Given Quotes

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.

No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.

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.

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.

Addresses are given to us to conceal our whereabouts.

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.

It is only the impossible that is possible for God. He has given over the possible to the mechanics of matter and the autonomy of his creatures.

If the gods had intended for people to vote, they would have given us candidates.

I think what's going on in Guantanamo Bay and other places is a disgrace to the U.S.A. I wouldn't say it's the cause of terrorism, but it has given impetus and excuses to potential terrorists to lash out at our country and justify their despicable acts.

I think it is quite dangerous for an organisation to think they can predict where they are going to need leadership. It needs to be something that people are willing to assume if it feels relevant, given the context of any situation.

People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.