The Return Quotes

The book-keeping of benefits is simple: it is all expenditure; if any one returns it, that is clear gain; if he does not return it, it is not lost, I gave it for the sake of giving.

Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return.

In tough economic times, we have to make every dollar count, and studies have shown a return of up to $17 for every dollar invested in early childhood.

Some critics have challenged what the return on investment is for engagement in social media. Others have complained that the metrics don't exist to demonstrate value.

All began in love, all seeks to return in love. Love is the law, the teacher of wisdom, and the great revealer of mysteries.

The test of a true myth is that each time you return to it, new insights and interpretations arise.

In my career, I learned that giving your services for free gives you a good return on your investment, not just financially but morally. It supplements your personal integrity.

God gave you a gift and he deserves a return on his investment.

Extend an act of kindness each day. No one has to know. It can be a smile, reassuring words, a small favor - without expecting something in return.

Each individual Christian and each new age of the Church has to make this rediscovery, this return to the source of Christian life.

What does 'economic justice' mean, except that you want something that someone else produced, without having to produce anything yourself in return?

I'm lost. I'm going to find myself. If I return before I get back, please ask me to wait.

Time doesn't heal scars as most people commonly think. It simply makes them firmer, stiffer. One must accept it and not hope to mend and return to what he or she once was.

I'm not so much interested in the return ON my money as I am in the return OF my money.

The only victory love can enjoy is the day when its offer of love is answered by the return of love. The only possible final triumph is a universe loved by God and in love with God.

[death]...the abyss from where no traveler is permitted to return

I gave you my heart, but it wasn't enough.

Arrival in the world is really a departure and that, which we call departure, is only a return.

Usually, there is nothing more pleasing that returning to a place where you have endured hardship.

Love does not dwell on how much one receives in return. If there is ever any balance in love, it is in a contest of who can love who more.

Good-bye and hello, as always.

I'm no hero. Heroes don't come back. Survivors return home. Heroes never come home. If anyone thinks I'm a hero, I'm not.

He is slow, and the sea sings to us both, but he returns to me.

You have punished me long enough, you have punished yourself long enough. Return to me. I beg.

You must think I am a high-priced man.... Fifteen dollars is enough for the job. I send you a receipt for fifteen dollars, and return to you a ten-dollar bill.

There's so much rage in the world now and I'm finding poems to be the place where I want to stay. I rage and rage and then write a poem and return to breathing.

Heaven always shower His mercy on us and we return it with our cruelty

Separation can make us feel helpless and powerless, like we have no control. To withstand this negative force, we must return to our inner core, and that takes work. That takes time and patience.

Unselfish love does not exploit its object and it does not ask for anything in return.

People should remember that Mexican migration is now at a net negative. More Mexicans are leaving through deportation and voluntary return than are entering the United States legally and illegally.

The spiritual path is not one of attainment, but of return.

All history consists of successive excursions from a single starting-point, to which man returns again and again to organize yet another search for a durable scale of values.

It is only the dead who do not return.

As I said, there are two approaches-first, a strong economy, stability and helping families or, secondly, the Tory cuts, the undermining of stability, and a return to the boom and bust of the 1990s.

I call horses divine mirrors - they reflect back the emotions you put in. If you put in love and respect and kindness and curiosity, the horse will return that.

I used my captors names every chance I had. It was intentional, a way of reminding them that I saw them, of pegging them, of making them see me in return.

I wanted to remember in order to be able to return.

The true return to nature is the definitive return to the elements-death.

However well I return, opportunities will probably be few and far and I need to be ruthless.

I used to hear a lot that all I could do was hit a serve, I couldn't volley, I can't hit a backhand, I don't return well, and then people would turn round and tell me I'm underachieving.

It's pretty high up there on the list. Being able to return a serve at that speed is one of the biggest things that separates the professionals from the recreational players.

I think I have a lot of room for improvement. My serve is okay, but I need to work on a lot of things: return, transition game, backhand.

If you ever meet a guy and you fall in love with him, but because of some weird genetic mutation he doesn't seem to return the feeling?... Wear that dress.

Yes, of course, black Americans are a special group, and I'm disappointed that they're not Republicans, given our traditions. We're not getting much love in return, despite our efforts.

For twenty years I have ached to go back home, when there was nobody there to whom I could return.

The mind wants the world to return its love, or its awareness; the mind wants to know all the world, and all eternity, and God.

Show your love wherever you go, and enjoy love's blossoms whenever you return.

There's always SOMEONE in support as long as he can be assured or he himself feels confident of getting, in return, SOMETHING beneficial of any sort.

Love, like reputation, once fled, never returns more.

The press is hostile to Donald Trump, they always will be. And Donald Trump is happy to return the favor. And you know what, he actually has the upper hand in that relationship.