Given Quotes

There is a note in the front of the volume saying that no public reading may be given without first getting the author's permission. It ought to be made much more difficult to do than that.

The aura given out by a person or object is as much a part of them as their flesh.

The God-given ability that you're given to use, it speaks as much about who and what I was and was around, and the crowd of people that I chose to live my life with, as it does about me.

Tennis has given me this wonderful life and I'm very grateful for it.

Respect commands itself and can neither be given nor withheld when it is due.

Every time an Oscar is given out, an agent gets his wings.

Our creator is the same and never changes despite the names given Him by people here and in all parts of the world. Even if we gave Him no name at all, He would still be there, within us, waiting to give us good on this earth.

When I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very coldly wise, life will have given me the truth, and taken in exchange - my youth.

Marijuana you can give up, Iv given it up for fifteen years now and it never occurs to me to smoke it anymore.

Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.

I was 7, and I remember being given a part in a play and thinking, This is exciting.

People who don't use the tools given to them only injure themselves.

Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings.

Here's what I tell anybody and this is what I believe. The greatest gift we have is the gift of life. We understand that. That comes from our Creator. We're given a body. Now you may not like it, but you can maximize that body the best it can be maximized.

Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.

They say I was a bad Batman, that it was my fault, that I buried the franchise. But the truth is, it was a big project. I was pretty intimidated in that world. I did the best I could in the situation I was given.

No matter what you've done for yourself or for humanity, if you can't look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished?

I don't understand labels. I don't need anybody to tell me I'm Latina or black or anything else. I've played characters that were written for Caucasian females, I just want to be given the same consideration as everybody else, and so far that has been happening.

Having been given that public trust, we have a responsibility to share with the public.

Politics as battle has given way to politics as spectacle.

Over the years with movies, I've given directors notes.

But in the UK, I've given up any hope of being considered a director.

Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.

The 100m taught me a lot and it's given me confidence.

The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right.

I think the more diversity that one has in his life, the happier he can be, as long as he is able to do whatever he chooses to do at that given time well.

Like the 'little emperors' of one-child China, too many Boomers were taught early that the world was made (or saved) for their comfort and enjoyment. They behaved accordingly, with a self-indulgence that was wholly rational, given their situation.

If God had intended us to fly he would have given us railways.

There's always pressure, from other people and yourself. If you're happy with the looks you're born with, then what are you going to do your whole life? We keep thinking up new things and finding better ways of doing things because we're not happy with what we're given.

What does it mean, exactly, for a given system to be a "neural correlate of consciousness"?