Received Quotes
1105 Received quotes by 896 unique authors
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My favorite toy growing up was Polly Pocket. But one gift that I wanted though never received for Christmas was a pair of trampoline moon…
— Lucy Hale
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Lately I did a film called All I Want for Christmas and it was well received. This gave me a new point of view and…
— Sarah Polley
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The upheavals of adolescence silenced 'A Christmas Carol' for a few years. I became a firebrand atheist. Christmas - humbug! Too commercial! Then I became…
— Whitley Strieber
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Multitudes of people who expect to go to Heaven will go to a Hell of torment. Thousands of "good" people, "moral" people, church members, even…
— John R. Rice
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He wove those three threads into a talk ranging from annually spending a week at Halloween as a child collecting candy to giving candy to…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Good ideas, as we have seen, are not always well received, especially if there are too many of them.
— Meredith Belbin
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It is not doubted, and you know it, that Ireland and all those islands which have received the faith, belong to the Church of Rome;…
— Unknown Author
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Water is also one of the four elements, the most beautiful of God's creations. It is both wet and cold, heavy, and with a tendency…
— John of Damascus
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Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.
— Gautama Buddha
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I know what I gave them; I don't know what they received.
— Gautama Buddha
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Once you begin to acknowledge random acts of kindness-both the ones you have received and the ones you have given - you can no longer…
— Dawna Markova
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Gratitude makes us feel bursting with delight, just to remember the gifts we have received. Thus we are doubly blessed when we receive something: for…
— M. J. Ryan
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Who can describe the bond of God's love? Who is able to explain the majesty of its beauty? The height to which love leads is…
— Pope Clement I
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Many Christians 'stall out' in the faith when the call to total commitment is received or viewed as something too high or too hard to…
— Chip Ingram
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In like manner, everyone who has received from God the power of distinguishing and yet follows an unskillful pastor and receives a false opinion for…
— Ignatius of Antioch
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The total dividend income declared in 1995 by the bottom 9.7 million Canadian tax-filers (47% of all those submitting tax returns) was $310 million. The…
— Jim Stanford
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True piety admits no other rule than that whatsoever things have been faithfully received from our fathers the same are to be faithfully consigned to…
— Vincent of Lerins
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Teach nothing new, but instill into all men's breasts those things which the Fathers of revered memory have with harmony of statement taught... Preach nothing…
— Pope Leo I
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Such is the grace and power of baptism; not an overwhelming of the world as of old, but a purification of the sins of each…
— Gregory of Nazianzus
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When giving to others do not linger on thoughts of a giving, what was given, or the one who has received.
— Gautama Buddha
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Forgiveness is a form of gratitude. When we forgive others, we show them the mercy that we have often received and been thankful for.
— Sarah Ban Breathnach
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These criminals represent us. One of them recognized Jesus for who he was and received him; Jesus promised that when he died he would be…
— James MacDonald
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When I did the album Electric Circus, not only was it not commercially received. But even the critics and hip-hop community was like "What is…
— Common
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I read in a newspaper that I was to be received with all the honors customarily rendered to a foreign ruler. I am grateful for…
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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It forms a strong presumption against all supernatural and miraculous relations, that they are observed chiefly to abound among ignorant and barbarous nations; or if…
— David Hume
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