Top 35 We Shall Return Quotes
#2. Justice in holdings is historical; it depends upon what actually has happened. We shall return to this point later.
Robert Nozick
#3. We know that we come from the winds, and that we shall return to them; that all life is perhaps a knot, a tangle, a blemish in the eternal smoothness. But why should this make us unhappy? Let us love one another, and work and rejoice. I don't believe in this world sorrow.
E. M. Forster
#4. We shall return to proven ways - not because they are old, but because they are true.
Barry Goldwater
#5. As we leave the Moon at Taurus-Littrow, we leave as we came, and God willing, as we shall return, with peace and hope for all mankind.
Eugene Cernan
#6. Until we get it right, we shall return to the earth-school time after time.
T.F. Hodge
#7. The chickadee and nuthatch are more inspiring society than statesmen and philosophers, and we shall return to these last as to more vulgar companions.
Henry David Thoreau
#8. Ashes to ashes. Dust to dust. We are nothing, but dust and to dust we shall return. Amen.
Alexander Anderson
#9. We are clay and nothing is real for us except the uncanny womb of Being into which we shall return.
Iris Murdoch
#10. Eli: Cursed be the ground for our sake. Both thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for us. For out of the ground we were taken, for the dust we are ... and to the dust we shall return
Book Of Eli Movie
#11. Aren't you afraid of death, oak? How can you speak so casually about it?'
The trees creaked their bare branches until it seemed to Geno that they must be laughing.
'Death?' they said. 'How is it death to return to earth again? Our seed can grow from us. We shall return.
Felix Salten
#12. They will get it straight one day at the Sorbonne.
We shall return at twilight from the lecture
Pleased that the irrational is rational
Wallace Stevens
#13. Time itself is a thing, so it seems to me, that stands solidly like a fence of iron palings with its endless row of years; and we flow past like Gyoll, on our way to a sea from which we shall return only as rain.
Gene Wolfe
#14. The now reality is our only home, where everything already is. There is no other home we came from, and we might think we shall return to.
Raphael Zernoff
#15. From an endless dream we have come. In an endless dream we are living. To an endless dream we shall return.
Andrea Kushi
#16. We shall perish
along the path of Love.
Fate will trample us. Yeah, tempting
young woman, get up and give me your lips
before I return to dust.
Omar Khayyam
#17. A darkness lies behind us, and we have turned our backs upon it, and we do not desire to return thither even in thought. Westwards our hearts have been turned, and we believe that there we shall find Light.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#18. We demand that big business give the people a square deal; in return we must insist that when any one engaged in big business honestly endeavors to do right he shall himself be given a square deal.
Theodore Roosevelt
#19. The light of common sense is fundamentally the same light as that of science, that is to say, the natural light of the intellect. But in common sense this light does not return upon itself by critical reflection, and is not perfected by what we shall learn to know as a scientific habit.
Jacques Maritain
#20. Good-night! good-night! as we so oft have said Beneath this roof at midnight, in the days That are no more, and shall no more return. Thou hast but taken up thy lamp and gone to bed; I stay a little longer, as one stays To cover up the embers that still burn.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#21. Verily we are from God, and to Him shall we return!
Baha'u'llah
#22. We must be ever on the search for some persons whom we shall love and who will love us in return. If good will and affection are taken away, every joy is taken from life.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#23. If we use no ceremony towards others, we shall be treated without any. People are soon tired of paying trifling attentions to those who receive them with coldness, and return them with neglect.
William Hazlitt
#24. Off we skip like the most heartless things in the world, which is what children are, but so attractive; and we have an entirely selfish time, and then when we have need of special attention we nobly return for it, confident that we shall be rewarded instead of smacked.
J.M. Barrie
#25. As we get older we do not get any younger. Seasons return, and today I am fifty-five, And this time last year I was fifty-four, And this time next year I shall be sixty-two.
Henry Reed
#26. Rhaegar had put his hand on Jaime's shoulder. When this battle's done I mean to call a council. Changes will be made. I meant to do it long ago, but ... well, it does no good to speak of roads not taken. We shall talk when I return.
George R R Martin
#27. I ask God most often that we would be an unbroken line of Christians until Christ shall return.
Philip Yancey
#28. We are formed by dust, when life ends, we shall we return as dust to the ground.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#29. It is the magician's bargain: give up our soul, get power in return. But once our souls, that is, ourselves, have been given up, the power thus conferred will not belong to us. We shall in fact be the slaves and puppets of that to which we have given our souls.
C.S. Lewis
#30. Personally, I would not care for immortality in the least. There is nothing better than oblivion, since in oblivion there is no wish unfulfilled. We had it before we were born yet did not complain. Shall we whine because we know it will return? It is Elysium enough for me, at any rate.
H.P. Lovecraft
#31. We shall take great care not to annoy the horse and spoil his friendly charm, for it is like the scent of a blossom - once lost it will never return
Antoine De Pluvinel
#32. This is the Scroll of Thoth. Herein are set down the magic words by which Isis raised Osiris from the dead. Oh! Amon-Ra
Oh! God of Gods
Death is but the doorway to new life
We live today-we shall live again
In many forms shall we return-Oh, mighty one.
John L. Balderston
#34. 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.
Frank C. Lockwood
#35. I believed in a return to Nature once. But how can we return to Nature when we have never been with her? Today, I believe that we must discover Nature. After many conquests we shall attain simplicity. It is our heritage.
E. M. Forster
