Return Quotes

3280 quotes by 2324 authors

What is the explanation of the seemingly insane drive of man to be painter and poet if it is not an act of defiance against… — Barnett Newman
Brandon Wegher left camp to deal with some personal things. We hope he can return in the very near future — Kirk Ferentz
For a generation, terrorists learned they could make war on free nations without fear of war in return. On September 12, the terrorists got war… — Ken Mehlman
The Finns also have a bent for drink, even though there is no wine here whatsoever, except for illicit tavern keeping, which is harshly suppressed.… — Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin
The Law of Diminishing Returns is true of everything in life, except sex, which seems endlessly repeatable with effect. — Robert McKee
Speaking of dust, â€˜out of which we came and to which we shall return,â€™ do you know that after we are dead our corpses are… — Joris-Karl Huysmans
There's actually a lot of evidence in primates and other animals that they return favors. — Frans de Waal
Heaven is weary of the luxury of China. I shall remain in the wilderness of the north. I shall return to simplicity and moderations once… — Genghis Khan
When the rate of return on capital exceeds the rate of growth of output and income, as it did in the nineteenth century and seems… — Thomas Piketty
Nearly all educational expenditure should be considered a capital outlay, whether it provides a future return in the form of enhanced taxable income or in… — William Vickrey
When you Love.. you Expect.. Once u start Expecting.. u have Hope.. Hopes in return makes you to put Trust.. and Trust makes u prone… — Abhijeet Sawant
The emancipation of today displays itself mainly in cigarettes and shorts... painted lips and nails, and the return of trailing skirts and other absurdities of… — Sylvia Pankhurst
To awaken chivalry we must return to femininity. We must stop doing the masculine things and become the gentle, tender, dependent women we were designed… — Helen Andelin
I answer not, and I return no more. — John James Ingalls
There isnâ€™t a person at the Koch brothers events who would not get a good return on their investment by investing in [Santorum] as president,… — Foster Friess
I am an absurd idealist. But I believe that all that must come true. For, unless it comes true, the world will be laid desolate.… — Leslie Charteris
I have always longed to be part of the outward life, to be out there at the edge of things, to let the human taint… — John Austin Baker
It is one of the many merits of this admirable biography of Proust's mother that it invites one to return to the novel with perhaps… — Allan Massie
I don't care if they're licensed legal firearms, people who are not highly trained putting guns in their hands is a recipe for disaster. So… — Garry McCarthy
There is no such thing as high returns without risk. — Gerry Schwartz

Who Wrote These Return Quotes

2,324 authors contributed a total of 3,280 Return Quotes, led by these top contributors: