I do remember when it occurred to me the first time, when I got the idea of painting the way I feel at a given moment. I was sitting in a chair and felt it pressing against me. I still have the drawings where I depicted the sensation of sitting.
We Canadians are not given as a people to great patriotic displays.
I've given my memoirs far more thought than any of my marriages. You can't divorce a book.
In the House, Republican prospects have been buoyed by several successful rounds of redistricting, which have sharply reduced the number of competitive seats and given the Republicans a national advantage of at least a dozen seats.
Women deserve the same permanent rights and explicit protections given men in the Constitution.
I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the present. God has given me no control over the moment following.
Of course, you would have to be insane to hope your child grows up to be a playwright or poet. Given the odds, you would have to be quite cavalier about your children's future.
I have known no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect either physical or spiritual, for what the gods had given him.
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.
The higher the social class of other students the higher any given student's achievement.
Women are half the population and they know how to take care of themselves, if they are only given access to health care.
I think the quality of television, given the amount of time you have, how short you have, is proportionally so much better than most movies.
My all-time low is 62 at Bel-Air, but it was in match play, and I had two putts given to me from four feet. I'm playing only about once or twice a month. Full-time job. Full-time father. Full-time blonde.
I think that life has a secret, and children they hold that secret. Maybe it's not given to everybody to discover this thing.
People today sometimes get uncomfortable with empirical claims that seem to clash with their political assumptions, often because they haven't given much thought to the connections.
Here's what I tell anybody and this is what I believe. The greatest gift we have is the gift of life. We understand that. That comes from our Creator. We're given a body. Now you may not like it, but you can maximize that body the best it can be maximized.
There has always been quite a strong black and white art tradition in Australia, with quite a large contingent of cartoonists, given the size of the population.
Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings.
Losing is no disgrace if you've given your best.
Dancers are stripped enough onstage. You don't have to know more about them than they've given you already.
One thing is certain: our families are important. Don't get so stressed out and so preoccupied that we neglect one of the greatest things that God has given us, and that's our families.
It's nice when you work with someone who has an eye for clothes and will show what you've given them.
There are people who can never forgive a beggar for their not having given him anything.
There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome; to be got over.
My mother really loved me. And one of the gifts that I have been given is that I have never thought for one second of my life that I was not greatly beloved.
And it also became clear that these conditions of inequality and historical injustice have given rise to a feeling of hate in the world - a deeply felt hate that cannot easily be overcome with a few good words.
You must not forget that you have been given worldly means to use and employ against human arrogance and wrong.
As America celebrates Memorial Day, we pay tribute to those who have given their lives in our nation's wars.
Look wise, say nothing, and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought.
When kids are met with the highest expectations and given the extra supports they need, they can be as motivated as kids anywhere.
On any given day, I'm likely to be working at home, hunched over this keyboard, typing Great Thoughts and Beautiful Sentences - or so they seem at the time, like those beautifully flecked and iridescent stones one finds at the seashore that gradually dry into dull gray pebbles.
What is thematically posited is only what is given, by pure reflection, with all its immanent essential moments absolutely as it is given to pure reflection.
A reasonable doubt is nothing more than a doubt for which reasons can be given. The fact that 1 or 2 men out of 12 differ from the others does not establish that their doubts are reasonable.
All the libel lawyers will tell you there's no libel any more, that everyone's given up.
There were some jobs I wanted that weren't necessarily right for me at the time. The ones I thought I'd never get, I got. As long as I am doing the best work I can possibly do at any given time, I can't do any better than that.
Human inertia makes the everyday environment, the furniture, as it were, appear to be a given.
