Given Quotes · Page 148

If a senator or congressman notices 25 phone calls, on any issue, on any given day, it is noted.

— Russ Feingold

...children have the resilience to outlive their sufferings, if given a chance.

— Ishmael Beah

I love writing. Given a choice, after directing for all these years, and if given an army of talented directors, I would…

— Vikram Rohit Shetty

Look at the people who review. Look at their commitment to being "right" and "safe". If I had listened to my critics…

— John Fante

I wish the world was run by women. Women who have given birth and know the value of their creation.

— Simin Daneshvar

I don't discuss my own beliefs in public, but I will say the beliefs I've given my characters do not necessarily represent…

— Christopher Paolini

But she would never forget Brodick... or the spontaneous kiss he'd given her that had meant nothing to him and everything to…

— Julie Garwood

If you instill in your child a love of the outdoors and an appreciation of nature, you will have given him a…

— Ted Trueblood

I cannot get myself interested in video games. I've been given video game players and they just sit there connected to my…

— Quentin Tarantino

“Life is not easy. But that's not the only truth that matters in this context. It also happens to be true that…

— David Bach

I believe that every person's individual testimony of Jesus as the Christ comes as a spiritual gift. No one can successfully dispute…

— James E. Faust

I remember, the first time I came to the United States in 1996, I didn't speak a word of English at the…

— Juanes

In this initial illimitableness of possibilities that characterizes one who has no nature there stands out only one fixed, pre-established, and given…

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

At any given time I'm listening to the Cory Branan, Leonna Naess, Eve 6, the King's Noyse, Sean Paul, Green Day, the…

— Sarah Addison Allen

The spirit in which a thing is given determines that in which the debt is acknowledged; it's the intention, not the face-value…

— Anonymous

I'm involved in music and fashion a lot more than I used to be, so my style has definitely changed - for…

— Olly Murs

For unnumbered centuries of human history the wilderness has given way. The priority of industry has become dogma. Are we as yet…

— Aldo Leopold

. . . the example given by the Nazi regime as to the ability of a modern state to destroy human lives…

— Omer Bartov

The genius of Man in our time has gone into jet-propulsion, atom-splitting, penicillin-curing, etc. There is left none over for works of…

— Malcolm Muggeridge

A writer works from the material she has, but it comes from the unconscious. Everything is stored up and one never knows…

— Rosamond Lehmann

Charity bestowed upon those who are worthy of it is like good seed sown on a good soil that yields an abundance…

— Buddha

The physicist may be satisfied when he has the mathematical scheme and knows how to use for the interpretation of the experiments.…

— Werner Heisenberg

Sport has the power to inspire and unite people. In Africa, soccer enjoys great popularity and has a particular place in the…

— Nelson Mandela

[A] woman should have every honorable motive to exertion which is enjoyed by man, to the full extent of her capacities and…

— Frederick Douglass

I've given these guys the blueprint on how to win a premiership, now I just have to be patient until they're ready.

— LeBron James

The Pentagon still has not given a name to the Iraqi war. Somehow 'Operation Re-elect Bush' doesn't seem to be popular.

— Jay Leno

We often pray for purity, unselfishness, for the highest qualities of character, and forget that these things cannot be given, but must…

— Lyman Abbott

It seems that every time mankind is given a lot of energy, we go out and wreck something with it.

— David R. Brower

good people managers are likely to listen more than they speak. Perhaps that's why we were given two ears and only one…

— Mary Kay Ash

I wanted to be a disgusting, oozing zombie, not a sexy, cleavage zombie, which is what I was expecting, given my previous…

— Amber Heard

The love of liberty with life is given, And life itself the inferior gift of Heaven.

— John Dryden

Prudence supposes the value of the end to be assumed, and refers only to the adaptation of the means. It is the…

— William Whewell

At the gym; I've given up trying to get in really good shape, and re-committed myself to not getting any worse.

— Dov Davidoff

Part of the problem is we had so far to go, given the deep homophobia in our society. But, the movement is…

— Cornel West

The audiences don't connect with the role if you haven't given in your best.

— Hiten Tejwani

But what we are given is taken as well, so that we know God's glory comes to us from His will alone.

— Alice Hoffman

You wouldn't see those sorts of decisions given in village cricket, let alone Test cricket. The England players have my sympathy.

— Ian Botham

There's no thought given to the individual because there aren't any individuals in socialism; everybody's the same.

— Rush Limbaugh

People who are not willing to respect not only the given law, but our democratic way of life, should not live in…

— Vera Jourova

For there to be true maturity, people must be given room to grow, which includes room to fail...

— Charles R. Swindoll