Best 900 quotes in «return quotes» category

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

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

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

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

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

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.

There's a lot of symbolism to your return. Is that going to be enough to reinvigorate the company with a sense of magic?

There is something about someone trusting you enough with their secrets that it makes it easier to trust them. It’s like they’re opening their heart and in return yours should open up to them, too.

There's a place beyond words where experience first occurs to which I always want to return. I suspect that whenever I articulate my thoughts or translate my impulses into words, I am betraying the real thoughts and impulses which remain hidden.

There's always SOMEONE in support as long as he can be assured or he himself feels confident of getting, in return, SOMETHING beneficial of any sort.

The return is one of the hardest shots to make when you come back from injury.

The return of Jesus will be personal, physical, visible and glorious.

There's Doom Patrol, which is the world's strangest superheroes, and they're making their return.

The return to the Organization of the United States of America, the bearers of a great and diversified democratic culture that has inspired many other peoples.

There swift return Diurnal, merely to officiate light Round this opacous earth, this punctual spot.

The return on investment in global health is tremendous, and the biggest bang for the buck comes from vaccines. Vaccines are among the most successful and cost-effective health investments in history.

There will be no good business unless the majority comes to agree that we should demand more from business than large quarterly returns.

The rich are always advising the poor, but the poor seldom return the compliment.

The schoolboy counts the time till the return of the holidays; the minor longs to be of age; the lover is impatient till he is married.

The scene was not a happy one yet we looked upon it in the cold stoical spirit of a soldier; a slight chilling pang and then a return soul and body to the enemy before us.

The same government that requires a taxpaying citizen to document every statement on his tax return decrees that questioning a welfare applicant demeans and humiliates him.

The signal instances of Providential goodness which we have experienced and which have now almost crowned our labors with complete success demand from us in a peculiar manner the warmest returns of gratitude and piety to the Supreme Author of all good.

The soil of Palestine still enjoys her sabbaths, and only waits for the return of her banished children, and the application of industry, commensurate with her agricultural capabilities, to burst once more into universal luxuriance, and be all that she ever was in the days of Solomon.

The soil in return for her service keeps the tree tied to her, the sky asks nothing and leaves it free.

The spiritual path is not one of attainment, but of return.

The soul is made of love and must ever strive to return to love. Therefore, it can never find rest nor happiness in other things. It must lose itself in love. By its very nature it must seek God, who is love.

The source from which existing things derive their existence is also that to which they return at their destruction.

The stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, but is also the return of art to life.

The Swedes must be integrated into the new Sweden , the old Sweden will not return.