Given Quotes · Page 109

A lot of people, given the chance, would blow up everything, and you and me.

— David Hockney

I'm very thrilled and excited to have been given the opportunity to captain England.

— Kevin Pietersen

Given the nonsense that is turned out daily by the Holocaust industry, the wonder is that there are so few skeptics.

— Norman Finkelstein

It may not be in the constitution, but every American has a god-given right to provinciality and ignorance.

— Dov Davidoff

I believe that given the audience attention level, we could do an even more compelling 90 minutes.

— Vince McMahon

The finding of arguments for a conclusion given in advance is not philosophy, but special pleading

— Bertrand Russell

The Moon has given us months, tides and a destination that ever-beckons. It's time we build a rocket and go to stay.

— Chris Hadfield

“All things that we are given are not ours to keep, all we get is the moment.”

— Jeffrey Spahr-Summers

No matter who you are, no matter what greatness you've achieved in your life or what gifts you've given to the rest…

— Susan Abulhawa

Everyday I attempt to consume 4,000 Calories and 200 grams of protein. I don't always reach that mark but when I go…

— Robert Cheeke

It is one of the prodigious privileges of art that the horrific, artistically expressed, becomes beauty, and that sorrow, given rhythm and…

— Charles Baudelaire

When a great man has some one object in view to be achieved in a given time, it may be absolutely necessary…

— Edmund Burke

We know too little about how life began on Earth to lay confident odds. It may have involved a fluke so rare…

— Martin Rees

God has given you your child, that the sight of him, from time to time, might remind you of His goodness, and…

— Christian Scriver

The last rays of merciful light, the last message of mercy to be given to the world, is a revelation of His…

— Ellen G. White

So I'm back again to the eternal question, the one that has plagued me all my life: How Do Other People Do…

— Marian Keyes

We have revenue coming in. We can pay our interest payments. And then we can prioritize what government programs that have been…

— Todd Rokita

In the end, it was the Sunday afternoons he couldn't cope with, and that terrible listlessness that starts to set in about…

— Douglas Adams

I literally cried on Lisa Joy's shoulder when it ended. Just, "Thank you." Because those roles [like Dolores in the Westworld] are…

— Evan Rachel Wood

In studies asking why young people left their family religion, their most frequent response was unanswered doubts and questions. The researchers were…

— Nancy Pearcey

I'm interested in trying to explore what I think is the truth at a given time in my life, and part of…

— Charlie Kaufman

The city is a cultural invention enforcing on the citizen knowledge of his own nature. And this we do not like. That…

— Robert Ardrey

We must point out that in what concerns its material the event is not a miracle. What I mean is that what…

— Alain Badiou

The bitter hatreds that now poison Middle Eastern politics are rooted in the real or perceived wrong of the setting up of…

— Richard Dawkins

We were given no chance against them, but we held our own and we will be trying to do the same this…

— Robbie Keane

The dirty little secret of both clinical psychology and biological psychiatry is that they have completely given up on the notion of…

— Martin Seligman

The bottom line is that female writers aren't being given enough opportunities by male producers.

— Chris O'Dowd

Liberty and democracy are eternal enemies, and every one knows it who has ever given any sober reflection to the matter.

— H. L. Mencken

[Button] If Gay and Lesbian people are given civil rights, soon everyone will want them

— James Howe

The author of McCarthyism was given the distinction of addressing the Republican National Convention. This strikes terror in the hearts of honest…

— Emanuel Celler

It is simply not consistent with either my character or my confidence in my God-given athletic ability to cheat in any way.

— Justin Gatlin

If I'm using drugs and alcohol, it means that I've given up on my fullest potential.

— Macklemore

To say that God has given a man many and great talents frequently means that he has brought his heavens down within…

— Henry David Thoreau

No rural community, no suburban community, can ever possess the distinctive qualities that city dwellers have for centuries given to the world.

— Agnes Repplier

Reason and reality are the only means to just laws; mindless wishes, if given sovereignty, become deadly masters.

— Terry Goodkind

We can't choose our lives, but we can DECIDE what to do with the joys or griefs we're given.

— Paulo Coelho

One good thing the teaching has given me is the ability to read and revise my own work.

— Tom Barbash

I simply cannot get over what a surprising and wonderful life God has given me,

— Stanley Hauerwas

Even the most powerful people at a given point in terms of class, will all play by the same rules.

— Lorne Michaels

I began to see my life and each breath I am given as a living prayer to God and a way to…

— Mary C. Neal