The Return Quotes

What matters in the new economy is not return on investment, but return on imagination

Strategy is, above all else, the search for above average returns.

The vainest woman is never thoroughly conscious of her beauty till she is loved by the man who sets her own passion vibrating in return.

I want a return to the divorce system based on the fault of one spouse.

Leaving [from EU] will allow us to return real democratic control to important areas of national life; from international trade, the right to work and live in Britain to business regulation.

I love the return of sweetness and lace. Ladylike dressing is back and it's beautiful.

My life would be in danger if I return to Mexico.

And it came to me, and I knew what I had to have before my soul would rest. I wanted to belong - to belong to my mother. And in return - I wanted my mother to belong to me.

He entered the territory of lies without a passport for return.

We will always return to the private and inviolable act of reading as our culture's way of developing an individual.

But - drive out prejudice with a pitch-fork it will ever return.

The first attempt at a response: there must have been a fall, a decline, and the road to salvation can only be the return of the sensible finite into the intelligible infinite.

I am thankful that in a troubled world no calamity can prevent the return of spring.

[The Return of the Prodigal book] came out of my emotional and spiritual journey during the four months I was gone from Daybreak because of depression.

In my walks, I would fain return to my senses. What business have I in the woods if I am thinking of something out of the woods?

We should go forth on the shortest walk, perchance in the spirit of undying adventure, never to return - sending back our embalmed hearts only as relics to our desolate kingdoms.

The greatest grace of a gift, perhaps, is that it anticipates and admits of no return.

Often, even after years, mental states once present in consciousness return to it with apparent spontaneity and without any act of the will; that is, they are reproduced involuntarily.

Teachings that do not speak of pain have no meaning...because humankind cannot gain anything without first giving something in return.

Our fruitless labours mourn, And only rich in barren fame return.

The words can not return.

The return of democracy in our land has indeed thrown the problems of development into bolder relief.

Eventually companion animals would be phased out, and we would return to a more symbiotic relationship - enjoyment at a distance.

Venice seemed incredibly lovely, elvishly lovely--to me like a dream of Old Gondor, or Pelargir of the Numenorean Ships, before the return of the Shadow.

The way is shut. It was made by those who are Dead, and the Dead keep it, until the time comes. The way is shut.

One is responsible to life: It is the small beacon in that terrifying darkness from which we come and to which we shall return.

There are places from which you cannot return. There is damage that can be irreparable.

Incredulity robs us of many pleasures, and gives us nothing in return.

It's striking that Native Americans evolved no devastating epidemic diseases to give to Europeans, in return for the many devastating epidemic diseases that Indians received from the Old World.

But every one has a besetting sin to which he returns.

I was motivating him every time. When it was break point I was telling him 'hit a good return because you know you are gonna get many more kisses' [on Jamie Murray

My motivation to keep hiking was rooted in the magnificent details of the Appalachian Mountains, and the more I poured myself out - the more energy I gave the trail - the more it gave me in return.

One always returns to the fact that there are just too many of us, the population continues to rise and it's unsustainable.

I am certain that I have been here as I am now a thousand times before, and I hope to return a thousand times.

If you fall seventy times a day, rise seventy times and return to God so that you will not fall too often.

There swift return Diurnal, merely to officiate light Round this opacous earth, this punctual spot.

Happiness pursued eludes, happiness given returns.

Well, your greatest joy definitely comes from doing something for another, especially when it was done with no thought of something in return.

Punishing abuse in Iraq should not return the U.S. to Sept. 10, 2001, in the way it fights al Qaeda, while Osama bin Laden and his top lieutenants remain at large and continue to plan attacks.

I also want to return to doing stand-up. I've become frightened of live audiences. This is a really telling sign that I need to go back on the comedy circuit again.

I have been blessed in my life and want to return my gratitude unto my Lord.

Scandal is great entertainment because it allows people to feel contempt, a moral emotion that gives feeling of moral superiority while asking nothing in return.

Have confidence. Return. Invoke our Lady and you'll be faithful.

The schoolboy counts the time till the return of the holidays; the minor longs to be of age; the lover is impatient till he is married.

The individual produces an object and, by consuming it, returns to himself, but returns as a productive and self reproducing individual. Consumption thus appears as a moment of production.

All equity categories, correctly calculated, create near-identical lifelong returns. They just get there via wildly differing paths.

Heavenly Father's commandments are the road map He has given us to return to Him, which is the only way we will be eternally happy.

Through return to simple living comes control of desires. In control of desires stillness is attained. In stillness the world is restored.

Our passion and principals are constantly in a frenzy, but begin to shift and waver, as we return to reason.

Investment in girls' education may well be the highest-return investment available in the developing world.