Top 515 Received Quotes

Through the years I have received my share of recognition for efforts in the fields of sports, the arts, the struggle for full citizenship for the Negro people, labor’s rights and the fight for peace.
Paul Robeson
Received left-wing wisdom holds that the police cannot lower crime, only massive welfare spending and the redistribution of wealth can.
Heather Mac Donald
The way a play is seen is completely dependent on the circumstances and the world in which it is received.
Harry Hadden-Paton
I have been overwhelmed by the response that I have received on the doorstep during this campaign.
Anne Campbell
When you’re acting in a movie, you never consider the reception of it. It’s impossible to predict how something will be received. Even if you think it’s the greatest thing in the world, other people might not like it. Or agree with it.
Jesse Eisenberg
I am so glad that Kavya’s look has been well received by all my fans and the viewers of ‘Anupamaa.’
Madalsa Sharma
With ‘Poison,’ I’m sure some people just hated the movie, but it also got caught up into a debate about arts funding because it was a film that received a National Endowment for the Arts Public Grant, and it won the prize at the Sundance Film Festival.
Todd Haynes
I have been denounced for passive corruption without having received anything of value. Where is the concrete proof that I received something of value?
Michel Temer
I first came into the radar of the U.S. intelligence when I received a call from my cousin Mahfouz. It was 1999. He wanted me to help him transfer some money to his sick father. And he called me from the phone of UBL.
Mohamedou Ould Slahi
I was in Girls’ Generation because of luck, and fortunately, Girls’ Generation received a lot of love. I would want to help my daughter walk a different career path.
Jessica Jung
As a musician myself, I wouldn’t be confident if I received some other composers’ song, because I choose to express myself through the music that I make.
G-Dragon
When I give talks, I often quote from a button I received at a Google event: Always Be Creative. I use it to illustrate how important creativity is in technology and business.
Harper Reed
But it is obvious that our fathers, whose efforts have planted these great and prosperous cities along the once lonely trails of our own broad land, received all the fundamentals of civilization as a heritage from their European ancestors.
James Henry Breasted
Despite my involvement in difficult and sometimes controversial questions I have received consistent support from the people of Ashfield. They have recognised that it is necessary to take difficult decisions, that newspapers do not always report fairly or accurately.
Geoff Hoon
I knew everything and received everything. But real happiness, is giving.
Alain Delon
I abandoned chemistry to concentrate on mathematics and physics. In 1942, I travelled to Cambridge to take the scholarship examination at Trinity College, received an award and entered the university in October 1943.
John Pople
The best V-Day gift I’ve ever received was a personalized photo collage.
Candice Swanepoel
I’ve been homeschooling for eight years and have always received the best advice and encouragement from other homeschoolers, rather than a book or lecture.
Lisa Whelchel
The thing about tarot – maybe this to me is the difference between it and working with a psychic – to me it’s clarifying the things that you already know. I don’t feel like any tarot reading I’ve done or received was particularly surprising. They always speak to things that you kind of felt already.
KiKi Layne
I was thrilled when this year’s National Book Award for Young People’s Literature went to Neal Schusterman’s ‘Challenger Deep.’ This brilliant book takes you into the mind of a mentally ill teenager and deserves all the accolades it’s received.
John Corey Whaley
As the gospels present it to us, the mission of Jesus of Nazareth is about the way in which the community of God’s people – historically, the Jewish people who had first received the law and the covenant – is being re-created in relation to Jesus himself.
Rowan Williams
The angels taken collectively are called heaven, for they constitute heaven; and yet that which makes heaven in general and in particular is the Divine that goes forth from the Lord and flows into the angels and is received by them.
Emanuel Swedenborg
I’ve never signed any contract and never received a cent from Iraq.
Vladimir Zhirinovsky
One day I was sitting in my own pain, and suddenly all the pain and troubles of the world came to me. I received all the pain of the world, all through my body.
Alejandro Jodorowsky
During the presidential primaries of 1940, I received a request from the Democratic National Committee to sing God Bless America before the speeches.
Kate Smith
I’ve been so lucky, received so much help and inspiration in my life, so I want to help give aspiring North Koreans a chance to prosper with international support.
Lee Hyeon-seo
What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Growing up, I remember I had several different 45 singles. But the first album I received was from a family friend: Emmylou Harris’ ‘Roses In The Snow.’ It was so incredible. This record, to this day, is the favorite album of my life.
Kimberly Schlapman
I want people who have received a diagnosis of Hepatitis C to know that they didn’t just receive a death sentence. They do have options, even if the person who gave them their diagnosis isn’t aware of all of them. The path they choose doesn’t have to be one of desperation.
Melody Beattie
I believe people who are looking for a fresh idea and s

I believe people who are looking for a fresh idea and spirit have received Danielson. The conservative Christian press have been quite mean to us, but the mainstream ‘secular’ press has been very, very nice.
Daniel Smith
I’ve largely focused on Japan my whole career, so I was interested to see how my music would be received by people of different backgrounds, religions and cultures.
Joe Hisaishi
I have not suffered any nerve damage, nor have I received any treatment for nerve damage.
Calvin Johnson
If one wants to change the way things are, one has to take risks and be part of different kinds of cinema, despite not knowing how it will be received. That’s what thrills me.
Sobhita Dhulipala
I wanted to stay in New York to pursue acting, but my dad urged me to get a four-year degree. Reading about the film school at Florida State University, he suggested I go there. I received my bachelor’s degree in 2003.
Lauren Miller
It is very difficult to find appropriate words to say ‘thank you’ for an honour like the Nobel Prize. It is the supreme honour that a scientist can receive. Some of the giants in physics and chemistry have received this prize.
Gerhard Herzberg
I’d just hit the Billboard thing, and I had a good feeling. About a month ago, I received a call that said I was in the running, that I’d made the final 25. So I just wanted to place.
Arthur Godfrey
The argument that John F. Kennedy was a closet peacenik, ready to give up on what the Vietnamese call the ‘American War’ upon re-election, received its most farcical treatment in Oliver Stone’s ‘JFK.’
Rick Perlstein
It’s a myth that I received any flak from the metal community over my decision to come out. I have, in fact, received numerous positive responses from fans, as well as e-mails from people who were going through much the same thing. It’s horrible to keep something like that secret, and I felt I had to make it public.
Rob Halford
At the beginning of the troubles of Saint Domingo, I felt that I was destined to great things. When I received this divine intimation, I was four and fifty years of age; I could neither read nor write.
Toussaint Louverture
The formal education that I received made little sense to me.
Twyla Tharp
In the last 18 months, we received much interest from parties to invest in the club or buy the club. I rejected all the options to buy the club because I did not want to give up.
Andrea Radrizzani
You pour your soul into your book, but you never know how it will be received, and when people like your baby, it’s a great feeling.
Sabaa Tahir
In 2011, when I was in Corinthians, I received an offer from Russia that offered me to win 10 times more than in Brazil and I answered: ‘What I can do with five, I can do with two.’
Paulinho
When my first album came out, it wasn’t Bollywood. The love that I received from people was everything, and it still is everything for me.
Adnan Sami
We in Nigeria have seen just how difficult it is to get back stolen assets from the international financial system, such as banks that ought not have received those funds in the first place if even the most routine questions were asked.
Yemi Osinbajo
I’ve just got to keep doing what I’m doing, because from all the compliments I’ve received so far, it sounds like I’m on the right track.
Gerrit Cole
‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ appeared to highly favorable reviews and quickly climbed to the top of bestseller lists, where it remained for more than eighty weeks. In 1961, the novel was awarded the Pulitzer Prize. A film adaptation was released in 1962, starring Gregory Peck, and received three Academy Awards.
Charles J. Shields
In 2002, the 2000 Engelbrecht Els wine was released in South Africa and received high ratings.
Ernie Els
I don’t set out to win awards. I don’t think any musician does, but when you receive an award, it’s an affirmation: it means that people appreciate what you do. Every award I have received is a confirmation of something I have done, and that motivates me to push a little harder.
Wadada Leo Smith
Chelsea received me very well.
Alexandre Pato
Thus the castle of each feudal chieftain became a school of chivalry, into which any noble youth, whose parents were from poverty unable to educate him to the art of war, was readily received.
Horatio Alger