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Return Quotes by Alain de Botton
- It is not just nature that defies us. Human life is as overwhelming... If we spend time in it [the vast spaces of nature], they…
- There is a longing for a return to a time without the need for choices, free of the regret at the inevitable loss that all…
- Instead of bringing back 1600 plants, we might return from our journeys with a collection of small unfêted but life-enhancing thoughts.
- Perhaps because the origins of a certain kind of love lie in an impulse to escape ourselves and out weaknesses by an alliance with the…
- Everyone returns us to a different sense of ourselves, for we become a little of who they think we are.
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- Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Whenever we think of Christ, we should recall the love that led Him to bestow on us so many graces and favors,… — Teresa of Avila
- I don't like people lying to me. I don't like people who don't return my calls. I don't like people who won't… — Dan Aykroyd
- Chile has done a lot to rid itself of poverty, especially extreme poverty, since the return to democracy. But we still have… — Michelle Bachelet
- Sailing a boat calls for quick action, a blending of feeling with the wind and water as well as with the very… — George Matthew Adams
- I don't even have voice mail or answering machines anymore. I hate the phone, and I don't want to call anybody back.… — Drew Barrymore
- Big-government proponents embrace both the power of the federal government and the idea that millions of Americans ought to be dependent on… — Gary Bauer
- Love consists in giving without getting in return; in giving what is not owed, what is not due the other. That's why… — Mortimer Adler
- Market leadership can translate directly to higher revenue, higher profitability, greater capital velocity, and correspondingly stronger returns on invested capital. — Jeff Bezos
- I am planning to return and contest the October elections in Pakistan. — Benazir Bhutto
- Economy is a savings-bank, into which men drop pennies, and get dollars in return. — Josh Billings
- America's fighting men and women sacrifice much to ensure that our great nation stays free. We owe a debt of gratitude to… — Allen Boyd