Receiving Quotes - Page 26

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

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Giving, Being Thankful, Needs

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

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• When you truly give up trying to be whole through others, you end up receiving what you always wanted from others.

  Shakti Gawain

  Inspirational, Giving Up, Trying

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• A publisher should always be on the receiving end. He should take an interest in almost any subject and remain anonymous, letting the author take center stage.

  Cass Canfield

  Writing, Ends, Should

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• If the members of parliament no longer consider themselves mandatories of the taxpayers but deputies of those receiving salaries, wages, subsidies, doles, and other benefits from the treasury, democracy is done for.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Democracy, Salary, Wages

  Ludwig Von Mises (1944). “Bureaucracy”

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• A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature

  George Orwell

  Hate, Men, Charity

  George Orwell (2012). “Down and Out in Paris and London”, p.132, Lulu.com

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• Prayer is looking out from a different set of eyes, which are not comparing, competing, judging, labeling or analyzing, but receiving the moment in its present wholeness and unwholeness. That is what is meant by contemplation.

  Richard Rohr

  Prayer, Eye, Judging

  "Richard Rohr on Praying like St. Francis". St. Anthony Messenger interview, www.franciscanmedia.org.

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• At this moment, life is trying to love you and give to you in a million wonderful ways. When you say Yes, you allow love to flow, which is the greatest gift you can give yourself and the universe . . . What do you want that you could be more open to receiving?

  Alan Cohen

  Love You, Giving, Trying

  Alan Cohen (2010). “A Daily Dose of Sanity: A Five-Minute Soul Recharge for Every Day of the Year”, Hay House, Inc

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• Making reality real is art's responsibility. It is a practical assignment, then, a self-assignment: to achieve, by a cultivated sensitivity for observing life, a capacity for receiving impressions, a lonely, unremitting, unaided, unaidable vision, and transferring this vision without distortion to it onto the pages of a novel, where, if the reader is so persuaded, it will turn into the reader's illusion.

  Eudora Welty

  Lonely, Art, Real

  Eudora Welty (2011). “On Writing”, p.53, Modern Library

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• You can, in short, lead the life of the mind, which is, despite some appalling frustrations, the happiest life on earth. And one day, in the thick of this, approaching some partial vision, you will (I swear) find yourself on the receiving end of - of all things - an "idea for a story," and you will, God save you, start thinking about writing some fiction of your own. Then you will understand, in what I fancy might be a blinding flash, that all this passionate thinking is what fiction is about, that all those other fiction writers started as you did, and are laborers in the same vineyard.

  Annie Dillard

  Writing, Frustration, Thinking

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• And in "Elbow Room" the cast sings the glories of westward expansion in the United States, which involved the murder of native peoples and the violent conquest of half of Mexico. Among the lines in the song is one that intones, "There were plenty of fights / To win land right / But the West was meant to be / It was our Manifest Destiny?" Let it suffice to say that happily belting out a tune in which one merrily praises genocide is always easier for those whose ancestors weren't on the receiving end of the deal.

  Tim Wise

  Song, Fighting, Winning

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• She'd tell me how she'd handle the backhanded compliment by smiling and pretending she was receiving a genuine compliment all the while ignoring their attempt to be insulting. After all, it's the way an insult is received that makes it an insult. You can't really give offense unless someone takes it.

  Portia de Rossi

  Insults You, Giving, Insulting

  Portia de Rossi (2011). “Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain”, p.81, Simon and Schuster

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• Genet raised his hand, and I squeezed my eyes shut, sure I would be receiving the worst backhanded slap of my life. Genet froze and whimpered, but didn't back away. "Oh, ho," said a familiar voice. "That was close !" I opened my eyes as North's free hand - the one that hadn't caught Genet's wrist - gently pulled my arm free. I pushed myself away from both of them. "You interrupt my business ?" Genet sputtered. "Do you know what this wench just accused me of being ?" "A filthy pig," North said good-naturedly. "But there's only one filthy pig allowed in her life, and the position's been filled.

  Alexandra Bracken

  Eye, Pigs, Hands

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• We need to show mercy. I mean, because as much mercy as you show people, that's the mercy you're going to be receiving.

  Joel Osteen

  Mean, People, Needs

  "Interview With Joel and Victoria Osteen". "Larry King Live", edition.cnn.com. December 22, 2006.

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• All my life, I'd been on the receiving end of my mother's endless tenderness and vigilant care. Being allowed to care for her during her recovery was a gift – the most rewarding experience in my life.

  Kristin Chenoweth

  Mother, Recovery, Care

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• The nation's government has just handed me the bill that grants us our civil rights. I am receiving it before you, certain that I am accepting this on behalf of all Argentinean women, and I can feel my hands tremble with joy as they grasp the laurel proclaiming victory.

  Evita Peron

  Rights, Government, Hands

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• Grace cannot be confused with righteousness. Grace is receiving what we do not deserve; mercy is not receiving what we do deserve. Righteousness, on the other hand, includes what most of us would consider difficult matters, such as punishment, correction and judgment. It also includes what most of us would consider positive matters, such as the fruit of the Spirit.

  Francis Frangipane

  Confused, Hands, Punishment

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• Her beauty satisfied [his] artistic eye, her peculiarities piqued his curiosity, her vivacity lightened his ennui, and her character interested him by the unconscious hints it gave of power, pride and passion. So entirely natural and unconventional was she that he soon found himself on a familiar footing, asking all manner of unusual questions, and receiving rather piquant replies.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Character, Eye, Passion

  Louisa May Alcott (1997). “A Long Fatal Love Chase”, Thorndike Pr

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• He never knew what hit him, and that would have comforted me, except . . . just for one second, he would have had to know, wouldn't he? There must have been a blur, a sense of the world exploding, a flashpoint of receiving more damage than a human body could endure.

  Lisa Kleypas

  World, Body, Damage

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• The Idols of Tribe have their foundation in human nature itself, and in the tribe or race of men. For it is a false assertion that the sense of man is the measure of things. On the contrary, all perceptions as well of the sense as of the mind are according to the measure of the individual and not according to the measure of the universe. And the human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature with it.

  Francis Bacon

  Men, Mirrors, Race

  Francis Bacon (2016). “New Atlantis and The Great Instauration”, p.36, John Wiley & Sons

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• Life gives us what we need when we need it; receiving what it gives us is a whole other thing.

  Pam Houston

  Life, Giving, Needs

  Pam Houston (2011). “Cowboys Are My Weakness: Stories”, p.158, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Because there is nothing I would rather do than rummage through bookshops, I went at once to Hastings & Sons Bookshop upon receiving your letter. I have gone to them for years, always finding the one book I wanted - and then three more I hadn't known I wanted.

  Mary Ann Shaffer

  Book, Son, Finding The One

  Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows (2009). “The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society”, p.13, A&C Black

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• You know how I love talking about books, and you know how I adore receiving compliments.

  Annie Barrows

  Book, Talking, Compliment

  Annie Barrows, Mary Ann Shaffer (2011). “The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Random House Reader's Circle Deluxe Reading Group Edition): A Novel”, p.7, Dial Press

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• The longest journey
  Is the journey inwards.
  Of him who has chosen his destiny,
  Who has started upon his quest
  For the source of his being.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Past, Journey, Destiny

  "Markings". Book by Dag Hammarskjold, 1964.

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• Yeah, size is no guarantee of power,” said George. “Look at Ginny.” “What d’you mean?” said Harry. “You’ve never been on the receiving end of one of her Bat-Bogey Hexes, have you?

  J. K. Rowling

  Mean, Bats, Looks

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• If what you do is being threatened as a profession, that could be scary. But that's the same reason why I walked out on stage many times after receiving death threats. I couldn't live without doing what I wanted to do. So at the same time I have to be willing to die for it.

  Marilyn Manson

  Scary, Reason Why, Stage

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