Given Quotes

That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent.

A lot of life is dealing with your curse, dealing with the cards you were given that aren't so nice. Does it make you into a monster, or can you temper it in some way, or accept it and go in some other direction?

It's my firm intention to whop cancer into submission and I truly believe I've given myself the best start possible by radically overhauling my diet and by staying true to my motto, which is: Don't worry, be happy, feel good. The first thing I did when I was diagnosed was to turn vegan.

Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.

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

Nothing was given to me, nothing was entrusted to me, nothing was assigned to me. Everything I have, I took by right.

A first-generation fortune is the most likely to be given away, but once a fortune is inherited it's less likely that a very high percentage will go back to society.

You largely constructed your depression. It wasn't given to you. Therefore, you can deconstruct it.

I'm most proud of the blessings that God has bestowed upon me, in my life. He's given me the vision to truly see that you can fall down, but you can still get back up. Hopefully I'll learn from my mistakes and have the opportunity to strengthen and improve the next thing I do.

When you're given a newspaper column, you're not being paid to sit on a fence and scratch your chin and say 'On the one hand this' and 'On the other hand that.' You're getting paid for your opinion.

If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.

There are so many people, deaf or otherwise abled, who are so talented but overlooked or not given a chance to even get their foot in the door.

Passive inactivity, because you have not been given specific instructions to do this or to do that, is a serious deficiency.

Given the opportunity, under the right conditions, two cells from wildly different sources, a yeast cell, say, and a chicken erythrocyte, will touch, fuse, and the two nuclei will then fuse as well, and the new hybrid cell will now divide into monstrous progeny. Naked cells, lacking self-respect, do not seem to have any sense of self.

I've given no thought to moving to America at all.

Washington's insatiable desire to spend our children's inheritance on failed stimulus plans and other misguided economic theories have given record debt and left us with far too many unemployed.

I've been given so much, and if I can just give back a tenth of what I've been given, then it's all worth it.

Every fact is related on one side to sensation, and, on the other, to morals. The game of thought is, on the appearance of one of these two sides, to find the other: given the upper, to find the under side.

Instruction ends in the schoolroom, but education ends only with life. A child is given to the universe to be educated.

Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.

What happened I think on Sept. 11 was we were given graphic and clear evidence that things had changed.

It is only to the individual that a soul is given.

In the Bible, we first encounter God when he sides with a bunch of slaves against a powerful Pharaoh, an act of grace freely given.

I try to make the best of the opportunities that have been given to me.

The most beautiful as well as the most ugly inclinations of man are not part of a fixed biologically given human nature, but result from the social process which creates man.

Given that we glimpse what distinguishes man from the beast, is there anything that distinguishes woman from man?

Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women have to offer is shunted aside without expression.

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

I've given my life to the principle and the ideal of memory, and remembrance.

Deep Throat was a very unfortunate name given to the source by the managing editor of The Washington Post.