Quotes of: Given Keyword

Always have a plan, but be prepared to change it at any given moment.

The Last Innocent

Any freedom that can be given can be taken away.

Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal

So it is: we are not given a short life but we make it short, and we are not Ill-supplied but wasteful of it.

On the Shortness of Life

...he considered respect for one's given word as a wealth that should not be squandered.

One Hundred Years of Solitude

MR. BROWNE'S SEPTEMBER PRECEPT: WHEN GIVEN THE CHOICE BETWEEN BEING RIGHT OR BEING KIND, CHOOSE KIND.

Wonder

Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.

The Wild Palms

You take away all the other luxuries in life, and if you can make someone smile and laugh, you have given the most special gift: happiness.

Brad Garrett

I've lived my life in a way that I feel would be an example to young women and I've always given my best in everything I've tried.

Cindy Margolis

According to Islamic principles, when a man is accused of heresy, he is given the choice between repentance and punishment.

Naguib Mahfouz

Masculinity is not something given to you, but something you gain. And you gain it by winning small battles with honor.

Norman Mailer

The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do.

Orison Swett Marden

I've never cackled with laughter at a single line I've ever written. None of it has given me pleasure.

Pat Conroy

Lions are born knowing they are predators. Antelopes understand they are the prey. Humans are one of the few creatures on Earth given the choice.

Patrick H.T. Doyle

But time given to wishing for what can't be is not only spent, but wasted, and for all that we waste we shall be accountable.

Penelope Fitzgerald

A woman has a responsibility and a privilege that a man doesn't have of given birth to another human being.

Peter Kreeft

We have given most of Europe to Hitler. Let us try to hold on to what we have got left.

Pierre Laval

Today you will envy the blessings of another, or you will bask in the wonder of the amazing grace you have been given.

Paul David Tripp

I absolutely intend to return every penny given to me by my Democratic colleagues and Democratic leaders.

Rodney Alexander

Christ had given the apostles a world-wide commission, embracing all the nations; but intellectually they did not understand what He meant. They found that out as they followed the impulse of the Spirit.

Roland Allen

There is a note in the front of the volume saying that no public reading may be given without first getting the author's permission. It ought to be made much more difficult to do than that.

Robert Benchley

In a constitutional democracy the moral content of law must be given by the morality of the framer or legislator, never by the morality of the judge.

Robert Bork