Given Quotes
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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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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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Whatever your calling or purpose is, it's your job to feel it. No gift that you have been given was made for yourself.
Oprah Winfrey
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So much of what I create has been due to the influence of Miles Davis and Donald Byrd, and so many of those that have passed on. Their music, their legacy lives on with the rest of us because we are so highly influenced by their experience and what they have given us.
Herbie Hancock
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In a capitalist society, persons who create capital, like Michael Eisner, are given the staggering rewards.
Carroll O'Connor
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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's an unusual situation, bordering on unique, given that Katie is one of the few bona fide superstars in the history of television news. It's not a routine talent change.
Andrew Heyward
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Nothing is given to you. You've got to work for it.
Jack Charlton
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Mystery such as is given of God is beyond the power of human penetration, yet not in opposition to it.
Madame de Stael
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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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The Greek word pseudepigrapha is a Greek word meaning 'falsely superscribed,' or what we moderns might call writing under a pen name. The classification, 'OT Pseudepigrapha,' is a label that scholars have given to these writings.
Craig A. Evans
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I have been given a lot of roles that are downtrodden, mammy-ish.
Viola Davis
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I saw clearly how those who saved the state so heroically and courageously in the War of Independence would be capable of bringing a catastrophe upon it if they are given the chance in normal times.
Moshe Sharett
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Women are half the population and they know how to take care of themselves, if they are only given access to health care.
Cynthia Nixon
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Results should not be too voluntarily aimed at or too busily thought of. They are sure to float up of their own accord from a long enough daily work at a given matter.
William James
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The life I'm living is the life I'm given.
David Bromberg
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All you can take with you is that which you've given away.
George Bailey
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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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So much is asked of parents, and so little is given.
Virginia Satir
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We must always keep in mind all legitimate authority is from God, and is given for protection, provision, and peace.
John Bevere
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I never gave away anything without wishing I had kept it; nor kept anything without wishing I had given it away.
Louise Brooks
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Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.
William Shakespeare
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Achievement is by all accounts to a great extent a matter of clinging after others have given up.
William Feather
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Wherever there is a human being, I see God-given rights inherent in that being, whatever may be the sex or complexion.
William Lloyd Garrison