Given Quotes

Men live best upon a little; Nature has given to all the privilege of being happy, if they but knew how to use their gifts.

Because we employ no professional preachers, it means that every sermon or lesson in church is given by a regular member - women and men, children and grandparents.

The Hollywood Foreign Press have just given me a time out from my 20-year midlife crisis. My heartfelt thanks to them.

Tom Brady says he wants to give the truck he was given as the Super Bowl MVP to the guy who won the Super Bowl for the Patriots. So Brady's giving his truck toSeahawks coach Pete Carroll.

Our effort to build stability through authoritarians in the Middle East for 60 years had given us neither democracy nor stability.

Freedom is the core of all human progress. It believes that nothing's given to us, but if you're willing to work hard. If you're willing to compete, the American dream is there for you.

I've given up trying to understand what people think about me.

I think there's an enormous lot of talent around, and somewhere amongst these I'm sure that something will emerge, given time.

If our elaborate and dominating bodies are given us to be denied at every turn, if our nature is always wrong and wicked, how ineffectual we are; like fishes not meant to swim.

At the end of the day, in brief summary: inerrancy is interested in the truthfulness of Scripture and it is a powerful way forcing people to think about that reliability that is God-given.

Only in a novel are all things given full play.

If we had to accept the idea of an independent creator, the explanations given in [several Buddhist texts] which completely refutes the existence per se of all phenomena, would be negated.

The greatest power God has given to His sons cannot be exercised without the companionship of one of His daughters.

that when given the opportunity, many honest people will cheat.

Anything that you have is seed that God has given you.

The golf ball has no sense at all, which is why it has to be given stern lectures constantly, especially during the act of putting.

Our time on earth is not well spent by counting rewards before God has given them to us, but rather, by looking for our faults and repenting of them

I've given my phone number to the weirdest people. I get texts from people all the time.

Recognize the possibility of the divine in any given moment.

You have to believe in yourself before the world has given you any indication that you should believe in yourself as a writer.

Go ahead and believe in God , if you like, but don't imagine that you have been given any grounds for such a belief by science.

At last, psychology gets serious about glee, fun, and happiness. Martin Seligman has given us a gift-a practical map for the perennial quest for a flourishing life.

A soul isn't given for free. The races of men fight each other to the death for the honor of being recognized as human beings, with souls.

I haven't given up on acting, but I've gone away from it for a while to concentrate on myself and the fans of 'Star Wars.'

Being an ex-child star is not a given.

IBM has taken our valuable trade secrets and given them away to Linux.

I've never actually given birth to a child, but I suspect that going to a Justin Bieber concert with a child is close.

To me any given story has its appropriate form. There might be some story I get involved with that's begging to be a graphic novel, so that will have to be that way.

A spiritual 'spurter' is one who is given to short bursts of spectacular effort followed by frequent and lengthy periods of rest.

Those who scorn you taunt only themselves -- I knew this without reading one word; because in reading one is reminded of the truth man is given at birth -- by man I mean man and woman.

The idea that the Lord had given us a present, that the world is a gift from God... well, the amount of stuff, back then, that the Lord was giving away was limited. We do not have dominion.

To the artist, all problems of art appear uniquely personal. Well, that's understandable enough, given that not many other activities routinely call one's basic self-worth into question.

People don't get a chance to think, "Why am I a consumer?" Because the decisions come at them so fast and furiously, they're not [even] given time to think, I am a consumer.

People who had been treated inhumanly, not given a chance to secure any foot on any ladder - and all the social mores were suddenly abandoned.

The life I'm living is the life I'm given.

I think that it's an arguable position, whether with Hamas and ISIS around, whether there should be a Palestinian state, but it's a defensible position, given the current circumstances.

Trade agreements are a net benefit for the world, and a net benefit for our foreign policy, and in the long run, given the dislocations, are a net benefit for us, too.

I had five sisters and one brother, so having a big family is a given for me, but now being a father, and trying to be a good father, I already have my work cut out for me.

These mountains were given to us by the Great Chief so that we might never be depressed.

Given the billions of neurons, this means there are as many connections in a single cubic centimeter of brain tissue as there are stars in the Milky Way galaxy.

The movie's only serious criticism is reserved for Baker's television network, which doesn't think Americans care about Afghanistan - kind of hypocritical given this film's lack of substance.

Uncontrolled or covert napping, however, is still probably very common. One need only move through a building surreptitiously and peek at people to find some subset of sleep at any given time.

I've tried many other styles of yoga, but nothing has ever given me the same centeredness, energy, and internal balance that I feel when practicing Ashtanga Yoga.

The capacity to recognize significant factors in a given situation is limited by the context that arises from the level of consciousness of the observer.

I am not God. But I can only do my role here on this planet. The role I feel I was given since I was a kid was to be making art and I only wanted to give and I never let money be my God.

The important thing is for the characters to feel real, and to be given the humanity they are due. That granting of humanity is what separates a full portrait from a stereotype.

And I'm moved, it's so beautiful. Not what I wrote, but to have it given back like this. To have her remember the words and the tune. To hear it in her voice.

When you practice Transcendental Meditation you are given a key to the deepest level of life.

Jesus has not given us options to consider. He has given us commands to obey.

Why not begin operating under the idea that God has given us excess, not so we could have more, but so we could give more?