Receiving Quotes - Page 6

• I've received a lot of positive feedback from both the secular and Christian markets. People seem to be receiving it with open arms and hearts, and are interested in the stories I want to share about my relationship with God and my faith.

  Brian Littrell

  Christian, Heart, People

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• Latinas' life expectancies are relatively long. When a current retiree hits 65 and begins receiving her benefit check, she can expect to live another 22 years. That life expectancy is higher than white women or men.

  Grace Napolitano

  Men, White, Years

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• It's so important for those living with chronic pain to establish good communication with both their healthcare professionals and caregivers. Clear communication about pain is vital to receiving proper diagnosis and effective treatment.

  Naomi Judd

  Pain, Communication, Important

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• I had a vague idea of the song's impact in the '60s, but that was tempered by the hate mail and threats I was receiving. It was only about ten years ago, when I finally put it back in my show because so many people were asking for it, that I understood 'Society's Child' real impact.

  Janis Ian

  Song, Children, Hate

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• I enjoy receiving and giving realistic fiction, for both children and adults, with strong characters, beautiful language, and humane visions.

  Sharon Creech

  Beautiful, Strong, Children

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• Women continue receiving less salary for the same kind of job. Women have a higher unemployment rate in our country. When you analyze the composition of poverty, you will find that most of the families in poverty are being run by a woman.

  Laura Chinchilla

  Country, Running, Jobs

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• I love receiving fan mail.

  Lara Flynn Boyle

  Mail, Fans, Fan Mail

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• I'm not that comfortable with actors receiving honours, partly because I think they ought to go to those who really help others.

  Jim Broadbent

  Helping Others, Thinking, Actors

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• Since Medicare is on track to go bankrupt in 2024, the de facto Obama Medicare plan is to rob it and watch it disappear, leaving future generations without any hope of receiving benefits and today's seniors with an unpredictable future.

  Reince Priebus

  Senior, Track, Leaving

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• If you stick around long enough, people start referring to you as a survivor. Suddenly I found myself on the receiving end of several prestigious awards.

  Martha Reeves

  Awards, Long, People

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• He who through virtue and spiritual knowledge has brought his body into harmony with his soul has become a harp, a flute and a temple of God. He has become a harp by preserving the harmony of the virtues; a flute by receiving the inspiration of the Spirit through divine contemplation; and a temple by becoming a dwelling place of the Logos through the purity of his intellect.

  Maximus the Confessor

  Christian, Spiritual, Inspiration

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• A true preacher is best measured not by how many bouquets have been pinned on him but by how many brickbats have been pitched at him. Prophets have been on the receiving end of mud more than medals.

  Vance Havner

  Christian, Bouquets, Mud

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• Growth of the soul is our goal, and there are many ways to encourage that growth, such as through love, nature, healing our wounds, forgiveness, and service. The soul grows well when giving and receiving love. I nourish my soul daily by loving others and being vulnerable to their love. Love is, after all, a verb, an action word, not a noun.

  Joan Z. Borysenko

  Love You, Healing, Love Is

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• Hope always draws the soul from the beauty which is seen to what is beyond, always kindles the desire for the hidden through what is constantly perceived. Therefore, the ardent lover of beauty, although receiving what is always visible as an image of what he desires, yet longs to be filled with the very stamp of the archetype.

  Gregory of Nyssa

  Soul, Desire, Lovers

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• No movement calls [migrant workers] oppressed for providing money for women from whom they are receiving neither cooking nor cleaning; for providing their wives with homes while they sleep on the ground.

  Warren Farrell

  Home, Sleep, Wife

  Warren Farrell (1994). “The myth of male power: why men are the disposable sex”

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• In the game of Frisbee you throw the disk to someone else. The point of Frisbee is perfect communication. The person at the other end of the field is receiving an impression, a vibration from you.

  Frederick Lenz

  Communication, Health, Buddhism

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• I feel that my ear candy is a little different from the ear candy most people are receiving right now.

  Bubba Sparxxx

  People, Different, Ears

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• Receiving the Newcombe Medal for a third year in a row is an amazing honour. The Newcombe Medal is a great occasion for the Australian tennis community to come together and celebrate our sport, recognise people's achievements and contributions to Australian tennis.

  Samantha Stosur

  Sports, Years, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm receiving 300 to 500 letters every week from people telling me that God used my stories to save their marriage or to introduce them to Christ or to heal a relationship that had been broken.

  Karen Kingsbury

  Relationship, People, Broken

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• I wouldn't wish the eighties on anyone, it was the time when all that was rotten bubbled to the surface. If you were not at the receiving end of this mayhem you could be unaware of it. It was possible to live through the decade preoccupied by the mortgage and the pence you saved on your income tax. It was also possible for those of us who saw what was happening to turn our eyes in a different direction; but what, in another decade, had been a trip to the clap clinic was now a trip to the mortuary.

  Derek Jarman

  Eye, Wish, Different

  Derek Jarman (1993). “At Your Own Risk: A Saint's Testament”

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• A Church worshipping as a Creature of the Word doesn't show up to perform or be entertained; she comes desperate and needy, thirsty for grace, receiving from The Lord and the body of Christ, and then gratefully receiving what she needs as she offers her praise- the only proper response to the God who saves us.

  Matt Chandler

  Grace, Church, Body Of Christ

  Matt Chandler, Eric Geiger, Josh Patterson (2012). “Creature of the Word: The Jesus-Centered Church”, p.42, B&H Publishing Group

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• God has given us the Disciplines of the spiritual life as a means of receiving his grace. The Disciplines allow us to place ourselves before God so that he can transform us.

  Richard J. Foster

  Spiritual, Mean, Discipline

  Richard J. Foster (2009). “Celebration of Discipline: The Path To Spiritual Growth”, p.7, Harper Collins

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• Love is cheering and sharing and compassion, and giving and receiving. Love is an action thing more than a word thing, that brings comfort or joy, or relief to anyone or anything.

  Ziggy Marley

  Cheer, Love Is, Compassion

  "Ziggy Marley Says ‘Love Can Never Have A Negative Effect, Only A Positive Effect’ In Origin Magazine Interview (PHOTOS)". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 28, 2013.

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• Many seventh graders I know in Illinois, as well as around the Nation, are studying the Constitution. I was pretty impressed with the quality of education our children are receiving because they had not expected me to ask them about it.

  Melissa Bean

  Children, Illinois, Quality

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• In general, an implementation must be conservative in its sending behavior, and liberal in its receiving behavior.

  Jon Postel

  Conservative, Behavior, Implementation

  RFC 791, "Internet Protocol", www.ietf.org. September 1981.

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