Return Quotes
3280 quotes by 2324 authors
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I also read about Heathcliff's unexpected three-year career in Hollywood under the name Buck Stallion and his eventual return to the pages of Wuthering Heights.
— Jasper Fforde
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(Was he talking about a polar expedition, or marriage?) -Jorge Men Wanted: For hazardous journey. Small wages, bitter cold, long months of complete darkness, constant…
— Ernest Shackleton
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Neighbors bring food with death and flowers with sickness and little things in between. Boo was our neighbor. He gave us two soap dolls, a…
— Harper Lee
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Anyone who loves in the expectation of being loved in return is wasting their time.
— Paulo Coelho
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When evening comes, I return home and go into my study. On the threshold I strip off my muddy, sweaty, workday clothes, and put on…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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You’re shaking … so am I. It’s because of Jerusalem, isn’t it? One doesn’t go to Jerusalem, one returns to it. That’s one of its…
— Elie Wiesel
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If I were a first rate writer, I wouldn't mind a bit. What does depress me is this: it is so desperately hard and so…
— Martha Gellhorn
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Time is a lot of the things people say that God is. There's always preexisting, and having no end. There's the notion of being all…
— Diana Gabaldon
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The delight we inspire in others has this enchanting peculiarity that, far from being diminished like every other reflection, it returns to us more radiant…
— Victor Hugo
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The last time I was in Chile, I was hypnotized by a friend who is studying to be a curandero, a healer, who led me…
— Isabel Allende
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Cold sinks in, there to stay. And people, they'll leave you, sure. There's no return to what was and no way back. There's just emptiness…
— Louise Erdrich
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And I leave my post of observation and find I have had enough of this outside life; I feel that there is nothing more that…
— Franz Kafka
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He returns years later, has no demands. He wants only one, most precious thing: To see, purely and simply, without name, Without expectations, fears, or…
— Czeslaw Milosz
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You are born into your family and your family is born into you. No returns. No exchanges.
— Elizabeth Berg
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I will go wherever the truth leads me. It is secular scholarship, Rebbe; it is not the scholarship of tradition. In secular scholarship there are…
— Chaim Potok
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Hide them all, then. Keep her – them – safe. Please.' And what will you give me in return, Severus?' In – in return? Anything.
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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We are not. We never were; we never shall be. We return to the void we never, for mehay is the center of all, and…
— Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
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The cost of oblivious daydreaming was always this moment of return, the realignment with what had been before and now seemed a little worse.
— Ian Mcewan
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Every reformation must have its victims. You can’t expect the fatted calf to share the enthusiasm of the angels over the prodigal’s return.
— Hector Hugh Munro
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Humans are amphibians...half spirit and half animal...as spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time. This means that while their…
— C.S. Lewis
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