Receives Quotes
274 Receives quotes by 233 unique authors
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Modern man receives a large part of his knowledge and general education by way of pictorial impressions, illustrations, photographs, films. Daily newspapers bring more pictures…
— Otto Neurath
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What is love? It is not simply compassion, not simply kindness. In compassion there are two: the one who suffers and the one who feels…
— Nikos Kazantzakis
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Family life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice. It can only be sustained by a spirit of love which goes…
— Reinhold Niebuhr
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The manner in which one single ray of light, one single precious hint, will clarify and energize the whole mental life of him who receives…
— Arnold Bennett
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Do not grudge your brother his rest. He has at last become free, safe and immortal, and ranges joyous through the boundless heavens; he has…
— Seneca the Younger
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He [Christ] protects their faith and gives strength to believers in proportion to the trust that each man who receives that strength is willing to…
— Cyprian
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He who reads much and understands much, receives his fill. He who is full, refreshes others.
— Ambrose
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That man may last, but never lives, Who much receives, but nothing gives; Whom none can love, whom none can thank,- Creation's blot, creation's blank.
— Thomas Gibbons
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He who receives a great many letters demanding answer, sees himself as if engaged in a hopeless struggle of one man against the rest of…
— Anna Brackett
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Virtue, though she gets her beginning from nature, yet receives her finishing touches from learning.
— Quintilian
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The success of a terrorist operation depends almost entirely on the amount of publicity it receives.
— Unknown Author
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Every person has two educations, one which he receives from others, and one, more important, which he gives to himself.
— Edward Gibbon
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The fatal effects of sin can be removed only by the provision that God has made. The Israelites saved their lives by looking upon the…
— Ellen G. White
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A son is a promise that time makes to a man,the guarantee every father receives that whatever he holds dear will someday be considered foolish,…
— Ian Caldwell
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The man who offers an insult writes it in sand, but for the man who receives it, it's chiseled in bronze.
— Giovannino Guareschi
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He who lights his [candle] at mine receives light without darkening me.
— Thomas Jefferson
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A successful man is he who receives a great deal from his fellow men, usually incomparably more than corresponds to his service to them. The…
— Albert Einstein
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Humans are tuned for relationship. The eyes, the skin, the tongue, ears, and nostrils-all are gates where our body receives the nourishment of otherness.
— David Abram
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I did not get over the loss of my loved ones; rather, I absorbed the loss into my life, like soil receives decaying matter, until…
— Gerald Lawson Sittser
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Everyone say to himself: 'When was the last time I went to confession?' And if it has been a long time, don't lose another day!…
— Pope Francis
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Too often, executive compensation in the U.S. is ridiculously out of line with performance. That won't change, moreover, because the deck is stacked against investors…
— Warren Buffett
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The person who receives the most favors is the one who knows how to return them.
— Publilius Syrus
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We have made drugs an Olympic event. It receives most of the coverage at the Games and even the suspicion of guilt can ruin a…
— Bill Toomey
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The Universe does not know whether the vibration that you're offering is because of something you're observing or something you're remembering or something that you…
— Esther Hicks
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Controls them and subdues, transmutes, bereaves Of their bad influence, and their good receives.
— William Wordsworth
Who Wrote These Receives Quotes
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