Return Quotes
3280 quotes by 2324 authors
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""Dear girl," continued Bob advancing with an imbecile grin upon his countenance, which he imagined no doubt to be a seductive smile, "fly with me!…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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To be brave is to love unconditionally without expecting anything in return.
— Madonna Ciccone
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The human heart, at whatever age, opens to the heart that opens in return.
— Maria Edgeworth
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The evolution of culture is ultimately determined by the amount of love, understanding and freedom experienced by its children... Every abandonment, every betrayal, every hateful…
— Lloyd deMause
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A backlash against women's rights is nothing new. Indeed it's a recurring phenomenon: it returns every time women begin to make some headway towards equality,…
— Susan Faludi
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Suppose a white man should come to me and say, "Joseph, I like your horses. I want to buy them." I say to him, "No,…
— Chief Joseph
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I am the maker of my own fortune, and Oh! that I could make that of my Red People, and of my country, as great…
— Tecumseh
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The Americans say that we are ungrateful-but I ask them for heaven's sake, what should we be grateful to them for-for murdering our fathers and…
— David Walker
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In most households a cup of coffee is considered the one thing needful at the breakfast hour. But how often this exhilarating beverage, that 'comforteth…
— Janet McKenzie Hill
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For one priceless moment in the whole history of man, all of the people on this earth are truly one. One in their pride at…
— Richard M. Nixon
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Do you think the people who were trying to reach to the Everest were not full of doubts? For a hundred years, how many people…
— Rajneesh
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A clever general... avoids an army when its spirit is keen, but attacks it when it is sluggish and inclined to return. This is the…
— Sun Tzu
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In the same manner, having been reduced by disorder, and sunk to their utmost state of depression, unable to descend lower, they, of necessity, reascend;…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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From a position of this sort, if the enemy is unprepared, you may sally forth and defeat him. But if the enemy is prepared for…
— Sun Tzu
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How I hated schools, and what a life of anxiety I lived there. I counted the hours to the end of every term, when I…
— Winston Churchill
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Every duty which is bidden to wait returns with seven fresh duties at its back.
— Charles Kingsley
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There is more joy in heaven over a converted sinner than over a righteous person standing firm. A leader in battle has more love for…
— Pope Gregory I
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Life may unfold chronologically for the body and for bureaucracies that keep track of such things as births, marriages, deaths, visas, tax returns, expulsions, and…
— Ariel Dorfman
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All artists dream of a silence which they must enter, as some creatures return to the sea to spawn.
— Iris Murdoch
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The winds that blow our billions away return burdened with themes of scorn and dispraise.
— Garet Garrett
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