Given Quotes

Look wise, say nothing, and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought.

Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever's going. Not against: with.

A body of work such as Pasteur's is inconceivable in our time: no man would be given a chance to create a whole science. Nowadays a path is scarcely opened up when the crowd begins to pour in.

All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.

Given the eclectic and constantly shifting nature of my metaphysical inclinations, I will probably never feel certain exactly what an angel is.

In the theatre, the actor is given immediate feedback.

I would like us to think about it more explicitly, and not take our intuitions as the given of ethics, but rather to reflect on it, and be more open about the fact that something is an ethical issues and think what we ought to do about it.

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

People do make mistakes and I think they should be punished. But they should be forgiven and given the opportunity for a second chance. We are human beings.

Four years was enough of Harvard. I still had a lot to learn, but had been given the liberating notion that now I could teach myself.

A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.

In April 1991, after the Gulf war, Iraq was given 15 days to provide a full and final declaration of all its WMD.

Skating has given me so much that it's priceless.

No, I can tell you one of the first things that happens to a home secretary when they arrive in the job is that they are given a briefing about the security matters that they will be dealing with and I deal with security matters on a daily basis.

The only wealth which you will keep forever is the wealth you have given away.

People who can't kiss had everything given to them.

You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.

For a novelist, a given historic situation is an anthropologic laboratory in which he explores his basic question: What is human existence?

I don't like to say I have given my life to art. I prefer to say art has given me my life.

I believe music should reflect yourself in some way and not just yourself at the given time. I feel that when you die or when you're going, someone's supposed to listen to that music and know everything about you. And I just try to get that across.

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

In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson.

A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.

I'm thankful for all the things that this job has given me and my family. But probably the thing that I am most proud of throughout my career is that, not only myself, but my family and the people around me have just been regular people, which we are.

I'm not much given to making shamanistic remarks about all this, but I'm a great believer in the dream life. If I can carry without spilling whatever it is that drips into my head in the night to my desk, then that's valuable.

In college I never realized the opportunities available to a pro athlete. I've been given the chance to meet all kinds of people, to travel and expand my financial capabilities, to get ideas and learn about life, to create a world apart from basketball.

Women are half the population and they know how to take care of themselves, if they are only given access to health care.

A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiable homicide.

They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life.

Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name. There is but one just use of power and it is to serve people.