All Quotes

Given the choice between someone saying I was handsome in a role or ugly but good, I know which I'd choose.
‐‐ Rufus Sewell

Given the choice, children who don't want for anything will not save... We have an obligation as parents to give our children what they need. What they want we can give them as a special gift, or they can save their money for it.
‐‐ Barbara Coloroso

Given the choice of Hollywood or poking steel pins in my eyes, I'd prefer steel pins.
‐‐ Mike Leigh

Given the choice of living in Los Angeles or living in Sydney, I would choose Sydney.
‐‐ Matthew Nable

Given the current state of publishing, I think it helps to have a brand name on the cover of your book. Comedians are proven commodities with built-in audiences. They may not have the writing chops of a Dave Eggers, but they're salacious and funny and self-reflective.
‐‐ Michael Showalter

Given the daunting challenges that we face, it's important that president elect Obama is prepared to really take power and begin to rule day one.
‐‐ Valerie Jarrett

Given the devaluation of literature and of the study of foreign languages per se in the United States, as well as the preponderance of theory over text in graduate literature studies, creative writing programs keep literature courses populated.
‐‐ Marilyn Hacker

Given the devastation that crime can visit on families and communities, I will err on being a little too tough on crime than being too soft on crime.
‐‐ Tom Cotton

Given the difficulty of resisting such temptations over the longer run, a proper concern for the welfare of congressional souls may well be the ultimate argument in favor of term limitations.
‐‐ James L. Buckley

Given the divisiveness and pain that have accompanied several state religious freedom laws, I approach attempts at legislating religious exceptions to anti-discrimination laws with great sensitivity and care.
‐‐ Gary Johnson

Given the eclectic and constantly shifting nature of my metaphysical inclinations, I will probably never feel certain exactly what an angel is.
‐‐ Martha Beck

Given the events of even the 19th century, Zionism was inevitable. Given the events of the 20th century, Israel was inevitable.
‐‐ Mike Leigh

Given the extent of the exposures of major banks around the world to A.I.G., and in light of the extreme fragility of the system, there was a significant risk that A.I.G.'s failure could have sparked a global banking panic.
‐‐ Ben Bernanke

Given the fact that I have a family and responsibilities, it's the mark of a man to find the courage to do what is right in the face of oppressive evil.
‐‐ John Rhys-Davies

Given the fact that most religions share basic values, it is most unfortunate that religious people can be played off against each other so easily. One possible reason for this may be that people do not know enough about other people's beliefs.
‐‐ Alcee Hastings

Given the fact that we are in a capitalist society, we still do not want to overlook not only what a corporation produces and its profitability but also how it impacts the environment, touches human life and whether it protects or undermines the dignity of the human person.
‐‐ Dean Smith

Given the genocidal belligerence of Iranian threats against Israel, it is hard to take issue with Israel's right to preemptive self-defense.
‐‐ Conrad Black

Given the growing popularity of pop culture conventions, many of them are selling out, leaving a lot of fans out in the dark and having to trawl the Internet for bits and pieces of news that relate to these events.
‐‐ Emmett Shear

Given the gruesome fate of the last Tsar, Nicholas II, and his family, and the fact that five of the previous 12 Romanov rulers were also murdered, it is easy to regard Russia's imperial dynasty as cursed.
‐‐ Saul David

Given the historical power differential between blacks and whites, blacks are required to be attentive to the way their white counterparts see themselves in relation to people of color if they want to survive and even thrive.
‐‐ James A. Forbes

Given the huge number Xbox owners and how many of them love gaming spectatorship, it's a natural fit to bring the Twitch experience to the 360.
‐‐ Emmett Shear

Given the infinite number of coincidences that could happen, very few ever actually do. The universe exists in a coincidence-hating state of anti-fluke.
‐‐ Douglas Coupland

Given the international nature of the tanker industry, it is important that global regimes are applied consistently and universally, not local or regional rules that do not recognise the total commercial and operating backdrop.
‐‐ Helmut Sohmen

Given the level of anti-Americanism in the world, given the level of frustration with the United States throughout the Muslim world, you've got a homegrown attack or you have a nuclear explosion in the air that is not a test somewhere. Those are still the biggest threats out there.
‐‐ Robert D. Kaplan

Given the news we all read or hear about, it's actually made me a stronger parent - I'm not a 'helicopter parent,' but I am very aware of local and world events and want to teach them what's right and wrong.
‐‐ Kendra Wilkinson

Given the number of restaurants I have, I could easily travel all the time - but I try not to.
‐‐ Alain Ducasse

Given the opportunity, under the right conditions, two cells from wildly different sources, a yeast cell, say, and a chicken erythrocyte, will touch, fuse, and the two nuclei will then fuse as well, and the new hybrid cell will now divide into monstrous progeny. Naked cells, lacking self-respect, do not seem to have any sense of self.
‐‐ Lewis Thomas

Given the pervasive secrecy of the Bush-Cheney administration, and the sorry consequences of that disposition, President Barack Obama's early emphasis on openness in government seems almost inevitable.
‐‐ Noah Feldman

Given the professionalism of Michigan teachers, I think they're not teaching because of the financial rewards.
‐‐ John Engler

Given the right information to help them decide, people will opt for conditions that benefit our creaturely neighbours, even where they have no particular interest in larks or cuckoo wasps - because those conditions benefit us.
‐‐ John Burnside

Given the right set of circumstances any one of us could become dangerous - so why not show that in our programmes?
‐‐ Bryan Cranston

Given the right to a free ballot, the people would support my return.
‐‐ Benazir Bhutto

Given the scale of issues like global warming and epidemic disease, we shouldn't underestimate the importance of a can-do attitude to science rather than a can't-afford-it attitude.
‐‐ Martin Rees

Given the slow pace of Washington's bureaucracy, policymakers are often busy solving yesterday's problems. This rearview mirror approach afflicts Mr. Obama and his Democratic allies in Congress.
‐‐ Fred Upton

Given the tendency of many to picture God's realm as somewhere high above Earth - an idea that sounds suspiciously like the Greek stories of deities perched on inaccessible mountain tops - it may seem plausible to assume that astronomers have special insight. Well, of course they don't.
‐‐ Seth Shostak

Given the trendlines of digital publishing, where more and more large platforms are profiting from, and controlling, the works of individuals, I can't stress enough: Put your taproot in the independent web. Use the platforms for free distribution (they're using you for free content, after all). And make sure you link back to your own domain.
‐‐ John Battelle

Given the typical fee structures of hedge funds, they need to do something different to make money in a consistent way.
‐‐ Paul Singer

Given the unprecedented ignorance of the Bible in contemporary America, it is likely that more young Americans will only know the Noah of 'Noah.' We can only hope that the film offers even a fraction of the wisdom of the original.
‐‐ Dennis Prager

Given the volume of PC sales and the way McAfee runs its operation, I imagine there must be thousands of phantom subscribers - folks who signed up once upon a time and left the software behind two or three computers ago.
‐‐ Barton Gellman

Given the way some fought for the status quo when I authored the new Ethics Code and created the city's first Ethics Commission, we are going to need your strong support to get an even tougher Ethics Code passed this year.
‐‐ Laura Miller

Given what I do to my characters, I'm not sure I'd want to meet any of them.
‐‐ Marie Brennan

Given what the media have put the country through this past decade, it must come as a surprise to most Americans that the press has a code of ethics.
‐‐ Roger Mudd

'Giving 2.0' frames giving as a learning experience and encourages everyone to make giving a part of your year-round life.
‐‐ Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen

'Giving 2.0' is about making your giving matter more to the people we all hope to help, and it's about making your giving matter more to you.
‐‐ Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen

'Giving 2.0' was born of my desire to redefine and democratize philanthropy.
‐‐ Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen

Giving a 10-year mandatory minimum for a second offense fist fight is not going to reduce the chance that someone will be stabbed 16 times when you are not funding any of the programs that are desperately needed to actually reduce juvenile crime.
‐‐ Bobby Scott

Giving a camera to Diane Arbus is like putting a live grenade in the hands of a child.
‐‐ Norman Mailer

Giving a good performance, giving it all is what it's all about. I love to perform.
‐‐ Henry Rollins

Giving a phenomenon a label does not explain it.
‐‐ Taylor Caldwell