Given Quotes

To deny ones' true nature and the gifts given you by the gods is to tempt disaster. You cannot hide behind the mask forever.

I've never given anybody steroids before. I've been checked out three times already, and I'm clean. I've been clean all my life.

The family is the great catechism God has given the world. The work of our lifetime is to learn how to read it and then study it prayerfully.

I'm truly grateful for the opportunities the people of Columbus and the people of Indiana have given me to serve.

God has given us enough wisdom to make improvements in our relations.

Soon man will count all his days, and then smaller segments of the day, and then smaller still—until the counting consumes him, and the wonder of the world he has been given is lost.

Those who have come to the United States illegally should not be given amnesty or an easier path to citizenship over those already in line.

An employer verification system must be implemented to ensure jobs are not given to illegal immigrants.

The soldiers of Saddam Hussein have given them a lesson they will never forget.

I came in as an established artist. People were hiring me for what I did and for who I was. I think that has given me a vast amount of leeway; I feel so lucky that I came in that way.

I want to be up there, being lauded and applauded and given all these and on the red carpet, waving at the hordes of people.

Even today, if my title hadn't been given back to me and I was in such poverty where I had to go and find a job, I would have done that.

All black Americans have slave names. They have white names; names that the slave master has given to them.

We never look beyond our assumptions and what's worse, we have given up trying to meet others; we just meet ourselves.

True Leadership is the authority given by the trust of the followers to use power for the benefit of all.

Fannie and Freddie are creations of government. They were given a huge leg up over their competitors.

This accession of territory affirms forever the power of the United States, and I have given England a maritime rival who sooner or later will humble her pride.

Whatever education a university or institutes of higher education imparts, it must achieve the global level of benchmarking given the vastness and diversity of global village we live in today.

I dedicate the love, enthusiasm, welcome and respect given to me to the feet of 125 crore children of Mother India.

If I wanted to make over my image, I could have given 10,000 interviews in the last 10 years. I haven't done anything wrong that I need to make up for. I am what I am in front of the world.

If I look at the definition of Hinduism, the Supreme Court of India has given a beautiful definition; it says that Hinduism is not a religion, it is actually a way of life.

A hug is the perfect gift, one size fits all, everyone likes them and no-one cares if it is given back.

I have Margaery Tyrell's - I didn't take it, I was given it - but yes, David [Benioff] and Dan [Weiss] gave me Margaery Tyrell's wedding crown. So that is sitting on my bookshelf.

The sad truth about humanity...is that people believe what they're told. Maybe not the first time, but by the hundredth time, the craziest of ideas just becomes a given.

Clearly Mr. Drkh has had a long career of being the weirdest person in any given room, but he's about to go down in flames.

Challenges are what you came for. And you are never ever given a challenge you cannot overcome.

And so I tell you this: be now and forever centered upon your Self. Look to see what you are being, doing, and having in any given moment, not what's going on with another.

If Pizza sizes were given in area not diameter, you'd see instantly that a 7 inch is less than half the size of a 10 inch pie

There's an old saying in the space community: 'If God wanted us to be a spacefaring species, he would have given us a moon'.

It's a wonderful thing, as a writer, to be given parameters and walls and barriers.

With all the blessings our modern age has given to us, let us not give up the things that promote the workings of the Holy Ghost.

a person can get used to anything if given enough time

While I find inspiration in real life, the actual stories are, thankfully, works of fiction - which, given the considerable turmoil in my character's lives, is probably a good thing!

If you write every day, you're going to write a lot of things that aren't terribly good, but you're going to have given things a chance to have their moments of sprouting.

I had never read in public, never given an interview. I was doing it all and trying to produce the next book and raise three young kids and had another child on the way.

Given angel's wings, where might you fly? In what sweet heaven might you find your love? Unwilling to be bound, where might you move, Lost between the wonder and the why?

I have given my all Funny how you could always make me feel small

It's nice to be given a role where you can really find the strength from within, as a woman, and to be heard.

I never say never, but I haven't been given the quality of script to compel me to go on television.

What one knows best is ... what one has learned not from books but as a result of books, through the reflections to which they have given rise.

All the boys in rehab are totally available because their girlfriends have all given up on them. It's fantastic.

Forgiveness is the greatest weapon that God has given us.

Julian Assange shouldn't be the subject of a grand jury hearing, he should be given a medal. He's contributing to democracy.

The Democrats have pretty much given up on the white working class. That would require a commitment to economic issues and that's not their concern.

There's a tremendous amount of language loss. Most of the attention is given to indigenous languages, which makes sense, but some of the most dramatic language loss is in Europe.

Today, aid to Colombia is given under the pretext of a drug war. That's pretty hard to take seriously. Ten years ago, Amnesty International flatly called it a myth.

I don't think I'm egotistical, and I know what my limits are: I'm a black guy who's probably losing his hair. But I'm happy to play roles that I'm given, and I'm happy to play roles that I write.

For punches I never really choose, I take whatever opportunity is given to me. If it's a left, I'll take it. If it's a right I'll take it.

Law Number XX: In any given year, Congress will appropriate the amount of funding approved the prior year plus three-fourths of whatever change the administration requests, minus 4-percent tax.

The thematic, psychological, and cultural concerns of a writer are more relevant than whatever literary mode he or she chooses to deal with in any given novel.