Given Quotes

I am the unarmed black kid who maybe needed a hand, but instead was given a bullet.

Writers don't need to be given formulas; they need to be shown possibilities.

Each of us has some unique capability waiting for realization. Every person is valuable in his own existence, for himself alone... each of us can bring to fruition these innate, God-given abilities.

Everyone is given one gift, a reason for being, and it's our obligation to do something with it.

I would have given anything to keep her little. They outgrow us so much faster than we outgrow them.

If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air.

Grace is inexplicable, inappropriate, out of bounds, offensive, excessive, & given to the wrong people.

Your progress depends upon your degree of sustained intensity in a given direction.

The thing that's really rewarding is when people will say to me that they had actually given up the bass, but are going to start again because the online school seems like a good idea.

It's not the act of arrogance to draw, it's humbling - you must use your God-given talent. And of all the people I sketch, in most cases I feel I have to measure up to the subject.

I have been given nothing. God makes men what they are.

The one principle that surrounds everything else is that of stewardship; that we are the managers of everything that God has given us

If God has given His Son to die for us, let us beware of doubting His kindness and love in any painful providence of our daily life.

Like a kaleidoscope which is every now and then given a turn, society arranges successively in different orders elements which one would have supposed immutable, and composes a new pattern.

Lessons are not given, they are taken.

Do not grieve over someone who changes all of the sudden. It might be that he has given up acting and returned to his true self.

It could be a sign of pride in your life if a word of reproof or admonition is not able to be received with the same grace, whether it be given by the poorest of saints or the most educated person.

It often happens to children - and sometimes to gardeners - that they are given gifts of value of which they do not perceive until much later.

I am Chelsea Manning. I am a female. Given the way that I feel, and have felt since childhood, I want to begin hormone therapy as soon as possible.

Any relationship between a building and its users is one of violence, for any use means the intrusion of a human body into a given space, the intrusion of one order into another.

Time is given us to use in view of eternity.

All that is not given is lost.

A woman is human. She is not better, wiser, stronger, more intelligent, more creative, or more responsible than a man. Likewise, she is never less. Equality is a given. A woman is human.

The faith of those who live their faith is a serene faith. What you long for will be given you; what you love will be yours for ever.

The one thing you can’t take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me. The last of one’s freedoms is to choose ones attitude in any given circumstance.

Before death takes away what you are given, give away what there is to give.

Life is serious, but I do think that God wants us to enjoy the things He's given us, like music.

What we have is given by God and to teach it to others is to return it to him.

The mother's love is not given to us to spoil us with indulgence, but to soften our hearts, that we may in turn soften others with kindness.

The nearest anyone can come to finding himself at any given age is to find a story that somehow tells him about himself.

The Lord has given an overcoming victory to every person who is born again.

Once you begin to acknowledge random acts of kindness-both the ones you have received and the ones you have given - you can no longer believe that what you do does not matter.

Why has God given me such magnificent talent? It is a curse as well as a great blessing.

Beloved is man, for he was created in the image of God. Beloved are Israel, for they were called children of God. Beloved are Israel, for unto them was given the desirable Torah

It is not what you get out of life that counts. It's what you give and what is given from the heart.

Love abounds in all things, excels from the depths to beyond the stars, is lovingly disposed to all things. She has given the king on high the kiss of peace.

In any given society the authority of man over man runs in inverse proportion to the intellectual development of that society.

You must be so thoroughly immersed in the given circumstances of the play, then you decide what it is at any given moment what that the actor wants.

I take no pride in my artistic talents; they are God-given and I see absolutely no reason to become puffed up over something that one has received.

There are no mistakes, no coincidences; all events are blessings given to us to learn from.

Government is in reality established by the few; and these few assume the consent of all the rest, without any such consent being actually given.

Given my heritage and the ordeal of my childhood, I sometimes wonder why I myself am not insane. Maybe I am.

Knowledge of any value can't be given. It must be sought and earned

The dubious privilege of a freelance writer is he’s given the freedom to starve anywhere.

At any given moment, there is always a line representing what your boss will believe. If you step over it, you will not get your budget. Go as close to that line as you can.

How you use the opportunities your given to affect the world around you will determine the legacy you leave behind.

Sign language is the noblest gift God has given to deaf people.

You can never trust a human being to behave as you would have expected in a given circumstance

I have never given all of myself, even vocally, to anyone. I was taught to sing on your interest, not your capital.

The soul has been given its own ears to hear things mind does not understand.