Given Quotes

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.

The British have given me good support for the last 8 years and have always believed in me.

Never was it given to mortal man - To lie so boldly as we women can.

He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.

To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

I was born two months early, and everyone had given up on me. But my mother insisted on my life.

James was my given name, but I was a junior; so I was Jamie as a kid.

Quiet people, people who aren't given to emotional outbursts, people who are economic with words - they're also fun to play, but you find yourself needing a laser precision in those roles. Otherwise you just sort of stand around, looking slightly brain-dead. You worry about being uninteresting.

Charity is willingly given from the heart.

We have perhaps a natural fear of ends. We would rather be always on the way than arrive. Given the means, we hang on to them and often forget the ends.

What love we've given, we'll have forever. What love we fail to give, will be lost for all eternity.

God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.

Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the numbers of books that were written because authors couldn't find anyone to talk to.

I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.

Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing.

That is the exciting thing: I don't know what God has given me for tomorrow.

When you lose something in your life, stop thinking it's a loss for you... it is a gift you have been given so you can get on the right path to where you are meant to go, not to where you think you should have gone.

Miller is not really a writer but a non-stop talker to whom someone has given a typewriter.

Any unarmed people are slaves, or are subject to slavery at any given moment.

People can get their news any way they want. What I love about what's happened is that there are so many different avenues, there are so many different outlets, so many different ways to debate and discuss and to inquire about any given news story.

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.

I don't think that people in America are really given enough information about the Third World.

Forgiveness says you are given another chance to make a new beginning.

Eating words has never given me indigestion.

The land is ours. It's not European and we have taken it, we have given it to the rightful people... Those of white extraction who happen to be in the country and are farming are welcome to do so, but they must do so on the basis of equality.

Everyone I used to play with has either given up or is dead.