Given Quotes

Goodbye, you who are, for me, the postmarks again of shattered towns--Xenia, Burnt Cabins, Hornell-- their loneliness given away in poems, only their solitude kept.

I am an ardent supporter of capitalism - but I also understand that while individuals have inalienable, God-given rights, corporations do not.

Even if plants were sentient, veganism would still be a moral imperative given that it takes many pounds of plants to produce one pound of flesh.

The New Testament is a commentary on the Old Testament, in the light of the new revelation given by Christ and the Holy Spirit.

It's very difficult to make predictions about the Iranian politics, but given the fact that Ahmadinejad was elected with a very clear purpose - to improve the economy - and he's failed.

Authentic power is a new potential of this expanded perceptual system that we are all being given as a gift.

Your body is the piece of the Universe youve been given.

In my view, the money is poorly spent and given willy-nilly to people unlikely to get on the winning rostrum.

The motives that lead us to do anything might be arranged like the thirty-two winds and might be given names on the same pattern: for instance, "bread-bread-fame" or "fame-fame-bread."

God has given us a world that nothing but our own folly keeps from being a paradise.

When you're born in this world you're given a ticket to the Freak Show. And when you're born in America, you're given a front row seat. And some of us get to sit there with notebooks.

Each thought is a nail that is driven In structures that cannot decay; And the mansion at last will be given To us as we build it each day.

My mother was a star-struck girl from a little town in Arkansas who had gone to finishing school in New York, and whose mother had given her anything she ever wanted.

Shay Given almost single-handedly won the match for Newcastle against Everton, although obviously he didn't score the goals

The thing that pleases me the most about it is that young people like it. It's given kids from 6 to 16 an alternate view of music to what's been available for the past 20 years.

A gift much expected is paid, not given.

A little given seasonably excuses a great gift.

In Giving, a man receives more than he gives; and the more is in proportion to the worth of the thing given.

At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas which it is assumed that all right-thinking people will accept without question.

He would say that God had given him a tail to keep the flies off, but that he would sooner have had no tail and no flies.

No drama, however great, is entirely independent of the stage on which it is given.

'Rome' was one of my favourite shows, and I wish HBO had given it three more seasons 'cause I would have loved to continue watching it.

I just thought, given the practicalities of financing an independent movie, you have to have some names. That's just the way it works. You have to have a name that can get you foreign pre-sales.

Some forty years of experience in my field as a scholar and as a teacher have given me great confidence mixed with greater humility.

I have finally realized that, you know, it's not a given that my lifespan will accommodate my writing aspirations.

I watched a documentary about the immigrant crisis around the world. And it does make me blush at all the times I've stood up on the stage and given your speech about the healing power of fiction.

It's on us to investigate ourselves for any lingering sense that we are 'giving' equality. We are not. It is already given. And not by us.

Can anybody be given creativity? No. Only equipment to develop it if it's in them in the first place.

The critic lives at second hand. He writes about. The poem, the novel, or the play must be given to him; criticism exists by the grace of other men's genius.

I've reminded the prime minister-the American people, Mr. Prime Minister, over the past months that it was not always a given that the United States and America would have a close relationship.

If you've got somebody in harm's way, you want the president being -- making advice, not -- be given advice by the military, and not making decisions based upon the latest Gallup poll or focus group.

I believe strongly that to whom much is given, much is required - we are a blessed nation - and that the United States could affect suffering in a positive way.

It's a given that if you start your own business, you're going to be (1) in control of your destiny, and (2) real busy.

If Moses is our lawgiver [Old Testament prophet given laws by God] at this time let us obey him, not in part only, but wholly, and put every Sabbath breaker, blasphemer, and adulterer to death.

Cuba was in some ways a de facto state of the United States before 1959, given its proximity and given its neocolonial status.

Whatever you seize for yourself is worthless. Only what is given you has value.

I just want to serve up the goodness and grace that's been given to me because I made a choice that lined up with my passion. And that's what I tell my kids.

If I can look at each character that I am given and create them in a different way from the last role, I'm happy.

Every one on the earth should believe that he has something to give to the world which cannot otherwise be given.

When you are doing portraits, you have that intimacy with someone for a few minutes. For a really good portrait, you don't take the portrait - it's given.

You're only given as much as you can handle at any given time. Whether it's true or not, it gives you the strength.

The past has been given to us. The future must be built, as others have built our past.

My mother once told me she thought hell would be nothing more than being given a glimpse of God--then having it taken away, forever.

Tim Sherwood has come in, done very well and given us another string to the bow in a different type of way.

I thank God for his many blessings he has given me, but money and prestige are not what it's about. I seek spiritual progression.

Winning Wimbledon was a great feeling and it is still a great feeling. It has given me so much confidence.

If you are given a lot of money without having to work for it, you won't appreciate it as much as if you made it yourself.

In our old age my beloved companion said to me quietly one evening, "You have always given me wings to fly, and I have loved you for it.

God has not given us the spirit of fear. That comes from the adversary.

I know of no better answer to the foul practices that confront our young people than the teachings of a mother, given in love with an unmistakable warning.