“ If there is no Hell a good many preachers are obtaining money under false pretenses. ”
- William A. Sunday- Copy
- 731
“ Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to the sex, when, in fact, men are insultingly supporting their own superiority. ”
- Mary Wollstonecraft- Copy
- 3.3K
“ We're sorry you didn't win any money but you will be receiving a broken clavicle and a jar of olives courtesy of Match Game. ”
- Gene Rayburn- Copy
- 1.8K
“ After the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter. ”
- Jean Cocteau- Copy
- 3.3K
“ Violence is black children going to school for 12 years and receiving 6 years' worth of education. ”
- Julian Bond- Copy
- 2.5K
“ We would give more alms if we had the eyes to see what a beautiful picture a receiving hand makes. ”
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe- Copy
- 1.1K
“ There cannot live a more unhappy creature than an ill-natured old man, who is neither capable of receiving pleasures, nor sensible of conferring them on others. ”
- Sir William Temple- Copy
- 2.5K
“ The present moment is significant, not as the bridge between past and future, but by reason of its contents, which can fill our emptiness and become ours, if we are capable of receiving them. ”
- Dag Hammarskjold- Copy
- 1.4K
“ The marriage state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of Heaven and Hell we are capable of receiving in this life. ”
- Sir Richard Steele- Copy
- 735
“ Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons. ”
- R. Buckminster Fuller- Copy
- 206
“ No man acquires property without acquiring with it a little arithmetic also. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
- 2.3K
“ If you greatly desire something, have the guts to stake everything on obtaining it. ”
- Brendan Francis- Copy
- 1.2K
“ A true friend is the most precious of all possessions and the one we take the least thought about acquiring. ”
- Francois De La Rochefoucauld- Copy
- 370
“ Do something everyday that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
- 531
“ Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility. ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
- 1.8K
“ We are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself. ”
- Samuel Johnson- Copy
- 1.1K
“ Acquiring a player of Steve's level and talent is very exciting for this team. ”
- Larry Brown- Copy
- 2.8K
“ In acquiring Alex Rodriguez, we are bringing to New York one of the premier players in the history of the game. ”
- George Steinbrenner- Copy
- 2.1K
“ We have to do the best we can. This is our sacred human responsibility. ”
- Albert Einstein- Copy
- 555
“ Nothing would disgust me more, morally, than receiving an Oscar. ”
- Luis Bunuel- Copy
- 3.8K
“ Receiving a million dollars tax free will make you feel better than being flat broke and having a stomach ache. ”
- Dolph Sharp- Copy
- 3.8K
“ I have come to believe that giving and receiving are really the same. Giving and receiving - not giving and taking. ”
- Joyce Grenfell- Copy
- 1.9K
“ The value of a man resides in what he gives and not in what he is capable of receiving. ”
- Albert Einstein- Copy
- 3.5K
“ A letter is an unannounced visit, the postman the agent of rude surprises. One ought to reserve an hour a week for receiving letters and afterwards take a bath. ”
- Friedrich Nietzsche- Copy
- 2K
“ Asking is the beginning of receiving. Make sure you don't go to the ocean with a teaspoon. At least take a bucket so the kids won't laugh at you. ”
- Jim Rohn- Copy
- 1.5K
“ Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline. ”
- George Eliot- Copy
- 3.6K
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