Top 1200 Given Quotes & Sayings

For every dollar we have given to athletics, we have given about 27 to higher education or medical research.

In the time one is given, the steward must make the most of the talents one is given by the Lord.

Given that the president has not yet demonstrated why military action is in our best interest, given that the administration will not be constrained to keep boots off the ground, and given that there is no clear end-game, I am against the president's resolution to go to war in Syria.

I believe that I definitely wasn't given this voice just to sing. I think it was given to me for a bigger purpose.

My father's death has given me a lot. It has given me a lifelong love of women, of their grittiness and hardness - traits that we are not supposed to value as feminine. It has also given me a love of men, of their vulnerability and tenderness - traits that we do not foster as masculine or allow ourselves to associate with masculinity.

Talent is God-given; be humble. Fame is man-given; be thankful. Conceit is self-given; be careful.

Every gift which is given, even though it be small, is in reality great, if it is given with affection.

Any given generation gives the next generation advice that the given generation should have been given by the previous generation but now it's too late.

It's exotic for me to be given a script that's already written, and be given a pay cheque, and asked to dress up and play, and that's all.

Wherever God has given faith, it is given, among other reasons, for the very purpose of being tried.

Can anybody be given a great degree of creativity? No. They can be given the equipment to develop it-if they have it in them in the first place.

"It is necessary to be given the prop that all elementary props are given." This is not necessary because it is even impossible. There is no such prop! That all elementary props are given is SHOWN by there being none having an elementary sense which is not given.

So what are we given? We're also given, my generation, the disillusionment of our parents.

I believe very confidently in the truth of Scripture, where it says that there is no authority, no power given to man except as given by God.

Chaung Tzu was one of the most natural men the world has seen. He has not given any discipline, he has not given any doctrine, he has not given any catechism. He has simply explained one thing: that if you can be natural and ordinary, just like the birds and trees, you will blossom, you will have your wings open in the vast sky.

All sorts of Heroes are intrinsically of the same material; that given a great soul, open to the Divine Significance of Life, then there is given a man fit to speak of this, to sing of this, to fight and work for this, in a great, victorious, enduring manner; there is given a Hero, -- the outward shape of whom will depend on the time and the environment he finds himself in.

When no food is given to the ear, Then let a little be given to the stomach.

Honestly, I'm just trying to do the best I can with every opportunity I'm given, and when I'm given the opportunities make the most of them.

If what must be given is given willingly the kindness is doubled.

I walk until given shelter, fast until given food. I don't ask - it's given without asking. Aren't people good! There's a spark of good in everybody, no mater how deeply it may be buried. It's waiting to govern your life gloriously.

The humanity that is given to other people isn't given to us. There is an expendability that comes along with being African American.

Good engineering is characterized by gradual, stepwise refinement of products that yields increased performance under given constraints and with given resources.

The only thing that is unqualifiedly given is the total pervasive quality; and the objection to calling it "given" is that the word suggests something to which it is given, mind or thought or consciousness or whatever, as well possibly as something that gives.

I love what I do. I was given the most incredible gift that can be given to anyone. I could never imagine a world without music, and I feel grateful that I've been given the ability to share that.

Dre couldn't have given me those words to write, and he couldn't have given me that voice to sing. I couldn't have given him that musical talent or the ability that he has. What we made came from putting things together. I've always said that.

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

And so do you suppose it must be a piece-work because it has been given to you (and could only be given to you) in pieces?

Mike Flynn is a fine person, and I asked for his resignation. He respectfully gave it. He is a man who there was a certain amount of information given to Vice President Mike Pence. And I was not happy with the way that information was given. He didn't have to do that, because what he did wasn't wrong - what he did in terms of the information he saw. What was wrong was the way that other people were given that information, because that was classified information that was given illegally. That's the real problem.

There are no books in this world that everybody must read, but only books that a person must read at a certain time in a given place under given circumstances and at a given period of his life.

I didn't leave Barca well. I left because I wasn't given an opportunity. If I had been given one, maybe I could say what I lacked.

I'm proud to have opened [two] schools in Africa and one in Jamaica [through the Serena Williams Fund and its partners]. I was given a lot. I was given two parents. That's already starting above a lot of kids. And then I was given the opportunity to play tennis and parents who supported that. I feel I can give back.

The best present I've ever given someone is myself. I've given it to everyone.

If you're given a chance, and you're driven and obsessed and consumed when given the opportunity to prove people right, the sky is the limit.

Textbooks are no longer given to schoolchildren; they're too expensive. So they're given to the teachers, who probably need them more.

I hope I have given back half the joy music has given me.

On a given day, a given circumstance, you think you have a limit.

Every time you're given a job, you're given a gift, and if you're flexible, you never know what's going to happen.

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

You must be so thoroughly immersed in the given circumstances of the play, then you decide what it is at any given moment what that the actor wants.

Species go extinct because there are historical contraints built into a given body or a given design.

Given time, given the number of prisoners now that we're interrogating, I'm confident that we're going to find weapons of mass destruction.

Cuba was in some ways a de facto state of the United States before 1959, given its proximity and given its neocolonial status.

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

People have to be given permission to write, and they have to be given space to breathe and stumble. They have to be given time to develop and to reveal what they can do.

The body you're given, the mind you're given, the morality and the hang ups you're given, they're yours. Deal with it.

...sunlight is (life and day are)only loaned:whereas night is given(night and death and the rain are given;and given is how beautifully snow)

Every gift which is given, even though is be small, is in reality great, if it is given with affection

Cricket has given me everything. If I'm anything today, it is because of the game... where I have given blood, sweat, and tears.

I would like to say that no man ever was given finer cooperation than that given me by President Truman.

I don't think college athletes are given enough time to really take advantage of the free education that they're given, and it's frustrating because a lot of people get upset with student-athletes and say, 'They're not focused on school and they're not taking advantage of the opportunity they're given.'

Profit is proof that the capitalist has given something to society that it cherishes more than the material wealth it has given to the businessman.

I would have given you the world if you had given me the chance.

You're only given as much as you can handle at any given time. Whether it's true or not, it gives you the strength.

I want to get to the end and feel that I've done all I could, given the limitations and given the opportunities.

It is always possible to be thankful for what is given rather than to complain about what is not given. One or the other becomes a habit of life.

It was the old psychosomatic side-step. Everyone in my family dances it at every opportunity. You've given me a splitting headache! You've given me indigestion! You've given me crotch rot! You've given me auditory hallucinations! You've given me a heart attack! You've given me cancer!

That's why everybody loves to tune in and watch these fights, because at any given moment, any given fight, any given fighters, anything can happen. A fighter could win nine out of 10 times, but there's always that one time.

I love writing. Given a choice, after directing for all these years, and if given an army of talented directors, I would not direct at all.

But just as much as it is easy to find the differential [derivative] of a given quantity, so it is difficult to find the integral of a given differential. Moreover, sometimes we cannot say with certainty whether the integral of a given quantity can be found or not.

Prima facie, every estate, whether given by will or otherwise, is supposed to be beneficial to the party to whom it is so given.