Return Quotes
3280 quotes by 2324 authors
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Wilderness is harder and harder to find these days on this beautiful planet, and we're abusing our planet to the point of almost no return.
— Betty White
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Whoever degrades another degrades me, And whatever is done or said returns at last to me.
— Walt Whitman
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Now, one thing I tell everyone is learn about real estate. Repeat after me: real estate provides the highest returns, the greatest values and the…
— Armstrong Williams
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Venture capitalists are professional money managers. We are provided capital to invest as long as we can return it to our investors with a strong…
— Fred Wilson
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Well, your greatest joy definitely comes from doing something for another, especially when it was done with no thought of something in return.
— John Wooden
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I have gone on the air and announced my telephone number at the Washington Post. I go into the night, talking to people, looking for…
— Bob Woodward
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Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.
— Herman Wouk
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When our thousands of Chinese students abroad return home, you will see how China will transform itself.
— Deng Xiaoping
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There is a yearning for people to return to elementary moral virtues, such as integrity and commitment. We distrust people who have no centering of…
— Geoff Mulgan
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Like the diminishing beauty returns for a facially paralyzed Botox addict, the more forcefully we attempt to stop the passage of time, the less available…
— Douglas Rushkoff
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Passion such as hers is all consent, asking little in return. I had merely to enter a room where she was to see her face…
— Marguerite Yourcenar
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You will notice that what we are aiming at when we fall in love is a very strange paradox. The paradox consists of the fact…
— Woody Allen
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When we suffer anguish we return to early childhood because that is the period in which we first learnt to suffer the experience of total…
— John Berger
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Walter loves the sea, and I need it in some elemental way that I cannot even come close to verbalizing. I become dim and shriveled…
— Anne Rivers Siddons
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It is by loving, and not by being loved, that one can come nearest the soul of another; yea, that, where two love, it is…
— George MacDonald
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But in a story, which is a kind of dreaming, the dead sometimes smile and sit up and return to the world.
— Tim O'Brien
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Revolutionary men with principles were not really different from the rest. They used their cleverness to get, in return for principles, what other men buy…
— Nawal El Saadawi
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What we require is not a formal return to tradition and religion, but a rereading, a reinterpretation, of our history that can illuminate the present…
— Nawal El Saadawi
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Misuse of reason might yet return the world to pre-technological night; plenty of religious zealots hunger for just such a result, and are happy to…
— A.C. Grayling
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There is a point of no return, unremarked at the time, in most lives.
— Graham Greene
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