Given Quotes

I was not given to looking at life in a rosy light.

I've given it my all. I've done my best. Now, I'm ready with my family to begin the next phase of our lives.

The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world.

I've done movies with a sword before. But I haven't really been given the full responsibility of something like a Ridley Scott film.

God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another.

I didn't get into acting to be a public service announcer or an advocate and yet, by virtue of this show and how we handle the subject matter that we've been given, that's kind of how it's evolved in certain ways.

Perhaps I have a wider range than I'd given myself credit for.

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

Love is always being given where it is not required.

Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing.

I would have probably stolen cars - it would have given me the same adrenaline rush as racing.

There are no mistakes, no coincidences. All events are blessings given to us to learn from.

I have been given the authority over you, and I am not the best of you. If I do well, help me; and if I do wrong, set me right. Sincere regard for truth.

Dancers are stripped enough onstage. You don't have to know more about them than they've given you already.

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.

I'm really, really lucky. I was given my dad's good genes.

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.

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.