Receiver Quotes - Page 6

• Benefits are acceptable, while the receiver thinks he may return them; but once exceeding that, hatred is given instead of thanks.

  Bill Vaughan

  Thinking, Hatred, Benefits

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• Benefits are acceptable, while the receiver thinks he may return them; but once exceeding that, hatred is given instead of thanks.
  [Lat., Beneficia usque eo laeta sunt dum videntur exsolvi posse; ubi multum antevenere pro gratia odium redditur.]

  Tacitus

  Thinking, Hatred, Benefits

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• My comedic instinct, is a little bit more rooted in - my mother's British so I've always been more of the dry receiver of the crazy as opposed to the initiator of the crazy. I'm kind of predisposed to be the straight man.

  Jason Bateman

  Mother, Crazy, Men

  "Jason Bateman Talks Horrible Bosses 2, The Family Fang, What He Learned Directing Bad Words, Ipo Man, and More". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. November 25, 2014.

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• I think positive. I always think we're going to score. Two minutes is a lot of time if you have timeouts and you're throwing every down. You have to make the right decisions. I've always had great receivers, which helps. It's not just me doing it.

  Dan Marino

  Thinking, Two, Decision

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• ...the mind is more powerful than any imaginable particle accelerator, more sensitive than any radio receiver or the largest optical telescope, more complete in its grasp of information than any computer: the human body- its organs, its voice, its powers of locomotion, and its imagination- is a more-than-sufficient means for the exploration of any place, time or energy level in the universe.

  Terence McKenna

  Powerful, Mean, Voice

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• I played a lot of football when I was younger. I'm a good receiver, actually.

  Shania Twain

  Football

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I’ll write down little lines, I always say, 'K.T.N.,' and I say that to my receivers and running backs and that means 'keep taking notes.' That keeps me alert. That keeps me going. That keeps my drive there, even when you’re taking notes on something that you’ve already taken notes on a million times - keep taking notes.

  Russell Wilson

  Running, Taken, Writing

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• You never know what you're going to get as a receiver.

  Darren Flutie

  Central Park, Live Your Life, Chocolate

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• I like using one QB. If we have two that are relatively equal, then we can't afford to have one on the bench. They need to be on the field at running back, receiver or defensive back. I'm not going to waste an athlete on the sidelines.

  Alan Chadwick

  Running, Athlete, Two

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• Why not pick up the new full-length motion picture at the corner drugstore and then run it through one's
  home TV receiver?

  Jack Gould

  Running, Home, Tvs

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• Josh Bard is a catcher with excellent defensive tools and someone ... whose best days are ahead of him. He's not coming off his best [offensive] season, but we still think there is some ceiling on him. He has outstanding makeup and calls a good game. [He's] a solid receiver with a plus arm, and he's going to be coming to camp with a chance to open some eyes.

  Theo Epstein

  Eye, Makeup, Thinking

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• Evolution is an obstacle course not a freeway; the correct analogue for long-term success is a distant punt receiver evading legions of would-be tacklers in an oddly zigzagged path toward a goal, not a horse thundering down the flat.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Horse, Goal, Long

  Stephen Jay Gould (1993). “Eight little piggies: reflections in natural history”, Vintage

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• Can any thing, my good Sir, be more painful to a friendly mind than a necessity of communicating disagreeable intelligence? Indeed, it is sometimes difficult to determine, whether the relater or the receiver of evil tidings is most to be pitied.

  Fanny Burney

  Evil, Mind, Friendly

  Frances Burney, Fanny Burney (2015). “Complete Works of Frances Burney (Delphi Classics)”, p.24, Delphi Classics

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• My brain is only a receiver, in the Universe

  Nikola Tesla

  Brain, Universe

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• If I was going to play offense, I'd love to play running back. In high school I played quarterback and wide receiver, but I wouldn't mind running over some folks.

  Ronnie Lott

  Running, School, Play

  Interview with Jon Robinson, www.ign.com. December 16, 2003.

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• I love it when receivers catch the balls with their hands.

  Ron Jaworski

  Hands, Balls

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• For every giver there must be a receiver, and for every receiver there must be a giver.

  T. Harv Eker

  Hogwash, Giver

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• Jesus never met a disease he could not cure, a birth defect he could not reverse, a demon he could not exorcise. But he did meet skeptics he could not convince and sinners he could not convert. Forgiveness of sins requires an act of will on the receiver's part, and some who heard Jesus' strongest words about grace and forgiveness turned away unrepentant.

  Philip Yancey

  Jesus, Birth Defects, Grace

  Philip Yancey (2009). “The Jesus I Never Knew Participant's Guide: Six Sessions on the Life of Christ”, p.23, Zondervan

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• Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver; and adulation is not of more service to the people than to kings.

  Edmund Burke

  Kings, People, Flattery

  Edmund Burke (1826). “The Works of Edmund Burke”, p.37

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• But then everyone would be burdened and pained. They don't want that. And that's the real reason The Receiver is so vital to them, and so honored. They selected me--and you-to lift that burden from themselves.

  Lois Lowry

  Real, Would Be, Want

  Lois Lowry (2014). “The Giver Quartet Omnibus”, p.104, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Radio astronomers study radio waves from space using sensitive antennas and receivers, which give them precise information about what an astronomical object is and where it is in our night sky. And just like the signals that we send and receive here on Earth, we can convert these transmissions into sound using simple analog techniques.

  Honor Harger

  Simple, Night, Space

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• The chemistry between a quarterback and a receiver is almost like a dance.

  Jerry Rice

  Chemistry, Quarterback

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• I was making sure everyone knew Crabtree was a mediocre receiver. And when you try the best corner in the game with a mediocre receiver, that's what happens. I appreciate that he knows that now.

  Richard Sherman

  Games, Nfl, Appreciate

  "Richard Sherman rips 49ers' Michael Crabtree" by Eric Branch, www.sfgate.com. January 19, 2014.

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• The Jews form a state, and, obeying their own laws, they evade those of their host country. the Jews always considered an oath regarding a Christian not binding. During the Campaign of 1812 the Jews were spies, they were paid by both sides, they betrayed both sides. It is seldom that the police investigate a robbery in which a Jew is not found either to be an accomplice or a receiver.

  Helmuth von Moltke the Elder

  Christian, Country, Law

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• But even in a telephone booth
  evil can seep out of the receiver
  and we must cover it with a mattress,
  and then tear it from its roots
  and bury it,
  bury it.

  Anne Sexton

  Roots, Evil, Tears

  Anne Sexton (1975). “The Awful Rowing Toward God”, Boston : Houghton Mifflin

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