Quotes with return

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  • Robert Blair Of joys departed, not to return, how painful the remembrance!
    The Grave 109
    Robert Blair
    Scottish poet (1699 - 1746)
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  • George Orwell One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • W. H. Auden Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Peace Pilgrim Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.
    Peace Pilgrim
    American activist, mystic and pacifist
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  • E. M. Forster Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass out into adventure and sunshine, to them, alas! we return.
    E. M. Forster
    English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist (1879 - 1970)
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  • Jalal-Uddin Rumi Return from existence to nonexistence. You are seeking the Lord and you belong to him. Nonexistence is a place of income; flee it not. This existence of more and less is a place of expenditure.
    Jalal-Uddin Rumi
    Persian poet (1207 - 1273)
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  • Billy Corgan Saturn Return is just the return of your planets to their original position.
    Billy Corgan
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1967 - )
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  • Nicolas Chamfort Scandal is an importunate wasp, against which we must make no movement unless we are quite sure that we can kill it; otherwise it will return to the attack more furious than ever.
    Nicolas Chamfort
    French writer, journalist and playwright (1741 - 1794)
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  • William Wirt Seize the moment of excited curiosity on any subject to solve your doubts; for if you let it pass, the desire may never return, and you may remain in ignorance.
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  • Barry Sanders Shortly after the end of last season, I felt that I probably would not return for the 1999-2000 season. I also felt that I should take as much time as possible to sort through my feelings and make sure that my feelings were backed with conviction.
    Barry Sanders
    American football player (1968 - )
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  • Carl Sagan Some part of our being knows this is where we came from. We long to return. And we can. Because the cosmos is also within us. We're made of star-stuff. We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.
    Cosmos: A Personal Voyage (1990) 06 min 04 sec
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Samuel Johnson Surely a long life must be somewhat tedious, since we are forced to call in so many trifling things to help rid us of our time, which will never return.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Samuel Johnson Surely life, if it be not long, is tedious, since we are forced to call in the assistance of so many trifles to rid us of our time, of that time which never can return.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Bartlett Sher That's the best thing that classic can do, is it can return to us from our own past to give us lessons about the future, and it can give us a sense of both who we were and who we could become.
    Bartlett Sher
    American theatre director (1959 - )
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  • Arthur C. Clarke The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.
    Arthur C. Clarke
    British science fiction writer, science writer and futurist (1917 - 2008)
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  • Vilayat Inayat Khan The essential part of our being can only survive if the transient part dissolves. Death is a condition of survival. That which has been gained must be eternalized, and can only be eternalized by being transmuted, by passing through death they must return
    Vilayat Inayat Khan
    Teacher of meditation and of the traditions of Sufism (1882 - 1927)
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  • Leo Buscaglia The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another s, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises.
    Leo Buscaglia
    American author and motivational speaker (1924 - 1998)
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  • Hilaire Belloc The future always comes as a surprise, but political wisdom consists in attempting at least some partial judgment of what that surprise may be. And for my part I cannot but believe that a main unexpected thing of the future is the return of Islam.
    The Great Heresies (1938) H. III
    Hilaire Belloc
    British Author (1870 - 1953)
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  • Florence Scovel Shinn The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.
    Florence Scovel Shinn
    American artist, writer
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  • Virgil The gates of Hell are open night and day; smooth the descent, and easy is the way: but, to return, and view the cheerful skies; in this, the task and mighty labor lies.
    Virgil
    Roman poet (70 - 19)
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