Top 515 Received Quotes

I really told my story as I saw it in ‘Cross to Bear,’ and I was pleased – and a bit surprised – by how well it was received and how it sold. No. 2 on the ‘New York Times’ bestseller list? I’ll take that any day, my man!
Gregg Allman
When I was at Hartford in Connecticut, where I lived during the war, I published several pieces which were well received, not only by those of my own colour, but by a number of the white people, who thought they might do good among their servants.
Jupiter Hammon
In bodies moved, the motion is received, increased, diminished, or lost, according to the relations of the quantity of matter and velocity; each diversity is uniformity, each change is constancy.
Montesquieu
I received a phone call; my agent got a phone call from Ryan Murphy saying he wanted to talk to me… And he basically outlined ‘American Horror Story’ for me and said that there’s a character named Larry the Burn Guy, and I’d like you to play it.
Denis O’Hare
I made the best choice coming to PSG, and after almost two years I have no doubts about it. I’ve been very well received, I’m playing and wearing the jersey of a side that can win it all.
Marco Verratti
In 1998, I received treatment for my knee by an Israeli therapist. We spoke about Israel and I mentioned ‘Scooterman’ and he just froze. It was like he had met Elvis. I thought he was kidding me and then he called his brother, they yelled to each other over the phone, and then I believed him.
Gary David Goldberg
In 2005, before I was president, the state of Bolivia had only $300 million from hydrocarbons. Last year, 2007, the Bolivian state – after the nationalization, after changing the law – Bolivia received $1,930 million. For a small country with nearly 10 million inhabitants, this allows us to increase the national economy.
Evo Morales
The love received is the love that is saved.
Eddie Vedder
I was in a profession that received a lot of media.
Darrell Royal
‘StrengthsFinder 2.0’ is an effort to get the core message and language out to a much broader audience. We had no idea how well received the first strengths book would be by general readers – it was oriented more toward managers – or that the energy and excitement would continue to grow.
Tom Rath
I have made compacts with fourteen different persons that whichever of us died first would communicate with the other if it were possible, but I have never received a word.
Harry Houdini
What’s great about the way ‘Shame”s been received is that I kept on thinking there’s no way this film will be received well since I’ve had such a good time.
Abi Morgan
We do want more, and when it becomes more, we shall still want more. And we shall never cease to demand more until we have received the results of our labor.
Samuel Gompers
As a therapist, I’ve worked with many high-achieving people who don’t feel worthy of their success. Whether it was a recent college graduate who had landed a high-paying job or a mature adult who had just received another promotion, all of these people suffer from impostor syndrome.
Amy Morin
While the budget resolution is a nonbinding blueprint, it is, nevertheless, an important guideline for Congress. Once the President’s proposed budget is received by Congress on the first Monday of February, Congress generally goes to work on appropriating the funds required.
Marsha Blackburn
I received a lot of criticism early in my career, but people didn’t realize that I’d only been training for three years when I turned pro.
Phil Heath
Married or single, you sisters possess distinctive capabilities and special intuition you have received as gifts from God. We brethren cannot duplicate your unique influence.
Russell M. Nelson
Forgiveness is not a one-time thing that happened the day you received Christ. It is an everyday thing, for the rest of your life.
Joyce Meyer
The E.U. is very popular in Estonia, and for very good

The E.U. is very popular in Estonia, and for very good reasons – not because Estonia has received considerable support from the E.U., but because Europe supports the values which keep small states safe in this world.
Kersti Kaljulaid
I just received the endorsement of the National Right to Life, and more than anybody else, more than any organization I can think of, I’m proud that they recognize the work that we’ve done to save the lives of the unborn.
Thom Tillis
Just imagine how many more cyclists could help save our cities and prevent further global warming by adopting electric bikes, if they received strategic and financial support similar to electric car drivers.
Jens Martin Skibsted
In 1996, I received a Ph.D. in Educational Psychology from the University of Southern California.
Christine Blasey Ford
I took and received campaign donations under the existing laws.
Sheila Jackson Lee
Haryana has supported me throughout my journey. I have received immense love and support from here.
Manushi Chhillar
Some caregivers want to reciprocate the care they themselves received as children.
Ariel Gore
I received an honorary doctorate for my work. Maybe one of these works is considered the equivalent of a Ph.D.
Iris Chang
‘An Audience With Kenneth Williams.’ My wife and I went with him to the recording. He was paid £10,000, the largest fee he had ever received and was so nervous he was shaking. But his performance was matchless. He knew it was the best thing he’d ever done.
Gyles Brandreth
We have already significant sums of money in our petroleum fund, a fund created by law that includes all the revenues received from the Timor Sea, and invests in conservative, safe, long-term investment portfolios – right now in US Treasury Bonds.
Jose Ramos-Horta
I was taught you don’t tell your secrets to strangers – certainly not secrets that expose error, weakness, failure. My generation, like its predecessors, was taught that since our achievements received little notice or credit from white America, we were not to discuss our faults, lapses, or uncertainties in public.
Margo Jefferson
I belong on the stage. I love how the day’s events, whatever you read in the newspapers or watch on the TV, are reflected in the performance and how it’s received.
Mandy Patinkin
Generally, musicians find that as they get older, their popularity starts to wane. Pre-Covid, however, I was going through a good phase and finding my live shows were really well received.
Paul Young
Each of us, having received several hundred dollars, we passed the time gloriously, spending our money freely – never thinking that our lives were risked gaining it.
Kit Carson
The best anti-aging advice I’ve ever received? Drink a lot of water and have a plant-based diet. I also do mindful meditation with my daughter every day. It takes ten minutes. I think reducing stress plays a big part in anti-aging.
Carolyn Murphy
The more you work in this business as a comedian, the closer you get to just being yourself onstage, on camera, the more well received you are.
Nikki Glaser
I was a newcomer and I was asked to put on weight for ‘Veer’ since I was playing a princess from the era gone by. I received a lot of criticism from those who were supposed to understand such intricacies of cinema.
Zareen Khan
Thomas Pynchon surely inaugurated or crystallized a new genre in 1963 when he published ‘V.’ The seriocomic mystery or thriller with one foot set in the present and one in various historical eras received its postmodern baptism from Pynchon.
Paul Di Filippo
An apology offered and, equally important, received is a step towards reconciliation and, sometimes, recompense. Without that process, hurts can rankle and fester and erupt into their own hatreds and wrongdoings.
Margaret MacMillan
‘Chandi’ was received well and my performance was particularly appreciated.
Priyamani
I’m very simple when it comes to gifts, so the best ones that I’ve received have love as their main intention. I appreciate everything.
Adriana Lima
The best advice I received when I started out was to think about the camera or microphone as if it was a person to connect with.
Edith Bowman
Surely it is time to examine into the meaning of words and the nature of things, and to arrive at simple facts, not received upon the dictum of learned authorities, but upon attentive personal observation of what is passing around us.
Frances Wright
I’ve been victimized by general filthiness on multiple occasions… I received a nasty staph infection… I was told to wait it out… a few days later I literally thought I was going to die… I ended up being on antibiotics for five weeks and, as a result, I had to back out of the fight against Machida.
Forrest Griffin
I don’t know how the editors are going to take it or how it may be received. But to some extent I’m hoping that with the next book, when people pick it up and read it, it will scare the pants off of them.
Christopher Darden
I absolutely adore Agatha Christie; so much so that when I received a kitten for my Christmas present, I called her Agatha, and I already have a cat called Hercule!
Kimberley Nixon
The mandate I have received and for which I will speak with heart and head to implement over the next seven years had its four pillars – an inclusive citizenship, equality and participation and respect in a creative society creating an excellence in everything we Irish do.
Michael D. Higgins
Take Ernie Els. He plays in every country. You see his name everywhere. He’s received in different parts of the world. It’s a good experience.
Peter Uihlein
Our Keystone legislation received strong bipartisan support in the Senate. Although it didn’t receive the 60 votes necessary for passage, 56 senators – a majority – voted in favor of the bill. Despite President Obama’s actively lobbying against the bill, we still won the support of 11 Democrats.
John Hoeven
Most of the discrimination I have encountered centered on the view that I am not a part of this great nation, even though I grew up in Ohio, graduated from law school in Washington, D.C., and received my commission in the U.S. Air Force in 1991.
Ted Lieu
I received my money from the treasury, I used to very early to go the clubs, but when the burden of looking after my children came upon me I tried to live a quite life, and save as much as I could.
Kamisese Mara