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Quotes About Given

Truman claimed was the figure given him
~ Howard Zinn
No one valued the given heart, no one saw that sacrifice for the precious gift it was. No, just a thing to be grasped, twisted by uncaring hands, then wrung dry and discarded.
~ Steven Erikson
Therefore let us not suppose that men can put themselves forward on their own initiative, for no man can know how to speak one word to the glory of Jesus Christ, except it is given him, and that the Holy Ghost govern his tongue.
~ Steven J. Lawson
Don't they look like ancient island princesses, marked out for sacrifice? Sent away for the sake of the islanders, to be given to the sea?
~ Caroline B. Cooney
We named her Kalisa. Dat name, da essence…it mean given to God. I guess
~ Thomas L. Scott
Our understanding is a faculty of concepts, i.e., a discursive understanding, for which it must of course be contingent what and how different might be the particular that can be given to it in nature and brought under its concepts.
~ Immanuel Kant
The best advice I was probably given and the best advice I could give someone who is trying to get into the comedy field is to take advantage of every opportunity you have to work to hone your skills.
~ Bob Newhart
Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; know and the door will be opened to you. ~Matthew 7:7
~ Susan M. Heim
Imagination is linked as much to an awareness of the insufficiency of the world as we find it as it is to fantasy; it grows from a desire to assert contrary or alternative worlds in the face of the given.
~ Sven Birkerts
One thing was absolutely certain—it was a given for Kazuo. Although he might not have particularlyrealized it, or more appropriately, perhaps because he was incapable of coming to such a realization, this was what it came down to: he, Kazuo Kiriyama, felt no emotion, no guilt, no sorrow, no pity, towards the four corpses, including Mitsuru's—and that ever since the day he was dropped into this world theway he was, he had never once felt a single emotion.
~ Koushun Takami
He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the Lord; and that which he hath given will he pay him again.
~ Bible
Sherard Blaw, the dramatist who had discovered himself, and who had given so unstintingly of his discovery to the world.
~ Saki
God, why do I storm heaven for answers that are already in my heart? Every grace I need has already been given me. Oh, lead me to the Beyond within.
~ Macrina Wiederkehr
We never imagined ourselves in this unbelievable situation that we're in today such as having concerts all over the world and we believe this is all given to us by the Fox God.
~ Suzuka Nakamoto
When an actor asks you to read his script, your heart sinks. The number of scripts I've been given by actors that are so unbelievably terrible!
~ Richard Grant
Nothing fairer than peace is given to man to know; Better one peace than countless triumphs
~ Silius Italicus
You also have to work with the love you are given, with all of the complications clanging behind it like tin cans to a bridal sedan.
~ Tayari Jones
I've been spoiled by this project. I was given the script and went in to read, realizing that this was a powerful story and one that wasn't told very often.
~ Wentworth Miller
Love received and love given comprise the best form of therapy.
~ Gordon Allport
I have been given nothing. God makes men what they are.
~ William Wallace
Man is an amphibian who lives simultaneously in two worlds-the given and the home-made, the world of matter, life and consciousness and the world of symbols.
~ Aldous Huxley
Meeting you and falling in love with you was an experience I would relive a thousand times in a thousand different lives, if I was ever given that chance.
~ Nicholas Sparks
I'm delighted that the BBC has given me the chance to delve into the murky world of 'The Body Farm.'
~ Keith Allen
Cage's Music of Changes was a further indication that the arts in general were beginning to consciously deal with the 'given' material and, to varying degrees, liberating them from the inherited, functional concepts of control.
~ Earle Brown