The Return Quotes

The person giving the advice returns the confidence placed in him with a disinterested eagerness... and he is usually guided only by his own interest or reputation.

That which occasions so many mistakes in the computations of men, when they expect return for favors, is that the giver's pride and the receiver's cannot agree upon the value of the kindness done.

Most believe that a satisfactory future requires a return to an idealized past, a past which never in fact existed.

Self-giving means that we have to understand the nature of giving. When most people give, they give expecting a return on their investment.

Some speak of a return to nature, I wonder where they could have been?

Every soul has a landscape that changes with the wind that sweeps the sky, with the clouds that return after its rain.

For decades, the public school system failed too many children, so we passed the No Child Left Behind Act and demanded schools show results in return for money.

The critics are like tourists who return from a trip saying they've "done" Machu Picchu: "Okay, we've done magical realism," so now we can throw it out.

The rice bowl is to me the most valid reason in the world for doing anything. A piece of one's soul to the multitudes in return for rice and wine does not seem to me a sacrilege.

Lord, when my spirit shall return to thee, At the foot of a friendly tree let my body be buried, That this dust may rise and rejoice among the branches.

Drive Nature from your door with a pitchfork, and she will return again and again.

Any man who would walk five miles through the snow, barefoot, just to return a library book so he could save three cents - that's my kind of guy.

When money is once parted with, it can never return.

Bandara was not an easy place to return to: it could hide from the common worlds whose periphery it inhabited. But Bandara never had, in all its years, completely disappeared.

We bestow on others praise in which we do not believe, on condition that in return they bestow upon us praise in which we do.

Pets require feeding, training, affection and exercise, but in return they offer unconditional love and companionship.

Thy return Posterity shall witness. Years must roll away, but then at length the splendid sight again shall greet our distant children's eyes.

Managers have very tough jobs. I always respected their job but demanded respect in return.

When you nurture people and add value to them without expecting anything in return, they feel significant.

If government were less important in our lives, politicians would have fewer goodies to trade. In return, we'd have more money and more freedom.

New York is of course many cities, and an exile does not return to the one he left.

There is great joy in doing something for somebody else with no thought in receiving anything in return.

Books, like men their authors, have no more than one wayofcoming intothe world, but there areten thousand to go out of it, and return no more.

I am here merely as a messenger. Tashi sends her love and returns your horse.

Only those return to Eternity Who on earth seek out Eternity.

Brandon Wegher left camp to deal with some personal things. We hope he can return in the very near future

Abandon benevolence, discard duty, and people will return to the family ties.

Everything comes from everything, and everything is made out of everything, and everything returns into everything.

Will I return to England? I don't know. I'll think it over.

Violence and injury enclose in their net all that do such things, and generally return upon him who began.

If I sit for a while, then my impatience, crossness, frustration, are indeed annihilated, and my sense of humor returns.

Return to the villages means a definite, voluntary recognition of the duty of bread labour and all its connotes.

When you have done a good deed that another has had the benefit of, why do you need a third reward-as fools do-praise for having done well or looking for a favor in return.

when love looks straight into your eyes return those looks and your heart will surrender to feelings never felt before

Nothing can doom man but the belief in doom, for this prevents the movement of return.

Return telephone calls promptly but be judicious about the time spent on the phone.

I love money, but will money ever love me in return?

A good executive is one who makes people contentedly settle for less than they meant to get, in return for more than they meant to give.

The real preparation for [Christ's] return is not to act like we know it's coming right now and do something different. It's to do what we should have been doing all along.

On their return from a trip, it is wise to see friends promptly, before they've had time to get their pictures developed.

Drive away what springs from nature; it returns at a gallop.

The evil you do to others you may expect in return.

The soil in return for her service keeps the tree tied to her, the sky asks nothing and leaves it free.

However, as our brave men and women continue to return from the battlefields of the War on Terror, Congress must respond by enacting policies that meet the evolving needs of the veterans community.

Among the many factors that make a return to halcyon days of the first decades of the postwar era virtually impossible is the decline of clearly defined political leadership.

Who could not return from a visit to Jack Vance's world, without feeling that he had been somewhere unique, that he had experienced things unavailable in our mundane world?

On average, 90 percent of the variability of returns and 100 percent of the absolute level of return is explained by asset allocation.

God gave you life and bestowed upon you his attributes; eventually you will return to him.

I can find lots of examples where a game won't make you rich, but I can't find a reasonable case where a Linux port doesn't have at least a small, positive return on investment.

Rule number something or other -- never tell anybody anything unless you're going to get something better in return.