Best 900 quotes in «return quotes» category

Once the return tide starts, it will be impossible to stem it, and it will prove our undoing.

Once you have been in an earthquake you know, even if you survive without a scratch, that like a stroke in the heart, it remains in the earth's breast, horribly potential, always promising to return, to hit you again, with an even more devastating force.

One always returns to the fact that there are just too many of us, the population continues to rise and it's unsustainable.

One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.

... one cannot be happy in exile or in oblivion. One cannot always be a stranger. I want to return to my homeland, make all my loved ones happy. I see no further than this.

One can return to their place of birth, but one cannot go back to your youth.

One learns to accept the fact that no permanent return is possible to an old form of relationship; and, more deeply still, that there is no holding of a relationship to a single form. This is not tragedy but part of the ever-recurrent miracle of life and growth.

One of Sir Topher's rules was to never indulge in sentimentality, never return for what was left behind.

One of the greatest possible sins would be to return to God the life which he has given us with our abilities undiscovered and our talents undeveloped an unutilized. One of Jesus most bitter rebukes was given to him who buried his talents in the ground.

One returns to the place one came from.

One's fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.

One should never go back to a place one has loved; for, however, rough the going forward is, it is better than the snuffing out-of-love return.

One should never do wrong in return, nor mistreat any man, no matter how one has been mistreated by him.

On getting mugged: I carry around months and months of receipts. I need a mugger who can file my VAT returns.

One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice.

Only those return to Eternity Who on earth seek out Eternity.

Our fruitless labours mourn, And only rich in barren fame return.

Originality implies a return to the origins, original is returning to the simplicity of the first solutions.

Only the basic situations in life occur only once, never to return. For a man to be a man, he must be fully aware of this never-to-return. (p.148)

On the way to work good-hearted young girls sometimes offer me their seats, which I accept and bless them in return, a transaction satisfying to all concerned.

Originality is a return to the origin.

Our destiny is greatness and we must return to its fulfillment.

Our mind is a flowing something. It oscillates. Concentration is merely the continuous return to the same problem from a million angles.... So my problem is this: Can I bring the Lord back in my mind-flow every few seconds so that God shall always be in my mind?

Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value - zero.

Our passion and principals are constantly in a frenzy, but begin to shift and waver, as we return to reason.

Out of love, No regrets-- Though the goodness Be wasted forever. Out of love, No regrets-- Though the return Be never.

Painting and tattooing the body is a return to animalism.

Participant (Productions) is the only production company in town that has a double bottom line: social good plus financial returns. It's too early to tell how our returns are going to look - though all signs are promising - but social good is what we're really after.

Pardon the deserter; he is weak and will return to the lesson later on.

Patience Pays..Is true! But the greater truth is that it takes advance payment before it pays you in return!

People believe I am what they see Me as, rather than what they do not see. But I am the Great Unseen, not what I cause Myself to be in any particular moment. In a sense, I am what I am not. It is from the Am-notness that I come, and to it I always return.

Practically every violent conflict or social change has proved that violence unleashes violence in return.

People should be more concerned with the return of their principal than the return on their principal.

Perhaps it's true you can't go back in time, but you can return to the scene of a love, of a crime, of happiness, and of a fateful decision; the places are what remain, are what you can possess, are what is immortal.

Perhaps I have not lined his portrait too clearly. But if he exists, if only for the reason that I have imagined him to be. He came from the blue and returns to the blue. He has not perished, he is not lost. Neither will he be forgotten.

People who pierce the veil of money rarely return with their faculties altogether intact.

Please remember we all come from the same one and we will all return to that one, so there is no reason for fighting.

Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed.

President Obama released his tax returns. It turns out he made $900,000 less in 2011 then he did in 2010. You know what that means? Even Obama is doing worse under President Obama.

Procedure names should reflect what they do; function names should reflect what they return

Ready to go but never to return.

Public health service should be as fully organized and as universally incorporated into our governmental system as is public education. The returns are a thousand fold in economic benefits, and infinitely more in reduction of suffering and promotion of human happiness.

Quit your job. Buy a ticket. Get a tan. Fall in love. Never return.

Producers are not gamblers. They want a good return on their investment.

Real kindness seeks no return.

Republicans lost control of Congress because they strayed from the core conservative values that put them into the majority in 1994. If they return to the basic values that a majority of Americans share, they will regain power. If not, they won't.

Recollections of early childhood bear comparison to fairy tales, and ... youth remains an unknown country to whose bourn no traveler returns except as the agent of a foreign power.

Religion taught us to return good for evil.

Reformation is a return to the sound doctrine of the Bible. Revival is the practice of that sound doctrine under the power of the Holy Spirit.

Return telephone calls promptly but be judicious about the time spent on the phone.