Given Quotes

What if the beauty around us is meant as a reminder for the many gifts we have been given and our need to give thanks to them?

A government can do only what is feasible given the political and economic context.

Jeeves, you really are a specific dream-rabbit." "Thank you, miss. I am glad to have given satisfaction.

I've always figured that if God wanted us to go to church a lot He'd have given us bigger behinds to sit on and smaller heads to think with.

Intelligence collection has been given an additional bureaucracy to correct the problems created by too much bureaucracy in intelligence collection.

I used to act dumb. That act is no longer cute. Now, I would like to make a difference God has given me this new chance.

People as old and powerful as he should never be given someone to love. For Anna he would destroy the world.

Can you keep your balance? Can you see what and where you are at any given moment?

Results from a given approach are "facts" as long as the approach fits the group or the tradition that is being addressed.

I have an extraordinary attention span. I manage to juggle two or three different ideas at the same time, and that's probably, if I have a gift, that's probably the best gift that's given me.

The moral case for individual initiative in a free economy holds that people have a God-given right to use their creativity to produce things that improve our lives.

Given all the facts that I'm young and I'm in good health and I'm famous - that I have talent, I have money - given all these facts, I want to know why I'm so unhappy.

The pleasure a reader gets is often equal to the pleasure a writer is given.

Love is the infinite which is given to the finite.

Liberty is the hardest test that one can inflict on a people. To know how to be free is not given equally to all men and all nations.

Live as if you have faith,” she said, “and faith shall be given to you.

Each human being was given two possibilities: action and contemplation. Both lead to the same place.

She looked at her own past, and, for the first time, she forgave herself: it hadn't been her fault, but the fault of that insecure little boy, who had given up after the first attempt.

I usually make films about what's on my mind at any given time.

I deal with spiritual truth which should never be sold and need never be bought. When you are ready it will be given.

At my age the bones are water in the morning until food is given them.

Given the large size of the illegal harvest, ... I find it difficult to understand how this could have been a casual oversight.

In a rural society communities are "given" for the individual. Community is a fact, whether family or religion, social class or caste.

And given that there's been probably a ten-fold amount of information about terrorism through the media than there has about climate change; I think that's quite an interesting statistic.

A woman has a responsibility and a privilege that a man doesnt have of given birth to another human being.

I hate it when something is set in 1967 and every piece of furniture was made in 1967. No! If it's set in 1967, people have furniture given to them by their grandmother, which she bought in 1932!

Given this president [Donald Trump] and his lack of military experience, I think it actually might be a good thing to have someone who understands the military very deeply to be counseling him.

The aesthetic experience has to be given. And beauty is a regular experience of every person - every person who is not clinically depressed!

Authority is 20% given and 80% taken...so take it!

I wanted impossible things. I wanted my life with her before it all turned bad. What I had been given had been taken away and now I was even less than before.

Those who help a child help humanity with an immediateness which no other help given to human creature in any other stage of human life can possibly give again.

Sexual pleasure is not a sin. Nor is it a sacrament. It is your right as a human being to exercise as you see fit. It's amazing that I feel the need to say this, but, given our times, I do.

We have given most of Europe to Hitler. Let us try to hold on to what we have got left.

... new EU embassies lack the expertise in the field of culture and given the budget cuts in all Member States it is important to confront this challenge together.

Wisdom is the booby prize given when you've been unwise.

The love of the gods belongs to anyone who has given to true virtue and nourished it, and if any human being could become immortal, it would be he.

That wife is an enemy to her husband who is given in marriage against her will.

Everyone must be given something he can grasp and recognize as his own idea.

Archimedes had stated, that given the force, any given weight might be moved; and even boasted that if there were another earth, by going into it he could remove this.

Whenever the child is given the notion that he needs to be entertained, learning comes almost to a halt.

Families have a citizenship which is divine. The identity card they have is given to them by God. So that within the heart of the family, truth, goodness and beauty may truly grow.

If you're a freelance writer and aren't used to being ignored, neglected, and generally given short shrift, you must not have been in the business very long.

Man has been lent, not given, to life.

I wish every woman would love herself and embrace what she was given naturally.

Prayer is the risen Jesus coming in with His resurrection power, given free rein in our lives, and then using His authority to enter any situation and change things.

A man's own heart must ever be given to gain that of another.

It is my first preference to do films with social significance. Art cinema has given me credibility and status as an actor, but commercial cinema has given me a comfortable living.

This is the body you've been given - love what you've got.

Whatever your calling or purpose is, it's your job to feel it. No gift that you have been given was made for yourself.

The divine injunction to be perfect, even as He is perfect, was not given man to mock him. The possibility of our waking in His likeness is literally true.