Given Quotes

The creations of a great writer are little more than the moods and passions of his own heart, given surnames and Christian names, and sent to walk the earth.

About 15 years later, I was given all 113 episodes on tape.

Freud taught us that it wasn't God that imposed judgment on us and made us feel guilty when we stepped out of line. Instead, it was the superego - that idealized concept of what a good person is supposed to be and do - given to us by our parents, that condemned us for what had been hitherto regarded as ungodly behavior.

Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.

There's an ancient tension between wanting to savor the world as it is and wanting to improve on the world as given.

So what are we given? We're also given, my generation, the disillusionment of our parents.

And we've given all you people need to know and understand about our financial situation and about how we live our life. And so, the election, again, will not be decided on that. It will be decided on who is gonna turn the economy around and how are jobs gonna come back to America.

People on series are now given a lot more opportunities, sometimes more than film actors.

I just feel like I have this gift that I've been given. It's like, 'Someone unwrap it! Here it is!' That drive can't be held down.

This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle: we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.

Ballet is such a disciplined craft and it has given me a good grounding.

Women may not have it easy, but we are given a fairer chance to reach for the top.

I love comedy. God has given me this platform.

You take away all the other luxuries in life, and if you can make someone smile and laugh, you have given the most special gift: happiness.

Money is like hormones. It's just how you feel on any given day.

I think you have a moral responsibility when you've been given far more than you need, to do wise things with it and give intelligently.

I'm very thrilled and excited to have been given the opportunity to captain England.

All discarded lovers should be given a second chance, but with somebody else.

Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him.

Sequestration is leverage that should not be given up easily.

The greatest thing a man can do in this world is to make the most possible out of the stuff that has been given him. This is success, and there is no other.

I think it's a given that people know what I can do vocally.

A student never forgets an encouraging private word, when it is given with sincere respect and admiration.

No man can given anybody his freedom.

I lead no party; I follow no leader. I have given the best part of my life to careful study of Islam, its law and polity, its culture, its history and its literature.

It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.

There are people who can never forgive a beggar for their not having given him anything.

I love standup and I haven't given it up.

Words were not given to man in order to conceal his thoughts.

I was given talent, and if you are given it, it is your obligation to use it.