Top 100 Is Given Quotes
#1. But love is what we want, not freedom. Who then is the unluckier man? The beloved, who is given his heart's desire and must for ever after fear its loss, or the free man, with his unlooked-for liberty, naked and alone between the captive armies of the earth?
Salman Rushdie
#2. If a woman is given only a limited amount of time to spend with the man she loves, she endures the separation by constantly recalling and reliving every moment down to the finest detail.
Lucy De Barbin And Dary Matera
#3. Life is given to each human being
For a very special purpose.
This secret each human being
Must discover for himself.
Sri Chinmoy
#4. Unsoundness in a slave, as well as in a horse, detracts materially from his value. If no warranty is given, a close examination is a matter of particular importance to the Negro jockey.
Solomon Northup
#5. Once a gift is given, no matter how you feel about the person giving it, it's yours.
Kristen Ashley
#6. For some ungodly reason, I end up being naked in a lot of stuff. But there is a certain grace and kudos that come with taking your clothes off on the first day, a respect that is given by the rest of the cast.
Paul Bettany
#7. The night is given to us to take breath, to pray, to drink deep at the fountain of power.
Florence Nightingale
#8. The freshness of my eyes is given to me in prayer.
Anonymous
#10. Unless you drop your personality you will not be able to find your individuality. Individuality is given by existence; personality is imposed by the society.
Rajneesh
#11. The only safe investment one can make in life is what is given away.
Millard Fuller
#12. What we call the present is given shape by an accumulation of the past.
Haruki Murakami
#13. That is very high praise, which is given you by faithful witness.
Plato
#14. True pornography is given us by vastly patient professionals.
Thomas Pynchon
#15. If sound doctrine is given up, the real Gospel of redemption by the blood of the Son of God is denied, worldliness follows.
Arno C. Gaebelein
#16. One realizes that he is born of this country where everything is given to be taken away.
Albert Camus
#17. Motherhood is given the brush-off in our society. 'Oh, I'm just a mom,' you hear women say. 'Just' a mom? Please! Being a mom is everything. It's mentorship, it's inspirational, it's our hope for the future.
Sally Field
#18. The addict, alone among humans, is given something that is always new.
Michael W. Clune
#19. Give and you shall receive' is not sentimental idealism, it is a simple, practical rule. That which we can and must give to the land is work, and if that work is given in love it will not be drudgery.
Walter Ernest Christopher James
#20. It's become something of a ritual - every year, Google publishes its year-end summary of what the world wants, and every year I complain about how shallow it is, given what Google really knows about what the world is up to.
John Battelle
#21. It is a way of calling a man a fool when no attention is given to what he says.
Roger L'Estrange
#23. Love is not like the echo, which returneth only what is given; but, rather, like the pump, which returneth by the pail what it received by the pint.
Ivan Panin
#24. The world is given to me only once, not one existing and one perceived. Subject and object are only one.
Erwin Schrodinger
#25. Life is an opportunity; it is a chance that is given to a man only once.
Sunday Adelaja
#26. Every bit of capital, therefore, which is given to a shiftless and inefficient member of society, who makes no return for it, is diverted from a reproductive use; but
William Graham Sumner
#27. Anger, [Evagrius] wrote, is given to us by God to help us confront true evil. We err when we use it casually, against other people, to gratify our own desires for power or control.
Kathleen Norris
#28. Without a passport humans wouldn't know where they're from, who they are or who their enemy is, and their enemy wouldn't know why they had an enemy, what language they spoke, and where best to avoid.
The passport is said to be what makes them free, but if freedom is given, freedom cannot be free.
Craig Stone
#29. I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#30. Everything that is given to us in life is either a blessing or a curse.
Seth Adam Smith
#31. Trust that where love is given and love is received, every condition is healed.
Eve Marnie
#32. In Christ, the other is given as the neighbor. I encounter the other as one for whom Christ became human, was crucified, and resurrected, and this sets them free to be who they are.
Brian Gregor
#33. Accepting all that is given to me and all that is taken away. Recognizing that even loss and pain are gifts.
Marian Keyes
#34. I guess I have never been much of a complainer. You just take what is given you, and don't complain about what you can't affect.
Tom Watson
#35. Initially the student, in some traditions, is given a mantra, a particular word of power to focus on. While thoughts are cascading through your mind during meditation, you should be absorbed in the repetition of a mantra.
Frederick Lenz
#36. God loves us faithfully. He loves me and he loves you just as we are, today, right now, right here, no matter where we are or what's going on in our lives. God listens to our words and hears the quiet whispers in our hearts. Each of us is given the opportunity to have a unique relationship with God.
Lizzie Velasquez
#37. We must treat each man on his worth and merits as a man. We must see that each is given a square deal, because he is entitled to no more and should receive no less.
Doris Kearns Goodwin
#38. Fools take to themselves the respect that is given to their office.
Aesop
#40. DEATH
...
And now you are here to fight for this woman.
You know her promise is given.
She has to die or her husband won't go free.
APOLLO
Relax, I'm not breaking any laws.
DEATH
Why the bow, if you're breaking no laws?
APOLLO
I always carry a bow, it's my trademark.
Anne Carson
#41. I awaken in the morning with confidence, rejoicing in whatever work is given to me to do. Whatever that work is, I do it, not in order to earn a living or in a sense of performing an onerous duty; but, with joy and gladness, I let it unfold as the activity of God's expression through me.
Joel S. Goldsmith
#42. Trust is earned, respect is given, and loyalty is demonstrated. Betrayal of any one of those is to lose all three.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
#43. I hopes the candidate [Donald Trump] is given fake intelligence briefings ... because you can't trust him.
Harry Reid
#44. We know from myths and fairy tales that there are many different kinds of powers in this world. One child is given a light saber, another a wizard's education. The trick is not to amass all the different kinds of power, but to use well the kind you've been granted.
Susan Cain
#45. Mother's love is given by God, John. It holds fast for ever and ever. A girl's love is like a puff of smoke,-it changes with every wind.
Elizabeth Gaskell
#46. But no value has been put on human life; it is given to us free and taken without being paid for. What is it worth? If you look around, at times the value may seem to be little or nothing at all.
Carson McCullers
#47. Mr. Head stood very still and felt the action of mercy touch him again but this time he knew that there were no words in the world that could name it. He understood that it grew out of agony, which is not denied to any man and which is given in strange ways to children.
Flannery O'Connor
#48. The more a man is given to sentiment ,the more likely is he to be wordy and to speak well.
Denis De Rougemont
#50. Whatever you seize for yourself is worthless. Only what is given you has value.
Gerald Morris
#51. So great an advantage is given to sin and Satan by your temper and disposition, that without extraordinary watchfulness, care, and diligence, they will prevail against your soul.
John Owen
#52. The cross is not only imposed upon the saints as their burden, but bequeathed unto them as their legacy. It is given unto them as an honor and privilege.
Richard Alleine
#53. Jazz music is the power of now. There is no script. It's conversation. The emotion is given to you by musicians as they make split-second decisions to fulfill what they feel the moment requires.
Wynton Marsalis
#55. There is no light in earth or heaven but the cold light of stars; and the first watch of night is given to the red planet Mars.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#56. Reason is given to all men, but all men do not know how to use it. Liberty is offered to each one of us, but few learn to be free. Such gifts are, in any case, a right to be earned, not a privilege for the shiftless.
Anthony Powell
#57. If you will accept every call that comes to you within the Church, you will grow in a remarkable and marvelous and wonderful way. With responsibility comes growth, and the Lord will magnify you and make you equal to every responsibility which is given you.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#59. Consul - in American politics, a person who having failed to secure an office from the people is given one by the Administration on condition that he leave the country.
Ambrose Bierce
#60. I never gossip - but after all, a tongue is given one to speak with, and I'm not deaf mute.
That you most certainly are not. A tongue, Henet, may sometimes be a weapon. A tongue may cause a death - may cause more than one death. I hope your tongue, Henet, has not caused a death.
Agatha Christie
#61. The Highlanders regale themselves with whisky. They find it an excellent preservation against the winter cold. It is given with great success to the infants in the confluent smallpox.
Tobias Smollett
#62. The value of a life is always measured by how much of it is given away.
Andy Stanley
#63. Suppose that climate change is not real and all we do is adopt green technologies, which our economy and our technology is perfectly capable of. Then all we've done is given our kids a cleaner world.
John McCain
#64. Every time an Oscar is given out, an agent gets his wings.
Kathy Bates
#65. To whom much is given, much is required - not expected, but required.
Andrew Young
#66. With the White Sox, when we do stuff, everybody's opinion is asked for, is given and then decisions are made on just about everything.
Don Cooper
#67. Of him to whom less is given, less will be required, but our utmost exertions are required of us all.
Anne Bronte
#68. The great moral question of the 21st century is this: if all knowing, all culture, all art, all useful information can be costlessly given to everyone at the same price that it is given to anyone; if everyone can have everything, anywhere, all the time, why is it ever moral to exclude anyone?
Eben Moglen
#69. Influence which is given on the side of money is usually against truth.
Harriet Martineau
#70. Imperialist aid is a noose of plunder and subjugation, aimed at robbing 10 and even 100 things for one thing that is given.
Kim Jong Il
#71. It is up to us to determine whether the years ahead will be for humankind a curse or a blessing. We always must remember that it is given to men and women to choose life and living, not death and destruction.
Elie Wiesel
#72. In Puppies Behind Bars, when the puppy is eight weeks old it is given to an inmate. The inmate is responsible for the dog.
Doris Roberts
#73. The more we give away, the more is given to us.
Wayne Dyer
#74. Today, at Harvard, any student with the currently fashionable color of skin is given rights denied to students of the currently unfashionable color.
Al Capp
#75. You are perceptual beings with different vantage points and - it does not matter how much information is given - you cannot see beyond the vibrational limits of where you are standing. You cannot live or see or experience outside of your own individual beliefs.
Abraham Hicks
#76. Best advice is this: Work hard. Nothing is given to you.
Ken Rosenthal
#77. You can choose to listen to one end of the spectrum or the other on Twitter, just like you can on television. But hopefully what we've done is given a voice to that broad middle ground.
Dick Costolo
#78. It is only for the sake of those without hope that hope is given to us.
Walter Benjamin
#79. The world, someone once said, gives back what is given. In abundance. But then, as Kallor would point out, someone was always saying something. Until he got fed up and had them executed.
Steven Erikson
#81. There is an art to the business of making sandwiches which it is given to few ever to find the time to explore in depth. It is a simple task, but the opportunities for satisfaction are many and profound.
Douglas Adams
#82. Power is given only to the one who dares to reach down and take it.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#83. Charles Kiss is a legendary James Bond-style British spy. And McGrath is the young idealist who is given the task of following in his footsteps. It's a mission that forces McGrath to question everything he thought he believed in.
Peter Milligan
#84. The Netherlands is a wonderful country," said Sigerius. "If you're determined to be a bad egg, there's a great big professional circle of friends ready to help you. Whoever doesn't have the balls to just get out and work, but does have a criminal record, is given a nice subsidized job.
Anonymous
#85. Do you realize that $150 billion of our tax money is given to the corporations, unions and wealthy people for tax breaks, special subsidies and special regulations? That money would be available for health and education and building bridges.
Doris "Granny D" Haddock
#86. I will stand by you. You must not be afraid. This is a brave land, Susanna, founded by brave people who never shrank from their duty or their vision of freedom. But this land has a future only if each of us stands up for what is right when it is given us to do so.
Ann Rinaldi
#87. Faith is the means by which the righteousness of Christ is given to us.
R.C. Sproul
#88. History is almost always written by the victors and conquerors and gives their view. Or, at any rate, the victors' version is given prominence and holds the field.
Jawaharlal Nehru
#89. People will pay exactly what things are worth give or take a few bucks. You might pay a few bucks more if you like the dealer and think the dealer will take care of you, but most people are going to the internet and don't care about that. I don't think that hard earned money is given away.
Paul Reed Smith
#90. God's Word is not a book of human ideas ... it is given to us by [God] to teach us how to live.
Billy Graham
#91. To every creature is given both a place and a time, and when that time is over, we have to let them go.
Robin Hobb
#92. Making Jesus Lord is the absolute highest degree of achievement that one can obtain. For it is through Him and through Him alone, that salvation is given.
Calvin W. Allison
#93. All facts are. In a world where everything
is given and nothing is explained, the fecundity of a value or of a
metaphysic is a notion devoid of meaning.
Albert Camus
#94. All the passages in the Holy Scriptures that mention assistance are they that do away with "free-will", and these are countless ... For grace is needed, and the help of grace is given, because "free-will" can do nothing.
Martin Luther
#95. Laws decide wich forms of oppression are allowed, Lord. And because of that, those laws are servants to those in power, for whom oppression is given as a right over those who have little or no power.
Steven Erikson
#96. As gifts increase in you, let your humility grow, for you must consider that everything is given to you on loan.
Pio Of Pietrelcina
#97. So much is asked of parents, and so little is given.
Virginia Satir
#99. In reading, a lonely quiet concert is given to our minds; all our mental faculties will be present in this symphonic exaltation.
Stephane Mallarme
#100. My heart to you is given:
Oh, do give yours to me; We'll lock them up together, And throw away the key.
Arthur Frederick Saunders