Return Quotes

#1. Give to another human being without the expectation of a return.

Bill Bradley

#2. At that moment of realization (that union with God is always present), that's when God let me go, let me slide through His fingers with this last compassionate, unspoken message:
You may return here once you have fully come to understand that you are always here.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#3. The older child who has lost or broken some valuable thing will be found when his parents return, not run away, not willing to confess, but in a deep sleep The thief whose case is being tried falls asleep

Margaret Mead

#4. What he could bear in the waking world he could not by night and he sat awake for fear the dream would return.

Cormac McCarthy

#5. I want my words to open a portal through which the reader may leave the self, migrate to some other human sky and return 'disposed' to otherness.

Sue Monk Kidd

#6. We don't love to be loved in return; we love to love.

Leo Buscaglia

#7. One who binds risks getting bound in return. I will not walk that path.

Steven Erikson

#8. A sixty - eight, he wants you to go down on him but he won't return the favor. It would be sixty-nine but he owes you one.

Lisa Kleypas

#9. But it is not incumbent on man to reward a bad action with a good one, or to return good for evil; and whenever it is done, it is a voluntary act, and not a duty. It

Thomas Paine

#10. It is Pau-kala. The branch is still bare. The old tree's leaves will never return - they are a memory and a song. But there is a sapling, there is a sapling right beside that old tree, and it's trembling with promise. There will be a spring again.

Alma Alexander

#11. Healing is the return of the memory of wholeness. Healing, health, whole and holy all mean inclusiveness. Body, mind, spirit, environment, relationships, social interactions are all one wholeness, and you're a part of that one wholeness.

Deepak Chopra

#12. Thus with the year
Seasons return, but not to me returns
Day, or the sweet approach of ev'n or morn,
Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose,
Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine.

John Milton

#13. The nurses at the hospital tried to soothe me, and they even tried unsuccessfully at one point to return me to Americans.

Jessica Lynch

#14. I, myself, sank into that abysmal pit of feeling utterly worthless, useless and burdensome. Caring for an animal, especially one that's been rescued, can help return people to a sense of being needed and useful.

Ken Wahl

#15. Return to the purity of your innocence where you are enchanted with life. Give love for no reason. Surround yourself with others doing the same ...

Miguel Angel Ruiz

#16. We belong to Jesus because He has purchased us by His blood. He will not return or exchange what He has bought.

Anthony Carter

#17. I've learned that to love means giving everything, body and soul, and expecting nothing in return. The beautiful thing is that if you're loved in return, it will all come back to you ten-fold.

Kim Holden

#18. The mind, stretched to new dimensions by images, thoughts and ideas, can never return to its former shape.

Travis Luedke

#19. Was prepared for one baby. I don't know if I can handle two." "It's a little late for that. There's a very strict no-return policy on babies.

Molly Harper

#20. We are told in Scripture that there will be signs pointing toward the return of the Lord.
I believe that we see those signs in the world today. I believe that the coming of the Lord is near.

Billy Graham

#21. When you think all is lost, the things you need most return unexpectedly.

Susannah Cahalan

#22. Victor smiled politely in return, the way someone smiles when they're thanked for having done a minor favor in times past. Held open a door in the rain, lent someone a small amount of money, butchered an ex-lover, that sort of thing.

David Weber

#23. Did anyone who was in love and was unsatisfied with how he was loved in return ever feel saved?

John Irving

#24. Return trips, to this day ... are simply invitations to dull trances or leaden slumber,

John Irving

#25. There are, in the King case in particular, some names of confidential informants, persons to whom we promised confidentiality in return for their testimony. We have put their testimony in the public domain, but feel that their names should continue to be anonymous.

Louis Stokes

#26. Shall they return to beating of great bells
In wild train-loads?
A few, a few, too few for drums and yells,
May creep back, silent, to village wells,
Up half-known roads.

Wilfred Owen

#27. I had the endless day, months and months of endless days, and yet my return date bounded this sense of boundlessness, kept it from becoming threatening.

Ben Lerner

#28. It's mine - you can't have it. If you want to use it for something, then you have to negotiate with me. I have to agree, I have to understand what I'm getting in return.

Tim Berners-Lee

#29. I doubted whether this work was truly worth something and was thinking of destroying it upon my return, everything we write down, if we leave it for a while and start reading it from the beginning, naturally becomes unbearable and we won't rest until we've destroyed it again, I thought. Next

Thomas Bernhard

#30. In the year 1857, passing through Washington on our return from the annual visit to Philadelphia, I had the distinguished honor of visiting a President for the first time.

John Sergeant Wise

#31. We are dust and to dust return. In the end we're neither air, nor fire, nor water, just dirt, neither more nor less, just dirt, and maybe some yellow flowers.

Pablo Neruda

#32. It was most essential for me to have a normal life in the real world as a counterpoise to that strange inner world. My family and my profession remained the base to which I could return ...

Carl Jung

#33. Does that mean", I said in some bewilderment, "that we must eat again of the tree of knowledge in order to return to the state of innocence?"
"Of course", he said, "but that's the final chapter in the history of the world.

Heinrich Von Kleist

#34. Most of all, I loved seeing Princess Leia strangling you at the end of Return of the Jedi.

Seth Green

#35. I'll be a Houston Astro no matter what ... I would certainly want to leave myself open to a return to the team if that made sense for the organization and for me as well.

Lance Berkman

#36. We may not return the affection of those who like us, but we always respect their good judgment.

Lillian Gordy Carter

#37. The crying wailed, somewhere beneath the planks. Several sweeps of the light showed that the cellar was otherwise deserted. Though the face mouthed behind him, he ventured down. For God's sake, get it over with; he knew he would never dare return.

Ramsey Campbell

#38. 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.

Leo Buscaglia

#39. I guess the thing about exposing your heart is that people may not even notice it. Like a flop movie. Or they'll borrow your heart and they'll forget to return it to you.

Douglas Coupland

#40. You keep asking me that," she said sharply. "No. I don't care to notify anyone. I can't bear a crowd of relatives around me. I threw away that damned corset in a trash can. I won't return to that." There

Joyce Carol Oates

#41. You are going through difficult moments of life. Times when you do not understand the ways of our world or the ways of our people. Hold on to yourself in these moments. These times will change. Calm will return to your being. Hold on to yourself. Please.

Avijeet Das

#42. 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.

Alex Winter

#43. We must return to optimism in our parenting. To focus on the joys, not the hassles; the love, not the disappointments; the common sense, not the complexities.

Fred G. Gosman

#44. Don't judge yourself; simply return your attention to what's in front of you right now.

Deepak Chopra

#45. The prevailing view has been that the market will earn a high rate of return if the holding period is long enough, but entry point is what really matters.

Seth Klarman

#46. What says Christ doesn't return today and His most faithful followers don't turn around and have Him crucified again (if that were possible)? That's what happened the first time, after all.

D.R. Silva

#47. I would not ask from you, Anything that you were not capable of giving, I would not ask from you, Anythng but that which I truly need, I would not take from you, Without giving equal value in return.

Javan

#48. So when one stands in a cherished place for the last time before a voyage without return, he sees it all whole, and real, and dear, as he has never seen it before and never will see it again.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#49. I promise to crush Israel and return it to the humiliation and wretchedness of the Koran.

Anwar Sadat

#50. We can learn to return home to our open hearts at any moment.

Loch Kelly

#51. True respect comes when we fend for ourselves without the aid of anyone, and when we owned something and say, 'this is my own'! Not necessarily as a way of boasting of our abundance and grace, but having a feeling that we can use it without obstruction, or being asked to return the favor.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#52. The distribution of the market is fat-tailed relative to the normal distribution ... For passive investors, none of this matters, beyond being aware that outlier returns are more common than would be expected if return distributions were normal.

Eugene Fama

#53. Venture capitalists are professional money managers. We are provided capital to invest as long as we can return it to our investors with a strong return in a reasonable amount of time. A strong return is three times cash on cash. A reasonable amount of time is ten years max.

Fred Wilson

#54. To return after long years of painful absence to some place which has been the scene of our former joys, and whence the force of circumstance, and not choice, has driven us, is oppressive to the heart.

Samuel Lover

#55. My tax return in the United States has to be kept on a special computer because their normal computers can't deal with the numbers. So I am constantly getting these notices telling me I haven't paid something when really it is just on the wrong computer.

Bill Gates

#56. For a long time, the film business was a single-digit business on investment return. Now, because of home video, it's a low double-digit business, and the studios want to make sure it doesn't go back into the single-digit business.

Charles Roven

#57. I've always found animals easy to love because their love is unconditional. They are trusting, loyal and undemanding except in wanting love in return.

Marlon Brando

#58. Love can never be a sin. It can be only a blessing. Even if you're not loved in return
though I can't imagine that
to love is a proof of life
indeed, it's the only proof, for once you can't love another human being, you're not alive.

Pearl S. Buck

#59. This president [Barack Obama ] has seen personnel records of people who have sacrificed for the American people and for the federal government stolen by the Chinese and he's done nothing in return.

Chris Christie

#60. Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return to plague the inventor.

William Shakespeare

#61. An army environment is very protected, a walled city kind of environment, where everybody has the same income, you have the same birthday parties, you are given return gifts - everything is the same. Everybody is moving up at the same pace.

Nimrat Kaur

#62. Until self-effacing men return again to spiritual leadership, we may expect a progressive deterioration in the quality of popular Christianity year after year till we reach the point where the grieved Holy Spirit withdraws - like the Shekinah from the temple.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#63. In return for the service and to cover the annual cost for fund management and other expenses, the mutual fund levies fund management charges (FMC). The FMC levied varies across schemes from around 0.75% to 2.50% (the

Vinod Pottayil

#64. You know what black hatred women feel toward me as soon as they see me, until I return inside my shell, they use every possible weapon. As soon as a generous man tries to help me out, a woman is here to hold his arm and prevent him from acting.

Camille Claudel

#65. The ruler is the first servant of the state. He is paid well so that he can maintain the dignity of his office. But he is required in return to work effectively for the well-being of the state.

Frederick II Of Hohenstaufen

#66. In the depth a light will grow,
A silver shine no shadows know,
Like wings unfolding in the sky,
That circle 'round a gleaming eye,
Turning darkness all away,
Even depths will know their day,
For every shadow has its end,
In light!
Life will return again!

Robert Fanney

#67. Be a reflection of what you'd like to see in others. You get in return what you give.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

#68. Do Christians in fact eagerly long for Christ's return? The more Christians are caught up in enjoying the good things of this life, and the more they neglect genuine Christian fellowship and their personal relationship with Christ, the less they will long for his return.

Wayne A. Grudem

#69. Practically every violent conflict or social change has proved that violence unleashes violence in return.

Petra Kelly

#70. Broke your jaw once before
Spilt your blood upon the floor
You broke my leg in return
So let's sit back and watch the bed burn
Well love sticks sweat drips
Break the lock if it don't fit
A kick in the teeth is good for some
A kiss with a fist is better than none

Florence Welch

#71. South Koreans who have seen and praised the mass games should remember the hardship of tearful children. Teachers drive them hard with curses and orders to repeat and repeat. When the children return home in the evening, they can hardly walk.

Kim Il-sung

#72. When I look into someone's eyes, into their soul, their innermost being, they can see mine in return - the things I had done, the things I was willing to do, the things I was capable of doing.

Jim Butcher

#73. When you say ROI, do you mean return on investment or risk of inaction.

Paul Gillin

#74. If you know how to love, you will get it in return.

Glenda Radores

#75. Our actions are like ships which we may watch set out to sea, and not know when or with what cargo they will return to port.

Iris Murdoch

#76. A revolution, woven in the dim light of mystery, has kept me from you. Another revolution will return me to your arms, bring me back to life.

Jose Rizal

#77. One can return to their place of birth, but one cannot go back to your youth.

John Burroughs

#78. As soon as the mind and mind identification return; you're no longer yourself but a mental image of yourself, and you start playing games and roles again to get your ego needs met.

Eckhart Tolle

#79. There is a longing for a return to a time without the need for choices, free of the regret at the inevitable loss that all choice (however wonderful) has entailed.

Alain De Botton

#80. The return of democracy in our land has indeed thrown the problems of development into bolder relief.

Ibrahim Babangida

#81. There is a point at which we begin to receive a diminishing return on the accumulation of sacred knowledge unless we use it to at least try to improve the world.

Marianne Williamson

#82. When each partner loves so completely that he has forgotten to ask himself whether or not he is loved in return; when he only knows that he loves and is moving to its music
then, and then only are two people able to dance perfectly in tune to the same rhythm.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#83. We should not accept in silence the benefactions of God, but return thanks for them.

Saint Basil

#84. I have entered the field to die, if need be, for this government, and never expect to return to peaceful pursuits until the object of this war of preservation has become a fact established.

John A. Logan

#85. She supported a deal that didn't even require this murderous regime to return a cop killer, JoAnne Chesimard, to face justice. See I know about this personally.

Chris Christie

#86. If you run a corporation, your job is to maximize the return on investment for your investors. Good for you. But by the same token, we have to remember that corporations have no compassion. That's why legislation and regulations are necessary.

Russell Simmons

#87. A vile imagination, once indulged, gets the key of our minds, and can get in again very easily, whether we will or no, and can so return as to bring seven other spirits with it more wicked than itself; and what may follow no one knows.

Charles Spurgeon

#88. A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.

Salman Rushdie

#89. This your bomb? I'm here to return it to you. Up your ass.

Hey, speaking of which, you used to work with Iron Fist a lot, right?

How is that 'SPEAKING OF WHICH?!!- Power man & Deadpool

Daniel Way

#90. If you just take ... the feeling of legitimacy away from them, if you turn it around so they feel like they are committing a crime by watching ... they'll be confused and scared and worried and they'll just return to their ... quietly desperate lives.

John Green

#91. Many years ago, I left my home country very narrow minded. Today I return with an educated mind, able to understand why my culture is as it is and still be very proud of it.

Gloria D. Gonsalves

#92. I'd be foolish if I didn't return her interest." He puffed out his chest. "And no one has ever called me a fool."
Rosika's jaw tightened. She rubbed her temples. "I'm giving it some serious consideration.

Jess Schira

#93. I always believed that I'd return to Cleveland and finish my career there.

LeBron James

#94. We were meant to love people, and we need to accept their love in return. Otherwise, we ain't really living.

Lynn Austin

#95. The human heart dares not stay away too long from that which hurt it most. There is a return journey to anguish that few of us are released from making.

Lillian Smith

#96. Monastic prayer begins not so much with "considerations" as with a "return to the heart," finding one's deepest center, awakening the profound depths of our being

Thomas Merton

#97. Solus walked over to the young brown-haired man and grabbed him by the front of his shirt, ignoring the look of panic he received in return. "You can call me Solus." His golden eyes trailed meaningfully down the mortal's body before he added, softly, "I've been told it's easier to scream.

Nenia Campbell

#98. Give with a truly glad heart, for the sole purpose of the good it will do, and whatever you give shall return to you, multiplied, as if on wings, covered in sparkles.

Mike Dooley

#99. He is always there for her,always waiting. The most constant companion anyone could pray for. One of these days she will return to him. She will feel that desire again, that need beyond human comprehension, and they will be together forever.

Carrie Ryan

#100. Eragon blinked. Is it me, or is everyone on the edge today? Like Arya-one moment she's angry, the next she's giving me a blessing!
No one will be comfortable until things return to normal.
Define normal.

Christopher Paolini