Given Quotes

What do you do with what you're given, and how do you transform it into something worthwhile?

Some men know that a light touch of the tongue, running from a woman's toes to her ears, lingering in the softest way possible in various places in between, given often enough and sincerely enough, would add immeasurably to world peace.

A skill required to be president is to explain to the American people any given thing they do.

Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.

As you get older and wiser you realize that when people are given anything without having to earn it (unless they are physically or mentally utterly incapable of earning anything), they become ungrateful and lazy. They also become less happy.

Sovereignty is not given, it is taken.

Given that religious faith is an intrinsic element of human experience, it is best to approach and engage the subject with a sense of history and a critical sensibility.

I have given up trying to be happy. It is no use an leads to nothing.

Blessed be Providence which has given to each his toy: the doll to the child, the child to the woman, the woman to the man, the man to the devil!

I just take it one day at a time. Austin Powers has given me a lot of opportunities as far as my career.

Fanatic is often the name given to people of action by people who are lazy.

I've always had that gratitude that I had the opportunity to pursue my potential. So I think my story says that, when women are given the chance and the opportunity, that we can achieve a lot. We deliver. We can make the world a better place, one butt at a time.

For many years my inherited arthritis had given me problems.

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.

Addresses are given to us to conceal our whereabouts.