Best 900 quotes in «return quotes» category

I never hated any of my ex-fiances enough to return the rings.

Infidelity gives nothing in return for what it takes away. What, then, is it worth? Everything valuable as a compensating power. Not a blade of grass that withers, or the ugliest weed that is flung away to rot and die, but reproduces something.

In my walks, I would fain return to my senses. What business have I in the woods if I am thinking of something out of the woods?

In my walks I would fain return to my senses.

In order to access private capital, you have to provide competitive return on investment. In order to give competitive returns to investors, you've got to operate on a profitable basis and be thinking of yourself as a business.

In order to produce something new, you have to return to the original source, to the childhood of mankind.

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

...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 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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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 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.

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.

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 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.

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 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.

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.

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

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

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

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 so tempting to return rudeness with rudeness!

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 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 to have a compulsive, repetitive, and nostalgic desire for the archive, an irrepressible desire to return to the origin, a homesickness, a nostalgia for the return to the most archaic place of absolute commencement

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

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.