Given Quotes

God gives gifts and I give thanks and I unwrap the gift given: joy.

When you're given something new, it's always exciting 'cause you're the first one to do it. You're not having to live up to any expectations, or be compared to anyone who's ever done it before.

I get described as 'interesting' a lot. People often call me odd, too. Maybe they mean ugly. Given the services of a plastic surgeon, I would get a pair of cheekbones.

I really don't drink, I don't do drugs. I feel like right now I've been given so many opportunities I don't want to mess it up with those things.

I have given money to the Obama campaign online and now they bombard me with emails every day. Why did I do that online? Why didn't I just walk into an office?

I write because writing is the gift God has given me to help people in the world.

CDs are usually an hour long because that's the amount a CD could hold - not because that's the optimal amount of time for any given musical expression.

You'd have a hard time finding anything better than Barcelona for food, as far as being a hub. Given a choice between Barcelona and San Sebastian to die in, I'd probably want to die in San Sebastian.

I love what I do, and I never thought about doing anything else. I think my voice was bestowed upon me; it was a gift I was given. I just had to learn to understand how to use it.

If a fanatic is willing to give his life for a cause, he's probably willing to give yours as well I know what I have given you. I do not know what you have received

Leadership is meant merely to be lead-by-example.Anything given extra to support team result is just an icing on the top.

I am sure that no man asks mercy and grace with true meaning, but if mercy and grace have first been given him.

Given the chance to throw off a brutal dictator like Saddam Hussein, people will rejoice.

I want to be a recording artist for my whole entire life. But Broadway is something I would come back to at any given moment. I love, love, love doing theater.

Given the multiple crises we are living through, investigative journalism is all the more important.

My own habit had always been to write about the things that ticked me off in a given day. If I kept a journal at all, I kept it to vent.

I love art. I used to have a painting of Mikhail Gorbachev that was given to my family by Gorbachev.

Phelps has given us a clear warning of the dangers of corporatism. I hope that more people hear and heed the warning.

Truth is the one thing in nature always consistent with itself, and it is the one guide given to us in steering on the ocean of fate.

Any given program will expand to fill all available memory.

I am not a very good man, Effie, but I think that I am a better one than you have given me credit for being.

You can do what you will, but in any given moment of your life you can will only one definite thing and absolutely nothing other than that one thing.

Democracy, like liberty, justice and other social and political rights, is not "given", it is earned through courage, resolution and sacrifice.

Religion is about increasing peace and harmony in the world. ... People of all different religions should be given the opportunity to pursue good in their own way.

Young people drift away from society because, in many cases, they have no hope or goals. So, hope will have to be given to the young.

I always tell my kids that as soon as you have a secret, something about you that you are ashamed to have others find out, you have given other people the power to hurt you by exposing you.

If your government had given me a thousandth of the sum it spent to depose me, I could have won that war.

[Michelle Obama] was the hardest sell. And she never fully embraced being in the public spotlight, which is ironic, given how good she is.

There's no way to resolve Syria without Iran being involved, given its financing of Assad and the fact that Hezbollah is probably the most effective fighting force that Assad can count on.

I insist on the dignity and God- given potential and work of every child, regardless of race or gender or sexual orientation or what zip code they were born in.

America is not the crude stereotype of a self-interested empire. Given our interdependence, any world order that elevates one nation or group of people over another will inevitably fail.

We love people differently at different stages of our knowledge of them. As love changes its hape and its nature, we have to decide what we're going to do about that love on any given day.

Given my own circumstances, I find that anything can turn out to belong nearly anywhere.

I wasn't supported, I wasn't given any self-esteem.

The only works of art America has given are her plumbing and her bridges.

I think it's crazy for us to think that people don't understand what's being foregrounded in their lives at a given point in time.

Truth is man's proper good, and the only immortal thing was given to our mortality to use.

The thing about acting is that it's fairly random. At the end of the day you take what drifts past you or what's given to you.

I don't live beyond my means. I enjoy luxury and I enjoy the privilege of it, when I can afford it, and I'm in the situation where it's been given to me, but I'm very conscious of what is wasteful.

I was very nervous, excited, and happy to be given the opportunity to even be in the major leagues.

I've gotten literally thousands of contacts from people across the country - and the most poignant ones being elderly people - who said I had given up on America and I was just waiting to die.

In fact, I might be confident for the human race because of what the human race has given me. When I was in the street and bars, people always came up to me and said, "Don't stop, keep going."

O Lazy bones! Dost thou think God would have given thee arms and legs, if he had not design'd thou should'st use them?

And whether you're an honest man, or whether you're a thief, depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief.

Unfortunately complaining is one thing Eeyores are not afraid to do. They grudgingly carry their thimbles to the Fountain of Life, then mumble and grumble that they weren't given enough.

Pandit Pran Nath has given much of his later life to America and Europe and has influenced many of our younger composers.

What would you be like if you had white hair and had not given up your principles? It might be wise as you deal with coalition efforts to think about the possibilities of going for fifty years.

When we perceive any object of a familiar kind, much of what appears subjectively to be immediately given is really derived from past experience.

I was given baby doll toys myself, and they proved a stark reminder that my life was expected to revolve around childbearing - just as my mom's had before me, and her mom's had before her.

Something about the fact that an African American had, given the long sad history of our country, now become President - that was exhilarating.