Best 900 quotes in «return quotes» category

During the thousands of years of monetary system, most workers have been paid just enough to make it necessary that they return to work, even when higher wages have been possible. How else can the wage-payer keep the workers coming back?

Early Charlie Munger is a horrible career model for the young, because not enough was delivered to civilization in return for what was wrested from capitalism. And other similar career models are even worse.

Earnestly I must exert myself in order to return as much as I have received.

Economy is a savings-bank, into which men drop pennies, and get dollars in return.

Edward Conard provides a provocative interpretation of the causes of the global financial crisis and the policies needed to return to rapid growth. Whether you agree or not, this analysis is well worth reading.

Elasticsearch is all about scale for us. At Foursquare, we handle tens of millions of searches across 50 million locations each day. Elasticsearch returns real-time results, which encourages more usage and deeper engagement.

Energy is like money; once spent, it's gone. However, it is possible to make an investment, as opposed to an expenditure, that yields a return.

[Eva Braun] would much rather have been at [Adolf ] Hitler's side. All those excursions were to fill up her time while waiting for him to return.

Even in chimps there is true altruistic behaviour; behaviour that doesn't fit into the sociobiological model that says you either help a close relative and thereby your own genes, or you help somebody else now in return for their help in the future. When a very high-ranking male chimpanzee rescues a little orphan, saving his life, that kind of explanation doesn't work.

Eventually companion animals would be phased out, and we would return to a more symbiotic relationship - enjoyment at a distance.

Ever since I discovered that my god given male member was going to give me no peace, I decided to give it no rest in return.

Everybody knows I return all of my phone calls. I pick up my cell phone myself, much to the chagrin of my staff.

Everybody's looking for love, and you want to love somebody and be loved in return.

Every day that goes by puts us closer to the day when Christ will return.

Every indifference to prejudice is suicide because, if I don’t fight all bigotry, bigotry itself will be strengthened and, sooner or later, it will return on me.

Every duty which is bidden to wait returns with seven fresh duties at its back.

Every major technological innovation propels humanity forward to the point of no return.

Everyone who's been in space would, I'm sure, welcome the opportunity for a return to the exhilarating experiences there.

Experience is, for me, the highest authority. The touchstone of validity is my own experience. No other person's ideas, and none of my own ideas, are as authoritative as my experience. It is to experience that I must return again and again, to discover a closer approximation to truth as it is in the process of becoming me.

Expect neither reward nor beatitude. Return noble waves for ignoble.

Faith includes noticing the mess, the emptiness and discomfort, and letting it be there until some light returns.

Focus on return on equity, not earnings per share.

For his part, Blind Seer had no difficulty accepting idleness. A wolf proverb stated: “Hunt when hungry, sleep when not, for hunger always returns.

For whoever knows how to return a kindness he has received must be a friend above all price.

Generosity is doing something for someone else expecting nothing in return.

Get stuffed, don't you have more publicity stunts to pull?" Bones shot back. "How about chatting with another writer who can smear your name into greater popularity?" "What, did Anne Rice not return your calls, mate?" Vlad asked scathingly. "Jealousy is such an ugly trait.

God set the standard for giving love that demands nothing in return.

God will not punish the man Who makes return for an injury.

Good customers are an asset which, when wellmanaged and served, will return a handsome lifetime income stream for the company.

Good counsel rejected returns to enrich the givers bosom.

Grace is love that seeks you out when you have nothing to give in return. Grace is love coming at you that has nothing to do with you. Grace is being loved when you are unlovable.

Health is a return to our memory of wholeness.

He who loves God cannot endeavor that God should love him in return.

However they may have felt when they left they were now committed, they had passed the point of no return.

How resilient was the body, to return to its prior form so quickly! Yet the mind was formed of a less pliable substance. The emptiness in her thoughts would not be so easily filled. Instead there was a hollowness among them-a place she had reserved for future joys which now would never arrive.

How sad they are, the promises we never return to. They stay in our mouths, roughen the tongue, lead lives of their own.

I always remind myself that what one observes is at best a combination of variance and returns, not just returns.

I am a registered Democrat who is determined to return my party to the proletarian principles of the Franklin D. Roosevelt era.

I am certain that I have been here as I am now a thousand times before, and I hope to return a thousand times.

I am dead. Only vengeance can restore me! Only victory can return my life to me!

I am planning to return and contest the October elections in Pakistan.

I am thankful that in a troubled world no calamity can prevent the return of spring.

I ask God most often that we would be an unbroken line of Christians until Christ shall return.

I believe that we live in a "return to sender universe" - what you send out is exactly what you will get back.

I came through and I shall return.

I can cheat fear today - but won't it return tomorrow? Rather, I must embrace this fear... and find peace in its bosom.

I cannot tell you on a day to day basis that there's a return on investment. I can tell you if you stick with it, absolutely in a few months things will start to change. It starts to change slowly. Things start to get a little easier. As the momentum builds it becomes bigger and bigger.

I could not imagine living away from Sevenwaters, away from all that was so much a part of me. Maybe, if you cared enough about someone, you could do it and not feel your spirit torn in two. But the forest keeps her hold on all those who are born there, and they cannot travel far without the yearning in them to return.

I'd always hoped that when i said 'I Love You' to a girl, she'd say 'I Know' like Leia did to Han in Return Of The Jedi

Every reformation must have its victims. You can’t expect the fatted calf to share the enthusiasm of the angels over the prodigal’s return.