Given Quotes

Acting has given me a way to channel my angst. I feel like an overweight, pimply faced kid a lot of the time - and finding a way to access that insecurity, and put it toward something creative is incredibly rewarding. I feel very lucky.

I just think it's a blessing that I was able to have the gift of words and to be able to put them into music. I was given a great gift all the way around. I didn't ever have to really go out and look for songs, you know.

It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.

There are people who can never forgive a beggar for their not having given him anything.

I love standup and I haven't given it up.

Words were not given to man in order to conceal his thoughts.

I was given talent, and if you are given it, it is your obligation to use it.

We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.

Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it.

I have never given up on men easily.

The last of human freedoms - the ability to chose one's attitude in a given set of circumstances.

Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds. I may be given credit for having blazed the trail, but when I look at the subsequent developments I feel the credit is due to others rather than to myself.

I've never read for a movie, I've always been given them.

We have not given science too big a place in our education, but we have made a perilous mistake in giving it too great a preponderance in method in every other branch of study.

Lessons are not given, they are taken.

There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.

Know how to live the time that is given you.

I've always taught that a poor economy is the best opportunity for salespeople because the naysayers and grumblers have already given up, leaving more territory, more opportunities to be successful than in a good economy when virtually all salespeople are out there, giving it their best.

A man is given the choice between loving women and understanding them.

I'll tell you what I did need to learn was tolerance, and I think I've been actually given a daily opportunity to practice that, and it's - it's - and I know that that sounds almost like a backhanded slap, and it is in a way because I haven't been successful at it every day.

You know you have more to offer, and it gets frustrating when you aren't given the chance.

And I do think that earlier in my career, I did make a very conscious decision to make sure that I was doing work that wasn't necessarily given to me, and that people didn't necessarily think that I would be able to do.

So long as these kinds of inequalities persist, all of us who are given expensive educations have to live with the knowledge that our victories are contaminated because the game has been rigged to our advantage.

Given the right to a free ballot, the people would support my return.

If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.

I don't think of it as a competition - which might surprise you, given the way movies are reported constantly.

If I were given the opportunity to present a gift to the next generation, it would be the ability for each individual to learn to laugh at himself.

What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like and immorality is what they dislike.

And life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all.

If we as a nation are to break the cycle of poverty, crime and the growing underclass of young people ill equipped to be productive citizens, we need to not only implement effective programs to prevent teen pregnancy, but we must also help those who have already given birth so that they become effective, nurturing, bonding parents.