Given Quotes

The engineer's power was usually limited to a refusal to endorse a given plan, or to the tender of his resignation.

Life is surely given us for higher purposes than to gather what our ancestors have wisely thrown away, and to learn what is of no value but because it has been forgotten.

Friendship, peculiar boon of Heaven, The noble mind's delight and pride, To men and angels only given, To all the lower world denied.

All unnecessary vows are folly, because they suppose a prescience of the future, which has not been given us.

Pension: An allowance made to anyone without an equivalent. In England it is generally understood to mean pay given to a state hireling for treason to his country.

Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward; it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me.

Anyone who has been given the gift of being opposite an actor who gives and gives, it just makes you better.

I think my story says that, when women are given the chance and the opportunity, that we can achieve a lot. We deliver.

Take love when love is given, But never think to find it A sure escape from sorrow Or a complete repose.

Every day we’re given chances to embrace the new.

There were endless ways to spend your days, I knew that, none of them right or wrong. But given the chance for a real do-over, another way around, who would say no?

I've given lots of people chances. But there's only so much faith you can have in people.

What matter though the scorn of fools be given If the path follow'd lead us on to heaven!

It is not often given in a noisy world to come to the places of great grief and silence.

I believe that there is great hope and great potential for every country to be able to live and be protected with inalienable rights that I believe are God-given.

I just think that we have more opportunity to have a bit more of that banter between each other. And, given that the two women are so different, there's really something to play with.

Certain blood will be given for half certain reasons, as in all wars.

At any given time, no matter how deeply you are in love with one person, they're appealing to a very specific side of you.

Reason wishes that the judgement it gives be just; anger wishes that the judgement it has given seem to be just.

God has given some gifts to the whole human race, from which no one is excluded.

Nothing is so false as human life, nothing so treacherous. God knows no one would have accepted it as a gift, if it had not been given without our knowledge.

This is the law of benefits between men; the one ought to forget at once what was given, and the other ought never to forget what he has received.

The law of the pleasure in having done anything for another is, that the one almost immediately forgets having given, and the other remembers eternally having received.

Eternal law has arranged nothing better than this, that it has given us one way in to life, but many ways out.

That which Fortune has not given, she cannot take away.

Let him who has given a favor be silent; let he who has received it tell it.

We're not given the chance to choose absolute truth. Truth's always two-faced. The only thing we have is the right to reject the lie we find most repugnant.

We must be talented, powerful and resilient creatures indeed given how much we manage to produce despite the constant undercutting, ridicule and needless censorship we aim at ourselves.

Everyone picks the best one when given a choice.

Marketing isn't done by computers, it's done by people. And people who sense opportunity and have the confidence to be remarkable will always defeat defensive actions by people who have given up.

If i am ever given the captaincy, I will be very tight on my players to keep them in line.

Every person has God-given gifts; when you're using those gifts in your life then you're fulfilling your purpose, and that is beautiful.

I've been the type of person [and] the type of athlete, I don't like to be given anything. I like to earn.

You might not have thought it possible to give birth to others before one has given birth to oneself, but I assure you it is quite possible, it has been done; I offer myself in evidence as Exhibit A.

Hearts can never be stolen, Cy. They can only be given.” – Ren

Things are always given to us when we need them... You just have to decide if you're strong enough, brave enough, to seize it and make it yours. (Acheron)

Oh no, if you really want to be wicked to him, nuke it first. (Geary) Yeah, but given his reaction to the cupcake, that might overload his taste buds with pleasure and kill him. (Tory)

It’s a gift. (Artemis) Nothing is ever freely given. (Acheron)

Now that I think about it, you’d have to be a glutton for punishment to keep coming near me given my acerbic personality where you’re concerned. (Tory)

I think the show has sort of given me a name in this business and allowed a lot of people the opportunity to see what I can do, and it's just sort of like a sweet starting point.

Nothing fairer than peace is given to man to know; Better one peace than countless triumphs

Also, rights are not things that are given in the heavens. Rather, they are levers for political articulations, which enables what was previously invisible to become visible.

The more a climate can be created in which neither the English nor the Scots are given cause to resent each other, the better.

The responsibility of leadership is not taken, it is given. Only when others choose to follow us can we truly lead.

You once told me that I make you believe in the impossible. You make me believe in love, which I’d given up on. Thank you for proving to me it’s not just a fairy tale.

Modern life is given over to immoderation. Immoderation invades everything: actions and thought, public and private life.

War, which perpetuates itself under the form of preparation for war, has once and for all given the State an important role in production.

Unhappy women are given to protecting their sensitiveness by cynical gossip, by whining, by high-church and new-thought religions, or by a fog of vagueness.

Personal technology has given us the freedom of being able to do whatever we want - and in the case of celebrities and athletes, whomever they want. But it can also serve as a humiliation jetpack.

As most New Yorkers have done, I have given serious and generous thought to the state of my apartment should I get killed during the day.