Given Quotes

Inspiration is very nice when you get it. It's like being given a present you weren't expecting. You don't hand the present back and say, 'My birthday's not till November.' You take it and run.

it is not given to everyone to shine in adversity.

No: the years which had destroyed her youth and bloom had only given him a more glowing, manly, open look, in no respect lessening his personal advantages. She had seen the same Frederick Wentworth.

Miss Morland, no one can think more highly of the understanding of women than I do. In my opinion, nature has given them so much, that they never find it necessary to use more than half.

[W]here other powers of entertainment are wanting, the true philosopher will derive benefit from such as are given.

Where the wound had been given, there must the cure be found, if any where.

Equality is never given, it is taken.

I never really marketed myself, so each job I was given was a new marketing tool, and that would be the way I marketed myself.

I define success as when I say "yes" when I am given an opportunity.

Such a system would be very, very expensive and laborious to have, given the kinds of border we have. Scientists and engineers aren't even sure they have the technology to make it work

I mean, Donald Trump hasn't even been sworn in yet. And so I do believe that he has set up a plan where the revenue or the profits that are coming to the hotel will be given directly to the Treasury.

Back in Australia, I did foster care for sick cats for years, and I was always most successful with the animals when I was given two - a brother and sister.

I look around my life and it's hard to believe that music has given me all that I have.

Now, because of this big backdrop that we've given ourselves, these little personal, human details take on a whole new context and give us opportunities for comedy.

I enjoy acting, and it's given me a ton of happiness and it's affected my life and my family's lives in ways that we just can't imagine.

Anthony Weiner and his wife, Huma, have given birth to a baby boy. He posted a photo of the new baby on Twitter, but people are afraid to open it.

I believe that it's vital for children and teens to be educated, to be given information to help them understand the impacts humans are having on our water, soil, and air.

Everything we do not have at our birth and which we need when we are grown is given to us by education.

I want to get to the end and feel that I've done all I could, given the limitations and given the opportunities.

He’d wanted all of me and that’s what I’d given him. Did it mean I had nothing left? “No,” he muttered, voice thick with passion. “You have me, and I love you.

If I’d known you were such a lush, I’d have given you the cheap stuff. Going to go out with a bang, are you?

There's players like myself in the league who deserve to make the All-Star team and aren't given a chance. I've put up numbers, as good if not better than players that are making the team.

I love comedy. God has given me this platform.

Last time I was in Canada Celine Dion had just given birth to identical twins. Which is quite an achievement given her age and face.

Prepared and fast foods have given us the time and freedom to see cooking as an art form - a form of creative expression.

Fatherhood is not an easy assignment, but it ranks among the most imperative ever given, in time or eternity.

We declare that one who uses the God-given body of another without divine sanction abuses the very soul of that individual, abuses the central purpose and processes of life.

Although I may not be my brother's keeper, I am my brother's brother, and 'because I have been given much, I too must give.'

The church has given me balance.

I run into grounded people all the time. Given, most of them are behind the camera. But I definitely by no means think I'm the only one.

A lucky model who's been given a lot of opportunities I just wish she [Cameron Diaz] would have done more with.

For me, I was given a great gift by my father and my mother in that I was never told any idea was bad. I was told I could explore any thought as long as I wasn't hurting someone else.

Drunkenness is an immoderate affection and use of drink. That I call immoderation that is besides or beyond that order of good things for which God hath given us the use of drink.

When you're 23, 24 years old and somebody's given you a credit card and jets and limos and you don't have to pay the bill when it comes in - that's a pretty nice deal.

The truth is that an intellectual life is available to almost anyone, almost anywhere, if they work hard enough and are given some kind of access point.

Hip-hop is mostly what I listen to, other than jazz. I've given up on pop music and indie rock.

Music has given me a career. But even if it doesn't become yours it teaches you confidence and allows you to express your creativity.

Arranging is sort of the most exciting part of making music right now for me. I really enjoy the process of arranging because you're given all the time that you need to decide on every single note.

When I sit down to write, I don't think about writing about an idea or a given message. I just try to write a story which is hard enough.

The very attention given to finding out if the mind can be completely quiet is quietness.

It's a lot of luck and being in the right place at the right time, that's what I think. Obviously you need to be noticed by people to be given the opportunities, and I think you do have to work hard.

I am a woman, I make mistakes. I make them often. God has given me a talent and that's it.

There's a reason why Federer and Nadal are so gracious when they lose. They sleep well at night knowing that they've given their best.

I think there's no reason the Davis Cup couldn't be as powerful and popular and profitable as any of the four majors are today, given some changes.

I am humbled and grateful for the four years the people of the state of Nevada have given me as governor and I am proud of the work we all did.

I love John Ashbery. He's the - really the poet laureate of English language poetry, whether he's given that or not, he is to me.

A skill required to be president is to explain to the American people any given thing they do.

One of the amazing things we have been given as humans is the unquenchable desire to have dreams of a better life, and the ability to establish goals to live out those dreams.

Christy has not been given a fair shake. She has not been identified as a competent premier.

I think that cartoons have a lot more power than they're given credit for.