Return Quotes

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If the refugees return to Israel, Israel will cease to exist. — Gamal Abdel Nasser
But, today, the idea of faith returns to me. Faith defies logic and propels us beyond hope because it is not attached to our desires.… — Terry Tempest Williams
Over the years, one comes to measure a place, too, not just for the beauty it may give, the balminess of its breezes, the insouciance… — Barry Lopez
So use all that is called fortune. Most men gamble with her, and gain all and lose all, as her wheel rolls... A political victory,… — Pat Tillman
That man is worthless who knows how to receive a favor, but not how to return one. — Plautus
The reaches opened before us and closed behind, as if the forest had stepped leisurely across the water to bar the way for our return.… — Joseph Conrad
A book is a product of a pact with the Devil that inverts the Faustian contract, he'd told Allie. Dr Faustus sacrificed eternity in return… — Salman Rushdie
Absolutely love the new campaign from the Optimum Population Trust: do your bit for addressing climate change by having fewer children - or even no… — Jonathon Porritt
When I write about a 15-year old, I jump, I return to the days when I was that age. It's like a time machine. I… — Haruki Murakami
In relation to God, we are like a thief who has burgled the house of a kindly householder and been allowed to keep some of… — Simone Weil
Animals generally return the love you lavish on them by a swift bite in passing-not unlike friends and wives. — Gerald Durrell
I know it's hard to blame the time, but there's a bit of an expectation for a summer movie. I think that 'Superman Returns' was… — Bryan Singer
Baseball needs to put the steroids era behind it by having and enforcing tough rules against all kinds of artificial advantages, so that spring can… — Marvin Olasky
We in the "developed" world seem to have many auditory strategies that insulate us from the presence of silence, simplicity, and solitude. When I return… — Joan Halifax
Time, we know, is relative. You can travel light years through the stars and back, and if you do it at the speed of light… — Douglas Adams
You donâ€™t return peopleâ€™s smilesâ€”itâ€™s perfectly clear to you that people can smile and smile and still be villains. — Helen Oyeyemi
A city man is a home anywhere, for all big cities are much alike. But a country man has a place where he belongs, where… — Edward Abbey
I have often thought that nothing would do more extensive good at small expense than the establishment of a small circulating library in every county,… — Thomas Jefferson
Venice seemed incredibly lovely, elvishly lovely--to me like a dream of Old Gondor, or Pelargir of the Numenorean Ships, before the return of the Shadow. — J.R.R. Tolkien
The decision to give an indicative date for a return is a mistake. It degrades the process. It degrades human life. — David Trimble

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