Given Quotes

I can't think of a 30- or 40-year-old who can behave like Mugabe. They wouldn't even know where to begin, and given their own educational exposure, I think it will be very positive for Africa.

When you're given a song, it's my job to record the lyrics, story and emotion, and make everyone who is listening to the song believe that it was my words and experience.

Lady Queen," he said, "You've given me all I want. You're the queen a librarian dreams of.

With an agenda dominated by global security and U.N. reform, it appears that the decisions needed to lift millions of people from abject poverty are not being given the prominence they deserve.

We are given two of most of our body parts, either opposites or similarities, but not the tongue; except for my wife's which is forked.

Positive criticism is feedback given with the purpose of helping another person to grow and to develop. Negative criticism is intended to hurt and often to defame and to destroy.

I accept myself for who I am as a woman and a mother and this has given me the most confidence.

I've given gifts in the Tour de France and it's come back to bit me. So no gifts.

God has given me a lot of ability to play the game of baseball.

As soon as rules were made, names were given. There are already many names. One must know when it is enough.

Perhaps I have a wider range than I'd given myself credit for.

I know some people are offended by the fact that I'm spending a lot of money trying to win the America's Cup. I could have given all that money to charity.

There is an incredible film, 42. It's the incredible story of Jackie Robinson. I have extolled the virtues of this movie to everyone I meet. I've given quotes to everyone I talk to.

When I was a kid, there was kind of a given that there were some really bad, racist police out there. That's just what America was like when I was a kid.

For me, Twitter has given me a direct line to the world - it gave me an opportunity to be like, "This is my voice.

It is clear that our society can improve only if the next generation is given the chance, through loving and intelligent education, to be better developed than the present one.

Teenagers have to be sustained; they have to be given something to live for and something that involves them without having to make a child, a human being.

Given our examination of the behavior of our police forces at this moment the question of protection has an extra resonance, yes?

we shall know that we have begun to speak true by an increased hunger for true-speaking; we shall have the whole hunger only after we have given ourselves the first taste of it.

The commandment to honor parents was given to ensure that the elderly, although they may not feel wanted by family or society, are still given their appropriate reward.

I advocate for protecting the liberty of the net, and securing privacy. I argue against people who believe both are somehow given automatically. They're not.

I've given these guys the blueprint on how to win a premiership, now I just have to be patient until they're ready.

You can take what is handed to you and use it as an excuse to mess up. But I've always handled what was given to me by life. I consider myself lucky. I was never lied to. And I was loved.

Happiness, in the ancient, noble sense, means self-fulfillment—and is given to those who use to the fullest whatever talents God … bestowed upon them.

Whatever I have given, I have gained.

The voice thing is a blessing that I was given. I've had opportunities to do voice work of all kinds. It was something that was given to me and I was able to make good use of it.

Why would you be given wings if you weren't meant to fly?

Alas! the praise given to the ear Ne'er was nor ne'er can be sincere.

Given any new technology for transmitting information, we seem bound to use it for great quantities of small talk. We are only saved by music from being overwhelmed by nonsense.

I've probably given myself enough time to prepare for this meet and we're all different athletes so I can't take their results as what's going to be inevitable for me.

I don't like stories where I'm being given pages and pages of detail.

I'll accept being Phoebe to people for a while longer, given how much fun it was. That's totally fair.

When I was younger, I thought LisaRaye sounded so country, but I've come to really appreciate my family-given name. I was named after my father, David Ray McCoy, and I'm totally a daddy's girl.

I think, first of all, every time you want to play somebody who is real is always challenging and always scary, because you are given a responsibility of someone's real life.

Is there not glory enough in living the days given to us? You should know there is adventure in simply being among those we love and the things we love, and beauty, too.

I spent my 20s working in patient care at a large university hospital, an experience that has informed all my work and has given me a lot of human observation to draw on.

I hate all pain, Given or received; we have enough within us The meanest vassal as the loftiest monarch, Not to add to each other's natural burden Of mortal misery.

A reasonable doubt is nothing more than a doubt for which reasons can be given. The fact that 1 or 2 men out of 12 differ from the others does not establish that their doubts are reasonable.

I think, as a woman, you do sort of have to work twice as hard, but I don't feel as if I wasn't given opportunities.

I think that running a studio gave me an appetite for making a lot of different kinds of movies and it's given me the opportunity to do that.

Even the most powerful people at a given point in terms of class, will all play by the same rules.

All that I would like to be is human, having a share in a civilized, articulate and well-adjusted community where the mind is given its due but the body is not distrusted

For the wise old man was universally beloved, and ministered so beautifully to his flock that many of them thanked him all their lives for the help given to both hearts and souls.

When you are doing a piece you are with it. You don't want to wait until next week, when experience will have given you something else.

Most people are doing the best they can, given what they know and understand, including you. If they knew more and were aware of more, they would do things differently.

I am not in the least given to any violent interest in womankind, however, such as has addled the country's brains of late. Give me a manandwoman world: 'tis good enough!

All erroneous ideas would perish of their own accord if given clear expression.

I have a very bad habit of just retreating from any given altercation.

I rarely accept things on blind faith, especially the orthodoxy of any given practice, or any given practicum. I'm like, "Oh come on. Is this the way to do things?"

And life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all.