Best 900 quotes in «return quotes» category

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

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

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 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 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 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 true of everything in life, except sex, which seems endlessly repeatable with effect.

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 main insight learned from interdisciplinary studies is the return to specialization

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 people when rightly and fully trusted will return the trust.

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

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

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

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

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 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.