Given Quotes

That’s still our overall purpose, but God’s given us to passions.

Considering how much we are all given to discuss the characters of others, and discuss them often not in the strictest spirit of charity.

Jazz does not belong to one race or culture, but is a gift that America has given the world.

Dealing with the government does not mean you have to give a bribe.

Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it.

Everybody who talks to a newspaper has a motive. That’s just a given. And good reporters always, repeat always, probe to find out what that motive is.

I wasn’t supported, I wasn’t given any self-esteem.

For those to whom much is given, much is required. It is not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up. There is no substitute for victory.

There are things that are a given, that you’ve already established, and obviously, visually, certain iconic things that can’t be completely removed, like a certain hat or a certain coat in my case.

The star [Tycho’s supernova] was at first like Venus and Jupiter, giving pleasing effects; but as it then became like Mars, there will next come a period of wars, seditions, captivity and death of princes, and destruction of cities, together with dryness and fiery meteors in the air, pestilence, and venomous snakes.