The Return Quotes

Our way lies not in human ingenuity, but in a return to God.

To be whole is to be part; true voyage is return.

Return to the purity of your innocence where you are enchanted with life. Give love for no reason. Surround yourself with others doing the same.

Something once lost will never return

A poem is an invocation, rebellious return to the blessedness of beginning again, wandering free in pure process of forgetting and finding.

Man’s usurpation over nature is an egotism that will destroy human as well as whale kingdoms. … Academies should return to wisdom study in tree groves rather than robot study in plastic cells

However they may have felt when they left they were now committed, they had passed the point of no return.

Breaking up: It's so easy to return their possessions, but so hard to get our brain cells back.

Strange the affection which clings to inanimate objects - objects which cannot even know our love! But it is not return that constitutes the strength of an attachment.

All artists dream of a silence which they must enter, as some creatures return to the sea to spawn.

The mind should be allowed some relaxation, that it may return to its work all the better for the rest.

Don't put your confidence in big names When they die and return to the dirt they can't do anything for you.

A short retirement urges a sweet return.

When someone helps you, then that means one thing, all they expect in return is for you to show them what you're doing and for you to help someone else.

Jealousy is beautiful only on a young and ardent face. After the first wrinkles, trust must return.

No man finds it difficult to return to nature except the man who has deserted nature.

We had a great many horses, of which we gave Lewis and Clark what they needed, and they gave us guns and tobacco in return.

There is no ship now that can bear me hence

Let people return to making knots on ropes, instead of writing.

On my return to Pittsburgh, I resolved to go back to the fundamental problems of electronic structure that I had contemplated abstractly many years earlier.

The return from cows and sheep in cheese is worth much money every day in the season, without calves and lambs, and without the manure, which all return corn and fruit.

Because of impatience we were driven out [of Paradise]; because of impatience we cannot return.

The out-of-date returns in due course as the picturesque.

Just go on . . . and faith will soon return. To a friend hesitant with respect to infinitesimals.

I think that Americans should gradually begin to adopt positive behavior rather than doing evil. They should not expect an immediate reaction in return for their positive measures. It will take time.

You can have all of me, I silently told him, but I'm taking all of you in return.

President Obama released his tax returns. It turns out he made $900,000 less in 2011 then he did in 2010. You know what that means? Even Obama is doing worse under President Obama.

The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

She had awakened something in him that had slumbered far too long. Not only did he feel passion, he felt the return of hope.

The same government that requires a taxpaying citizen to document every statement on his tax return decrees that questioning a welfare applicant demeans and humiliates him.

She was not able to return to the beginning, of course, and remake her life more to her liking, but now she was free to go on with the life she did have.

I'd find the fellow who lost it [million dollars], and, if he was poor, I'd return it.

When good-natured people leave us we look forward with extra pleasure to their return.

All things but one you can restore; the heart you get returns no more.

For ebbing resolution ne'er returns, But falls still further from its former shore.

Out of Eternity the new day is born; Into Eternity at night will return.

If you look at the whole life of the planet, we - you know, Man - has only been around for a few blinks of an eye. So if the infection wipes us all out, that is a return to normality.

By offering individuals ownership and control of their health care coverage, we return control to the patients; and that is exactly where it should be.

I clench his hands to the point of pain. "Stay with me." His pupils contract to pinpoints, dialate again rapidly, and then return to something resembling normalcy. "Always," he murmurs.

In the year 1857, passing through Washington on our return from the annual visit to Philadelphia, I had the distinguished honor of visiting a President for the first time.

Use your own light and return to the source of light. This is called practicing eternity.

Each morning, we return from the dream soul trying to adjust to the day world, that moment when the two souls exchange places in the driver’s seat.

We can learn not to keep situations or events alive in our minds, but to return our attention continuously to the pristine, timeless present moment rather than be caught up in mental movie making.

From joy all beings have come and unto joy they all return.

The horror of the Pit lay in the emergence from it, with the return of her will, her caring, and her feeling of the need for meaning before the return of the meaning itself".

For all long-term investors, there is only one objective-maximum total real return after taxes.

We think we should only go into a country if we can be sure of our return. Jesus never promised that.

The thing about movies these days is that the commerce end of it is so inflated and financiers are just expecting this enormous return on their investment.

There is no precedent of a civilian population, displaced by a war that their leadership started and lost, claiming a right to return to territory that they failed to conquer.

So sweetly she bade me adieu, I thought that she bade me return.