Given Quotes

Certainly in cartooning I'm given huge free rein at the moment.

I do not believe that the men who served in uniform in Vietnam have been given the credit they deserve. It was a difficult war against an unorthodox enemy.

Rock and roll has probably given more than it's taken.

I'd be more frightened by not using whatever abilities I'd been given. I'd be more frightened by procrastination and laziness.

Somebody asked me about the current choice we're being given in the presidential election. I said, Well, it's like two of the scariest movies I can imagine.

I am grateful for the opportunities I have been given to participate in that work as a representative of my country, Canada, whose people have, I think, shown their devotion to peace.

Basically, when I look at my life, I think I'm lucky to be given the opportunities I've had.

Given my last position, that I was the first U.S attorney post 9/11 in New Jersey, I understand acutely the pain and sorrow and upset of the family members who lost loved ones that day at the hands of radical Muslim extremists. And their sensitivities and concerns have to be taken into account.

I was not given to looking at life in a rosy light.

I've given it my all. I've done my best. Now, I'm ready with my family to begin the next phase of our lives.

You largely constructed your depression. It wasn't given to you. Therefore, you can deconstruct it.

The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world.

I've done movies with a sword before. But I haven't really been given the full responsibility of something like a Ridley Scott film.

God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another.

I didn't get into acting to be a public service announcer or an advocate and yet, by virtue of this show and how we handle the subject matter that we've been given, that's kind of how it's evolved in certain ways.

Perhaps I have a wider range than I'd given myself credit for.

There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome; to be got over.

Respect commands itself and can neither be given nor withheld when it is due.

Every time an Oscar is given out, an agent gets his wings.

Our creator is the same and never changes despite the names given Him by people here and in all parts of the world. Even if we gave Him no name at all, He would still be there, within us, waiting to give us good on this earth.

I've been given so much, and if I can just give back a tenth of what I've been given, then it's all worth it.

When I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very coldly wise, life will have given me the truth, and taken in exchange - my youth.

Marijuana you can give up, Iv given it up for fifteen years now and it never occurs to me to smoke it anymore.

Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.

I was 7, and I remember being given a part in a play and thinking, This is exciting.

People who don't use the tools given to them only injure themselves.

Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings.

Here's what I tell anybody and this is what I believe. The greatest gift we have is the gift of life. We understand that. That comes from our Creator. We're given a body. Now you may not like it, but you can maximize that body the best it can be maximized.

Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.

They say I was a bad Batman, that it was my fault, that I buried the franchise. But the truth is, it was a big project. I was pretty intimidated in that world. I did the best I could in the situation I was given.