Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses.
Hannah Arendt

Love is a given, hatred is acquired.
Douglas Horton

When you play it too safe, you're taking the biggest risk of your life. Time is the only wealth we're given.
Barbara Sher

It is my express wish that in awarding the prizes no consideration be given to the nationality of the candidates, but that the most worthy shall receive the prize, whether he be Scandinavian or not.
Alfred Nobel

I had given up the guitar between '75 and '78. I completely lost interest. I was sick of hearing other guitar players and I was tired of my tunes.
Ritchie Blackmore

I want to thank all the women who have worn my clothes, the famous and the unknown, who have been so faithful to me and given me so much joy.
Yves Saint Laurent

Rock and roll has probably given more than it's taken.
Charlie Watts

What was freely given to me, I freely give.
Lauryn Hill

Dancers are stripped enough onstage. You don't have to know more about them than they've given you already.
Mikhail Baryshnikov

Every ballet, whether or not successful artistically or with the public, has given me something important.
Mikhail Baryshnikov

Women have been called queens for a long time, but the kingdom given them isn't worth ruling.
Louisa May Alcott

I don't trust what this life has given me.
Dennis Rodman

Whatever glory belongs to the race for a development unprecedented in history for the given length of time, a full share belongs to the womanhood of the race.
Mary McLeod Bethune

Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd.
Annie Besant

This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle: we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.
Omar N. Bradley

It is only the impossible that is possible for God. He has given over the possible to the mechanics of matter and the autonomy of his creatures.
Simone Weil

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

Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so.
Doris Lessing

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

If religion had a good purpose, then man would have created something great. But we're man: we mess up everything. We mess up nature. We mess up God. We take what is given to us and make it into what we think it should be.
Ziggy Marley