Given Quotes - page 3

Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better. (William Shakespeare)
Our Creator would never have made such lovely days, and have given us the deep hearts to enjoy them, above and beyond all thought, unless we were meant to be immortal.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
It is so stupid of modern civilization to have given up believing in the devil, when he is the only explanation of it.
Ronald Knox
According to Islamic principles, when a man is accused of heresy, he is given the choice between repentance and punishment.
Naguib Mahfouz
Music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the coordination between man and time.
Igor Stravinsky
I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.
Abraham Lincoln
All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us.
Immanuel Kant
All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.
Friedrich Nietzsche
There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.
Jean-Paul Sartre
If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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)
When given an opportunity, deliver excellence and never quit.
Robert Rodriguez
Love is the greatest gift that God has given us. It's free.
Taraji P. Henson
It has since been agreed that speeches given in English will be translated into French and vice versa, and even into German and Italian when necessary. No doubt translations into Esperanto will also soon be in demand.
Fredrik Bajer
Given the choice, children who don't want for anything will not save... We have an obligation as parents to give our children what they need. What they want we can give them as a special gift, or they can save their money for it.
Barbara Coloroso
Go ahead and believe in God, if you like, but don't imagine that you have been given any grounds for such a belief by science.
Daniel Dennett
Know how to live the time that is given you.
Dario Fo
You largely constructed your depression. It wasn't given to you. Therefore, you can deconstruct it.
Albert Ellis
Naturally, my body language changes given whatever environment I'm in.
Christina Ricci
After I had given up to go, the thoughts of the journey were often attended with unusual sadness, at which times my heart was frequently turned to the Lord with inward breathings for his heavenly support, that I might not fail to follow him wheresoever he might lead me.
John Woolman
The majority of the members of the Irish parliament are professional politicians, in the sense that otherwise they would not be given jobs minding mice at crossroads. (Flann O'Brien)
I see no good reasons why the views given in this volume should shock the religious views of anyone.
Charles Darwin
To say that war is madness is like saying that sex is madness true enough, from the standpoint of a stateless eunuch, but merely a provocative epigram for those who must make their arrangements in the world as given.
John Updike
I don't believe in luck, Sam. Luck is a tag given by the mediocre to account for the accomplishments of genius.
Robert A. Heinlein
Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the numbers of books that were written because authors couldn't find anyone to talk to.
Alain de Botton