Receiver Quote by Walter Benjamin Download Open image “Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.” — Walter Benjamin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Receiver Shock
Some people give gifts in order to bewilder, confuse, and manipulate their recipients. — Mallory Ortberg Copy Share Image
Presents are made for the pleasure of who gives them, not the merits of who receives them. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
More and more, unsolicited gifts from without are likely to be received with unconscious resentment. — Edward Sapir Copy Share Image
But I fail to see how that (not buying gifts) would bring back the essence of Christmas. And I don't think it would affect… — Mathew Staver Copy Share Image
“What does happen is that if we give them a gift, we will trigger a feeling of indebtedness—a feeling of indebtedness that they’ll want… — Susan M. Weinschenk Copy Share Image
Gifts are an important and necessary part of our collective lives. We need to give and we need to allow others to give. — A. A. Gill Copy Share Image
“Presents are made for the pleasure of the one who gives them , not for the merits of those who receive them” — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
All efforts to render politics aesthetic culminate in one thing: war. — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
“The construction of life is at present in the power of facts far more than of convictions, and of such facts as have scarcely… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
“It should be pointed out that certain correlative concepts retain their meaning, and possibly their foremost significance, if they are referred exclusively to man.… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
Allegories are, in the realm of thought, what ruins are in the realm of things. — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
Things are only mannequins and even the great world-historical events are only costumes beneath which they exchange glances with nothingness. — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
“to great writers, finished works weigh lighter than those fragments on which they labor their entire lives.” — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
All religions have honored the beggar. For he proves that in a matter at the same time as prosaic and holy, banal and regenerative… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis to unconscious impulses. — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
During long periods of history, the mode of human sense perception changes with humanity’s entire mode of existence. The manner in which human sense… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
Melancholy betrays the world for the sake of knowledge. But in its tenacious self-absorption it embraces dead objects in its contemplation, in order to… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
For what is the program of the bourgeois parties? A bad poem on springtime, filled to bursting with metaphors. — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
There was the pedestrian who wedged himself into the crowd, but there was also the flneur who demanded elbow room and was unwilling to… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
I didn't always know, but I always wanted to. I always wanted to be the very best receiver the Cowboys ever had. That was… — Michael Irvin Copy Share Image
The sensitive plate, the gas which is ionised, the fluorescent screen, are in reality receivers, into another kind of energy, chemical energy, ionic energy...… — Marie Curie Copy Share Image
I think for me, or for anyone who plays the quarterback position, it's almost an unspoken word when you think about leadership. Some guys… — Cam Newton Copy Share Image
James was truly an unknown quantity. He was really, physically drained in the spring and he got dinged in the fall. We brought him… — Terry Hoeppner Copy Share Image
As a receiver, to be able to have good footwork is an important part of your game. — Brandin Cooks Copy Share Image
Every quarterback can throw a ball; every running back can run; every receiver is fast; but that mental toughness that you talk about translates… — Tom Brady Copy Share Image
The chemistry between a quarterback and a receiver is almost like a dance. — Jerry Rice Copy Share Image
I want to be known as a solid all-around receiver that's fast, not a fast guy that plays receiver. — Torrey Smith Copy Share Image
