Receiver Quotes - Page 4

• If the quarterback throws the ball in the endzone and the wide receiver catches it, it's a touchdown.

  John Madden

  Funny, Nfl, Balls

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• This is the state of all creatures, whether men or angels; as they make not themselves, so they enjoy nothing from themselves; if they are great, it must be only as great receivers of the gifts of God; their power can only be so much of the divine power acting in them; their wisdom can be only so much of the divine wisdom shining within them; and their light and glory, only so much of the light and glory of God shining upon them.

  William Law

  Angel, Men, Light

  William Law (1816). “A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life: Adapted to the State and Condition of All Orders of Christians by the Late ... ; to which is Added a Biographical Sketch of the Author”, p.153

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• I want to be known as a solid all-around receiver thats fast, not a fast guy that plays receiver.

  Torrey Smith

  Play, Guy, Want

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• Imparting education not only enlightens the receiver, but also broadens the giver - the teachers, the parents, the friends.

  Amartya Sen

  Teacher, Educational, Parent

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• Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.

  Walter Benjamin

  Giving, Shock

  Walter Benjamin (2016). “One-Way Street”, p.53, Harvard University Press

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• Magnitude may be compared to the power output in kilowatts of a [radio] broadcasting station; local intensity, on the Mercalli or similar scale, is then comparable to the signal strength noted on a receiver at a given locality. Intensity, like signal strength, will generally fall off with distance from the source; it will also depend on local conditions at the point of observation, and to some extent on the conditions along the path from source to that point.

  Charles Francis Richter

  Distance, Fall, Science

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• But what parent can tell when some . . . fragmentary gift of knowledge or wisdom will enrich her children's lives? Or how a small seed of information passed from one generation to another may generate a new science, a new industry-a seed which neither the giver nor the receiver can truly evaluate at the time.

  Helena Rubinstein

  Children, Giving, Parent

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• Creativity comes from the spiritual realm, the collective consciousness. And the mind is in a different realm than the molecules of the brain. The brain is a receiver, not a source.

  Candace Pert

  Spiritual, Art, Creativity

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• The absolute worst thing a receiver can do is worry about not catching the ball or about getting hit.

  Jerry Rice

  Worry, Focus, Balls

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• Matt Millen, you draft a wide receiver every year. HOW DARE YOU SIR, HOW DARE YOU!

  Keith Olbermann

  Years, Dare, Wide Receiver

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• In some quiet way, the expression and feelings of gratitude have a wonderful cleansing or healing nature. Gratitude brings warmth to the giver and the receiver alike.

  Robert D. Hales

  Gratitude, Healing, Expression

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• The simple act of helping someone—with no desire (or possibility) of repayment is good for us and our self-image, and it may positively change the life or outlook of the receiver for the day!

  Kevin Eikenberry

  Simple, Self, Helping Someone

  Kevin Eikenberry (2005). “Vantage Points on Learning and Life”, p.11, Dog Ear Publishing

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• Should not the giver be thankful that the receiver received? Is not giving a need? Is not receiving, mercy?

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Giving, Being Thankful, Receiving

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.205, Penguin

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• So long as we are receivers of mercy, we must be givers of thanks.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Long, Thanks, Mercy

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1882). “The Treasury of David: Containing an Original Exposition of the Book of Psalms”

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• When I can 10 or 11, my mom was the one out there catching passes for me. She was my prime receiver.

  Joe Theismann

  Mom, Prime, Catching

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• [On political correctness:] Any intended message mattered less than the received message, and every received message could be interpreted in whatever way the receiver wanted.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Political, Way, Messages

  Chuck Klosterman (2014). “I Wear the Black Hat: Grappling with Villains (Real and Imagined)”, p.100, Simon and Schuster

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• And you receivers - and you are all receivers - assume no weight of gratitude, lest you lay a yoke upon yourself and upon him who gives. Rather rise together with the giver on his gifts as on wings; For to be overmindful of your debt, is to doubt his generosity who has the free hearted earth for mother, and God for father.

  Khalil Gibran

  Mother, Gratitude, Father

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• God seems to have left the receiver off the hook and time is running out.

  Arthur Koestler

  God, Running, Religious

  'The Ghost in the Machine' (1967) ch. 18

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• My brain is only a receiver, in the Universe there is a core from which we obtain knowledge, strength and inspiration. I have not penetrated into the secrets of this core, but I know that it exists.

  Nikola Tesla

  Inspirational, Secret, Brain

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• Where are you now?’ Where was I now? Gripping the receiver, I raised my hand and turned to see what lay beyond the telephone booth. Where was I now? I had no idea. No idea at all. Where was this place? All that flashed into my eyes were the countless shapes of people walking by to nowhere. Again and again, I called out for Midori from the dead center of this place that was no place.

  Haruki Murakami

  Eye, Hands, Ideas

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Mar 30, 2016

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• Individually the disciple and friend of Jesus who has learned to work shoulder to shoulder with his or her Lord stands in this world as a point of contact between heaven and earth, a kind of Jacob’s ladder by which the angels of God may ascend from and descend into human life. Thus the disciple stands as an envoy or a receiver by which the kingdom of God is conveyed into every quarter of human affairs.

  Dallas Willard

  Jesus, Angel, Heaven

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• Every work of art causes the receiver to enter into a certain kind of relationship both with him who produced the art, and with all those who, simultaneously, previously, or subsequently, receive the same artistic impression. Art is a human activity- that one man consciously by means of certain external signs, hands on to others feelings he has lived through, and that others are touched by these feelings and also experience them.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Art, Mean, Men

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• There's nothing to fear but a wide receiver who can run a 100-yard dash in under 10 seconds.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Running, Yards, Wide Receiver

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• Barry Sanders, by far. Not only one of my favorite Lions, but one of my favorite NFL athletes. It's all about highlights for me, I'm a receiver! Sanders is like the NFL version of an And1 mix tape.

  Nate Burleson

  Athlete, Nfl, Tape

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• A wide receiver like me wouldn't have won. The quarterback - or even the running back - always wins.

  Patrick Wilson

  Running, Winning, Quarterback

  Source: www.elle.com

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