Return Quotes
3280 quotes by 2324 authors
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Hours and days and months and years go by; the past returns no more, and what is to be we cannot know; but whatever the…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Better he learns now that if you mess with people, you might get messed with in return.
— Kate Brian
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there is no need to justify what we are. there is no need to work hard to become what we are not. we just need…
— Miguel Angel Ruiz
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You were born a child of light’s wonderful secret— you return to the beauty you have always been.
— Aberjhani
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There is an old joke that went around- it goes, in the beginning God made man in His own image, and since the fall, man…
— Alistair Begg
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I know already that I will return to this day whenever I want to. I can bid it alive. Preserve it. There is a still…
— Colum McCann
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Panem et Circenses" translates into 'Bread and Circuses.' The writer was saying that in return for full bellies and entertainment, his people had given up…
— Suzanne Collins
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She is, above all else, tired; she wants more than anything to return to her bed and her book. The world, this world, feels suddenly…
— Michael Cunningham
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A lover exists only in fragments, a dozen or so if the romance is new, a thousand if we're married to him, and out of…
— Andrew Sean Greer
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When Darroc returns, I know by the look in his eyes that I've chosen well. He thinks I picked black and red for him, the…
— Karen Marie Moning
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Creativity is not so much a boundless well, but an all-you-can-eat buffet of elements for your creative endeavor. Eventually you've eaten your fill, and it's…
— Vera Nazarian
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‎"Magic is the first and last religion of the world. It has the power to make us whole, to open our eyes to the Dominions…
— Clive Barker
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The artist seeks contact with his intuitive sense of the gods, but in order to create his work, he cannot stay in this seductive and…
— Patti Smith
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I dream that I have found us both again, With spring so many strangers' lives away, And we, so free, Out walking by the sea,…
— Thomas Pynchon
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[in response to a jealous comment made by Amber] PJ's mouth snarls open. "If you aren't going to play nice, my thorny little bush, I…
— Laurie Faria Stolarz
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With that height, plus a face of an ugliness so transcendant as to be grotesquely beautiful, it was obvious why she had embraced a religious…
— Diana Gabaldon
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Things go away to return, brightened for the passage
— A. R. Ammons
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When suddenly you seem to lose all you thought you had gained, do not despair. You must expect setbacks and regressions. Don't say to yourself…
— Henri Nouwen
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Once, when I was younger, I thought I could be someone else. I'd move to Casablanca, open a bar, and I'd meet Ingrid Bergman. Or…
— Haruki Murakami
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All I know is that I carried you for nine months. I fed you, I clothed you, I paid for your college education. Friending me…
— Jodi Picoult
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