The Return Quotes

I came out of Bataan and I shall return!

Then the dust will return to the earth as it was, and the spirit will return to God who gave it.

I've had songs written during the Falklands war, and during the first Gulf war I got letters from soldiers saying they were listening to these songs, like Island of no return.

Misuse of reason might yet return the world to pre-technological night; plenty of religious zealots hunger for just such a result, and are happy to use the latest technology to effect it.

What came from the earth returns back to the earth, and the spirit that was sent from heaven, again carried back, is received into the temple of heaven.

What mankind needs today is liberation from the rule of nonsensical slogans and a return to sound reasoning.

Loss generally occurs when a player overrates his advantage or for other reasons seeks to derive from a minute advantage a great return such as a forced win.

I shall go on some last wilderness trip, to a place I have known and loved. I shall not return.

So many things I had thought forgotten Return to my mind with stranger pain: Like letters that arrive addressed to someone Who left the house so many years ago.

It distresses us to return work which is not perfect.

The brain and the eye may have a contractual relationship in which the brain has agreed to believe what the eye sees, but in return the eye has agreed to look for what the brain wants.

Love is a boomerang that returns to the thrower's hand.

Pardon the deserter; he is weak and will return to the lesson later on.

In reading our newspapers today, we can see how God is setting the table, getting everything in order, preparing the way for Christ to return.

Let those only return to their homes who are called by the imperative duties which they owe to their families, and those who by their glorious wounds have deserved the credit of their country.

Today is the most wonderful day of your life. This moment represents eternity. It is the moment when you return to love by deciding to live in communion with our Creator.

Show charity and goodwill to others and it will return to enhance your own life in many wonderful ways.

The more you do for others without expectation of return, the more you'll get back from the most unexpected sources.

Love the people that wanna see you be successful and help you expecting nothing in return. That’s priceless. Those are real friends.

All I ever want is to return to either Bangladesh, my motherland, or India, my adopted home.

Stop talking, stop thinking, and there is nothing you will not understand. Return to the root and you will find Meaning.

There is in the Sacred Heart the symbol and express image of the infinite love of Jesus Christ which moves us to love in return.

There is no going back in life. There is no return. No second chance.

Some investments do have higher expected returns than others. Which ones? Well, by and large they're the ones that will do the worst in bad times.

I'm weird. I still believe that when you do good deeds, you get something back in return. That's why I really enjoy helping other guys succeed.

The coming to consciousness is not a discovery of some new thing; it is a long and painful return to that which has always been.

Glory belongs to the act of being constant to something greater than yourself, to a cause, to your principles, to the people on whom you rely and who rely on you in return.

We come from the earth, we return to the earth, and in between we garden.

My work on human capital began with an effort to calculate both private and social rates of return to men, women, blacks, and other groups from investments in different levels of education.

What joy have I in June's return? My feet are parched-my eyeballs burn, I scent no flowery gust; But faint the flagging zephyr springs, With dry Macadam on its wings, And turns me 'dust to dust.'

I explain the law of compensation like this: ‘Returns are minimal in spite of massive effort at the start, yet returns can be massive with minimal effort over time’.

An adventurer can always return home; an exile cannot. So I decided that my home would be culture.

All great actions return to God, from whom they are derived.

...he who goes down to the grave does not return.

The man who while he gives thinks of what he will get in return, deserves to be deceived.

Criticisms are like homing pigeons. They always return home.

Market leadership can translate directly to higher revenue, higher profitability, greater capital velocity and correspondingly stronger returns on invested capital.

Ask anyone committed to Marxist analysis how many angels on the head of a pin, and you will be asked in return to never mind the angels, tell me who controls the production of pins.

All I know is that I carried you for nine months. I fed you, I clothed you, I paid for your college education. Friending me on Facebook seems like a small thing to ask in return.

The army will hear nothing of politics from me and in return I expect to hear nothing of politics from the army.

I never saw so sweet a face. As that I stood before. My heart has left it dwelling place ... and can return no more.

Cursed be the ground for our sake. Both thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for us. For out of the ground we were taken, for the dust we are and to the dust we shall return.

A boomerang returns back to the person who throws it. But first, while moving in a circle, it hits its target. So does gossip.

Always return your weapon along the same path it traveled out on. In this way you can use it again without having to relocate and rethink our attitude.

For all at last return to the sea- to Oceanus, the ocean river, like the ever-flowing stream of time, the beginning and the end.

Those who have not become enlightened will have to return to another, denser planet that is still involved with negativity, to work out their remaining karma.

Economy is a savings-bank, into which men drop pennies, and get dollars in return.

One person can take papers, photograph them without getting excited, return them, and give them away without any scruples; while someone else has to overcome an enormous obstacle.

One who has learned to love all people will find plenty of people who will return that love.

If you've never been rocked back by the presence of purpose this poem is too soon for you. Return to your mediocrity, plug it into an amplifier and rethink yourself.