I give you everything, and you give me nothing in return

I need a bath." He chuckled. "You smell of smoke, as do I." The duke turned, leaning heavily on his cane. "Jameson, open the…

— Karen Hawkins

I would borrow money all day long, if the cost of borrowing is less than the expected return.

— Brad Schneider

I have often wondered how they manage to get return envelopes which miss, by one-quarter of an inch, fitting the blank you are supposed…

— Robert Benchley

I wanted to remember in order to be able to return.

— Anais Nin

The old men of the village of Mahotière say that the Mistress of the Water is a mulatto woman. At midnight she comes out…

— Jacques Roumain

And the seasons they go 'round and 'round And the painted ponies go up and down We're captive on the carousel of time We…

— Joni Mitchell

Rule number something or other -- never tell anybody anything unless you're going to get something better in return.

— Sara Paretsky

“This spending of the best part of one's life earning money in order to enjoy a questionable liberty during the least valuable part of…

— Henry David Thoreau

Among the many factors that make a return to halcyon days of the first decades of the postwar era virtually impossible is the decline…

— Robert Gilpin

Throw me to the wolfs and I will return leading the pack

— Any

That's the meaning of 'The Revenant': It's a return from death.

— Ryuichi Sakamoto

“...what happens when you return and find nothing but a hollowed shell, shingles and floor, walls and echoes and the light that lead you…

— Kellie Elmore

I'm tried of D'arce, D'arce, D'arcing people, but if I have to D'arce somebody else up, the D'arce Knight will return.

— Tony Ferguson

UN peacekeeping operations are now increasingly complex and multi-dimensional, going beyond monitoring a ceasefire to actually bringing failed States back to life, often after…

— Kofi Annan

Baseball needs to put the steroids era behind it by having and enforcing tough rules against all kinds of artificial advantages, so that spring…

— Marvin Olasky