Given Quotes

At first I was a bit indignant about it, and then I realised, 'No, that's what people want, so that's what is given.' But it's not in your control. It's just what happens to you, and that's what's frightening.

I am a poor man and of little worth, who is laboring in that art that God has given me in order to extend my life as long as possible.

It is horrible to say, but I was stigmatized by being a bridal designer for a long time. I am amazed I have been able to move beyond it. I had really all but given up trying, but I did it because it was my lifelong dream.

That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty.

Given the amount of unjust suffering and unhappiness in the world, I am deeply grateful for, sometimes even perplexed by, how much misery I have been spared.

The pleasure a reader gets is often equal to the pleasure a writer is given.

The man who can speak acceptably is usually given credit for an ability out of all proportion to what he really possesses.

I don't think anyone is qualified to answer questions of eternal fate definitively, much less pinpoint it to a given day.

The lazy blogosphere has given up on journalism and now trolls Twitter for their on-the-record in-depth articles.

Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.

I think that you make the best choice with the information that you have before you at that given time.

Of all those in the army close to the commander none is more intimate than the secret agent; of all rewards none more liberal than those given to secret agents; of all matters none is more confidential than those relating to secret operations.

Our chief defect is that we are more given to talking about things than to doing them.

Promise is most given when the least is said.

The primary victims of Katrina, those who were given the least help by the government, those rescued last or not at all, were overwhelmingly people of color largely hidden from the mainstream of society.

The British have given me good support for the last 8 years and have always believed in me.

Never was it given to mortal man - To lie so boldly as we women can.

He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.

To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

I was born two months early, and everyone had given up on me. But my mother insisted on my life.

James was my given name, but I was a junior; so I was Jamie as a kid.

Quiet people, people who aren't given to emotional outbursts, people who are economic with words - they're also fun to play, but you find yourself needing a laser precision in those roles. Otherwise you just sort of stand around, looking slightly brain-dead. You worry about being uninteresting.

Charity is willingly given from the heart.

We have perhaps a natural fear of ends. We would rather be always on the way than arrive. Given the means, we hang on to them and often forget the ends.

What love we've given, we'll have forever. What love we fail to give, will be lost for all eternity.

God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.

Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the numbers of books that were written because authors couldn't find anyone to talk to.

I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.

Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing.

That is the exciting thing: I don't know what God has given me for tomorrow.