Given Quotes
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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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My side ain't chosen. My side was given.
John Marston
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Look wise, say nothing, and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought.
William Osler
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Side by side with the middlemen, punishment will have to be given against those who are moving from the country in illegal way, they are tainting the image of the country along with pushing their life into a danger.
Rudolf Arnheim
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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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Man has too long forgotten that the earth was given to him for usufruct alone, not for consumption, still less for profligate waste.
George Perkins Marsh
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Which is more messed up- that we have so much compared to everyone else, or that we don't think we're rich? That on any given day, we might flippantly call ourselves 'broke' or 'poor?' We are neither of those things. We are rich. Filthy rich.
Francis Chan
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My sister and I both benefited hugely from the great security that our parents had given us, and then we went off and squandered it all rushing around in showbiz.
Tom Hollander
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As far as I was concerned, the Depression was an ill wind that blew some good. If it hadn't occurred, my parents would have given me my college education. As it was, I had to scrabble for it.
Sargent Shriver
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The mark of a saint is not perfection, but consecration. A saint is not a person without faults, but a man who has given himself without reserve to God.
Brooke Foss Westcott
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In medical practice, there are few surgical procedures given so little attention and so underrated in its potential hazard as abortion.
Warren Hern
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If I were you I'd promise to live life for all it's worth, take all you've been given and leave your mark upon this Earth. Trust your heart to show you everything you need...and if you were you, I'd fall in love with me.
Floyd Elliot Wray
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I thought that I had found something new. But then I convinced myself that the Abbot Gregor Mendel in Brünn, had, during the sixties, not only obtained the same result through extensive experiments with peas, which lasted for many years, as did de Vries and I, but had also given exactly the same explanation, as far as that was possible in 1866.
Carl Correns
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Nobody who has ever given his best has regretted it.
George Halas
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I made The War Zone when I had just given birth to twins, and my post-partum frame was very much on display there.
Tilda Swinton
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Everyone behaves badly--given the chance.
Ernest Hemingway
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Why are we so hard on one another? I wonder. Hadn’t the world already given us challenges enough?
Pam Jenoff
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A confessional passage has probably never been written that didn't stink a little bit of the writer's pride in having given up his pride.
J. D. Salinger
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I think it's a given that people know what I can do vocally.
Christina Aguilera
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Life is often compared to a marathon, but I think it is more like being a sprinter; long stretches of hard work punctuated by brief moments in which we are given the opportunity to perform at our best.
Michael Johnson
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We were given the Scriptures to humble us into realizing that God is right, and the rest of us are just guessing.
Rich Mullins
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The stars we are given. The constellations we make. That is to say, stars exist in the cosmos, but constellations are the imaginary lines we draw between them, the readings we give the sky, the stories we tell.
Rebecca Solnit
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Anyone who has been given the gift of being opposite an actor who gives and gives, it just makes you better.
Sandra Bullock
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However, given the fact that the State has a controlling stake in the company [Rosneft], it might not be the best course of action when one company under State control buys another one fully owned by the State. This is one point.
Vladimir Putin