Given Quotes

More Medals of Honor were given for the indiscriminate slaughter of women and children than for any battle in World War I, World War II, Korea, Vietnam, Iraq or Afghanistan.

The digital camera has given me total freedom and a different way of filming.

I couldn't forget. I couldn't break. She had the power to break me. No one had ever been given that power, ever.

Money possesses no value to the state other than that given to it by circulation.

In an emergency, what treatment is given by ear? Words of Comfort.

I've been given the opportunity to be alive in this day and age, and it's rare.

Fools take to themselves the respect that is given to their office.

New York has given me a lot, but I still don't consider it home.

You have to work with what you are given, even in Shakespeare. we have our form and it is important that we free ourselves through it.

I'm for the freedom of expression, given that it will be under strict control.

Beer is a gift from the goddesses, a soothing balm given our species to bring joy and comfort in compensation for the curse of self-awareness, the awful realization of our mortality

... I had never given much credence to the phenomenon of "writer's block". I was more inclined to think of it as "writer's impatience", and to follow Arthur Koestler's dictum: "Soak; and wait.

While local economies may experience significant price imbalances, a national severe price distortion seems most unlikely in the United States, given its size and diversity.

When I go home every night, I can look in the mirror and say I have given 110 per cent for Newcastle United. If people aren't happy with that, I can't give any more.

[Clowns] gotten a really bad rap in the last few years. People have really given into their own fears and have celebrated their fears in that way. American Horror Story didn't help.

I believe we've been given free will, and we can take responsibility for our own lives and for creating our own environments - which I think at times can be a little much for people to deal with.

I was charmed by a performance given by Crowded House at Toronto's Massey Hall where the bass player broke a string.

Given a sufficient level of perceived self-efficacy to take on threatening tasks, phobics perform them with varying amounts of fear arousal depending on the strength of their perceived self-efficacy

The old charters of Massachusetts, Virginia, and the Carolinas had given title to strips of territory extending from the Atlantic westward to the Pacific.

I'd have given ten conversations with Einstein for a first meeting with a pretty chorus girl.

Now to the term 'relativity theory.' I admit that it is unfortunate, and has given occasion to philosophical misunderstandings.

Culture in its higher forms is a delicate plant which depends on a complicated set of conditions and is wont to flourish only in a few places at any given time.

School disruption comes from those children who have given up hope.

Given a fair chance, human beings can govern themselves, and govern themselves better

I don't think that everyone should have a philosophical answer to any given question. There are things that need to be done.

I can never say a line someone else has given me, which is why script meetings on TV shows always go terribly for me.

All other goods by fortune's hand are given, A wife is the peculiar gift of Heaven.

I had always intended to make a living out of playing blues. But I never admitted it to myself. I don't suppose I could have given a logical reason for it ever becoming possible to do so.

[Exorcist ] is given all of us a great opportunity to show something new on network TV, in terms of the quality of it. It feels much bigger than a network show.

No reason can be given for the nature of God, because that nature is the ground of rationality.

To me life means the growing of a soul. I do not know why this duty is imposed upon us. I merely know that it is, and I feel that we are given much latitude of free will.

What she felt was a lighthearted sort of compassion, almost like laughter. A swish of tender hilarity, getting the better of all her sores and hollows, for the time given.

Fichte takes an I or free will to be not a thing or being but an act which is not undetermined but self-determined, in accordance with reasons or norms rationally self-given.

One does, after all, take on many of the givens of a society when one takes on its language.

I was told Indian women don't think like that about equality. But I would like to argue that if they don't think like that they should be given a real opportunity to think like that.

I wanted to be a disgusting, oozing zombie, not a sexy, cleavage zombie, which is what I was expecting, given my previous film work.

BEG, v. To ask for something with an earnestness proportioned to the belief that it will not be given.

Strange, isn't it, that no chemical will give a human being the iridescence that illusions have given them? Give me your hat.

This sport has given me so much that my hope would be to give back as much as I can for as long as I can.

I'm of the opinion that poetry is always political, and cannot help but be so, regardless of the poet's intent, given that refusing to deal in politics is in itself a political act.

It's very difficult to lie to yourself about certain things. I'm not necessarily convinced about how information is gathered and I don't think the credence that's given to it is valid.

Freedom was taken away from my family until we landed in America and it was given back to us.

Becoming a parent has just completely changed me, and made life so beautiful and given me such a center and a focus and such joy.

He didn't give the penalty but I've seen them given for worse

Yes, of course, black Americans are a special group, and I'm disappointed that they're not Republicans, given our traditions. We're not getting much love in return, despite our efforts.

Given so much, What have I done to Deserve it? Nothing, Absolutely nothing. No wonder my heart Dances.

We've given all you people need to know and understand about our financial situation and how we live our life.

We are doing everything we can to protect the food supply. And I can tell you that we're making decisions based upon sound science and good public policy, given the circumstances that we are now in.

Christian hands never clasp and He doesn't give gifts for gain because a gift can never stop being a gift - it is always meant to be given.

The greatest compliment of the book [One Thousand Gifts]? Maybe the Muslim man in Iraq who was given the book and came to a saving knowledge of Jesus, wanted to live his life in thanks to God?