Return Quotes

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The man who is cocksure that he has arrived is ready for the return journey. — B. C. Forbes
Teachers should be held in the highest honor. They are the allies of legislators; they have agency in the prevention of crime; they aid in… — Lydia Sigourney
The ten thousand things flourish and then each returns to the root from which it came. Returning to the root is stillness. Through stillness each… — Laozi
Men suppose their reason has command over their words; still it happens that words in return exercise authority on reason — Francis Bacon
Confidence, like the soul, never returns whence it has once departed — Publilius Syrus
Perhaps if human desire is said out loud, the urban planes, the prisons, the architectural mirrors will take off, as airplanes do. The black planes… — Kathy Acker
Once the return tide starts, it will be impossible to stem it, and it will prove our undoing. — Moshe Sharett
Recycling is more expensive for communities than it needs to be, partly because traditional recycling tries to force materials into more lifetimes than they are… — William McDonough
Loss generally occurs when a player overrates his advantage or for other reasons seeks to derive from a minute advantage a great return such as… — Emanuel Lasker
UN peacekeeping operations are now increasingly complex and multi-dimensional, going beyond monitoring a ceasefire to actually bringing failed States back to life, often after decades… — Kofi Annan
The challenge of ending displacement is inseparable from the challenge of establishing and maintaining peace. When wars end, farmers return to their fields; children return… — Kenneth Bacon
In countries where people have to flee their homes because of persecution and violence, political solutions must be found, peace and tolerance restored, so that… — Angelina Jolie
Do things for people not because of who they are or what they do in return, but because of who you are. — Harold S. Kushner
The goal [is] not only to earn high returns at the top of the cycle but also to avoid giving them back at the bottom. — Duff McDonald
First of all, the Social Security money belongs to Main Street, not to Wall Street. It needs to be said very clearly here that privatization… — Dennis Kucinich
The trouble with giving advice is that others want to return the favor. — Sam Ewing
Under a Presidential government, a nation has, except at the electing moment, no influence; it has not the ballot-box before it; its virtue is gone,… — Walter Bagehot
I always work out of uncertainty but when a painting's finished it becomes a fixed idea, apparently a final statement. In time though, uncertainty returns..… — Georg Baselitz
It has been our experience that if a young man decides to go on a mission, he can not only play well when he returns,… — LaVell Edwards
St Paul, in his second letter to Corinth, spells this out further in the important eighth and ninth chapters, where he urges some of the… — Rowan Williams

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