Receiving Quotes

Just as women are afraid of receiving, men are afraid of giving.
John Gray

Women, Men, Giving

You cannot live to please everyone else. You have to edify, educate and fulfill your own dreams and destiny, and hope that whatever your art is that you're putting out there, if it's received, great, I respect you for receiving it. If it's not received, great, I respect you for not.
Octavia Spencer

Dreams, Great, Hope

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

Good, Pain, Important

All too many young people are receiving mixed messages and inaccurate information about drugs.
John Walters

Young, Messages, Mixed

As an actor you have to get used to receiving gentle little pies in the face.
James Purefoy

Used, Face, Actor

If people around the world knew how well people at Guantanamo Bay are treating prisoners, they would not fall prey to the accusations that some in our Chamber are making. They are all receiving judicial review.
Robin Hayes

Around, Making, Fall

American soldiers had to guard prisoners on the inside while receiving mortar and weapons fire from the outside. Guantanamo is distant from any battlefield, making it far more secure.
John Yoo

Fire, American, Far

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

End, Long, Enough

Nothing is more pleasing and engaging than the sense of having conferred benefits. Not even the gratification of receiving them.
Ellis Peters

Nothing, Sense, Pleasing

As artists, we do the work that we do. Receiving an award or not receiving an award in no way diminishes one's talent or value.
Phylicia Rashad

Work, Talent, Value

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

Great, Amazing, Together

We must safely secure our border by investing in more law enforcement and technology, and receiving cooperation from the Mexican government.
Timothy Murphy

Government, Technology, Law

I gave it all that I had, and it's gratifying that others seem to be receiving it so well.
Debbie Reynolds

Others, Seem, Gave

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

Life, Women, Men

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

Hope, Future, Today

If a lobbyist sets up shop, or a lawyer, in which they're receiving income through what is something like a tax loophole so that it's not counting as corporate income, that is what this is counting as a small business.
Austan Goolsbee

Business, Through, Small

We were in Little Rock. We were assessing a very important issue. In the midst of our discussions, we were receiving urgent inquiries from The Washington Post asking about interviews.
Kenneth Starr

Rock, Important, Issue

I think then, when we started receiving the first of the user feedback, feedback from people that I had not specifically told about it, but had spread from friend to friend and then they were giving us feedback.
Shawn Fanning

Friend, Giving, Started

There was no welfare state, and people had to rely mainly on the Poor Law - that was all the state provided. It was very degrading, very humiliating. And there was a means test for receiving poor relief.
Barbara Castle

Law, Poor, Means

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

Help, Others, Ought

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

End, Almost, Interest

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

Different, Candy, Ear

There is no Pleasure like that of receiving Praise from the Praiseworthy.
Richard Steele

Pleasure, Praise

The married 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.
Richard Steele

Life, Hell, Married

You are going in one second the length of a football field. That means you brain is receiving information from your body what the car is doing physically, bumping, balance, performance.
Emerson Fittipaldi

Car, Football, Brain

The press Yazoo were receiving were focused on the voice, This obviously was about trends.
Alison Moyet

Voice, Focused, Press

When you start thinking about taking pictures, sending an e-mail, receiving an e-mail, speaking into your phone and have it transcript voice into text and then sent as an e-mail, it's mind-boggling.
Steve Largent

Thinking, Start, Voice

That work led to the emergence of the recombinant DNA technology thereby providing a major tool for analyzing mammalian gene structure and function and formed the basis for me receiving the 1980 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
Paul Berg

Work, Technology, Chemistry

Listening is more important than anything else because that's what music is. Somebody is playing something and you're receiving it. It is sending and receiving.
Carla Bley

Music, Important, Else

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

Marriage, God, Broken

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