Given Quotes - page 4

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. View quote
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. View quote
John Updike
I don't believe in luck, Sam. Luck is a tag given by the mediocre to account for the accomplishments of genius. View quote
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. View quote
Alain de Botton
Cage's Music of Changes was a further indication that the arts in general were beginning to consciously deal with the 'given' material and, to varying degrees, liberating them from the inherited, functional concepts of control. View quote
Earle Brown
So much of our lives is given over to the consideration of our imperfections that there is no time to improve our imaginary virtues. The truth is we only perfect our vices, and man is a worse creature when he dies than he was when he was born. View quote
Edward Dahlberg
The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present. View quote
Niccolò Machiavelli
Except by name, Jean Paul Friedrich Richter is little known out of Germany. The only thing connected with him, we think, that has reached this country is his saying,imported by Madame de Stal, and thankfully pocketed by most newspaper critics,'Providence has given to the French the empire of the land to the English that of the sea to the Germans that ofthe air' Richter German humorist prose writer. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
Some decent, regulated preeminence, some preference given to birth, is neither unnatural nor unjust nor impolite. View quote
Edmund Burke
In this choice of inheritance we have given to our frame of polity the image of a relation in blood binding up the constitution of our country with our dearest domestic ties adopting our fundamental laws into the bosom of our family affections keeping inseparable and cherishing with the warmth of all their combined and mutually reflected charities, our state, our hearths, our sepulchres, and our altars. (Edmund Burke)
At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation and prejudice. View quote
Gore Vidal
The way a crow Shook down on me The dust of snow From a hemlock tree Has given my heart A change of mood And saved some part Of a day I had rued. View quote
Robert Frost
In other words, the man who is born into existence deals first with language; this is a given. He is even caught in it before his birth. View quote
Jacques Lacan
We may say that many, if not all, of the personality traits which we have called masculine or feminine are as lightly linked to sex as are the clothing, the manners, and the form of headdress that a society at a given period assigns to either sex. View quote
Margaret Mead
Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing. View quote
Jimmy Wales
OATS, 'n'. A grain, which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people. View quote
Samuel Johnson
There is more than one kind of freedom, said Aunt Lydia. Freedom to and freedom from. In the days of anarchy, it was freedom to. Now you are being given freedom from. Don't underrate it. View quote
Margaret Atwood
Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow. View quote
Eric S. Raymond
Good fortune and a good disposition are rarely given to the same man. View quote
Livy
He held her as though she was a gift. Given to him in love. Something still and small. Unbearably precious. (Arundhati Roy)
Writers and artists never pay attention to advice given by their elders, quite rightly. The only worthwhile advice is the most general: Keep trying, don't give up, don't be discouraged, don't pay attention to detractors. Everyone knows this. View quote
Joyce Carol Oates
How is it possible to find meaning in a finite world, given my waist and shirt size. View quote
Woody Allen
We've finally given liberals a war against fundamentalism, and they don't want to fight it. They would, except it would put them on the same side as the United States. View quote
Ann Coulter
Species go extinct because there are historical contraints built into a given body or a given design. View quote
Kevin Kelly (editor)
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