Given Quotes · Page 99

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

— Michael Patrick Jann

The Law given from Sinai was a civil and municipal as well as a moral and religious code.

— John Quincy Adams

I'm happy, certainly, given the times we're living in, to be doing OK, and to not be worrying about money, and to…

— Marc Maron

We've always had a dual role in the region - friend of Israel, and honest broker. We've given up the honest broker…

— Chris Matthews

I've not given up hope the belly-putter will be banned. The R and A and the USGA are looking at it right…

— Ernie Els

A woman talks about having sex, and it's like, well, a guy got to have sex with you, so you're stupid. You've…

— Emily Ratajkowski

Part of what makes music so interesting is the lack of consensus on just about any given topic.

— Michael Hersch

Most people feel best about themselves when they have given their very best.

— Bill Hybels

Under the law of nature, all men are born free, every one comes into the world with a right to his own…

— Thomas Jefferson

I think good actors - good, collaborative actors who see themselves as leaders in a given production - can and should offer…

— Joe Mantello

I just thought, given the practicalities of financing an independent movie, you have to have some names. That's just the way it…

— George Ratliff

Acting is kind of a forced compassion, where you learn that given certain circumstances, you can feel and do things that you…

— Susan Sarandon

We declare our right on this earth...to be a human being, to be respected as a human being, to be given the…

— Malcolm X

Can quantum mechanics represent the fact that an electron finds itself approximately in a given place and that it moves approximately with…

— Werner Heisenberg

The splitting up of color [as Impressionists did] brought the splitting up of form and contour . . . Everything is reduced…

— Henri Matisse

I had given thought to acting, but I never really had a good enough opportunity or a character who made sense and…

— Gucci Mane

Civilization just takes it as a given that the whole world was flooding. Then science came and you had geology and modern…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

He was in a room of the Gesshuuji, which he had thought it would be impossible to visit. The approach of death…

— Yukio Mishima

Take, O Lord, and receive my entire liberty, my memory, my understanding and my whole will. All that I am and all…

— Anonymous

I found that my wounds begin to heal when the voices of those endangered by silence are given power. The silence of…

— Janice Mirikitani

In many college English courses the words “myth” and “symbol” are given a tremendous charge of significance. You just ain’t no good…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Every moment think steadily as a Roman and a man to do what thou hast in hand with perfect and simple dignity,…

— Marcus Aurelius

Do we get what we want? Yes, we get what we want. God is that loving. If we want isolation, despair, and…

— Rob Bell

I was born with God-given gifts of very talented musical ability and exceptoinal physical coordination. I always needed prodding to practice piano,…

— Otto Graham

He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or…

— Francis Bacon

People start to believe in a given technology when they start to see it around themselves

— Dmitry Grishin

A mathematician's reputation rests on the number of bad proofs he has given.

— Abram Samoilovitch Besicovitch

I was given two weeks to walk again, so I hooked up with a trainer, and he... had me walking. I'll never…

— Richard Pryor

Can you keep your balance? Can you see what and where you are at any given moment?

— Paul Caponigro

My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.

— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

I can assure you that flying saucers, given that they exist, are not constructed by any power on Earth.

— Harry S. Truman

The prize I value most was given to me 60 years ago. I was named the girl with the cleanest fingernails.

— Beryl Bainbridge

Use him wisely. Few have been given such a weapon by the gods or Fates before.

— Janet Morris

I feel like Ive been engaged to the British Empire since 1980 and tonight you have given me the ring knighthood.

— Steven Spielberg

When we read a book, our most essential trait - imagination - is given the opportunity to soar.

— Saint Augustine

All the boys in rehab are totally available because their girlfriends have all given up on them. It's fantastic.

— Nicole Richie

Every day we're given opportunities, some of us see them and some are too busy to notice.

— Rachael Bermingham

At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation, and prejudice.

— Gore Vidal

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