Return Quotes
3280 quotes by 2324 authors
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my good qualities are under your protection, and you are to exaggerate them as much as possible; and, in return, it belongs to me to…
— Jane Austen
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Exile is a dream of a glorious return. Exile is a vision of revolution: Elba, not St Helena. It is an endless paradox: looking forward…
— Salman Rushdie
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Spring TO what purpose, April, do you return again? Beauty is not enough. You can no longer quiet me with the redness Of little leaves…
— Edna St. Vincent Millay
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At night, when I am alone, I call for you, and whenever my ache seems to be the greatest, you still seem to find a…
— Nicholas Sparks
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It is at moments like these that I know my what my purpose is in life. I am here to love you, to hold you…
— Nicholas Sparks
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Every man carries within himself a world made up of all that he has seen and loved; and it is to this world that he…
— François-René de Chateaubriand
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Husbands are not Christ. But they are called to be like him. And the specific point of likeness is the husband's readiness to suffer for…
— John Piper
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As long as my heart's still in it, I'll keep going. If the passion's there, why stop?... There'll likely be a point of diminishing returns,…
— Dean Karnazes
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Most of the time it's not the Europeans who belittle us. What happens when we look at them is that we belittle ourselves. When we…
— Orhan Pamuk
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As a breath on glass, - As witch-fires that burn, The gods and monsters pass, Are dust, and return. (“The Face of the Skiesâ€)
— George Sterling
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If you go out into the real world, you cannot miss seeing that the poor are poor not because they are untrained or illiterate but…
— Muhammad Yunus
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She comes back Through blood by blood She returns Cut deep now Like me Humanity saves her Will she save me?
— P. C. Cast
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Symbolic of life, hair bolts from our head[s]. Like the earth, it can be harvested, but it will rise again. We can change its color…
— Diane Ackerman
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I felt a splinter of guilt wedge into my heart. Charlotte had hurt me; in return, I'd hurt Rob. Maybe that's what we do to…
— Jodi Picoult
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A word of wisdom to you, akribos, you need to learn to accept gifts. (Catera) There’s no such thing as a gift. If I were…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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Men They hail you as their morning star Because you are the way you are. If you return the sentiment, They'll try to make you…
— Dorothy Parker
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Cal says that humans are made from the nuclear ash of dead stars. He says that when I die, I'll return to dust, glitter,rain. If…
— Jenny Downham
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It's twilight. It’s the safest time of day for us. The easiest time. But also the saddest, in a way...the end of another day, the…
— Stephenie Meyer
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In death, we are not defined by what we did or who we were but by what we meant to others. How well we loved…
— Allison Pearson
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The premonition of madness is complicated by the fear of lucidity in madness, the fear of the moments of return and reunion...one would welcome chaos…
— Emile M. Cioran
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