Return Quotes
3280 quotes by 2324 authors
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The evening ended with dancing. On its being proposed, Anne offered her services, as usual, and though her eyes would sometimes fill with tears as…
— Jane Austen
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Take my camel, dear,' said my aunt Dot, climbing down from that animal on her return from high Mass.
— Rose Macaulay
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I hope you will have a wonderful year, that you'll dream dangerously and outrageously, that you'll make something that didn't exist before you made it,…
— Neil Gaiman
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How different each death is, and yet it leads us into the self-same country, that country which we inhabit so rarely, where we see the…
— Iris Murdoch
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Don't wake up a woman in love. Let her dream, so that she does not weep when she returns to her bitter reality
— Mark Twain
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I dance with people I despise; amuse myself with men whose only talent lies in their feet, gain the disapprobation of people I honor and…
— Kate Chopin
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If you love something, set it free. If it comes back, it was, and always will be yours. If it never returns, it was never…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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Today a great shot for freedom was heard. I think it stands a chance of being heard forever. It marls a turning point in the…
— Leon Uris
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I wanted to remember in order to be able to return.
— Anais Nin
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The cost of oblivius daydreaming was always this moment of return, the realigment with what had been before and now seemed a little worse. Her…
— Ian Mcewan
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If we are to continue to have the freedoms that came of the inspiration of the Almighty to our Founding Fathers, we must return to…
— Gordon B. Hinckley
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We do not pass through the same door twice Or return to the door through which we did not pass
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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Just to be in love seemed the most blissful luxury I had ever known. The thought came to me that perhaps it is the loving…
— Dodie Smith
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At that moment of realization (that union with God is always present), that's when God let me go, let me slide through His fingers with…
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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The great secret of true success, of true happiness, is this: the man or woman who asks for no return, the perfectly unselfish person, is…
— Swami Vivekananda
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Food and fire, protection and companionship, were some of the things he received from the god. In return, he guarded the god's property, defended his…
— Jack London
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However they may have felt when they left they were now committed, they had passed the point of no return.
— Hubert Selby, Jr.
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When I return to the world, I will be a man. I will walk among you. I will lick my lips with my small, dexterous…
— Garth Stein
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So many things I had thought forgotten Return to my mind with stranger pain: Like letters that arrive addressed to someone Who left the house…
— Philip Larkin
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You go away for a long time and return a different person - you never come all the way back.
— Paul Theroux
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