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Quotes About Given

One can never anticipate how audiences will respond. One of the lessons that I've learned over the years is to that no matter what my feeling or opinion might be about a given film, once you give it to the audience, they own it.
~ Delroy Lindo
But the single overwhelming reason why jails are bursting is longer sentences given for more crimes.
~ Polly Toynbee
Trust is a fragile thing - difficult to build, easy to break. It cannot be bargained for. Only if it is freely given it can be expected in return
~ Peter Lerangis
I don't want to say I hear voices; well, actually I do hear voices, but I don't think it's supernatural. I think it's just that when characters are given enough texture and backbone, then lo and behold, they stand on their own.
~ Anne Tyler
The dream of radical transformation: of one day waking up and finding himself a wholly different (more confident, more serene) kind of person, of escaping that prison of the given, of feeling divinely capable.
~ Jonathan Franzen
Worship is either something "given", divine worship is fore-ordained—or it does not exist at all.
~ Josef Pieper
Nothing is so liberally given as advice.
~ Proverb
Affections cannot be stolen, madam. They are given freely or not at all.
~ Rachel Field
God has given me one new commandment that I should love others just as He has loved me. —JOHN 13:34
~ Joyce Meyer
She didn't know, could not yet comprehend, that love was a gift that have been given to them in a torchlit garden the moment they met.
~ Judith McNaught
They are given to all kinds of marvellous beliefs; are subject to trances and visions; and frequently see strange sights, and hear music and voices in the air.
~ Washington Irving
When Jennie was given that kitten, she often signed play to it insistently before picking it up and playing with it.
~ Douglas Preston
I've made a lot of progress. As a man, mentally, but also physically. And tactically, too. That's a given with a manager like Antonio Conte. He likes you to work, work, work. Every day.
~ Michy Batshuayi
Marriage is not a human invention; it is a divine revelation. Its design never was our own made-up arrangement of infinite malleability. It was given to us, at the beginning of all things, as a brightly shining fixity of eternal significance. We might not always live up to its true grandeur. None of us does so perfectly. But we have no right to redefine it, and we have every reason to revere it.
~ Raymond C. Ortlund Jr.
I would probably choose supporting roles if I had to make a choice. It's actually a really hard thing to say. It's all on a role-by-role basis, ultimately. I shouldn't be so quick to say that. I feel like you're given greater license to be colorful and eccentric in supporting roles, and that's interesting to me.
~ Paul Giamatti
Her subway card was given to a homeless woman who had thanked her, then screeched that she was a fucking whore.
~ Karin Slaughter
Men make their own history; but they make it under given conditions, and they become entangled thereby in a fate which is in part the result of other men having made their own history earlier.
~ Reinhard Bendix
I am sure that no man asks mercy and grace with true meaning, but if mercy and grace have first been given him.
~ Anya Seton
Truth is man's proper good, and the only immortal thing was given to our mortality to use.
~ Ben Jonson
When men struggle for the single life God has given them ... even their own kind seem no more than the beasts of the wood.
~ James F. Cooper
I got on the TV show at 40 and that is something very rare. So, I know that God gave me that role (on) One Life to Live - the role of Carlotta, the role of a mom.
~ Patricia Mauceri
Everyone spends money freely that is freely given.
~ B.C. Chase
Go take the mother's soul, and learn three truths: Learn What dwells in man, What is not given to man , and What men live by . When thou hast learnt these things, thou shalt return to heaven.
~ Leo Tolstoy
We must always keep in mind all legitimate authority is from God, and is given for protection, provision, and peace.
~ John Bevere