Given Quotes

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.

Know how to live the time that is given you.

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

Given that sexual orientation is innate and that we are all, in theological terms, children of God, to deny access to some sacraments based on sexuality is as wrong as denying access to some sacraments based on race or gender.

Mike Tyson has been given every penny he has coming.

Doubts are like stains on a shirt. I like shirts with stains, because when I'm given a shirt that's too clean, one that's completely white, I immediately start having doubts.

You don't have to buy from anyone. You don't have to work at any particular job. You don't have to participate in any given relationship. You can choose.

The game of basketball has been everything to me. My place of refuge, place I've always gone where I needed comfort and peace. It's been the site of intense pain and the most intense feelings of joy and satisfaction. It's a relationship that has evolved over time, given me the greatest respect and love for the game.

I needed to purge myself of all the attention my parents had given me - I wasn't neglected enough as a child.

I don't have a problem with 'Idol' or 'X Factor,' I have a problem with when those things are not given the proper contextual hue.

I don't think of it as a competition - which might surprise you, given the way movies are reported constantly.

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.

It took us three years to build the NeXT computer. If we'd given customers what they said they wanted, we'd have built a computer they'd have been happy with a year after we spoke to them - not something they'd want now.

Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself, and know that everything in life has purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from.

Anybody who's ever gone through a hard time - any outsider's perception, no matter how much information they're given, they have no idea what the person's life is like.

Not everyone is lucky enough to be given space and trust.

I would have given up acting in a minute. I didn't like how it set me apart from other people.

As simple as it sounds, we all must try to be the best person we can: by making the best choices, by making the most of the talents we've been given.

To whom much is given, much is expected. I do believe this. It's embedded in me.

As America celebrates Memorial Day, we pay tribute to those who have given their lives in our nation's wars.