Returns Quotes
499 quotes by 409 authors
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The hours pass and the days and the months and the years, and the past time never returns.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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The law of diminishing returns means that even the most beneficial prinicple will become harmful if carried far enough.
— Thomas Sowell
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So Europe's a big driver. And at one point, if the euro hadn't devalued, they would have been making as much money as the US…
— Jim Cantalupo
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There are some guys you have problems beating because of their style - I always had difficulties with guys like Michael Chang and Andre Agassi…
— Guy Forget
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It saddens me to see the reality-television shows that are getting so much fanfare that are a celebration of stupidity and the degradation of women.…
— Prabal Gurung
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Unbounded morality ultimately becomes counterproductive even in terms of the same moral principles being sought. The law of diminishing returns applies to morality.
— Thomas Sowell
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Morality, like other inputs into the social process, follows the law of diminishing returns- meaning ultimately, negative returns. People can be too moral.
— Thomas Sowell
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Be cautious and content with low positive returns in 2015. The time for risk taking has passed,
— Bill Gross
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We adopted a focused strategy of core businesses in Citicorp that play to our unique historic strengths as a global bank that will provide strong…
— Michael Corbat
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My favorite pre-Ponzi schemer was known as '520 Percent Miller' because he promised 10 percent returns a week, or 520 percent a year. Of course…
— Mitchell Zuckoff
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place where man laughs, sings, picks flowers, chases butterflies and pets birds, makes love with maidens, and plays with children. Here he spontaneously reveals his…
— Confucius
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Calumny is like the wasp which worries you, and which it is not best to try to get rid of unless you are sure of…
— Nicolas Chamfort
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Our seasons have no fixed returns, Without our will they come and go; At noon our sudden summer burns, Ere sunset all is snow.
— James Russell Lowell
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People say, 'I'm going to sleep now,' as if it were nothing. But it's really a bizarre activity. 'For the next several hours, while the…
— George Carlin
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But every one has a besetting sin to which he returns.
— Jean de La Fontaine
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Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.
— Lucretius
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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
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Music comes from the heart and returns to the heart... music is spontaneous, impulsive expression... its range is without limit... forever growing... can be one…
— Leopold Stokowski
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When you do not accept the insult some one casts on you, it goes back to the person who indulged in it first; a registered…
— Sathya Sai Baba
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The little bee returns with evening's gloom, To join her comrades in the braided hive, Where, housed beside their might honey-comb, They dream their polity…
— Charles Tennyson Turner
Who Wrote These Returns Quotes
409 authors contributed a total of 499 Returns Quotes, led by these top contributors: