Best 900 quotes in «return quotes» category

The calendar has a magic that makes us imagine a memory can be resurrected and revived, but nothing returns.

The Chinamen built the railroad, the Indians saved the Pilgrim, And in return, the Pilgrim killed 'em. They call it it Thanksgiving, I call your holiday 'hell-day.'

The coming cooling of the planet overall will return it to where it was in the '60s, '70s, and '80s.

The critics are like tourists who return from a trip saying they've "done" Machu Picchu: "Okay, we've done magical realism," so now we can throw it out.

The circle of the return to birth can only remain open, but this is a chance, a sign of life, and a wound.

The cost of oblivius daydreaming was always this moment of return, the realigment with what had been before and now seemed a little worse. Her reverie, once rich in plausible details, had become a passing silliness before the hard mass of the actual. It was difficult to come back.

The day of combination is here to stay. Individualism has gone, never to return.

The curse of Adam and Eve that fell upon the earth because of their sin will be lifted when Christ returns.

The day For whose returns, and many, all these pray; And so do I.

The day the Church abandons Her universal tongue will be the day before She returns to the Catecombs.

The demand that women "return to femininity" is a demand that the cultural gears shift into reverse, that we back up to a fabled time when everyone was richer, younger, more powerful.

The desert takes our dreams away from us, and they don't always return.

The ellipse is as aimless as that, Stretching invisibly into the future so as to reappear In our present. Its flexing is its account, Return to the point of no return.

The eloquence of one stimulates all the rest, some up to the speaking-point, and all others to a degree that makes them good receivers and conductors, and they avenge themselves for their enforced silence by increased loquacity on their return.

The emancipation of today displays itself mainly in cigarettes and shorts... painted lips and nails, and the return of trailing skirts and other absurdities of dress which betoken the slave-woman's intelligent companionship.

The cross is the standing statement of what we do to one another and to ourselves. The resurrection is the standing statement of what God does to us in return.

The delight we inspire in others has this enchanting peculiarity that, far from being diminished like every other reflection, it returns to us more radiant than ever.

The development of man is a return to an original perfection.

...the dust returns to the ground it came from, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

The early masters also introduced walking meditation and hard work to the monastery, for too much sitting could reach the point of diminishing returns.

The end of all motion is its beginning; for it terminates at no other end save its own beginning from which begins to be moved and to which it tends ever to return, in order to cease and rest in it.

The end of creation is that all things may return to the Creator and be united with Him.

The essence of investment management is the management of risks, not the management of returns.

The generous way of putting it is that we were not ready for this. The less generous way is to say: How was it possible to return to the politics of appeasement of the 1930s?

The ghastly thing about postal strikes is that after they are over, the service returns to normal.

The hero wanders, the hero suffers, the hero returns. You are that hero.

the heaviest anguish often precedes a return tide of joy and courage.

The law of diminishing returns is something I really believe in.

The failure to return thanks for definite blessings received is a manifestation of ingratitude that grieves Jesus Christ.

The financial disclosure statements, they don't give you the tax rate. They don't give you all the details that tax returns would.

The Friend asks no return but that his Friend will religiously accept and wear and not disgrace his apotheosis of him. They cherish each other's hopes. They are kind to each other's dreams.

The good he scorn'd Stalk'd off reluctant, like an ill-us'd ghost, Not to return; or if it did, its visits Like those of angels, short, and far between.

The good thoughts you send out to others will return to you multiplied.

The greatest grace of a gift, perhaps, is that it anticipates and admits of no return.

The hard part of loving is that one has to learn so often to let go of those we love, so they can do things, so they can grow, so they can return to us with an even richer, deeper love.

The Hardy Boys burned me out. I was recharging my batteries. It was time to return to work, but it was tough because my visibility was low

The knowledge that she would never be loved in return acted upon her ideas as a tide acts upon cliffs.

The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

The main source of good discipline is growing up in a loving family, being loved and learning to love in return.

The man who is cocksure that he has arrived is ready for the return journey.

The law of nature instructs most animals to cherish and educate their infant progeny. The law of reason inculcates to the human species the returns of filial piety.

The Law of Diminishing Returns is true of everything in life, except sex, which seems endlessly repeatable with effect.

The living all find death unpleasant; men mourn over it. And yet, what is death, but the unbending of the bow and its return to its case?

The main insight learned from interdisciplinary studies is the return to specialization

...the men of the Ulysses had no need to stand in shame...many had found, or were finding, that the point of no return was not necessarily the edge of the precipice: it could be the bottom of the valley, the beginning of the long climb up the far slope, and when a man had once begun that climb he never looked back to that other side.

The massive corruption common in so many developing countries would be quite impossible if Western countries did not provide convenient opportunities to ship ill-gotten funds out of the country. It wouldn't make much sense for a ruler to store in his basement large quantities of stolen cash in his own country's currency. A corrupt ruler wants to be able to keep this money safe and to be able to spend it. And for this, he needs to convert it into a Western currency and store it in a bank abroad, where it can also earn investment returns and be bequeathed to his heirs.

The mind should be allowed some relaxation, that it may return to its work all the better for the rest.

The miracle of compounding returns has been overwhelmed by the tyranny of compounding costs.

The meaning of conservatism is not that it impedes movement forward and upward, but that it impedes movement backwards and downwards—to chaotic darkness and the return to a primitive state.

The mind that opens to a new idea never returns to its original size