Receive Quotes - page 2

Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of ages through which they passed. (William Temple)
And each book has to receive your best effort every single time. No slacking. View quote
Nora Roberts
It is more blessed to give than to receive. View quote
Jesus Christ
Slaves cannot breathe in England if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free They touch our country, and their shackles fall. View quote
William Cowper
Charity degrades those who receive it and hardens those who dispense it. View quote
George Sand
Thanks to my mother, not a single cardboard box has found its way back into society. We receive gifts in boxes from stores that went out of business twenty years ago. View quote
Erma Bombeck
One of the grand fundamental principles of Mormonism is to receive truth, let it come from whence it may. View quote
Joseph Smith
A liberal education forms a single body. Those, therefore, who from tender years receive instruction in the various forms of learning, recognize the same stamp on all the arts, and an intercourse between all studies, and so they more readily comprehend them all. View quote
Vitruvius
In reality, serendipity accounts for one percent of the blessings we receive in life, work and love. The other 99 percent is due to our efforts. View quote
Peter McWilliams
For it is in giving that we receive. View quote
Francis of Assisi
Do not expect that once taking advantage of Russia's weakness, you will receive dividends forever. Russian has always come for their money. And when they come - do not rely on an agreement signed by you, you are supposed to justify. They are not worth the paper it is written. Therefore, with the Russian is to play fair, or do not play. (Otto von Bismarck)
It is always possible to bind together a considerable number of people in love, so long as there are other people left over to receive the manifestations of their aggression. View quote
Sigmund Freud
Atheism is so senseless. When I look at the solar system, I see the earth at the right distance from the sun to receive the proper amounts of heat and light. This did not happen by chance. View quote
Isaac Newton
All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, will certainly be heard, and will receive what they have asked and desired. View quote
Martin Luther
Dost thou wish to receive mercy? Show mercy to thy neighbor. View quote
John Chrysostom
I love to both give and receive very old books. View quote
Augusten Burroughs
When a father, absent during the day, returns home at six, his children receive only his temperament, not his teaching. View quote
Robert Bly
I suspect the most we can hope for, and it's no small hope, is that we never give up, that we never stop giving ourselves permission to try to love and receive love. View quote
Elizabeth Strout
Conservatives define compassion not by the number of people who receive some kind of government aid but rather by the number of people who no longer need it. [citation needed]. View quote
Jack Kemp
I was very surprised when I heard that I had been chosen to receive the James Cardinal Gibbons Award. View quote
Aaron Neville
It is impossible, in my mind, to distinguish between the refusal to receive a petition, or its summary rejection by some general order, and the denial of the right of petition. (Caleb Cushing)
The need for this clinic is clear to me, to the veterans who are currently forced to travel hours to receive care, and even to the Veterans Administration that itself identified creation of a clinic in this part of our state as a priority to be completed by 2006. View quote
Doc Hastings
There is something very basic to the sense of listening. The sense of hearing is the only one that operates totally from vibrations, without other physical or chemical reactions to receive the sensations. View quote
Henry Reed
That kind of thing happens to black people every day in this country, and they don't receive that kind of sentence he did, which was to go to prison on the weekends; I think he lectured there-an outside lecturer. View quote
Ishmael Reed
Till women are more rationally educated, the progress in human virtue and improvement in knowledge must receive continual checks. View quote
Mary Wollstonecraft