Best 900 quotes in «return quotes» category

During the thousands of years of monetary system, most workers have been paid just enough to make it necessary that they return to work, even when higher wages have been possible. How else can the wage-payer keep the workers coming back?

Early Charlie Munger is a horrible career model for the young, because not enough was delivered to civilization in return for what was wrested from capitalism. And other similar career models are even worse.

Earnestly I must exert myself in order to return as much as I have received.

Economy is a savings-bank, into which men drop pennies, and get dollars in return.

Edward Conard provides a provocative interpretation of the causes of the global financial crisis and the policies needed to return to rapid growth. Whether you agree or not, this analysis is well worth reading.

Elasticsearch is all about scale for us. At Foursquare, we handle tens of millions of searches across 50 million locations each day. Elasticsearch returns real-time results, which encourages more usage and deeper engagement.

Energy is like money; once spent, it's gone. However, it is possible to make an investment, as opposed to an expenditure, that yields a return.

[Eva Braun] would much rather have been at [Adolf ] Hitler's side. All those excursions were to fill up her time while waiting for him to return.

Even in chimps there is true altruistic behaviour; behaviour that doesn't fit into the sociobiological model that says you either help a close relative and thereby your own genes, or you help somebody else now in return for their help in the future. When a very high-ranking male chimpanzee rescues a little orphan, saving his life, that kind of explanation doesn't work.

Eventually companion animals would be phased out, and we would return to a more symbiotic relationship - enjoyment at a distance.

Ever since I discovered that my god given male member was going to give me no peace, I decided to give it no rest in return.

Everybody knows I return all of my phone calls. I pick up my cell phone myself, much to the chagrin of my staff.

Everybody's looking for love, and you want to love somebody and be loved in return.

Every day that goes by puts us closer to the day when Christ will return.

Everyone who's been in space would, I'm sure, welcome the opportunity for a return to the exhilarating experiences there.

Every indifference to prejudice is suicide because, if I don’t fight all bigotry, bigotry itself will be strengthened and, sooner or later, it will return on me.

Every reformation must have its victims. You can’t expect the fatted calf to share the enthusiasm of the angels over the prodigal’s return.

Every duty which is bidden to wait returns with seven fresh duties at its back.

Every major technological innovation propels humanity forward to the point of no return.

Everything comes from everything, and everything is made out of everything, and everything returns into everything.

External images act on me, transmit movement to me, and I return movement: how could images be in my consciousness since I am myself image, that is, movement?

Experience is, for me, the highest authority. The touchstone of validity is my own experience. No other person's ideas, and none of my own ideas, are as authoritative as my experience. It is to experience that I must return again and again, to discover a closer approximation to truth as it is in the process of becoming me.

Everything you are seeking is seeking you in return. Therefore, everything you want is already yours. So, you don't have to get anything. It is simply a matter of becoming more aware of what you already possess.

Expect neither reward nor beatitude. Return noble waves for ignoble.

Faith includes noticing the mess, the emptiness and discomfort, and letting it be there until some light returns.

First, only invest in companies that have the potential to return the value of the entire fund.

Food and fire, protection and companionship, were some of the things he received from the god. In return, he guarded the god's property, defended his body, worked for him, and obeyed him.

Focus on return on equity, not earnings per share.

For his part, Blind Seer had no difficulty accepting idleness. A wolf proverb stated: “Hunt when hungry, sleep when not, for hunger always returns.

For a generation, terrorists learned they could make war on free nations without fear of war in return. On September 12, the terrorists got war in return.

For all long-term investors, there is only one objective-maximum total real return after taxes.

For daughters of the new American billionaires of the 19th century, it was the ultimate deal: marriage to a cash-strapped British Aristocrat in return for a title and social status. But money didn't always buy them happiness.

From the moment you decide to go somewhere, until the time you return, there are about 47 different points of abuse that are awaiting you.

For me, some of the happiest moments on a live-action film are the awkward moments. One actor says something to another actor. They didn't expect that performance from that actor; that affects their return performance.

For price is everywhere regulated by the return obtained by this last portion of capital, for which no rent whatever is paid.

For the way loneliness is worse when you return to it after a reprieve—like the soul’s version of putting on a wet bathing suit, clammy and miserable.

For whoever knows how to return a kindness he has received must be a friend above all price.

Functional goods sold en masse earn a good return but breakthrough profits come from satisfying emotional needs.

For more than a half a century, we know that we prospered because of a bipartisan consensus on defense and foreign policy. We must do more than return to that sensible, cooperative approach.

Friendship is something in the soul. It is a thing one feels. It is not a return for something.

From good to bad, and from bad to worse, From worse unto that is worst of all, And then return to his former fall.

Generosity is doing something for someone else expecting nothing in return.

Get stuffed, don't you have more publicity stunts to pull?" Bones shot back. "How about chatting with another writer who can smear your name into greater popularity?" "What, did Anne Rice not return your calls, mate?" Vlad asked scathingly. "Jealousy is such an ugly trait.

God bids you not to commit lechery, that is, not to have sex with any woman except your wife. You ask of her that she should not have sex with anyone except you -- yet you are not willing to observe the same restraint in return.

Give her a day, and then in return Momma gives you the other 364.

Glory belongs to the act of being constant to something greater than yourself, to a cause, to your principles, to the people on whom you rely and who rely on you in return.

God guarantees that His Word will not return void. He doesn't guarantee that the return will be immediate. Keep sowing!

Given the right to a free ballot, the people would support my return.

God’s plan provides a way for family relationships to extend beyond the grave. We can return to the presence of God, eternally united with our families.

God set the standard for giving love that demands nothing in return.