Given Quotes · Page 75

I wanted a way to pass on all the gifts, all the instruction that I've been given.

— Ann Reinking

People are silently begging to be acknowledged, informed, given advance opportunities and led to action.

— Jay Abraham

Man is by instinct a lover, a hunter, a fighter, and none of those instincts are given much play at the warehouse!

— Tennessee Williams

Time is given us to be happy and for no other reason [...] When we waste time, we waste happiness.

— L. Frank Baum

We try to 'self-medicate' ourselves against boredom with mobile phones in any given moment of free time.

— Alex Bogusky

Just to be able to release an album back in the day when I came out was very gratifying. Most people were…

— Keith Sweat

Love is not a given, it's a state that we work toward and experience gradually.

— John Pierrakos

I might not always be given the respect that I should have, but it's what fuels me.

— Tony Ferguson

Men who are not given any voice in this because of the secret nature of the courts, what they're left with is…

— Bob Geldof

The biggest neurological turn-on for people is other people. This is what really excites us. In reward terms, it's not money; it's…

— Tom Chatfield

While I have some regrets that this is my last opportunity to deliver a State of the State address, I appreciate and…

— Jane D. Hull

If he had had all Peru in his pocket, he would certainly have given it to this dancer; but Gringoire had not…

— Victor Hugo

There was an awful rainbow once in heaven: We know her woof, her texture; she is given In the dull catalogue of…

— John Keats

Thus it happens in matters of state; for knowing afar off (which it is only given a prudent man to do) the…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

And I'm moved, it's so beautiful. Not what I wrote, but to have it given back like this. To have her remember…

— David Levithan

How should we judge what we see? More intimately, let us consider the vulnerability of the human body and soul under these…

— Thomas Struth

I don't know how (producer) Dan Harmon put that together but he did. Everyone gets along and we all babysit Chevy Chase…

— Joel McHale

the public sphere is as consistently based on the law of equality as the private sphere is based on the law of…

— Hannah Arendt

When examining evidence relevant to a given belief, people are inclined to see what they expect to see, and conclude what they…

— Thomas Gilovich

The worst is that the very hardest thinking will not bring thoughts. They must come like good children of God and cry,…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“As it is with spiritual discoveries and affections given at first conversion, so it is in all subsequent illuminations and affections of…

— Jonathan Edwards

The man who has struggled bravely with the passions of the body, has fought ably against unclean spirits, and has expelled from…

— Maximus the Confessor

Age has given me what I was looking for my entire life - it gave me me. It provided the time and…

— Anne Lamott

Given the cultural barriers to intersex conversation, the amazing thing is that we would even expect women and men to have anything…

— Barbara Ehrenreich

A benefit consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.

— Seneca the Younger

In an age like ours, which is not given to letter-writing, we forget what an important part it used to play in…

— Anatole Broyard

I worry about what Trump will inspire in Canada, especially given incidents that have already occurred here since the election.

— Vivek Shraya

Our lives are given meaning by our actions-accomplishments made while we are "here" that extend beyond our own time.

— Maya Lin

You can improve your talent, but your talent is a given, a mysterious constant. You must make it the best of its…

— Gore Vidal

The names of the plants ought to be stable [certa], consequently they should be given to stable genera.

— Carl Linnaeus

We're all endowed with God-given talents. Mine happens to be hitting people in the head.

— Sugar Ray Leonard

Given a rich environment, learning becomes like the air—it’s in and around us.

— Sandra Dodd

Yeah, it is particularly upsetting to be called, whatever it was, sneery, or a snob, given the background I have.

— Emily Thornberry

Friendship, peculiar boon of Heaven, The noble mind's delight and pride, To men and angels only given, To all the lower world…

— Samuel Johnson

Homeschooling has given us some wonderful flexibility and some great life experiences, especially with our son.

— Jodi Benson

Advice is one thing that is freely given away, but watch that you only take what is worth having.

— Anonymous

Life is serious, but I do think that God wants us to enjoy the things He's given us, like music.

— TobyMac

I'm really happy that I was raised Catholic because it's given me years of material.

— Kate Clinton

When I was first diagnosed with ALS, I was given two years to live. Now 45 years later, I am doing pretty well.

— Stephen Hawking

When you feel like you've given all you've got! You gotta take one more step!

— Eric Thomas