Return Quotes

Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again. (Ovid)
The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale. View quote
Arthur C. Clarke
The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past. View quote
Robertson Davies
You cannot catch a child's spirit by running after it; you must stand still and for love it will soon itself return. View quote
Arthur Miller
There is a point at which everything becomes simple and there is no longer any question of choice, because all you have staked will be lost if you look back. Life's point of no return. View quote
Dag Hammarskjöld
The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return. View quote
Gore Vidal
I was walking down fifth avenue today and I found a wallet, and I was gonna keep it, rather than return it, but I thought: well, if I lost a hundred and fifty dollars, how would I feel? And I realized I would want to be taught a lesson. View quote
Emo Philips
True love begins when nothing is looked for in return. View quote
Antoine de Saint Exupéry
A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return. View quote
Salman Rushdie
The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, "I was wrong". View quote
Sydney J. Harris
I wish to assure you that there can never be any return to the state of armed conflict which existed before our commitment to peace and the democratic process of election under the Lancaster House agreement. (Robert Mugabe)
Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return. View quote
George Eliot
In our world, in which religious images are losing their meaning, in which our customs are getting more and more secular, we are losing our sense of the eternal. I think it's a loss that has done a great deal of damage to modern art. Painting is a return to origins. View quote
Antoni Tàpies
When our thousands of Chinese students abroad return home, you will see how China will transform itself. View quote
Deng Xiaoping
Of joys departed, Not to return, how painful the remembrance! View quote
Robert Blair
My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return. View quote
Maya Angelou
If I have learnt anything, it is that life forms no logical patterns. It is haphazard and full of beauties which I try to catch as they fly by, for who knows whether any of them will ever return? View quote
Margot Fonteyn
The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another's, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises. View quote
Leo Buscaglia
The game of life is the game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later, with astounding accuracy. View quote
Florence Scovel Shinn
Whenever I prepare for a journey I prepare as though for death. Should I never return, all is in order. View quote
Katherine Mansfield
I like mathematics because it is not human and has nothing particular to do with this planet or with the whole accidental universe - because, like Spinoza's God, it won't love us in return. (Bertrand Russell)
Love hinders death. Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source. View quote
Leo Tolstoy
When I talk about love I'm thinking of unselfish love. Sex can be bought and sold just like anything else. But I think real love is about giving and not expecting anything in return. View quote
Bono
It is time to return to those core values, time to get back to basics: to self-discipline and respect for the law, to consideration for others, to accepting responsibility for yourself and your family, and not shuffling it off on other people and the state. View quote
John Major
Trust is a fragile thing - difficult to build, easy to break. It cannot be bargained for. Only if it is freely given it can be expected in return. View quote
Peter Lerangis
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