I’d be more frightened by not using whatever abilities I’d been given. I’d be more frightened by procrastination and laziness.

In Mars, we’ve been given a wonderful set of moons… where we can send continuous numbers of people.

If the gods had intended for people to vote, they would have given us candidates.

Losing is no disgrace if you’ve given your best.

Life is given to us, we earn it by giving it.

We emphasize that such a form of communication is not absent in man, however evanescent a naturally given object may be for him, split as it is in its submission to symbols.

It is the duty of every good officer to obey any orders given him by his commander in chief.

I believe India has multi-talented people, so I have also embarked on my journey as an actor. I don’t need to be a celebrity, since tennis has already given fame to me.

Not everyone is lucky enough to be given space and trust.

Do we recognize the platform that Indian cinema has been given? Of course. And typically India of us, we gracefully acknowledge our host’s grace and we thank you for celebrating us and our cinema.

No drama, however great, is entirely independent of the stage on which it is given.

I had no idea that I would ever get involved with something like lending money to poor people, given the circumstances in which I was working in Bangladesh.

The spring of 1942 was given over to a very impassioned, strategic debate about where we should first attack in counterpunching against the Germans and Italians. The British argued very persuasively on the part of...

Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion. This is not a function of any other art.

Now when the two armies met, many and fierce were the combats waged between them, and blows were given and received, and swords flashed and showers of arrows descended on all sides.

Marijuana you can give up, Iv given it up for fifteen years now and it never occurs to me to smoke it anymore.

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I’ve given no thought to moving to America at all.

A singer starts by having his instrument as a gift from God… When you have been given something in a moment of grace, it is sacrilegious to be greedy.

If God existed, and if He cared for humankind, He would never have given us religion.

The queen and I always got on well, still do; I uphold everything Her Majesty represents, has given up her life for. It’s her duty. For her country, she’s selfless to the grave.

Freedom is never given; it is won.

Hindsight can be merciless. People of any given era often look back in time and wonder how their predecessors could have been so dimwitted.

I’ve never been given a ticket by a police man.

If inflation-adjusted interest rates decline in a given country, its currency is likely to decline.

Speech was given to man to disguise his thoughts.

If I were a customer, and I was given a dish with peppers, I would hate it. I also don’t like blood sausage.

When I sit down to write, I don’t think about writing about an idea or a given message. I just try to write a story which is hard enough.

The Gita is the greatest gospel of spiritual works ever yet given to the race.

I’ve never read for a movie, I’ve always been given them.

I still have not given up the idea of becoming a journalist, but at 17 I decided to follow my heart and stay in Los Angeles with my girlfriend as opposed to going to Johns...

Although economists have studied the sensitivity of import and export volumes to changes in the exchange rate, there is still much uncertainty about just how much the dollar must change to bring about any given...

If you’re going to have a heart attack, mine was the kind to have. I’m thankful that it hasn’t affected my output or my capacity to perform. And it has given me a lot to...

Doubts are like stains on a shirt. I like shirts with stains, because when I’m given a shirt that’s too clean, one that’s completely white, I immediately start having doubts.

These wars appear also to have given its death blow to colonialism and to imperialism in its colonial form, under which weaker peoples were treated as possessions to be economically exploited. At least we hope...

Basically, when I look at my life, I think I’m lucky to be given the opportunities I’ve had.

People want to come to Pakistan but are not given visas. We wish for visas to be given to those people who want to come to Pakistan.

It might seem paradoxical given my profession, but I’m not someone who likes to be in the limelight.

President Bush has consistently used rhetoric, and that is not convincing given his past record.

I’d like to be remembered as a premier singer of songs, not just a popular act of a given period.

I’ve never lost anything, but I have given some things up.

I don’t think a manager should be judged by whether he wins the pennant, but by whether he gets the most out of the twenty-five men he’s been given.

France has been very good for me. It has given me a very worldly-cool attitude.

I hope that people look at my whole career and appreciate that I’ve given everything that I’ve got.

Firms would be given initial entitlements to gross markup on the basis of past performance. These entitlements would be transferable and a market in them would be developed.

I write because writing is the gift God has given me to help people in the world.

What do you do with what you’re given, and how do you transform it into something worthwhile?

Health insurance should be a given for every citizen.

One must put things in perspective – I’ve been given a circumstance with very little time to catch form and try and get an Olympic quota for the country.

People have given me classified information, but always with the disclaimer ‘This can never end up in a book.’ And it never does.