Quotes About Reception

Rejection was to be rejection but not denial, as reception was to be reception but not subservience. Both methods, the Affirmative Way and the Negative Way, were to co-exist; one might almost say, to co-inhere, since each was to be the key of the other: in intellect as in emotion, in morals as in doctrine.

A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip, and worried to death by a frown on the right man's brow.

If you create something that is asking for people to respond as they're going to respond, you have to allow them to respond as they're going to respond. Some of the people are going to be uninterested and some people are going to be mad for some reason, which is their business. That's just the way the world is.

An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.

And the greeter is what sets the tone for this company and I've been on TV a little bit this morning.

It's rarely good when someone says your full name, except perhaps when it's at the end of I have a package for.

Every Mass a Communion Mass" should be the aim of all of us, provided, of course, that anyone conscious of a mortal sin must be forgiven in the sacrament of Confession before receiving our Lord.

There is something so amiable in the prejudices of a young mind, that one is sorry to see them give way to the reception of more general opinions.

If any young men come for Mary or Kitty, send them in, for I am quite as leisure.

What do I not owe you! You taught me a lesson, hard indeed at first, but most advantageous. By you, I was properly humbled. I came to you without a doubt of my reception. You showed me how insufficient were all my pretensions to please a woman worthy of being pleased. — Darcy

By you, I was properly humbled. I came to you without a doubt of my reception. You shewed me how insufficient were all my pretensions to please a woman worthy of being pleased.

Such I was, from eight to eight-and-twenty; and such I might still have been but for you, dearest, loveliest Elizabeth! What do I not owe you! You taught me a lesson, hard indeed at first, but most advantageous. By you, I was properly humbled. I came to you without a doubt of my reception. You showed me how insufficient were all my pretensions to please a woman worthy of being pleased.

Well, said Anne, 'I certainly am proud, too proud to enjoy a welcome which depends so entirely upon place.

and yet there is something so amiable in the prejudices of a young mind, that one is sorry to see them give way to the reception of more general opinions. (Colonel Brandon)

though I always imagined from her increasing friendship for us since her husband's death that we should, at some future period, be obliged to receive her.

Elizabeth received them with all the forbearance of civility

If any young men come for Mary or Kitty, send them in, for I am quite at leisure.

I have realized that I hate going to the premieres of the movies that I'm in. Because I feel this tension after the movie is over that everyone feels obligated to say something nice to you. It's so unnatural and uncomfortable.

Don't blame the messenger because the message is unpleasant.

More and more, unsolicited gifts from without are likely to be received with unconscious resentment.

I was unsure if people would like the music of Kabali' and had even booked tickets to Sydney on the day of its release. I didn't want people to come and throw stones at my house!

Repenting and coming unto Christ through the covenants and ordinances of salvation are prerequisite to and a preparation for being sanctified by the reception of the Holy Ghost and standing spotless before God at the last day.

The Tamil audience is more receptive to unusual endings.

It seems like every few years a big name author will holler something about how evil, heinous, and morally wrong fan fiction and fan fiction writers are, and then the Internet gets all upset and shocked, and then the author is shocked that people could get so upset.