Best 900 quotes in «return quotes» category

Insight cannot be taken back. You cannot return to the moment you were in before.

In stillness the muddied water returns to clarity.

In the end I would always pull up with a sense of glory, that loving is the strong side. It's feeble to be an object. What's the point of being loved in return, I'd ask myself.

In the life of one man, never The same time returns.

In the Upanishads they talk about the path of the sun and the path of the moon. The path of the moon is rebirth. The path of the sun leads to self-knowledge, from which there is no return.

...in the wilderness, I find something more dear and connate than in the streets or villages...in the woods we return to reason and faith.

In the year 1456 ... a Comet was seen passing Retrograde between the Earth and the sun... Hence I dare venture to foretell, that it will return again in the year 1758.

In tough economic times, we have to make every dollar count, and studies have shown a return of up to $17 for every dollar invested in early childhood.

Investing in early childhood nutrition is a surefire strategy. The returns are incredibly high.

Investments in immunization yield a rate of return on a par with educating our children - and higher than nearly any other development intervention.

Investors aren't willing to accept the idea that we're in an era of lower returns.

Investment performance doesn't determine real-life returns; investor behavior does.

I personally will be overjoyed when the Canadian courts rule to return John Graham back to the US to answer for this brutal murder.

I pray you, magnificent Sir, do not trouble yourself to return to us, but await our coming to you.

I recognize the delivery of grace to my day, even if I cannot identify a specific return address.

I reiterate that the rigor and credibility brought to the world by Monti's government are for us a point of no return.

I return to problems i can't solve, not because i am an idiot, but because the real problems can't be solved. The universe is expanding. The more we see, the more we discover there is to see. Always a new beginning, a different end.

I return my tax bill without paying it. My reason for doing so is that women suffer taxation yet have not representation.

I see good ideas on the Republican side as well as the Democratic side. You have to return civility and statesmanship to governance. If you don't do that, it doesn't matter what portfolio of issue you're pushing, nothing is going to get done.

I shall go on some last wilderness trip, to a place I have known and loved. I shall not return.

I stay cool, and dig all jive, That's the way I stay alive. My motto, as I live and learn, is Dig and be dug In return.

I stupidly memorize my credit card and use it about thrice weekly for online shopping. The only reason I don't bankrupt myself is that I return about 75% of what I buy.

I suppose "giving without expecting anything in return" isn't something new, but it always pushes your happy button when you do it or see it.

In vain produced, all rays return; Evil will bless, and ice will burn.

I think Batman Returns is right for riffs. I love it but it's the ultimate Tim Burton movie. There is so much that happens that's crazy and there are a ton of things to riff.

I think that Americans should gradually begin to adopt positive behavior rather than doing evil. They should not expect an immediate reaction in return for their positive measures. It will take time.

It has been said that the sin of ingratitude is more serious than the sin of revenge. With revenge, we return evil for evil, but with ingratitude, we return evil for good.

I think the hardest thing for a person is to know what those twelve things are that they need to work on that will bring the return of success to their life.

It has been strange to me to return to life and to feel that I have any sympathy with human beings, after the long interval of quiet and indifference which succeeded my marriage.

I think my prose - mine and that of others - sometimes slips into a cadence or rhythm that can replicate or come close to the music in a wonderful poem, and then it returns to the sound of prose.

It is a very high stage in the path of love when man really learns to love another with a love that asks no return.

I think people are going to return to sanity when they see how ridiculous many of these charges are, and how the predictions are not borne out.

It is always sad to leave a place to which one knows one will never return. Such are the melancolies du voyage: perhaps they are one of the most rewarding things about traveling.

It is a policeman’s duty to retrieve stolen property and return it to its owners. But when robbery becomes the purpose of the law, and the policeman’s duty becomes, not protection, but the plunder of property - then it is an outlaw who has to become a policeman.

It is indifferent to me where I am to begin, for there shall I return again.

It is most unusual to return to a place that has changed in ways you yourself have altered.

It is not noble to return evil for evil, at no time ought we to do an injury to our neighbors.

It is not so much what we get out of life as what we put into it that determines how large our returns of happiness shall be. The triumphant life is to be achieved through service. But it must be free and not compulsory. . . . There is a place where the path of duty suddenly becomes the path of beauty.

It is only with the eyes open that a corporeal form returns, and assembles itself firmly around the hard core of sight.

It is so tempting to return rudeness with rudeness!

I think women secretly yearn for the return of John Wayne and don't even know it.

It is time we passed a balanced budget amendment and return this government to limited spending.

It just seems to me that this is something that the American people deserve to see. And I have no reason to believe that [Donald Trump] is ever going to release his tax returns, because there's something he's hiding.

It must be important or he wouldn't dare disturb me now,” he muttered. Then he drew away to look at me. “If it's not, I'll kill him and return to you directly.

It's a finite and very competitive world. All large aggregations of capital eventually find it hell on earth to grow and thus find a lower rate of return.

It saddens me to see the reality-television shows that are getting so much fanfare that are a celebration of stupidity and the degradation of women. And those women are consistently wearing too short, too tight dresses. I hope the trend of aging gracefully returns.

It's all right Wayne," Waxillium said softly. "I've made a promise. I told Lord Harms I'd return Steris to him. And I will. That is that." "Then I will remain and help," Marasi said. "That is that." "And I could really use some food," Wayne added. "Fat is fat.

It’s not God that I don’t accept, Alyosha, only I most respectfully return him the ticket.

It seems unwise to allocate a large portion of investable capital to any one deep value opportunity, even if the latter promises a large expected return.

It seems to me that one ought to rejoice in the fact of death-- ought to decide, indeed, to earn one's death by confronting with passion the conundrum of life. One is responsible to life: It is the small beacon in that terrifying darkness from which we come and to which we shall return. One must negotiate this passage as nobly as possible, for the sake of those who are coming after us.