Receptacle Quotes

#1. To protest, I stood in the place of a waste receptacle and opened my mouth. That's how I lost my virginity *laughs*

Thom Yorke

#2. Think of Divine Abundance as a mighty, refreshing rain. Whatever receptacle you have at hand will receive it. If you hold up a tin cup, you will receive only that quantity. If you hold up a bowl, that will be filled. What kind of receptacle are you holding up to Divine Abundance?

Paramahansa Yogananda

#3. Books were only one type of receptacle where we stored a lot of things we were afraid we might forget. There is nothing magical in them, at all. The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us. - Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

Ray Bradbury

#4. Theology is just what you really think about God, and if you're going to do that, you'd better use your mind and not just let it be a receptacle - a catch-all for whatever beliefs happen to be passing by.

Dallas Willard

#5. I had never been the receptacle of someone's hope, and found this weightless thing to be a heavy burden.

Katherine Marsh

#6. He who would be useful, strong, and happy must cease to be a passive receptacle for the negative, beggarly, and impure streams of thought.

James Allen

#7. Books were only a receptacle where we stored a lot of things we were afraid we would forget.

Ray Bradbury

#8. The sea is only a receptacle for all the prodigious, supernatural things that exist inside it. It is only movement and love; it is the living infinite.

Anthony Doerr

#9. He acted as if he could detect in her face nothing but its external beauties of form and texture. Whereas, of course, flesh is never wholly opaque; the soul shows through the walls of its receptacle.

Aldous Huxley

#10. That fine part of our construction, the eye, seems as much the receptacle and seat of our passions as the mind itself; and at least it is the outward portal to introduce them to the house within, or rather the common thoroughfare to let our affections pass in and out.

Joseph Addison

#11. Water adopts the shape of its receptacle, it is sometimes a trickle and sometimes a wild sea.

Miyamoto Musashi

#12. A lonely man is a lonesome thing, a stone, a bone, a stick, a receptacle for Gilbey's gin, a stooped figure sitting at the edge of a hotel bed, heaving copious sighs like the autumn wind.

John Cheever

#13. Memory is the receptacle and sheath of all knowledge

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#14. The lieutenant, returning from a tour after a bandage, produced from a hidden receptacle of his mind new and portentous oaths suited to the emergency. Strings of expletives he swung lashlike over the backs of his men, and it was evident that his previous efforts had in nowise impaired his resources.

Stephen Crane

#15. He who knows how to be aggressive, and yet remains patient, becomes a receptacle for all of Nature's lessons.

Laozi

#16. Now my sole function in this world is to serve as receptacle for the proof that I am inconsequential; every experience I accrete is only another stroke of an eraser.

Evan Dara

#17. But now I feel like a receptacle -- an empty vessel to be filled at his whim.

E.L. James

#18. The cavity which suffering carves into our souls will one day also be the receptacle of joy.

Neal A. Maxwell

#19. What chiefly governs the [U.S.] military budget is the need to spend enormous sums of money in a useless way. The allegedly powerful Pentagon is simply a receptacle for wasteful expenditure, just as a city dump is the receptacle for the refuse of a city.

Walter Karp

#20. Oxford is Oxford: not a mere receptacle for youth, like Cambridge. Perhaps it wants its inmates to love it rather than to love one another.

E. M. Forster

#21. You're not tasked with desalinating an ocean or training a komodo dragon to cure ebola. I'm saying, sludge yourself into the ass receptacle and peck keyboard keys like a hungry chicken until it makes words.

Chuck Wendig

#22. That is what I mean. A bath! The receptacle of porcelain, one turns the taps and fills it, one gets in, one gets out and ghoosh - ghoosh - ghoosh, the water goes down the waste pipe!"
"M. Poirot are you quite mad?"
"No, I am extremely sane.

Agatha Christie

#23. The poet's mind is in fact a receptacle for seizing and storing up numberless feelings, phrases, images, which remain there until all the particles which can unite to form a new compound are present together.

T. S. Eliot

#24. Stop gawking and close your mouth before I decide to use it as a trash receptacle.

Heidi Schulz

#25. CHAPTER VII Geometrical Details. - Calculation of the Capacity of the Balloon. - The Double Receptacle. - The Covering. - The Car. - The Mysterious Apparatus. - The Provisions and Stores. - The Final Summing up.

Jules Verne

#26. The Times are the masquerade of the eternities; trivial to the dull, tokens of noble and majestic agents to the wise; the receptacle in which the Past leaves its history; the quarry out of which the genius of today is building up the Future.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#27. The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.

Pablo Picasso

#28. Whatever the item is that I have chosen to give you, it is nothing more than the receptacle within which I have placed the whole of myself. If it is empty, it is not a gift.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#29. We both know dad was my parental trash can, the fatherly receptacle on whom I dumped my emotions.

Anna Banks

#30. It's better not to argue with women,

Vladimir Putin

#31. Everyone needs someone to tell them not to wear so much Prada.

Jim McKelvey

#32. Search the truth for yourself.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#33. The approach is that the best way to use unwanted circumstances on the path of enlightenment is not to resist but to lean into them.

Pema Chodron

#34. Organizations want small changes in functionality on a more regular basis. An organization like Flickr deploys a new version of its software every half hour. This is a cycle that feeds on itself.

Kent Beck

#35. I was scared into being good. But I'm sure I did regular kid stuff.

Larry The Cable Guy

#36. He who believes that new benefits will cause great personages to forget old injuries is deceived.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#37. If we see someone who needs help, do we stop? There is so much suffering and poverty, and a great need for good Samaritans.

Pope Francis

#38. She takes out her phone and snaps a picture. "I like to take pictures of my drinks."
"They're like family," A.J. says.
"They're better than family.

Gabrielle Zevin

#39. I don't like to think too far ahead.

Willie Nelson