Given Quotes
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In brief, nationalism is a theory of political legitimacy, which requires the ethnic boundaries should not be cut across political ones, and, in particular, that ethnic boundaries within a given state a contingency already formally excluded by the principle in its general formulation should not separate the power holders from the rest.
Ernest Gellner
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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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[Michelle Obama] was the hardest sell. And she never fully embraced being in the public spotlight, which is ironic, given how good she is.
Barack Obama
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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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... 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
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In the movies I've done for Sony, they've never given me quadrant specific notes ever. They say "Keep making it. Just make the movie you want to do." Especially in a comedy because comedy is so tone specific.
Will Gluck
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I believe you can make your better half feel special on any given day and turn it in Valentine's Day.
Rithvik Dhanjani
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A very honest woman but something given to lie
William Shakespeare
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We say that a sentence is factually significant to any given person, if, and only if, he knows how to verify the proposition which it purports to express.
Sir Alfred Jules "Freddie" Ayer
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It is not something I earned or acquired or bought (the ability to pitch). It is a gift. It is something that was given to me - just like the color of my skin.
Bob Gibson
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Once you get to a certain level, anybody can beat anybody else on any given day.
Andy Roddick
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There is no sphere in which a human being can be supposed to act where one mode of reasoning will not, in every given instance, be more reasonable than any other mode. That mode the being is bound by every principle of justice to pursue.
William Godwin
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You can assess a culture to a degree by the way they receive movies and how they receive a given celebrity.
Kristen Stewart
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To be given permission to be confused -- and remain confused -- for as long as it takes would have been a huge gift.
Janet Jackson
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It is so pleasant to learn about new things. Every day I find how little I know, but I do not feel discouraged since God has given me an eternity in which to learn more.
Helen Keller
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Nothing is given to you. You've got to work for it.
Jack Charlton
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Nothing is given to you in this world, so you have to work hard.
Cain Velasquez
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It's exotic for me to be given a script that's already written, and be given a pay cheque, and asked to dress up and play, and that's all.
Tilda Swinton
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I have just made out my will and given all the things I have and many that I haven't.
Vivien Leigh
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Right now you are a prisoner of each application you use. You have only the options that were given you by the developer of that application.
Ted Nelson
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Power is not given to you. You have to take it.
Beyonce Destiny's Child
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If even a small portion of the praise that is bestowed on Michael Jackson now in death was given to him last year, in life, he might well still be with us.
Robin Gibb Bee Gees
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Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.
William Shakespeare