The Return Quotes

When you feel anger arising, remember to return to your breathing and follow it. The other person may see that you are practicing, and she may even apologize.

Sometimes I forget that the world is not on the same schedule as I. That everything is not dying, or that if it is dying it will return to life, what with a little sun and the usual encouragement.

In the wake of Animal House, all of us at the Lampoon had a lot of Hollywood opportunities. We could definitely get people to return phone calls.

We have invented a new human right here - the right to return home after a war.

Toyland, toyland . . . once you pass its portals you may never return again.

When investing, I'm not against risk. If you take no risk you must expect a low return. Just don't let anyone fool you into thinking you can get a high return with low risk.

The rate of return on Social Security for people nearing retirement is about 1.5 percent. By the time young children like mine are ready to retire, that rate of return will be a negative percentage.

We want manufacturing to return to America. We want jobs. Economic growth.

Love is, to be loved,” said Alexander, “in return.

Perhaps they needn't even believe - it was enough that they needed angels, and the angels would return gladly.

The desert takes our dreams away from us, and they don't always return.

Here is an old tradition badly in need of return: You have to earn your way into politics. You should go have a life, build a string of accomplishments, then enter public service.

Depression is an illness that robs one of the meaning of life. Heal the illness. As the depression heals, enthusiasm, well-being, and a sense of life's purpose will return.

When he'd sworn at her and been sworn at in return, they became great friends.

I ask God most often that we would be an unbroken line of Christians until Christ shall return.

I reiterate that the rigor and credibility brought to the world by Monti's government are for us a point of no return.

If you say hard things you must expect to hear them in return.

God’s love is free. He asks for nothing in return; all he wants is for his love to be accepted.

We learn many virtues in our Christian families. Above all, we learn to love, asking nothing in return.

The Pope appeals for disinterested solidarity and for a return to person-centred ethics in the world of finance and economics.

Modesty once lost, never returns into favour.

Good counsel rejected returns to enrich the givers bosom.

It was considered very bad form to wish authors on their birthdays 'many happy returns.

Well, just as the Supreme Court follows the election returns, you can bet that the bureaucracy does as well.

Do you need anything before I go? I want you to return my wits, I long to say.

To the birds you gave songs, the birds gave you songs in return. You gave me only a voice, yet asked for more, thus I sing.

The more aware a man is of a woman's body, the better. He needs to know he has to tend to a woman. She might not always return the favor, but a man always has to tend to a woman first.

I believe that we live in a "return to sender universe" - what you send out is exactly what you will get back.

Let sannyas be the turning point. That's what sannyas is all about: a return journey. One starts moving inwards rather than moving outwards.

At its highest, love is a religious state of consciousness. I love you too, Buddha loves, Jesus loves, but their love demands nothing in return.

There is a tension in relationships between wanting to return to the womb, but also wanting to be free. Because sometimes the woman's attentions can be overly maternal, and you want to go, 'Ahhhh!'

The currency of this world will be worthless at our death or at Christ's return, both of which are imminent.

My best investment is my imagination because it has never failed to bring me my greatest return.

Friendship, harmony, and leadership - pushin' people, just givin' people that push, like I would expect them to do for me, they'd do the same for me in return.

We travel with the same clan over and over again, from one life to the next, until some ultimate purpose is fulfilled and we no longer need to return.

There's a duty and an obligation to community that we must teach our children to honor no matter how far they go. Life is like baseball: You only score when you leave home and return home.

Try to maintain the perspective that, in time, everything disintegrates and returns to its initial form.

The English were relatively short in the mid-nineteenth century and so their expeditions return with stories some exaggerated, not doubt about "giants" who lived in other parts of the world.

I wanted to bring Lissa back, and I wanted to return to Adrian's arms again, return to his lips and all this life... "Hathaway! Good God, do I have to hose you down?

It is time to let America be America again. To return freedom to the people. To stand on our founding principles and reject the cynical politics of the Nanny State.

I get a lot of return business. I think it's all those years I put in traveling around the country; people saw me before and had a good time so they want to see me again.

There are moments when we have to return to our roots.

I've never looked at a tax return without immediately losing consciousness.

Of joys departed, not to return, how painful the remembrance

Whatever is cheap became cheap by treating us badly in the past, but is priced to deliver superior returns.

Unless I'm wrong I but obey The urge of a song: I'm-bound-away! And I may return If dissatisfied With what I learn From having died.

About this business of being a gentleman: I paid so heavily for the fourteen years of my gentleman's education that I feel entitled, now and then, to get some sort of return.

Economic research demonstrates that tax dollars spent in early childhood development provide extraordinary return on investment-16% for high quality programs

The cheaper the stock, the better the outlook for future returns.

I don't think you can ever return, really.