Returns Quotes

499 quotes by 409 authors

Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today. — Herman Wouk
Like the diminishing beauty returns for a facially paralyzed Botox addict, the more forcefully we attempt to stop the passage of time, the less available… — Douglas Rushkoff
There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact. — Mark Twain
The continual cracking of your feet on the road makes a certain quantity of road come up into you. When a man dies they say… — Flann O'Brien
When my friend Melot set the trap, I think I knew it. I turned to death full face, as I had turned to love with… — Jeanette Winterson
If I sit for a while, then my impatience, crossness, frustration, are indeed annihilated, and my sense of humor returns. — Madeleine L'Engle
When you don't cover up the world with words and labels, a sense of the miraculous returns to your life that was lost a long… — Eckhart Tolle
...Human thought has no limit. At its risk and peril, it analyzes and dissects its own fascination. We could almost say that, by a sort… — Victor Hugo
What better occupation, really, than to spend the evening at the fireside with a book, with the wind beating on the windows and the lamp… — Gustave Flaubert
The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Youâ€™re shaking â€¦ so am I. Itâ€™s because of Jerusalem, isnâ€™t it? One doesnâ€™t go to Jerusalem, one returns to it. Thatâ€™s one of its… — Elie Wiesel
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
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
You are born into your family and your family is born into you. No returns. No exchanges. — Elizabeth Berg
In the 18th century we knew how everything was done, but here I rise through the air, I listen to voices in America, I see… — Virginia Woolf
If you are in a state of intense presence you are free of thought, yet highly alert. If your conscious attention sinks below a certain… — Eckhart Tolle
And for adults, the world of fantasy books returns to us the great words of power which, in order to be tamed, we have excised… — Jane Yolen
I have a lot of faith. But I am also afraid a lot, and have no real certainty about anything. I remembered something Father Tom… — Anne Lamott
Still, when all is said, somewhere one must belong: even the soaring falcon returns to its master's wrist. — Truman Capote
Life is a mirror: if you frown at it, it frowns back; if you smile, it returns the greeting. — William Makepeace Thackeray

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