have one's name incorporated into a family tree. It's an honor not lightly given.

According to God's word, everybody at some point is going to be given the opportunity to know the truth.

Be a function of your values rather than a function of the impulse or desire of any given moment.

When I was first diagnosed with ALS, I was given two years to live. Now 45 years later, I am doing pretty well.

Deep in the winter plain, two armies Dig their machinery, to destroy each other. Men freeze and hunger. No one is given leave On either side, except the dead, and wounded.

Ours is a society in which secrets of private life that, formerly, you would have given nearly anything to conceal, you now clamor to get on a television show to reveal.

And there's the fallacy of existence: the idea that one could be happy forever and age with a given situation or series of accomplishments.

Right now you are a prisoner of each application you use. You have only the options that were given you by the developer of that application.

Oh dear me, the Booker people don't like me. I don't care. I have been given an award for being taken not seriously, and I am very, very pleased about that.

I believe in my God-given athletic ability and the coaches that have been blessed around me. I believe I can do the job as a quarterback in the NFL.

At any given time, ninety-nine-point-nine-five per cent of the human race are a confounded nuisance

No problem is insoluble, given a big enough plastic bag.

Given a full summer to practice basketball, and especially my jump shot, I know that I could play in the NBA and do well.

It's easy, man. I just take the ball and throw. Hard! It's a God-given talent! No one can teach it to you. They either hit it or they don't.

Man's last freedom is his freedom to choose how he will react in any given situation

I do not want to be admired. I want to give, to be given, and solitude in which to unfold my possessions.

I have just made out my will and given all the things I have and many that I haven't.

The only reason the Protestants and Catholics have given up the idea of universal domination is because they've realised they can't get away with it.

It is only for those without hope that hope is given.

The title of Ultracrepidarian critics has been given to those persons who find fault with small and insignificant details.

I like a person who knows his own mind and sticks to it; who sees at once what, in given circumstances, is to be done, and does it.

The true Mason does not hold or teach the attitude that, I am a Master Mason now and thus I no longer need to be concerned with using the working tools because they were given in the earlier degrees.

You were given the power to love in order to use it, no matter what pain it may cause you.

I could probably spend the next five years reworking an album from ten years ago, if given the chance, to make it better - make it best, so to speak.

Americans are pragmatic, relatively uncomplicated, hearty and given to broad humor.

I have given up trying to be happy. It is no use an leads to nothing.

For this I would be damned forever. For this I would have given up everything.

At the gym; I've given up trying to get in really good shape, and re-committed myself to not getting any worse.

If I had given up everything that my life was about ... I'd let cancer win before it needed to.

Nobody is lost until somebody has given up.

The ambitious are criticized by those that have given up.

Hell is given up so reluctantly by those who don't expect to go there

I've never given up. I've always kept going. I don't feel that I could afford to give up. That would be the beginning of the end.

I'd pretty much given up hope of being published, so I just wrote the book I wanted to read.

What have you done? What have you given up?' So many things, Cecily. More than you know.

To prevent the workers from going to their work by standing in front of them is pure violence and must be given up.

I was given a chance and I took it.

Sequestration is leverage that should not be given up easily.

I'm giving up on love cause love's given up on me.

I was in the army, and I had given up the thought of being a composer.

I've given up on being accurately portrayed in the media.

When you invent something, there will always be people to criticise. God's creation is full of critics, but has God given up His creation because of the critics?

Everyone I used to play with has either given up or is dead.

Being forced into early retirement can be to a man what being "given up for a younger woman" is for a woman.

The whole Constitution has been erected upon the assumption that the King not only is capable of doing wrong but is more likely to do wrong than other men if he is given the chance.