Receptacle Quotes
28 quotes by 25 authors
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A really wise man is feminine, receptive, passive. That's why Buddha looks so feminine. That quality of passiveness, that quality of receptivity... He is just…
— Rajneesh
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To protest, I stood in the place of a waste receptacle and opened my mouth. That's how I lost my virginity *laughs*
— Thom Yorke
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It is often to be observed, that as in digging for precious metals in the mines, much earthly rubbish has first to be troublesomely handled…
— Herman Melville
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So let me get this straight. You find yourself in the kitchen, you see an eclair in the receptacle, and you think to yourself, 'What…
— Jerry Seinfeld
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The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper,…
— Theodore Isaac Rubin
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What chiefly governs the [U.S.] military budget is the need to spend enormous sums of money in a useless way. The allegedly powerful Pentagon is…
— Walter Karp
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Memory is the receptacle and sheath of all knowledge
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Think of Divine Abundance as a mighty, refreshing rain. Whatever receptacle you have at hand will receive it. If you hold up a tin cup,…
— Paramahansa Yogananda
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The cavity which suffering carves into our souls will one day also be the receptacle of joy.
— Neal A. Maxwell
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...if anyone looks with faith at the mystical table and the Bread of Life placed on it, he sees the Person of the Word of…
— Gregory Palamas
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He who knows how to be aggressive, and yet remains patient, becomes a receptacle for all of Nature's lessons.
— Laozi
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Thinking it selfish to dwell on her own sufferings, when in the midst of wretches, who had not only lost all that endears life, but…
— Mary Wollstonecraft
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But, yeah, I'm really happy when I'm writing. When I'm being creative and when I have something that I can put down. You know, if…
— Josh Radnor
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I have been photographing our toilet, that glossy enameled receptacle of extraordinary beauty. Here was every sensuous curve of the human figure divine but minus…
— Edward Weston
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We are to regard the mind, not as a piece of iron to be laid upon the anvil and hammered into any shape, nor as…
— Mark Hopkins
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Oxford is Oxford: not a mere receptacle for youth, like Cambridge. Perhaps it wants its inmates to love it rather than to love one another.
— E. M. Forster
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The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper,…
— Pablo Picasso
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Until then I had thought each book spoke of the things, human or divine, that lie outside books. Now I realized that not infrequently books…
— Umberto Eco
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The poet's mind is in fact a receptacle for seizing and storing up numberless feelings, phrases, images, which remain there until all the particles which…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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We have the whitest kitchens and the most shining bathrooms in the world. But in the lovely white kitchen the average [person] can’t produce a…
— Raymond Chandler
Who Wrote These Receptacle Quotes
25 authors contributed a total of 28 Receptacle Quotes as follows: