Reciprocate Quotes

• The only people who steal are thieves, and that’s a very small percentage of civilization. Most people want to have some way to make the economic transaction valid. They want to return the favor, if you will… return the benefit and reciprocate...

  Michael Nesmith

  Civilization, People, Thieves

  Interview with Ken Plume, asitecalledfred.com. May 2003.

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• What is emotional intimacy? It is that depp sense of being connected to one another. It is feeling loved, respected and appreciated, while at the same time seeking to reciprocate. To feel loved is to have the sense that the other person genuinely cares about your well-being. Respect has to do with feeling that your potential spouse has positive regard for your personhood, intellect, abilities and personality. Appreciation is that inner sense that your partner values your contribution to the relationship.

  Gary Chapman

  Appreciation, Emotional, Personality

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• If you show people you don't care, they'll return the favor. Show them you care, they'll reciprocate.

  Lee Bolman

  People, Favors, Return

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• A man is most accurately judged by how he treats those who are not in a position either to retaliate or to reciprocate.

  Paul Eldridge

  Men, Treats, Position

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• Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

  Washington Irving

  Love, Break Up, Broken Heart

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• Every day, try to help someone who can't reciprocate your kindness.

  John Wooden

  Kindness, Trying, Helping

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• We are enriched by our reciprocate differences.

  Paul Valery

  Appreciation, Differences

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• Misery loves company, but company does not reciprocate.

  Addison Mizner

  Doe, Misery, Company

  Oliver Herford, Ethel Watts Mumford Grant, Addison Mizner (1903). “The Cynic's Calendar of Revised Wisdom ...”

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• I want to thank God because that's who I look up. He's graced my life with opportunities. He's shown me that it's a scientific fact that gratitude reciprocates.

  Matthew McConaughey

  Gratitude, Opportunity, Thank God

  Matthew McConaughey's Academy Awards Acceptance Speech, aaspeechesdb.oscars.org. March 2, 2014.

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• Dogs are wonderful, and in many ways unique. But they are remarkably unremarkable in their intellectual and experiential capacities. Pigs are every bit as intelligent and feeling, by any sensible definition of the words. They can't hop into the back of a Volvo, but they can fetch, run and play, be mischievous, and reciprocate affection. So why don't they get to curl up by the fire? Why can't they at least be spared being tossed on the fire?

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Running, Dog, Intelligent

  "Eating Animals". Book by Jonathan Safran Foer, 2009.

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  It's a scientific fact that gratitude reciprocates.

  Matthew McConaughey

  Gratitude, Facts, Academy Awards

  Matthew McConaughey's Academy Awards Acceptance Speech, aaspeechesdb.oscars.org. March 2, 2014.

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• If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

  Ben Elton

  Love, Memorable, People

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• The critical sense is so far from frequent that it is absolutely rare, and the possession of the cluster of qualities that minister to it is one of the highest distinctions... In this light one sees the critic as the real helper of the artist, a torchbearing outrider, the interpreter, the brother... Just in proportion as he is sentient and restless, just in proportion as he reacts and reciprocates and penetrates, is the critic a valuable instrument.

  Henry James

  Brother, Real, Artist

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• Women still dream and hope, pin their emotions on some man who doesn't reciprocate, and end up in confusion.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Dream, Men, Confusion

  Elisabeth Elliot, Joshua Harris (2002). “Passion and Purity: Learning to Bring Your Love Life Under Christ's Control”, p.30, Revell

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• Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden exchange meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances, reciprocate civilities, go home, and dream of one another. Having little to divert attention, or diversify thought, they find themselves uneasy when they are apart, and therefore conclude that they shall be happy together. They marry, and discover what nothing but voluntary blindness had before concealed; they wear out life in altercations, and charge nature with cruelty.

  Samuel Johnson

  Marriage, Dream, Home

  Samuel Johnson, Peter Martin (2009). “Samuel Johnson: Selected Writings”, p.310, Harvard University Press

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• There is a built-in sense of indebtedness in the consciousness of man, an awareness of owing gratitude, or being caled upon at certain moments to reciprocate, to answer, to live in a way which is compatible with the grandeur and mystery of living.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Gratitude, Men, Answers

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• People who criticize The Selfish Gene like that often haven't read it. The selfish gene accounts for altruism toward kin and individuals who might be in a position to reciprocate your altruism.

  Richard Dawkins

  Selfish, People, Might

  Source: newrepublic.com

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• If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.

  Voltaire

  God, Religious, Atheist

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• The declaration of love may come sooner than expected. Take time before you reciprocate as this may simply be a statement of what they expect from you.

  Seneca the Younger

  May, Take Time, Expected

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• In our prehistoric past, we would have lived in extended families, surrounded by kin whose interests we might have wanted to promote because they shared our genes. Now we live in big cities. We are not among kin nor people who will ever reciprocate our good deeds. It doesn't matter. Just as people engaged in sex with contraception are not aware of being motivated by a drive to have babies, it doesn't cross our mind that the reason for do-gooding is based in the fact that our primitive ancestors lived in small groups.

  Richard Dawkins

  Baby, Sex, Past

  Source: inters.org

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• Writing to offer a piece of information or a connection is a great way to demonstrate that you're looking out for the other person. Humans have a tendency to want to reciprocate, so the more you show you're looking out for someone, the more likely that person will begin to keep you in mind as well.

  Adam Rifkin

  Writing, Mind

  "Silicon Valley’s Best Networker Teaches You His Secrets". www.bakadesuyo.com.

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• If you become a giver, you'll make them feel like they want to reciprocate.

  Price Pritchett

  Growth, Want, Giver

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• I swear, every person I know gets far more satisfaction from doing good deeds than receiving them. Maybe that’s the whole point in the end, all of us putting up with good deeds, tolerating them as best we can, counting the minutes until we have the opportunity to reciprocate.

  Catherine Gilbert Murdock

  Opportunity, Receiving, Deeds

  Catherine Gilbert Murdock (2009). “Front and Center”, p.129, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Many species reciprocate, but only humans gossip, and much of what we gossip about is the vale of other people as partners for reciprocal relationships.

  Jonathan Haidt

  People, Gossip, Partners

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• I believe, Eragon, that you are full of love and that you are looking for one who will reciprocate your affection. No shame exists in that.

  Christopher Paolini

  Believe, Affection, Shame

  Christopher Paolini (2014). “The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance”, p.850, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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