Returned Quotes

517 quotes by 451 authors

In February of this year I returned to China to research my next book. The authorities know about the novels of mine that have been… — Ma Jian
I returned to New Orleans and my problems with pari-mutuel windows and a dark-haired, milk-skinned wife from Martinique who went home with men from the… — James Lee
But I have returned to one hundred percent playing this year. I am fully back to playing full time. — Miroslav Vitous
... I want the world to know that people like me who have returned from the half-world of mental oblivion are not forever contaminated. We… — Jimmy Piersall
We have created new idols. The worship of the ancient golden calf (cf. Ex 32:1-35) has returned in a new and ruthless guise in the… — Pope Francis
Usually speaking, the worst-bred person in company is a young traveller just returned from abroad. — Jonathan Swift
The cyclone ends. The sun returns; the lofty coconut trees lift up their plumes again; man does likewise. The great anguish is over; joy has… — Paul Gauguin
In Africa people learn to serve each other. They live on credit balances of little favors that they give and may, one day, ask to… — Beryl Markham
Frightened, I jump up from the bank, the struggle begins anew. Bitterness has returned. I am not Pan in the reed, I am merely a… — Paul Klee
I thought my mountain was coming this morning. It was near to speaking when suddenly it shifted, sulked, and returned to smallness. It has eluded… — Emily Carr
Shortly after Christopher Columbus and his sailors returned from their voyage to the New World, a horrifying new disease began to make its way around… — Peter Lewis Allen
Abstraction returned as soon as artists tried to come to closer grips with reality than naturalistic representation permitted... — Sigfried Giedion
In my many years as a Representative in Congress it is my observation that the district that is best represented is the district that is… — Sam Rayburn
Enlightenment doesn't mean you know anything. It doesn't mean you don't know anything. It means that you've returned to the source, consciously. — Frederick Lenz
The sexual energies returned, when they're not evolved, are still linked with violence and the fear of power - the fear of women. — Frederick Lenz
Inner peace begins when we stop saying of things, 'I have lost it' and instead say, 'It has been returned to where it came from.'… — Epictetus
Suppose that thou hast detached thyself from the natural unity... yet here there is this beautiful provision, that it is in thy power again to… — Marcus Aurelius
Small quarrels and tensions were expected because of our new environment. Every relationship has them. Each quarrel was soon forgotten and floated away on a… — Craig Stone
Thousand got away to other countries; thousands returned to Spain tempted by false promises of kindness. By the tens of thousands, these Spaniards died of… — Martha Gellhorn
In the far, far future, essentially all matter will have returned to energy. But because of the enormous expansion of space, this energy will be… — Brian Greene

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