Returns Quotes

On my way here I passed a local cinema and it turns out you were expecting me after all, for the billboards read: The Mummy Returns. (Margaret Thatcher)
Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have left me. View quote
Anatole France
Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today. View quote
Herman Wouk
There is always a period when a man with a beard shaves it off. This period does not last. He returns headlong to his beard. View quote
Jean Cocteau
A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it. View quote
George Moore (novelist)
There is only one thing that arouses animals more than pleasure, and that is pain. Under torture you are as if under the dominion of those grasses that produce visions. Everything you have heard told, everything you have read returns to your mind, as if you were being transported, not toward heaven, but toward hell. Under torture you say not only what the inquisitor wants, but also what you imagine might please him, because a bond (this, truly, diabolical) is established between you and him. View quote
Umberto Eco
Talk not of wasted affection, affection never was wasted; If it enrich not the heart of another, its waters, returning Back to their springs, like the rain, shall fill them full of refreshment; That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
An early insight in my work on the economics of information concerned the problem of appropriability - the difficulty that those who pay for information have in getting returns. View quote
Joseph Stiglitz
Love, like reputation, once fled, never returns more. View quote
Aphra Behn
The undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveler returns. View quote
William Shakespeare
There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesome returns of conjectures out of such trifling investment of fact. (Mark Twain)
Winter is come and gone,But grief returns with the revolving year. View quote
Percy Bysshe Shelley
When a father, absent during the day, returns home at six, his children receive only his temperament, not his teaching. View quote
Robert Bly
Economists actually disagree about whether there are significant economic returns from attending an elite college versus a less-selective one. View quote
Emily Oster
Now, one thing I tell everyone is learn about real estate. Repeat after me: real estate provides the highest returns, the greatest values and the least risk. View quote
Armstrong Williams
Instead, California is one of only 10 states that provides in-state college and university tuition to illegal immigrants. That's grossly unfair to a legal high school student who moves out of California for a year, then returns to attend college. View quote
Elton Gallegly
Experience has taught me how important it is to just keep going, focusing on running fast and relaxed. Eventually it passes and the flow returns. It's part of racing. View quote
Frank Shorter
I believe in Karma. If the good is sown, the good is collected. When positive things are made, that returns well. View quote
Yannick Noah
Now a movie with 30 million returns would be something very incredible and the producer can only get 10 to 15 million. This is only 100 thousands US dollars. This is not enough! View quote
Zhang Yimou
The Devil is not the Prince of Matter; the Devil is the arrogance of the spirit, faith without smile, truth that is never seized by doubt. The Devil is grim because he knows where he is going, and, in moving, he always returns whence he came. View quote
Umberto Eco
That which had grown from the earth, to the earth, But that which has sprung from heavenly seed, Back to the heavenly realms returns. This is either a dissolution of the mutual involution of the atoms, or a similar dispersion of the unsentient elements. (Marcus Aurelius)
The minute we leave south Lebanon we will have to erase the word Hezbollah from our vocabulary, because the whole idea of the State of Israel versus Hezbollah was sheer folly from the outset. It most certainly no longer will be relevant when Israel returns to her internationally recognized northern border. View quote
Amos Oz
Let him make this challenge: "I'll release my tax returns when Barack Obama releases his college transcripts and the copy of his admission records to show whether he got any loans as a foreign student. When he releases that, talk to me about my tax returns." View quote
Mike Huckabee
I fully realize that every promise I make, the Republicans will double and the Democrats will redouble. They think this will make me vulnerable, but they don't know I have some tricks up my sleeve, along with a box of raisins to munch on while I'm waiting for the returns to come in. View quote
Gracie Allen
Childhood lasts all through life. It returns to animate broad sections of adult life.... Poets will help us to find this living childhood within us, this permanent, durable immobile world. View quote
Gaston Bachelard