Given Quotes

I'm interested in trying to explore what I think is the truth at a given time in my life, and part of the process of being honest is - in my mind - talking about the idea that you're watching a movie. You're sitting here watching a movie. And I like that. It appeals to me intellectually, and also in a way I can't even explain.

To what extent is any given man morally responsible for any given act? We do not know.

I accept the calling of my generation to give our children the America that was given to us, with opportunity for the young and security for the old - and I know that we are ready.

So I say to you, Ask and it will be given to you; search, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened for you.

I think what's really amazing is that given the scale of the web and getting the compute power we have today, we're starting to see things that appear intelligent but actually aren't semantically intelligent.

If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments.

I've definitely been in relationships where I've given too much, and I've been in relationships where I haven't given enough. I think it's a work in progress. I have to find that person where it clicks.

Trash has given us an appetite for art.

To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.

I never would have given up my work to stay home.

I think the sport of wrestling, which I became involved with at the age of 14... I competed until I was 34, kind of old for a contact sport. I coached the sport until I was 47. I think the discipline of wrestling has given me the discipline I have to write.

If God had wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.

Sex education may be a good idea in the schools, but I don't believe the kids should be given homework.

After the advent of the written word, the masses who could not - or were not permitted to - read, were given sermons by the few who could.

No drama, however great, is entirely independent of the stage on which it is given.

I see possibilities in everything. For everything that's taken away, something of greater value has been given.

Life is given to us, we earn it by giving it.

You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it, however.

At first I was a bit indignant about it, and then I realised, 'No, that's what people want, so that's what is given.' But it's not in your control. It's just what happens to you, and that's what's frightening.

I am a poor man and of little worth, who is laboring in that art that God has given me in order to extend my life as long as possible.

It is horrible to say, but I was stigmatized by being a bridal designer for a long time. I am amazed I have been able to move beyond it. I had really all but given up trying, but I did it because it was my lifelong dream.

I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy. Let's face it, friends make life a lot more fun.

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.