Given Quotes

Given the amount of unjust suffering and unhappiness in the world, I am deeply grateful for, sometimes even perplexed by, how much misery I have been spared.

The pleasure a reader gets is often equal to the pleasure a writer is given.

The man who can speak acceptably is usually given credit for an ability out of all proportion to what he really possesses.

I don't think anyone is qualified to answer questions of eternal fate definitively, much less pinpoint it to a given day.

The lazy blogosphere has given up on journalism and now trolls Twitter for their on-the-record in-depth articles.

Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.

I think that you make the best choice with the information that you have before you at that given time.

Of all those in the army close to the commander none is more intimate than the secret agent; of all rewards none more liberal than those given to secret agents; of all matters none is more confidential than those relating to secret operations.

Our chief defect is that we are more given to talking about things than to doing them.

Promise is most given when the least is said.

The primary victims of Katrina, those who were given the least help by the government, those rescued last or not at all, were overwhelmingly people of color largely hidden from the mainstream of society.

I consider my musical ability to be a gift from the Creator. It's not that I try to work hard or nothing like that, it's a gift, it was given to me, and I appreciate it.

To give and then not feel that one has given is the very best of all ways of giving.

America, I've given you all and now I'm nothing.

Don't get too comfortable with who you are at any given time - you may miss the opportunity to become who you want to be.

Why, if someone is good in one field can they not be accepted or given the slightest opportunity to express and be creative in other fields?

The pressure to being a comedian is being funny, but I've given that up, so there is no pressure whatsoever.

In 2008 I didn't take it all in enough. I was so wrapped up in just the competition that I missed what was going on around me. If I am given that opportunity again to go to the Olympics and be an athlete I want to take it all in because I feel like this is my last shot and I want to feel the team spirit. I want to really live and breathe the USA.

My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.

Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.

He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.

Liberal Democrats in government will not follow the last Labour government by sounding the retreat on the protection of civil liberties in the United Kingdom. It continues to be essential that our civil liberties are safeguarded, and that the state is not given the powers to snoop on its citizens at will.

I'm really happy that I was raised Catholic because it's given me years of material.

I am shy to admit that I have followed the advice given all those years ago by a wise archbishop to a bewildered young man: that moments of unbelief 'don't matter,' that if you return to a practice of the faith, faith will return.

I would have given my own life if I could have undone the killing of white men by my people.

There is a mysterious cycle in human events. To some generations much is given. Of other generations much is expected. This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.

What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.

The first presentation of my show was given in May, 1883, at Omaha, which I had then chosen as my home. From there we made our first summer tour, visiting practically every important city in the country.

God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.

Talent is a gift that can be given, and it can be taken away. We have to appreciate that.