Return Quotes
3280 quotes by 2324 authors
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Perhaps because the origins of a certain kind of love lie in an impulse to escape ourselves and out weaknesses by an alliance with the…
— Alain de Botton
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It is a policeman’s duty to retrieve stolen property and return it to its owners. But when robbery becomes the purpose of the law, and…
— Ayn Rand
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It has long been known to me that certain objects want you as much as you want them. These are the ones that become important,…
— Sheila Heti
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You must take care to light the matches one at a time. If a powerful emotion should ignite them all at once, they would produce…
— Laura Esquivel
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There was a smile dancing on his lips, although it was a wary smile, for the world is a bigger place than a little graveyard…
— Neil Gaiman
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There is a foundation for our lives, a place in which our life rests. That place is nothing but the present moment, as we see,…
— Joko Beck
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Cold as winter, strong as stone; She faced the darkness all alone. A silver goddess; a reflection. A mirage; a recollection. No return; no turning…
— Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
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I could not imagine living away from Sevenwaters, away from all that was so much a part of me. Maybe, if you cared enough about…
— Juliet Marillier
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Whiteness is the color of death, you know, not black. Wetness is life, the breeder and shaper of life. In the beginning the sun was…
— Jim Carroll
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Then she offers him a slim but sincere smile, and he reluctantly returns it. It doesn't bridge the gap between them, but at least it…
— Neal Shusterman
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What is literature, and why do I try to write about it? I don’t know. Likewise, I don’t know why I go on living, most…
— M. John Harrison
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And I ask myself what it is about me that makes this wonderful, beautiful woman return. Is it because I'm pathetic, helpless in my current…
— Mohsin Hamid
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How is it you’ve never married?†A soft splash. “It’s an easy enough thing. Every morning I wake up, go about my day, and return…
— Tessa Dare
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When we feel weak, all we have to do is wait a little while. The spring returns and the winter snows melt and fill us…
— Paulo Coelho
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beware those quick to praise for they need praise in return beware those who are quick to censor they are afraid of what they do…
— Charles Bukowski
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If we give what we treasure most to a Being we love with all our hearts, if we can do that without expecting anything in…
— Orhan Pamuk
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When I wake, I have a brief, delicious feeling of happiness that is somehow connected with Peeta. Happiness, of course, is a complete absurdity at…
— Suzanne Collins
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The measure of a life is a measure of love and respect, So hard to earn so easily burned In the fullness of time, A…
— Neil Peart
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Trust me to return to you." "I will wait forever. however long it takes.
— Melissa de la Cruz
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And what will you give me in return, Severus?’ ‘In – in return?’ Snape gaped at Dumbledore, and Harry expected him to protest, but after…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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