Receives Quotes

274 Receives quotes by 233 unique authors

Presents are made for the pleasure of who gives them, not the merits of who receives them. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
With madness, as with vomit, it's the passerby who receives the inconvenience. — Joe Orton
The glory of God is the living man, but the life of man is the vision of God', says St. Irenaeus, getting to the heart… — Pope Benedict XVI
Indeed, ask every man separately whether he thinks it laudable and worthy of a man of this age to hold a position from which he… — Leo Tolstoy
When the emotional soul receives a wounding shock, the soul seems to recover as the body recovers. But this is only in appearance. Slowly, slowly… — D. H. Lawrence
Soul receives from soul that knowledge, therefore not by book nor from tongue. If knowledge of mysteries come after emptiness of mind, that is illumination… — Unknown Author
But I have sometimes thought that a woman's nature is like a great house full of rooms: there is the hall, through which everyone passes… — Edith Wharton
Thanksgiving is inseparable from true prayer; it is almost essentially connected with it. One who always prays is ever giving praise, whether in ease or… — John Wesley
I suppose no one is as handsome or as beautiful as he or she wishes, or as brilliant in school or as witty in speech… — Jeffrey R. Holland
The truth is that the heroism of your childhood entertainments was not true valor. It was theatre. The grand gesture, the moment of choice, the… — David Foster Wallace
She was the third beer. Not the first one, which the throat receives with almost tearful gratitude; nor the second, that confirms and extends the… — Toni Morrison
I honor the father in his son, not the son in his father. Each one receives a reward or punishment for his deeds, but not… — Jose Rizal
Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up interest wrinkles the soul. You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt;… — Douglas MacArthur
You compare the nation to a parched piece of land and the tax to a life-giving rain. So be it. But you should also ask… — Frederic Bastiat
The Christian must treat his enemy as a brother, and requite his hostility with love. His behavior must be determined not by the way others… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Piracy is robbery with violence, often segueing into murder, rape and kidnapping. It is one of the most frightening crimes in the world. Using the… — Nick Harkaway
His guilt is why Acheron went out of his way to make sure that all of you had servants and pay for your work. The… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
Only the man who follows the command of Jesus single-mindedly, and unresistingly lets his yoke rest upon him, finds his burden easy, and under its… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Violence harms the one who does it as much as the one who receives it. You could cut down a tree with an axe. The… — Robert Jordan
The urbane activity with which a man receives money is really marvelous, considering that we so earnestly believe money to be the root of all… — Herman Melville
To no man does the earth mean so much as to the soldier. When he presses himself down upon her long and powerfully, when he… — Erich Maria Remarque
You wake up in the morning, and your purse is magically filled with twenty-four hours of un-manufactured tissue of the universe of your life! It… — Arnold Bennett
Faith sees the invisible, believes the unbelievable, and receives the impossible. — Corrie Ten Boom
He who receives his friends and gives no personal attention to the meal which is being prepared for them, is not worthy of having friends. — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
The human being receives the pleasure from music, not from the argument over what it is. — Ornette Coleman

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