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The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates. (Paolo Giordano)
Dogs have given us their absolute all. We are the center of their universe. We are the focus of their love and faith and trust. They serve us in return for scraps. It is without a doubt the best deal man has ever made. View quote
Roger Caras
After all my possessions had been burned, God gave me the wisdom to return to Jerusalem. View quote
Shmuel Yosef Agnon
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. View quote
Jerzy Kosinski
I do not overlook the fact that the appearance of these new, free nations in the European political community not only celebrates the return of the prodigal son but also creates new sources of friction here and there. View quote
Hjalmar Branting
I had daydreams and fantasies when I was growing up. I always wanted to live in a log cabin at the foot of a mountain. I would ride my horse to town and pick up provisions. Then return to the cabin, with a big open fire, a record player and peace. View quote
Linda McCartney
Competition is the final price determinant and competitive prices may result in profits which force you to accept a rate of return less than you hoped for, or for that matter to accept temporary losses. View quote
Alfred P. Sloan
The thing about movies these days is that the commerce end of it is so inflated and financiers are just expecting this enormous return on their investment. View quote
Alex Winter
When you go out onto the stage, all the preparation has to be forced into your subconscious. For the moment of the performance, we all have to return to a new level of unconsciousness. All the reflection and all the doubts have to be laid aside before you start. View quote
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
I always intended to return to the private sector. View quote
Don Nickles
On the battlefield, the military pledges to leave no soldier behind. As a nation, let it be our pledge that when they return home, we leave no veteran behind. (Dan Lipinski)
Usually, if you have a new idea, you very rarely break through to anything like recognizable development or implementation of that idea the first time around - it takes two or three goes for the research community to return to the topic. View quote
Martin Fleischmann
The only people who steal are thieves, and that's a very small percentage of civilization. Most people want to have some way to make the economic transaction valid. They want to return the favor, if you will... return the benefit and reciprocate. View quote
Michael Nesmith
Once the return tide starts, it will be impossible to stem it, and it will prove our undoing. View quote
Moshe Sharett
For those who have made the ultimate sacrifice, we are grateful that such men and women were among us. For those who continue to serve, we honor their commitment. For those who return to civilian life, we honor their service. View quote
Steve Buyer
I continue to have a special pride and passion for AOL, and I strongly believe that AOL - once the leading Internet company in the world - can return to its past greatness. View quote
Steve Case
The mind ought sometimes to be diverted that it may return the better to thinking. View quote
Phaedrus
Over increasingly large areas of the United States, spring now comes unheralded by the return of the birds, and the early mornings are strangely silent where once they were filled with the beauty of bird song. View quote
Rachel Carson
The Beardmore Glacier is not difficult in fine weather, but on our return we did not get a single completely fine day; this with a sick companion enormously increased our anxieties. View quote
Robert Falcon Scott
The house wife is an unpaid employee in her husband's house in return for the security of being a permanent employee. View quote
Germaine Greer
If i thought i was replying to someone who would every return to the world, this flame would cease it's flickering. But since no one has returned from these depths alive, if what I've heard is true, I will answer you without fear of infamy. (Dante Alighieri)
He had no wish to obliterate anything he had written, but he would dearly have liked to revise it, envying painters, who are allowed to return to the same theme time and time again, clarifying and enriching until they have done all they can with it. A novelist is condemned to provide a succession of novelties, new names for characters, new incidents for his plots, new scenery; but, Mr Pinfold maintained, most men harbour the germs of one or two books only; all else is professional trickery of which the most daemonic of the masters - Dickens and Balzac even - were flagrantly guilty. View quote
Evelyn Waugh
Therefore we well observe that the title of perfect cadence is attached only to a dominant that progresses to the main tone, because this dominant, which is naturally contained within the harmony of the main tone, seems, when it progresses to it, to return as if to its source. View quote
Jean-Philippe Rameau
I have often thought that nothing would do more extensive good at small expense than the establishment of a small circulating library in every county, to consist of a few well-chosen books, to be lent to the people of the country under regulations as would secure their safe return in due time. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
It is indifferent to me where I am to begin, for there shall I return again. View quote
Parmenides
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