Given Quotes
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King has absolute power. And what he has given he can taken away.
Anne Boleyn
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Masculinity is not something given to you, but something you gain. And you gain it by winning small battles with honor.
Norman Mailer
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A purpose gives meaning to life. It is like the hub in a wheel -- with every spoke fitted into it to make a strong and perfect circle. Without such a hub, spokes will not radiate evenly and your wheel will lack strength, will tend to break apart on the first good bump it hits. Given a strong hub, a strong purpose, a person can take a surprising number of shocks and bumps on the outside rim without sustaining permanent damage.
Oveta Culp Hobby
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I had given up the theater and everything propelled me into entertainment. And I didn't resist it.
Vincente Minnelli
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When you're given something new, it's always exciting 'cause you're the first one to do it. You're not having to live up to any expectations, or be compared to anyone who's ever done it before.
Anna Friel
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I would join Sisyphus in Hades and gladly push my boulder up the slope if only, each time it rolled back down, I were given a line of Aeschylus.
Tom Stoppard
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So much of the habitat destruction and pollution is based on the simple principle that we somehow have been given free license over other species to degrade the planet.
Gregory Walter Graffin Bad Religion
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To God there is nothing small. The moment we have given it to God, it becomes infinite.
Mother Teresa
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But the penciled sheets did not seem like nor smell like the library book so she had given it up, consoling herself with the vow that when she grew up, she would work hard, save money and buy every single book that she liked.
Betty Smith
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If religion had a good purpose, then man would have created something great. But we're man: we mess up everything. We mess up nature. We mess up God. We take what is given to us and make it into what we think it should be.
Ziggy Marley
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Walt Whitman and Emerson are the poets who have given the world more than anyone else. Perhaps Whitman is not so widely read in England, but England never appreciates a poet until he is dead.
Oscar Wilde
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No problem is insoluble, given a big enough plastic bag.
Tom Stoppard
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It is difficult to be a good noncommissioned officer. If it had been easy, they would have given it to the officer corps.
William A. Connelly
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Worship is giving God the best that He has given you.
Oswald Chambers
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You've given me the best of you, but now I need the rest of you.
Billy Joel
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Nothing is Given, Everything is Earned.
Zion Williamson
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Given one well-trained physician of the highest type and he will do better work for a thousand people than ten specialists.
William J. Mayo
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We like the organic market and the organic market for olives at the present time has given us a great opportunity.
John Young
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Realistically, the chances of a breakthrough are very slim given the rigidity of the U.S. position on key issues.
Peter Hayes Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
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Fighters are raised into MMA. It's more about what's internal, not what's God given. When you have a great fighter like Rickson Gracie or Fedor Emelianenko-they're greater than the others because they have an internal spiritual being that separates them from the rest in their craft. They have the warrior spirit.
Troy Polamalu
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I had given up the guitar between '75 and '78. I completely lost interest. I was sick of hearing other guitar players and I was tired of my tunes.
Ritchie Blackmore Blackmore's Night
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Generosity consists not the sum given, but the manner in which it is bestowed.
Mahatma Gandhi
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... I cannot think a civilization worth having that does not encourage and enable its subjects to spend something, not extorted by governments but freely given to keep wretchedness at least from the streets they walk through day by day.
Freya Stark
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Look, I might have lived in England for the last several years but I'm still an American citizen and I have not given up my right to privacy.
Kevin Spacey