Quotes About Given

#1. I have no interest in eliminating the tension between justice and forgiveness by taking justice off the table. Given the subtleties of sin and the persistence of evil, we would soon be living in moral anarchy and political chaos if there were no provision for justice.

Eugene H. Peterson

#2. Napoleon the Third was not much. He died in England, and was buried in a country church-yard much the same as Kiltartan. But Napoleon the First was a great man; it was given out of him there never would be so great a man again.

Lady Gregory

#3. I might not remember how the sky looked on any given day. I do remember, though, what it was like to be a boy beneath a sky.

Kevin Brockmeier

#4. If you're not doing what you want to do. However, you still think about it every day. This means you have not given up. Only you know what action will make it happen and thought is an action. Keep focusing on what you want to do and figure out how to turn your thoughts into reality ...

James A. Murphy

#5. The State should have made sure the money given to the NGOs was used according to a global plan for Haiti; not doing whatever they want. They should be supervised and have to report and make sure the money is being used properly. They are here, but we are seeing no results.

Michel Martelly

#6. Where the observer is at first a real goodness realized, later it is a sophisticated power holder. The observer is given power and control that belongs to oneness. When oneness has that power and that control, there is love.

John De Ruiter

#7. Mothers smell blood before the wound is given. We see the rent place on the child's arm before the arrow strikes.

Kaye Gibbons

#8. Living as Wild Child, I could no longer be Debby Parker comfortably - this name that I'd been given at birth that defined me before I'd had the chance to define myself.

Aspen Matis

#9. Prayer lays hold of God's plan and becomes the link between His will and its accomplishment on earth. Amazing things happen, and we are given the privilege of being the channels of the Holy Spirit's prayer.

Elisabeth Elliot

#10. Peru is a country where more than half the people would emigrate if given the chance. That's half the population that is willing to abandon everything they know for the uncertainty of a life in a foreign land, in another language.

Daniel Alarcon

#11. Materialism and consumerism are merely emergent properties of our neurobiology given free rein in a free market.

Piers Steel

#12. I've given every maid I've portrayed soul and heart.

Lupe Ontiveros

#13. We have assumed control where once we worked with what we were given.

Bill McKibben

#14. Given the conditions under which you're a young person in this society, many things would be at least as important to you as your sexuality.

Kate Millett

#15. We are nothing more than molded clay given breath, but we are nothing less than divine self-portraits,

N.D. Wilson

#16. The underlying morality of society is getting worse because we have literally transferred our God-given power to the politician (Man's government).

Michael DeLance Thomas

#17. The American army between world wars after World War I had virtually disintegrated. It was a very small force, given largely to practicing cavalry charges on western outposts.

Rick Atkinson

#18. Do you know what a magical kingdom is in your ear? A fairy cave leads to an Ali Baba doorway, beyond which the bony little ossicles - Malleus, Incus, and Stapes - guard the great snail, Cochlea, to whom God has given the power to transform the indiscernible movement of air into music.

Kristin Chenoweth

#19. If to know is to work, then knowledge is the fruit of our own unaided effort and activity; then knowledge includes nothing which is not due to the effort of man, and there is nothing gratuitous about it, nothing "inspired", nothing "given" about it.

Josef Pieper

#20. I was probably Cameron's ideal that he'd dreamt up from within his own psyche. A living breathing fantasy. As though Cameron had imagined his perfect woman and I'd conveniently turned up. Only he'd given me to his best friend.

Vanessa Fewings

#21. But, hey I did everything the right way and earned my spot in this game, nothing was given to me.

Shaquille O'Neal

#22. Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds. I may be given credit for having blazed the trail, but when I look at the subsequent developments I feel the credit is due to others rather than to myself.

Alexander Graham Bell

#23. War soaks into your bones, drills down into the marrow like a parasite. It blots your life like ink spilled on snow white paper, and it has its perils even long after you've given it up.

Christopher Johnson

#24. I've reminded the prime minister-the American people, Mr. Prime Minister, over the past months that it was not always a given that the United States and America would have a close relationship.

George W. Bush

#25. The people of Texas are rightly proud of their own, just like the French and the Italians, but visiting artists have often been given a shot in the history of art.

Clifford Ross

#26. After I had given up to go, the thoughts of the journey were often attended with unusual sadness, at which times my heart was frequently turned to the Lord with inward breathings for his heavenly support, that I might not fail to follow him wheresoever he might lead me.

John Woolman

#27. The third factor is the natural predisposition of bureaucracies, both governmental and private, to exploit secrecy to whatever degree they are licensed to do so, and in this administration they're given virtually carte blanche.

Ted Gup

#28. Improving intelligence is possible, but it is more likely to occur if children are given the right experiences at the right ages.

Dennis Garlick

#29. I'm always so pleased when I can get a song or be given a song that really speaks to me and I can interpret, but if given the opportunity to really write from the heart and try and bring some personality to whatever this genre would be, it was a great opportunity for me.

Josh Groban

#30. Still, far too often girls are given the message that their bodies, their lives, and their femaleness must be apologized for. Have you noticed how often women apologize?

Christiane Northrup

#31. American people are not evil. Given information, they will do the right thing. But they're not given the information.

Tim Robbins

#32. A man of character will make himself worthy of any position he is given.

Mahatma Gandhi

#33. There are high places that don't invite us, sharp shapes, glacier-scraped faces, whole ranges whose given names slip off. Any such relation as we try to make refuses to take ... I'm giddy with thinking where thinking can't stick.
No Names

Kay Ryan

#34. Men make their own history; but they make it under given conditions, and they become entangled thereby in a fate which is in part the result of other men having made their own history earlier.

Reinhard Bendix

#35. Given the choice between grabbing a strange tongue and watching a monster poop into a giant snail shell, the face retreats and slams the door behind it

Christopher Moore

#36. It's a gift. (Artemis)
Nothing is ever freely given. (Acheron)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#37. It is to be observed that 'angling' is the name given to fishing by people who can't fish.

Stephen Leacock

#38. Well, if women's work was never done, why trouble about how much of it wasn't being accomplished at any given moment?

Diana Gabaldon

#39. Is the Starwife a witch?" asked Firgil. "Is any wise female a witch? Just because they have been blessed by the Green and given strange and beautiful gifts, does not mean they use them for evil purposes.

Robin Jarvis

#40. To gold and silver nature hath given no use that we may not well lack.

Thomas More

#41. God is willing to answer when we ask: ' Ask and it will be given to you; seek you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks received, and who seeke finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened(Matthew7:7-8, NKJV).

Euginia Herlihy

#42. The moment my lips found her body, we quickly became an erupting volcano. Hot and fast. Very fast. Fast enough that I would have given her my virginity.

Katie McGarry

#43. Given that religious faith is an intrinsic element of human experience, it is best to approach and engage the subject with a sense of history and a critical sensibility.

Jon Meacham

#44. I've been on 'Hollyoaks' since I was 15, and I've grown up on the show. I'm so very fortunate to be given the opportunity to learn my craft in such a fantastic environment.

Emma Rigby

#45. Get into the habit of rewarding the intellectual exertion your child puts into a given task rather than his or her native intellectual resources.

John Medina

#46. Look natural, that is the best way. Flowers, plants, and animals are all content with how they look - satisfied with nature's endowment. Only human beings are eager to change what nature has given them.

Betty Jamie Chung

#47. Indian names were either characteristic nicknames given in a playful spirit, deed names, birth names, or such as have a religious and symbolic meaning.

Charles Eastman

#48. Cain - and the password, "Indemnity." Given how rapidly management changed at the Beacon-Light, it was entirely plausible that this familiar

Laura Lippman

#49. Leave everything. Leave Dada. Leave your wife. Leave your mistress. Leave your hopes and fears. Leave your children in the woods. Leave the substance for the shadow. Leave your easy life, leave what you are given for the future. Set off on the roads.

Andre Breton

#50. Innocence is like youth,' he declared sadly, 'which is given to us only to expend and takes its very meaning from its loss.

John Barth

#51. The more is given the less the people will work for themselves, and the less they work the more their poverty will increase.

Leo Tolstoy

#52. Akin to the idea that time is money is the concept, less spoken but as commonly assumed, that we may be adequately represented by money. The giving of money has thus become our characteristic virtue. But to give is not to do. The money is given in lieu of action, thought, care, time.

Wendell Berry

#53. God has given us evidence sufficiently clear to convince those with an open heart and mind ...

Blaise Pascal

#54. Since all human governments, like all human individuals, are subject to temptation, especially the temptation to use this God-given role for their own ends, there must be clear and wise critique, and holding to account.

N. T. Wright

#55. The inherent lightness or darkness of a form - its local-tone - is a given quality of all forms. It is affected by, but separate from, the light and dark areas that result from light falling on forms.

Nathan Goldstein

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

Silius Italicus

#57. No matter how much people want to pretend that they're embarrassed by it, that they don't watch it, everybody knows about it. It's truly, I believe, one of the only art forms that America has actually given to the world, besides jazz and comic books.

CM Punk

#58. No one has a monopoly of the true God, nor is there a nation or religion that can claim, or at any rate prove, that it has been given the exclusive right to the Creator or sole knowledge of His Being.

Jose Rizal

#59. I'm never going to do something that I don't want to do, because I've been given the opportunity to not have to do that.

Maisie Williams

#60. That's what a book is: a failed attempt that, its failure notwithstanding, is sincere and hard-worked and expunged of as much falseness as he could manage, given his limited abilities, and has thus been imbued with a sort of purity.

George Saunders

#61. Good news from heaven the angels bring,
Glad tidings to the earth they sing:
To us this day a child is given,
To crown us with the joy of heaven.

Martin Luther

#62. Given how deeply the ways of war have penetrated our collective consciousness, it will take spiritual power to turn the issue around.

Marianne Williamson

#63. Money brings a lot of responsibility as to what you're going to do with it, and I've given quite a bit of thought to that.

Harold Simmons

#64. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances,

Viktor E. Frankl

#65. It's hard for me to assess what I brought because each time you pick up a camera and point it at a person, you're trying to define that person so to talk generally is difficult because I have to think of a given image in order to conjure up what we're talking about.

Eve Arnold

#66. 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.

Neal Stephenson

#67. I had given her a reassuring smile and patted her hand and told her not to worry, I wouldn't do anything stupid. It was usually an effective tactic, another one of those tricks I had learned: People were satisfied so long as you were courteous and smiled and made no sudden moves.

Barack Obama

#68. Chinese citizens have never had the right to really express their opinions; in the constitution it says you can, but in the real world it is more dangerous. In the west people think it's a right they're born with. Here it's a right given by the government, and one that's not really practised.

Ai Weiwei

#69. Love shouldn't make a beggar of one. I wouldn't want love if I had to beg for it, to barter or qualify it. And I should despise it if anyone ever begged for my love. Love is something that must be given
it can't be bought with words or pity, or even reason.

Jacqueline Susann

#70. I don't think a manager should be judged by whether he wins the pennant, but by whether he gets the most out of the twenty-five men he's been given.

Chuck Tanner

#71. Everything that you want is not very important. Everything that was given to you without any want is very important.

Debasish Mridha

#72. Fruits ... like having their portrait painted. They seem to sit there and ask your forgiveness for fading. Their thought is given off with their perfumes. They come with all their scents, they speak of the fields they have left, the rain which has nourished them, the daybreaks they have seen.

Paul Cezanne

#73. I believe in celebrating the female figure and embracing what we've been given, not hiding that.

Miranda Kerr

#74. You're not responsible for the hand of cards you were dealt. You're responsible for maxing out what you were given.

Timothy Ferriss

#75. Most of our children are not prodigies, or even particularly gifted in any one field, but they all have the potential to shine as individuals in some way if given the right conditions.

Barbara Lourie Sand

#76. With faith and love God's given, springing from the hope we know. We will pray the joy you'll live in, is the strength that now you show.

Michael W. Smith

#77. God has given you talents and opportunities. Seize them today
not tomorrow.

Laura Story

#78. The message being sent out by a broken window-the perception it invites-is that the owener of this building and the people of the community around it don't care if this window is broken: They have given up, and anarchy reigns here. Do as you will, because nobody cares.

Michael Levine

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

Peter Drucker

#80. When the church becomes an institution, people are nothing more than volunteers to be recruited. When the church is a movement, our stewardship becomes the unleashing of our God-given gifts, talents, and passions.

Erwin McManus

#81. A friendship will stand the test of time when all the good that is given is repaid in kind.

Theodore Volgoff

#82. An order then should always be given not as a personal matter, not because the man giving it wants the thing done, but because it is the demand of the situation. And an order of this kind carries weight because it is the demand of the situation.

Mary Parker Follett

#83. Natural for you, perfectly natural," the Professor whispered. "Natural to refuse the key that is given. To be blind in the darkness of knowing. To be filled with a dark light that we must shine on the people around us. A light that makes us weep and pull down our own houses.

Timothy Taylor

#84. I play basketball all the time. Me and my band play every week on the road. That's something that I've never really given up since high school.

Josh Turner

#85. The cost of a thing is something called life which is given in exchange for it.

Henry David Thoreau

#86. Cooking is like music: you can tell when someone puts love into it. I come from a place where there was so much attention to detail. The population is smaller in the South, so more attention is given to serving smaller numbers of people.

Taylor Hicks

#87. Racism separates, but it never liberates. Hatred generates fear, and fear once given a foothold; binds, consumes and imprisons. Nothing is gained from prejudice. No one benefits from racism.

Thurgood Marshall

#88. The press have given me affairs I've never had and killed a few I did have. After a while, you learn.

Joanna Lumley

#89. I had given up my seat before, but this day, I was especially tired. Tired from my work as a seamstress, and tired from the ache in my heart.

Rosa Parks

#90. A restaurant wine list is praised and given awards for reasons that have little to do with its real purpose, as if it existed only to be admired passively, like a stamp collection. A wine list is good only when it functions well in tandem with a menu.

Gerald Asher

#91. It had given me a bad feeling, though I wasn't sure if it was because I was scared I wasn't going to find him, or scared of just what I might find.

Gayle Forman

#92. The first thing that happened was that Helen became an invalid - we know now that there was nothing wrong with her, but Livilla had given her the choice of taking to her bed as if she were ill or taking to her bed because she was ill.

Robert Graves

#93. I have never been given these words
in this way before. This small piece of
gospel, three parts hosanna, two parts
testimony, one part lamentation.

David Levithan

#94. Acting has been my lover and best friend. My confidant and my tormentor. It has given me support and broken my heart and mended it.

Sally Field

#95. I think I owe thanks to the people who have listened to me over the years, who tuned in on the radio. They have given me a warmth and loyalty that I've never been able to repay. The way they have reached out to me has certainly been the highlight of my life.

Ernie Harwell

#96. I can think of no greater God-given responsibility we have than that of extending a helping hand to our fellow man.

Conrad Hilton

#97. Each of our personal harbingers of doom is in reality the Ark which has brought us to this unique place and given us our unique Survivor's Perspective.

Robert Palasciano

#98. God has not given us little angels to be handled carefully lest they get corrupted. They're already sinners who need to be led to salvation and faith in Christ.

John F. MacArthur Jr.

#99. The perverted ingenuity of man has given to water the power of intoxicating where wine is not procured. Western nations intoxicate themselves by moistened grain.

Pliny The Elder

#100. I have simply given up a longevity which I never possessed anyhow. I have turned away from the con game which the gods run in their heavenly side-show. I no longer care under which shell the pea of immortality might be found. I don't need it. I have my moment which is quite enough.

Robert Sheckley