Received Quotes
1105 quotes by 896 authors
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Many women have earned titles, Your Grace. It doesn't seem to have been a factor in whether or not they actually received them.
— Jim Butcher
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The claws of Truth were painful. The lies tore away like scabs, and John bled there for hours, stifling his cries of pain in the…
— Frank Peretti
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I love and am loved, fully and freely, nothing expected, more than enough received.
— Amy Tan
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Don’t you just hate nights like that, when you think over every mistake you’ve made, every hurt you’ve received, every bit of meanness you’ve dealt…
— Charlaine Harris
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Failing conventionally is the route to go; as a group, lemmings may have a rotten image, but no individual lemming has ever received bad press
— Warren Buffett
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Fear, lest, by forgetting what you are by nature, you also forget the need that you have of continual pardon, support, and supplies from the…
— John Bunyan
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This life is a test-it is only a test. If it had been an actual life, you would have received further instructions on where to…
— Jack Kornfield
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I still believe in the resilience of the human heart and the essential validity of love;I still believe that connections between people can be made…
— Stephen King
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Chicken,' Josie said. 'Have you ever been in love?' Peter looked at Josie, and thought of how they had once tied a note with their…
— Jodi Picoult
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Every woman I had ever met who walked through the world appraised and classified by an extraordinary physicality had also received the keys to an…
— Pat Conroy
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I have received no assurance that anything we can do will eradicate suffering. I think the best results are obtained by people who work quietly…
— C.S. Lewis
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There's much more. There's all that goes beyond – all ... that is Elsewhere – and all that goes back, and back, and back. I…
— Lois Lowry
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In a whisper he began begging for—and, as the sun set, received—the concession people always beg for: a little more time.
— Zadie Smith
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Possibility was not a bag or box that could be closed and sealed, it was a vast open chute which received everything, everything; one could…
— Janet Frame
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January 8 has been a lucky day for me. I have started all my books on that day, and all of them have been well…
— Isabel Allende
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I’ve been rereading your story. I think it’s about me in a way that might not be flattering, but that’s okay. We dream and dream…
— Richard Siken
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Love can be begged, bought, or received as a gift, one can find it in the street, but one cannot steal it.
— Hermann Hesse
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Erik: Are you very tired? Christine: Oh, tonight I gave you my soul, and I am dead. Erik: Your soul is a beautiful thing, child.…
— Gaston Leroux
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All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind; the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.
— Swami Vivekananda
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Best advice I've ever received: Finish.
— Peter Mayle
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