Given Quotes - page 2

No sadder proof can be given of a person's own tiny stature, than their disbelief in great people. (Thomas Carlyle)
The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal. View quote
Cicero
A person's behavior is rational if it is in his best interests, given his information. View quote
Robert Aumann
Life was given to me as a favor, so I may abandon it when it is one no longer. View quote
Montesquieu
To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men. View quote
Edmund Burke
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. View quote
Alfred North Whitehead
Women have been called queens for a long time, but the kingdom given them isn't worth ruling. View quote
Louisa May Alcott
Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning. View quote
Henry Miller
Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it. View quote
Gertrude Stein
The Internet has given atheists, agnostics, skeptics, the people who like to destroy everything that you and I believe, the almost equal access to your kids as your youth pastor and you have... whether you like it or not. View quote
Josh McDowell
All discarded lovers should be given a second chance, but with somebody else. (Mae West)
My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved. View quote
Colette
I'm afraid I'm not sufficiently inhibited about the things that other women are inhibited about for me. They feel that you've given away trade secrets. View quote
Mary McCarthy
A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself. View quote
Joseph Campbell
Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he isn't. A sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is. View quote
Horace Walpole
Words were not given to man in order to conceal his thoughts. View quote
José Saramago
Imagination was given man to compensate for what he is not, and a sense of humor to console him for what he is. View quote
Francis Bacon
There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome; to be got over. View quote
Arthur Schopenhauer
The creations of a great writer are little more than the moods and passions of his own heart, given surnames and Christian names, and sent to walk the earth. View quote
William Butler Yeats
If I had as many love affairs as you've given me credit for, I would now be speaking to you from a jar at the Harvard Medical School. View quote
Frank Sinatra
If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel. (Jonathan Swift)
I have known no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect either physical or spiritual, for what the gods had given him. View quote
Max Beerbohm
It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, 'always do what you are afraid to do.' View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
God has given a great deal to man, but man would like something from man. View quote
Antonio Porchia
America, I've given you all and now I'm nothing. View quote
Allen Ginsberg