Reciprocating Quotes

#1. Ah, what balance is needed at the edges of such an abyss. I am left alone on the surface of a turning planet. What to do but, like Michelangelo 's Adam, put my hand out into unknown space, hoping for the reciprocating touch?

R.S. Thomas

#2. Life is a collaboration, it's not a solo act.

Tim Gunn

#3. When the Christian praises and gives thanks to God, this not only pleases God, but it enriches the Christian's life with joy. It is a reciprocating transaction between God and man.

Rick Warren

#4. When a woman falls in love with me, I feel guilty. I am convinced that it's pure obstinacy that keeps me from reciprocating her passion. As I explain to her that I'm gay, it sounds, even to me, like a silly excuse; I scarcely believe it myself.

Edmund White

#5. You have to look at history as an evolution of society.

Jean Chretien

#6. Open your hearts as wide as ever you will, the Spirit of the Lord shall fill them.

George Whitefield

#7. Industrial man - a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.

Aldous Huxley

#8. We're not put on earth to one day leave it behind. This world is our home. The second coming will not bring the destruction of this earth, but the fulfillment of creation. "Behold! I am making all things new."

S.D. Morrison

#9. Like or dislike me, YOUR WISH;
reciprocating or not, MY RIGHT !

Shalini Verma

#10. You're 83? Really? You don't look it. I would've guessed 81 or 82.

Bobby Heenan

#11. You said to us once before," said Hermione quietly, "that there was time to turn back if we wanted to. We've had time, haven't we?

J.K. Rowling

#12. Stars are attributed w/ intelligence they don't have, beauty they haven't worked for, loyaly & love they are incapable of reciprocating, and strength they do not possess. They are treated like a beautiful vase of cut flowers. When wilted, simply replaced w/ new blooms.

Pete Townshend

#13. You have not bought the right to a truthful answer: your truth has not bought it. Sincerity is not to be bought: it is given, if it comes at all - given or inflicted. And really, you cannot invade a man's privacy like that.

Patrick O'Brian

#14. The face of the clown in the stormdrain was white, there were funny tufts of red hair on either side of his bald head, and there was a big clown-smile painted over his mouth. If George had been inhabiting a later year, he would have surely thought of Ronald McDonald before Bozo or Clarabell.

Stephen King

#15. I was a storm cloud that ruined picnics, not something full of warmth and light

Jay Crownover

#16. Writing is the only thing I've ever done with persistence, except for being married.

Richard Ford

#17. I don't mind anybody dropping out of anything, but it's the imposition on somebody else I don't like. The moment you start dropping out and then begging off somebody else to help you, then it's no good. It doesn't matter what you are as long as you work.

George Harrison

#18. You have got to lose your mind just to find your peace of mind

Jhene Aiko

#19. I'm world famous, everywhere I go there are people who love me because of I've been able to bring them some joy from the movies I've made.

Tony Curtis

#20. at the Tangalooma Island Resort in Australia, where wild bottlenoses are regularly fed fish by people standing in the shallows, biologists have documented - on twenty-three occasions - the dolphins reciprocating, swimming up to offer freshly caught tuna, eels, and octopi as gifts.

Susan Casey

#21. We must endure the contempt of others without reciprocating that contempt.

Neal A. Maxwell

#22. Hardy, I do believe they have done it at last ... my backbone is shot through.

Horatio Nelson

#23. Reciprocating oral sex is, in general, a very good idea!

Mallory Ortberg