Quotes of: Given Keyword

I had a kind of meandering little career, and then I was given a chance to play one of the bottom six in The Dirty Dozen.

Donald Sutherland

Forgiveness says you are given another chance to make a new beginning.

Desmond Tutu

Women may not have it easy, but we are given a fairer chance to reach for the top.

Jessica Savitch

I tend to feel if people say they're going to do something, they will, if given the chance.

Margaret Atwood

There are so many people, deaf or otherwise abled, who are so talented but overlooked or not given a chance to even get their foot in the door.

Marlee Matlin

I'd pretty much given up hope of being published, so I just wrote the book I wanted to read.

Kate Morton

Privacy was in sufficient danger before TV appeared, and TV has given it its death blow.

Louis Kronenberger

Instruction ends in the schoolroom, but education ends only with life. A child is given to the universe to be educated.

Frederick William Robertson

Baseball for me was instinctive, born within me, given to me as a gift from God.

Willie Stargell

I don't think it is given to any of us to be impertinent to great religions with impunity.

John le Carre

If I was ambitious in my career, then I would have moved to the United States and given it a good go at films.

Keeley Hawes

Why, if someone is good in one field can they not be accepted or given the slightest opportunity to express and be creative in other fields?

Kanye West

Given the choice between someone saying I was handsome in a role or ugly but good, I know which I'd choose.

Rufus Sewell

The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world.

Thomas Jefferson

It was such a relief. I lived in fear of being found out. Now it's given me a whole new mission in life.

Dick Sargent

I think it is important for people who are given leadership roles to assume that role immediately.

Bob Iger

Cinema seats make people lazy. They expect to be given all the information. But for me, question marks are the punctuation of life.

Abbas Kiarostami

I would have given my own life if I could have undone the killing of white men by my people.

Chief Joseph

Most simply but profoundly, I chose to live an honest life, which I think as a gay person is not a given.

Ira Sachs

They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life.

Jane Austen

A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.

Joseph Campbell