Given Quotes

If I'm given an opportunity to do something, I do it. Or else I fool around with it.

A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.

I cannot get myself interested in video games. I've been given video game players and they just sit there connected to my TVs gathering dust until eventually I unplug them so I can put in another special-region DVD player.

Losing is no disgrace if you've given your best.

I wish to be cremated. One tenth of my ashes shall be given to my agent, as written in our contract.

If people are given quality stuff to watch, they'll watch it.

Personal identity seems like it's just such an American archetype, from Holly Golightly re-inventing herself in 'Breakfast At Tiffany's' to Jay Gatsby in 'The Great Gatsby.' It seems like the sort of archetypal American issue. If you're given the freedom to be anything, or be anyone, what do you do with it?

We've finally given liberals a war against fundamentalism, and they don't want to fight it. They would except that it would put them on the same side as the United States.

Nothing I've ever done has given me more joys and rewards than being a father to my children.

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.

Every gift which is given, even though is be small, is in reality great, if it is given with affection.

I don't think it is given to any of us to be impertinent to great religions with impunity.

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

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.