Best 900 quotes in «return quotes» category

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

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

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 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 main insight learned from interdisciplinary studies is the return to specialization

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

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

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

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

The more precious His gift, the more anxious God for its return.

The more fully we give our energy, the more it returns to us.

The more you do for others without expectation of return, the more you'll get back from the most unexpected sources.

The more you give to others, the more you get in return.

The networks are not some chicken-coop manufacturing lobby whose calls nobody returns.

The one who is our very Life descended into our world, and bore our death, and slew it with the abundance of His own life. Thundering, He called out to us to return to Him in heaven.

The nurses at the hospital tried to soothe me, and they even tried unsuccessfully at one point to return me to Americans.

The people when rightly and fully trusted will return the trust.

The only one that cares about my tax returns are the reporters, OK? They're the only who ask.

The person who receives the most favors is the one who knows how to return them.

The Pope appeals for disinterested solidarity and for a return to person-centred ethics in the world of finance and economics.

The politeness was painful. I wanted to push through it, to return to the glow of the night of the concert, but I was unsure of how to get back there.

The premonition of madness is complicated by the fear of lucidity in madness, the fear of the moments of return and reunion... One would welcome chaos if one were not afraid of lights in it.

The problem with trading dominant players of that size is you never get in return what you've bargained away.

The press is hostile to Donald Trump, they always will be. And Donald Trump is happy to return the favor. And you know what, he actually has the upper hand in that relationship.

The question is not about whether it will work or not. It's how quickly we can pull it off. Structural change will happen. When economies grow, there comes a time when you cannot rely on investment alone. We had that. The return on investment is becoming less and less. So we have to change. The old model doesn't work anymore. It's a question of speed.

The real preparation for [Christ's] return is not to act like we know it's coming right now and do something different. It's to do what we should have been doing all along.

The real work of an expedition begins when you return.

There are a series of connections between Donald Trump and his closest advisers and Russia that at least raise significant questions. Some of those questions could be answered if Donald Trump was willing to release his tax returns, but he's unwilling to do that.

There are no guarantees. But there is also nothing to fear. We come from oblivion when we are born. We return to oblivion when we die. The astonishing thing is this period of in-between.

There are two main human sins from which all the others derive: impatience and indolence. It was because of impatience that they were expelled from Paradise; it is because of indolence that they do not return. Yet perhaps there is only one major sin: impatience. Because of impatience they were expelled, because of impatience they do not return.

There are places from which you cannot return. There is damage that can be irreparable.

There are writers I return to no matter what I'm working on, writers like the South African J.M. Coetzee. He has an ability to make you feel that he is writing for you alone.

There can be no greater gift than that of giving one’s time and energy to help others without expecting anything in return.

Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.

There is a better vision for our future: A return to freedom.

There is a dark place calling to me, but I will not go just yet. I know I can't return from it.

There is an old joke that went around- it goes, in the beginning God made man in His own image, and since the fall, man has been seeking to return the compliment.

There is a tension in relationships between wanting to return to the womb, but also wanting to be free. Because sometimes the woman's attentions can be overly maternal, and you want to go, 'Ahhhh!'

There is either a crisis or a return to the norm of stagnation. One view is the norm is stagnation and occasionally you get out of it. The other is that the norm is growth and occasionally you can get into stagnation. You can debate that but it's a period of close to global stagnation.

There is great joy in doing something for somebody else with no thought in receiving anything in return.

There is no going back in life. There is no return. No second chance.

There is no precedent of a civilian population, displaced by a war that their leadership started and lost, claiming a right to return to territory that they failed to conquer.

There is no remainder in the mathematics of infinity. All life is one; therefore, there cannot be God and man, nor a universe and God. A god not in the world is a false god, and a world not in God is unreal. All things return to one, and one operates in all.

There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.