Given famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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I love the voice - it’s the most perfect instrument ever heard. It’s God given.
-- A. R. Rahman -
I couldn't forget. I couldn't break. She had the power to break me. No one had ever been given that power, ever.
-- Abbi Glines -
I believe the Bible is the best gift God has ever given to man.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
So is it over is this really it You've given up so easily I thought you loved me more than this
-- Adele -
To have given pleasure to one human being is a recollection that sweetens life.
-- Agnes Repplier -
You have to work with what you are given, even in Shakespeare. we have our form and it is important that we free ourselves through it.
-- Ajay Naidu -
I'm for the freedom of expression, given that it will be under strict control.
-- Alan Bennett -
Advances have fallen, generally, for everything except the biggest potential bestsellers. Given all the changes, both economic and technological, SF hasn't done too badly.
-- Alan Dean Foster -
Christians have given atheists less and less in which to disbelieve
-- Alasdair MacIntyre -
You largely constructed your depression. It wasn't given to you. Therefore, you can deconstruct it.
-- Albert Ellis -
Whatever we accomplish in life, if it's solely for our own good, then it doesn't mean that much. The things you do that affect others in a positive way are the ones that count. Whatever facet of life you're in, God has given you a gift; do the best you can with that gift.
-- Alberto Salazar -
Why has God given me such magnificent talent? It is a curse as well as a great blessing.
-- Albrecht Durer -
Given a fair chance, human beings can govern themselves, and govern themselves better
-- Aldous Huxley -
There are so many factors that go into how you feel, as a performer, on any given movie, that it's really hard to identify which things are the things that help you be good, and which are the things that hinder you.
-- Alessandro Nivola -
To what extent is any given man morally responsible for any given act? We do not know
-- Alexis Carrel -
What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like and immorality is what they dislike.
-- Alfred North Whitehead -
No reason can be given for the nature of God, because that nature is the ground of rationality.
-- Alfred North Whitehead -
But what we are given is taken as well, so that we know God's glory comes to us from His will alone.
-- Alice Hoffman -
Once you know some things, you can't unknow them. It's a burden that can never be given away.
-- Alice Hoffman -
What one reads, or rather all that comes to us, is surely only of interest and value in proportion as we find ourselves therein, -- form given to what was vague, what slumbered stirred to life.
-- Alice James -
America, I've given you all and now I'm nothing.
-- Allen Ginsberg -
Often you will end up loving the new things you try and even if you don't love it, you've given yourself a new experience.
-- Alli Simpson -
One does, after all, take on many of the givens of a society when one takes on its language.
-- Alma Guillermoprieto -
BEG, v. To ask for something with an earnestness proportioned to the belief that it will not be given.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
Time is a very precious gift- so precious that it is only given to us moment by moment.
-- Amelia Barr -
There were many occasions in my career where I could have given up, where I asked myself whether I would ever make it.
-- Amelie Mauresmo -
It is great to be faced with the impossible, for nothing is impossible if one is meant to do it. Wisdom will be given, and strength. When the Lord leads, He always strengthens.
-- Amy Carmichael -
Perhaps this was the secret to being at peace: want nothing but what is given to you.
-- Amy Waldman -
Life is so much more rewarding if you strive for something, rather than take what's given to you on a plate.
-- Amy Winehouse -
The value of a life is always measured by how much of it is given away.
-- Andy Stanley -
Even though it's my job to be an actor, I have given my life to God.
-- Angus T. Jones -
You've got to use the life you've been given to give others life
-- Ann Voskamp -
Sometimes the most beautiful thing is precisely the one that comes unexpectedly and unearned, hence something given truly as a present.
-- Anna Freud -
I have given up trying to be happy. It is no use an leads to nothing.
-- Anna Held -
There is, after all, no pleasure like that given by a woman who really wants to see you.
-- Anthony Powell -
I know what I have given you... I do not know what you have received.
-- Antonio Porchia -
My own habit had always been to write about the things that ticked me off in a given day. If I kept a journal at all, I kept it to vent.
-- Ariel Gore -
If God wanted us high, He would have given us wings.
-- Arsenio Hall -
Any given program will expand to fill all available memory.
-- Arthur Bloch -
Grace is given of god, but knowledge is bought in the market.
-- Arthur Hugh Clough -
Every new born being indeed comes fresh and blithe into the new existence, and enjoys it as a free gift: but there is, and can be, nothing freely given. It's fresh existence is paid for by the old age and death of a worn out existence which has perished, but which contained the indestructible seed out of which the new existence has arisen: they are one being.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer -
He held her as though she was a gift. Given to him in love. Something still and small. Unbearably precious.
-- Arundhati Roy -
Never chase love, affection, or attention. If it isn't given freely by another person, it isn't worth having.
-- Ashley Purdy -
It is only for the sake of those without hope that hope is given to us.
-- Assata Shakur -
i cannot be called upon to know a negative or to prove a negative. if there is a god and you prove it, that's fine. but you don't tell me you can't know that there isn't. i would say yes i know there isn't because i have been given no evidence.
-- Ayn Rand -
On a given day, a given circumstance, you think you have a limit.
-- Ayrton Senna -
A self is a repertoire of behavior appropriate to a given set of contingencies.
-- B. F. Skinner -
If your government had given me a thousandth of the sum it spent to depose me, I could have won that war.
-- Bao ?ai -
Given my own circumstances, I find that anything can turn out to belong nearly anywhere.
-- Barbara Kingsolver -
That is the exciting thing: I don't know what God has given me for tomorrow.
-- Barbara Mandrell -
The power of divorce can be given only to those who feel the inconveniences of marriage, and who are sensible of the moment when it is for their interest to make them cease.
-- Baron de Montesquieu -
Life was given to me as a favor, so I may abandon it when it is one no longer.
-- Baron de Montesquieu -
Writers don't need to be given formulas; they need to be shown possibilities.
-- Barry Lane -
There is no truth which cannot be given in fifty words; the truth is always concise.
-- Barry N. Malzberg -
Wisdom is meaningless until your own experience has given it meaning, and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
-- Bergen Evans -
Being out there in the ocean, God's creation, it's like a gift He has given us to enjoy,
-- Bethany Hamilton -
Reading has given me more satisfaction than really anything else.
-- Bill Blass -
I think I have a gift, but I haven't really opened that gift yet and given it to myself.
-- Billy Boyd -
God has given me the ability. The rest is up to me. Believe. Believe. Believe.
-- Billy Mills -
Riches have never yet given anybody either peace or rest.
-- Billy Sunday -
What have you given the world it never possessed before you came?
-- Billy Sunday -
A good nation I will make live.This the nation above has said.They have given me the power to make over.
-- Black Elk -
When we give, we receive much more than what we have given.
-- Bo Sanchez -
Much is written about the Batman because he is publicly exposed in print. Very little is known personally about his creator, because I haven't given out that many interviews.
-- Bob Kane -
I would have given my right arm to have been a pianist.
-- Bobby Robson -
I would have given anything to keep her little. They outgrow us so much faster than we outgrow them.
-- Brian Fitzgerald -
Imagination is a gift given to us from God and each one of us use it differently.
-- Brian Jacques -
I love illustrating for other writers because I am given stories I never would have thought of, and my work as an illustrator is always in support of the story.
-- Brian Selznick -
The gifts of the Gospel are given to strengthen the faith of the believer.
-- Brigham Young -
Given the right set of circumstances any one of us could become dangerous - so why not show that in our programmes?
-- Bryan Cranston -
When you give others a new chance, a new chance is really being given to you.
-- Bryant H. McGill -
You're never given more pain than you can handle. You never, ever get more than you can take.
-- Byron Katie -
The proper rewards are not simply tacked on to the activity for which they are given, but are the activity itself in consummation.
-- C. S. Lewis -
Watching 'Girls' has just given me renewed courage.
-- Caitlin Moran -
Love so joyfully and freely given can never be taken away. It is never truly gone.
-- Cameron Dokey -
I feel that's the richest gift that's ever been given to me: I get to do what I love. And it's a really brutal business, and no matter how successful you are you hear "No" more than "Yes."
-- Carla Gugino -
The Capitol is the best work I have ever done, or shall ever do, and I am glad to have Given it to St. Paul.
-- Cass Gilbert -
Maybe I see myself with kids, given the right place and right moment, with the right person.
-- Cat Deeley -
Take good care of the things you have. Careless people spend more for a given standard of living.
-- Catherine Crook de Camp -
The tender Mercy of God has given us one another.
-- Catherine McAuley -
oh well, is it hurting anyone? Because if its not and you’ve been given it, I’d as soon stop calling it a thing and start referring to it as a gift.
-- Cecelia Ahern -
A man must fill his life with meaning, meaning is not automatically given to life.
-- Chaim Potok -
Independence is never given to a people, it has to be earned; and, once earned, must be defended.
-- Chaim Weizmann -
Each person is only given so many evenings and each wasted evening is a gross violation against the natural course of your only life.
-- Charles Bukowski -
The censure of those who are opposed to us, is the highest commendation that can be given us.
-- Charles de Saint-Evremond -
Speech has been given to man to disguise his thoughts.
-- Charles Maurice de Talleyrand -
When you have given yourself to Christ, leave yourself there, and go about your work as a child in His household.
-- Charles Seymour Robinson -
My only joys therefore are that when God has given me a work to do, I have not refused it.
-- Charles Studd -
In the end we can never be given knowledge by others; we can only be stimulated. We must develop our own knowledge.
-- Charles Tart -
The Curse of Knowledge: when we are given knowledge, it is impossible to imagine what it's like to LACK that knowledge.
-- Chip Heath -
Design is a response to a specific problem. You are given a problem to solve, and then you let the problem itself tell you what your solution is.
-- Chip Kidd -
To dwell means to belong to a given place.
-- Christian Norberg-Schulz -
Her curiosity instructed her more than the answers she was given.
-- Clarice Lispector -
From all those created in the image of God there is something to be received, and to them something to be given.
-- Colin Gunton
