Given Quotes

Whatever the needs of family members may be, we can strengthen our families as we follow the counsel given by prophets.

The concern of the musician is to play the music. It is there demanding to be given sound to.

The best thing we're put here for's to see; The strongest thing that's given us to see with's a telescope. Someone in every town, seems to me, owes it to the town to keep one.

All of these are names given me by other people, but not names I would have given myself. My name is not mine, it's theirs. It's a series of costumes put on my life by other people.

Heresy is what the minority believe; it is the name given by the powerful to the doctrines of the weak.

It is only the words of the bill that have presidential approval, where that approval is given. It is not to be supposed that in signing a bill the President endorses the whole Congressional Record.

As an artist, you have the job of working out whatever is given you to work out.

I had long wondered," Lan said to Tam. "About the man who had given Rand that heron-marked blade. I wondered if he had truly earned it. Now I know." Lan raised his own sword in salute.

Death is given in a kiss; the dearest kindnesses are fatal; and into this life, where one thing preys upon another, the child too often makes its entrance from the mother's corpse.

I never had the... common anxiety as to whether abstract painting had a given 'meaning.

Treat every moment of your life with Divine respect. Love passionately your God-given miraculous life.

I don't think any one person, whether artist or not, has been given permission by anyone to put the responsibility of the way things are on anyone else

I think voiceover is an adjunct that actors have picked up that have given us some security.

When the last Puritan has disappeared from the earth, the man of science will take his place as a killjoy, and we shall be given the same old advice but for different reasons.

About 15 years later, I was given all 113 episodes on tape.

If even a small portion of the praise that is bestowed on Michael Jackson now in death was given to him last year, in life, he might well still be with us.

in the United States ... given the cult of eternal youth, age is ignored unless it can be sentimentalized.

Changing my body has given me the ability to do all these amazing things that I never in a million years imagined I could do.

So the point is, I don't have a right to tell anybody what's right or wrong about their lives. Who am I to tell you at any given moment of the day what would be right for you?

And I'm supposed to grab her and kiss her and she's supposed to react. Well, what happened was, Julie was very nervous at that time, given this incredible part which she did beautifully.

I am sure innovation will blossom around the world, given that the Internet and mobile platforms enable innovators anywhere in the world to reach a global market with ease.

A knowing of what needs to be done or what needs to be said or what needs to happen at any given time. That is wisdom and wisdom does not come from the accumulation of knowledge.

Every writing teacher gives the subliminal message, every time they teach: 'Your life counts for something.' In no other subject that I know of is that message given.

If you haven't given them your trust, you haven't given them enough.

The great dynamic success of capitalism had given us a powerful weapon in our battle against Communism-money.

Politics as battle has given way to politics as spectacle.

At any given time, if you live long enough, old age catches you . . . the only choices we have in life are either the impairment of old age or early death.

I grew up a squatter on the Lower East Side, so it's kind of a given that I'd have very strong opinions on everything from cyclical violence to teenage pregnancy to environmental justice.

On any given night, I can throw a shutout.

A revolution must aim at the destruction of the given order and will succeed only by asserting an order of its own.

Liberals measure compassion by how many people are given welfare. Conservatives measure compassion by how many people no longer need it.

Rights are either God-given or evolve out of the democratic process. Most rights are based on the ability of people to agree on a social contract, the ability to make and keep agreements.

There's no thought given to the individual because there aren't any individuals in socialism; everybody's the same.

Seventy-seven percent of the people that have given money to Bernie Sanders are people that have given less than 200 bucks. That's a lot of people, folks. That's a lot of enthusiasm.

If a senator or congressman notices 25 phone calls, on any issue, on any given day, it is noted.

The utilities and facilities of major corporations can be confiscated and given to democratic collectives

You know I am given to antiquarian and genealogical pursuits. An old family letter is a delight to my eyes. I can prowl in old trunks of letters by the day with undiminished zest.

It's kind of strange to be in a band for ten years, because you've just given ten years of your lives to it from touring, and you don't know [or] even notice the passing of time.

Given six months to live and being the fighter that I am, I set high goals for myself.

Having money has given me a certain freedom, but being in the public eye has taken away a lot.

My feeling is that a newspaper should serve its readers and it just seems to me that given what is going in the world, people are hungry for something.

England in a way is lucky. It's an island, so the frontiers are given by the sea.

The best lesson I was given is that all of life teaches, especially if we have that expectation.

Most good founders that I know at any given time have a set of small overarching goals for the company that everybody in the company knows.

Seats on the [Court] bench are not reserved for causes or interests. They're given to those who will uphold the rule of law so long as the nominee is well-qualified to interpret and apply the law.

You freeze with the number of opportunities given to you and just decide to do nothing at all.

Karma is a medicine which is given for our own good. Karma is the law of compensation, not of vengeance.

I believed in Bobby Kennedy. Campaigning for him was an attempt to give back something to this country that has given me so much.

You had to make everything much more truthful for the camera. With the stage it's a given that it's going to be theatrical.

Decidedly it will never have been given to me to finish anything, except perhaps breathing. One must not be greedy.