Given Quotes

I think voiceover is an adjunct that actors have picked up that have given us some security.

You can't walk alone. Many have given the illusion, but none have really walked alone. Man is not made that way. Each man is bedded in his people, their history, their culture, and their values.

What was freely given to me, I freely give.

Sometimes you trust someone who turns out not to be honest. There are a lot of things that happen in life that don't turn out the way you're given the impression that they will. And I think that's all kind of a con. But I think we've probably all been hurt.

The Gita is the greatest gospel of spiritual works ever yet given to the race.

We've given more resources. On housing, we are now establishing a regional housing pot.

Beautiful music is the art of the prophets that can calm the agitations of the soul; it is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us.

If religion had a good purpose, then man would have created something great. But we're man: we mess up everything. We mess up nature. We mess up God. We take what is given to us and make it into what we think it should be.

I tend to feel if people say they're going to do something, they will, if given the chance.

Because of the increase in life longevity, America can now assume that at any given time three, and perhaps four, former presidents will still be alive, even when the current president is occupying the White House.

And in my own life, in my own small way, I've tried to give back to this country that has given me so much. That's why I left a job at a law firm for a career in public service, working to empower young people to volunteer in their communities. Because I believe that each of us - no matter what our age or background or walk of life - each of us has something to contribute to the life of this nation.

I've been spoiled by this project. I was given the script and went in to read, realizing that this was a powerful story and one that wasn't told very often.

So much is asked of parents, and so little is given.

Baseball for me was instinctive, born within me, given to me as a gift from God.

People who get involved with the success of something have to be given at least some share of that success.

A singer starts by having his instrument as a gift from God... When you have been given something in a moment of grace, it is sacrilegious to be greedy.

God has given such brave soldiers to this Crown that, if they do not frighten our neighbours, at least they prevent us from being frightened by them.

Completeness? Happiness? These words don't come close to describing my emotions. There truly is nothing I can say to capture what motherhood means to me, particularly given my medical history.

I think I have a gift, but I haven't really opened that gift yet and given it to myself.

Women were seldom given quality assignments or adequate air time.

Only in a novel are all things given full play.

The one thing that I appear to have been given, bearing in mind that I am capable of being very, very scatty and extremely lazy, is the ability to concentrate on something I choose to give my time to.

I don't think of it as a competition - which might surprise you, given the way movies are reported constantly.

I wouldn't have dared ask God for all that He's given me. I couldn't have done it on my own. I thank God every day for what I have.

Mistakes, after all, are endemic to foreign and military policy given the unpredictability of events and the difficulty of securing reliable information in a place like Iraq.

A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.

Hairdressing in general hasn't been given the kudos it deserves. It's not recognised by enough people as a worthy craft.

On a given day, a given circumstance, you think you have a limit.

The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.

There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome; to be got over.