All black Americans have slave names. They have white names; names that the slave master has given to them.

Given political history in Chile, it seemed to me that there was a critical task of consolidating a democracy and creating healthy civic-military and political-military relationships.

If your government had given me a thousandth of the sum it spent to depose me, I could have won that war.

I think it’s a given that people know what I can do vocally.

Perhaps I have a wider range than I’d given myself credit for.

for rent.” We can only manage what we have but the right of ownership belongs to God.

It is vital that the United States maintains open lines of communication with our allies. We must assure them of our commitment to eradicating global terrorism wherever it may reside or wherever it’s given haven.

I was always attracted to taking a novel position, but one grounded in the materials I’d been given, not made up out of whole cloth.

Entropy theory, on the other hand, is not concerned with the probability of succession in a series of items but with the overall distribution of kinds of items in a given arrangement.

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

Being out there in the ocean, God’s creation, it’s like a gift He has given us to enjoy.

It has given me an insight into what it’s like as an actor to come into a show in the middle of a production and fit into a group that’s already established.

I try to use all of my senses when describing a setting, and try to think of everything that would impact a character in any given scene.

I don’t remember too many rounds where you get shots given to you. Usually, ones are taken away.

We as Democrats have not been very interested in poverty or issues relating to the inner city as much as we should have. Think about the last presidential campaign: It’s pretty hard to focus a...

Fortunately any of the songs we’ve recorded can be extremely fulfilling to perform depending on the variety of circumstances that surround any given show.

I was one of the horses of the Louis B. Mayer stable, and I thought the films I was given after my Academy Awards were not worthy.

But as for activism, my parents did what they could, given the constraints, but were never involved in the causes I think of when I think of activists.

Mistakes, after all, are endemic to foreign and military policy given the unpredictability of events and the difficulty of securing reliable information in a place like Iraq.

Shoes are the first adult machines we are given to master.

The best lesson I was given is that all of life teaches, especially if we have that expectation.

The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world.

I do believe there’s a heaven. I do believe that God has given me the resilience and the survival skills to withstand the chiffon trenches.

If school principals have given up on the important things and are focusing on discipline, they are creating a certain, diluted reality. In an organization that functions properly, discipline should be a marginal issue.

When I was deputy chairman I could travel from Glasgow to Edinburgh without leaving Tory land. In a two-week period I covered every constituency in which we had an MP. There were 14. Now we...

The American army between world wars after World War I had virtually disintegrated. It was a very small force, given largely to practicing cavalry charges on western outposts.