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But then everyone would be burdened and pained. They don't want that. And that's the real reason The Receiver is so vital to them, and so honored. They selected me--and you-to lift that burden from themselves. -- Lois Lowry
You will be faced, now, with pain of a magnitude that none of us here can comprehend because it is beyond our experience. The Receiver himself was not able to describe it, only to remind us that you would be faced with it, that you would need immense courage. -- Lois Lowry
I kinda wanted to play receiver more. -- Victor Cruz
The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest. -- William Blake
Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver. -- Edmund Burke
Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock. -- Walter Benjamin
You never know what you're going to get as a receiver. -- Darren Flutie
I played a lot of football when I was younger. I'm a good receiver, actually. -- Shania Twain
In my view, the best gift is one that benefits both the receiver and the planet. -- Andrew Weil
When advice is freely given, the receiver is free to use it as he or she sees fit. -- Harvey Mackay
I want to be known as a solid all-around receiver that's fast, not a fast guy that plays receiver. -- Torrey Smith
My father was a ham radio geek, and I remember the glow of the vacuum tubes from a Hammarlund receiver that became a hand-me-down to me. -- Bre Pettis
Every quarterback can throw a ball; every running back can run; every receiver is fast; but that mental toughness that you talk about translates into competitiveness. -- Tom Brady
There is no being eloquent for atheism. In that exhausted receiver the mind cannot use its wings, - the clearest proof that it is out of its element. -- Augustus Hare
There's a wire injected under my skin a few days before an event and connected to that is a wireless transmitter. That device communicates my blood-glucose levels to the receiver unit, which is mounted above my steering wheel. -- Charlie Kimball
People ask me who he reminds me of. The way he's playing, I'd say he doesn't remind me of anybody. I've never seen anybody - running back, quarterback, wide receiver - make the plays that Vince Young made today. -- Dan Fouts
I'm not trying to be the highest-paid receiver in the National Football League. I've never received that, and that's not ever going to happen. So I'm fine with what I have, I make good money, and I'm happy about it. -- Donald Driver
I was a quarterback in pee-wee football. I always wanted to be quarterback. They're the leaders, they make the calls. It didn't work out because I didn't have the arm. I also played wide receiver my senior year in high school. -- Junior Seau
God has blessed me to be where I'm at today. All the trials and tribulations I faced throughout my career and life. Look at where I'm at now, I'm the all-time Packers leading receiver of that franchise. That tells you a lot. -- Donald Driver
The relation between a poet and audience is really insignificant. What matters is the poet is hearing something that he is broadcasting. And whether there is anybody with a receiver isn't the reason he does it. He hopes there is somebody receiving it. -- Peter Davison
There will always be hard times. Use adversity to fuel your fire. In high school, I wanted to play quarterback but couldn't until I was a senior. I played wide receiver instead, and this ultimately helped me because I learned more about the game. -- Ben Roethlisberger
When I first came into the league, I was with Tim Dwight in San Diego, and a guy named Eric Parker, who really showed me the work ethic it takes to be an NFL receiver, and I've really tried to keep that with me. -- Wes Welker
I didn't always know, but I always wanted to. I always wanted to be the very best receiver the Cowboys ever had. That was my goal coming in as a rookie and my goal throughout my career: being the best they ever had, going up in the Ring of Honor. -- Michael Irvin
Once you really understand your role... that's why I think actors get lost in a series. Everybody wants to be the quarterback or the game-winning wide receiver. I've been around long enough and done enough stuff to where I don't feel that way. I just want to do what I do as well as possible. -- C. Thomas Howell
I'm just a receiver. I don't want to be labeled as a deep-threat guy, which is always going to happen because I'm always going to be able to run past people until I'm slow. I watch some guys who are very good at being deep threats, but it's like people don't respect them doing anything else. -- Torrey Smith
Acting was a lot like football. When you're a DB and you're one on one with a receiver, you're going to dance. It's go-time in front of 100,000 people and everybody watching on TV. That's exactly how it is when a director says 'Action!' It's the same adrenaline rush, the same training process. I love it. -- Brian J. White
I think for me, or for anyone who plays the quarterback position, it's almost an unspoken word when you think about leadership. Some guys can be a leader and be a running back or a lineman, or wide receiver, strong safety, or linebacker. But when you speak of quarterbacks, it's automatically a default that you're supposed to be a leader. -- Cam Newton
Charity bestowed upon those who are worthy of it is like good seed sown on a good soil that yields an abundance of fruits. But alms given to those who are yet under the tyrannical yoke of the passions are like seed deposited in a bad soil. The passions of the receiver of the alms choke, as it were, the growth of merits. -- Buddha
Love beautifies the giver and elevates the receiver. -- Sivananda
The wide receiver position is such a complex position. -- Keyshawn Johnson
The giver is the blessed! The receiver stands still. -- Jaachynma N.E. Agu
That receiver was as wide open as Annabel Chong. -- Dennis Miller
My brain is only a receiver, in the Universe -- Nikola Tesla
E-mail importance is defined by the receiver, not the sender. -- Chris Alexander
Every gift requires two freedoms: the giver's and the receiver's. -- Peter Kreeft
Cathode-ray tubes are the most important items in a television receiver. -- John Logie Baird
Grace gives without the receiver realizing how great the gift really is. -- Rebecca Pippert
It would have been a lot of fun as a receiver to play. -- Steve Largent
The chemistry between a quarterback and a receiver is almost like a dance. -- Jerry Rice
I can be a receiver, a cornerback, a safety and quarterback-I can play everything. -- Clinton Portis
Nature is good, but intellect is better, as the law-giver is before the law-receiver. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
the giver measures his gift with one yardstick, and the receiver measures it with another. -- Laura Huxley
It is the responsibility of the sender to make sure the receiver understands the message. -- Joseph Batten
God seems to have left the receiver off the hook and time is running out. -- Arthur Koestler
I can really say that I'm a pretty good receiver and came a long way. -- Hines Ward
Matt Millen, you draft a wide receiver every year. HOW DARE YOU SIR, HOW DARE YOU! -- Keith Olbermann
For every giver there must be a receiver, and for every receiver there must be a giver. -- T. Harv Eker
There's nothing to fear but a wide receiver who can run a 100-yard dash in under 10 seconds. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
I'm a physical receiver, yet I can run and move like someone who is 5-8 or 5-9. -- Chad Ochocinco
Her wish to die was as pervasive as a dial tone: you lift the receiver, it's always there. -- Joyce Carol Oates
I'm not the prototype wide receiver. But I like to think I'm one hell of a football player. -- Hines Ward
Man's Heart serves as a transmitter and receiver from person to person and from servant to Glorious God. -- Muhammad Atta-ullah Faizani
If the quarterback throws the ball in the endzone and the wide receiver catches it, it's a touchdown. -- John Madden
The absolute worst thing a receiver can do is worry about not catching the ball or about getting hit. -- Jerry Rice
"A real work of art destroys, in the consciousness of the receiver, the separation between himself and the artist." -- Leo Tolstoy
Should not the giver be thankful that the receiver received? Is not giving a need? Is not receiving, mercy? -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Imparting education not only enlightens the receiver, but also broadens the giver - the teachers, the parents, the friends. -- Amartya Sen
I want to be known as a solid all-around receiver thats fast, not a fast guy that plays receiver. -- Torrey Smith
A wide receiver like me wouldn't have won. The quarterback - or even the running back - always wins. -- Patrick Wilson
I feel like any time I'm doing what I love, my big pay-off is watching somebody else be the receiver. -- Debbi Fields
When I can 10 or 11, my mom was the one out there catching passes for me. She was my prime receiver. -- Joe Theismann
In the case of scandal, as in that of robbery, the receiver is always thought as bad as the thief. -- Lord Chesterfield
Giving connects two people, the giver and the receiver, and this connection gives birth to a new sense of belonging. -- Deepak Chopra
It was fun, having speed and being able to jump. Especially playing football. I played wide receiver and defensive back. -- Jacoby Ellsbury
Art that imposes conditions - human or otherwise - on the receiver for its appreciation in my eyes constitutes aesthetic fascism. -- Lawrence Weiner
Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver; and adulation is not of more service to the people than to kings. -- Edmund Burke
Benefits are acceptable, while the receiver thinks he may return them; but once exceeding that, hatred is given instead of thanks. -- Bill Vaughan
Peace can come to both the giver and the receiver as we follow the promptings of the Spirit to serve one another. -- Barbara W. Winder
Why not pick up the new full-length motion picture at the corner drugstore and then run it through one's home TV receiver? -- Jack Gould
The person who is in tune with the Universe becomes like a radio receiver, through which the voice of the Universe is transmitted. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
Radio is just a fashion contrivance that will soon die out. It is obvious that there never will be invented a proper receiver! -- Thomas A. Edison
One can talk good and shower down roses, but it's the receiver that has to walk through the thorns, and all its false expectations. -- Anthony Liccione
I shouted into the phone, but there was no reply. Silence floated up from the receiver like smoke from the mouth of a gun. -- Haruki Murakami
There is a creative act involved by the receiver as well as by the sender and that makes for innovation. Both sides are equally important. -- Kirk Varnedoe
[On political correctness:] Any intended message mattered less than the received message, and every received message could be interpreted in whatever way the receiver wanted. -- Chuck Klosterman
What makes false reckoning, as regards gratitude, is that the pride of the giver and the receiver cannot agree as to the value of the benefit. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Emma, your granddad's on the line," says Artemis, putting her hand over the receiver. "Something about the night bus and he'll never trust you again? -- Sophie Kinsella
When you don't ask for advice, but get it anyway, it has more to do with the needs and wants of the giver than you the receiver. -- Charles F. Glassman
I was honored to spend time with the President on an issue that is clearly important to him. I was also impressed by his wide receiver skills. -- Drew Brees
In some quiet way, the expression and feelings of gratitude have a wonderful cleansing or healing nature. Gratitude brings warmth to the giver and the receiver alike. -- Robert D. Hales
I have not a clue why they sent it to me. As far as I know I have not got a reputation as a receiver of stolen goods. -- Jeremy Paxman
A lot of times, I go and face the top receiver, and that's a task... it comes with the territory, and I never back down from that challenge. -- Johnathan Joseph
If I was going to play offense, I'd love to play running back. In high school I played quarterback and wide receiver, but I wouldn't mind running over some folks. -- Ronnie Lott
Creativity comes from the spiritual realm, the collective consciousness. And the mind is in a different realm than the molecules of the brain. The brain is a receiver, not a source. -- Candace Pert
The hitter can never be the judge. Only the receiver of the blow can tell you how hard it was, whether it would kill a man or make a baby just yawn. -- Edward P. Jones
I'm the best corner in the game. When you try me with a sorry receiver like Crabtree, that is the result you are going to get. Don't you ever talk about me. -- Richard Sherman
Figure out where you are on the field. If you're past 15 or so yards, the ball is going down the field. When you're in great position, you're able to control the receiver. -- Antonio Cromartie
But even in a telephone booth evil can seep out of the receiver and we must cover it with a mattress, and then tear it from its roots and bury it, bury it. -- Anne Sexton
We know about the Detroit offense with Calvin Johnson, the best receiver in the game. If this defense continues to play at this pace, they may have something to say about the NFC North. -- Bill Cowher
That which occasions so many mistakes in the computations of men, when they expect return for favors, is that the giver's pride and the receiver's cannot agree upon the value of the kindness done. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
I was making sure everyone knew Crabtree was a mediocre receiver. And when you try the best corner in the game with a mediocre receiver, that's what happens. I appreciate that he knows that now. -- Richard Sherman
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