Whether you do or think you do, it’s the same thing. You spend what you haven’t got, and in return you get greater value from spending what you haven’t got than I get from spending what I have got, and what I have sweated to get.

What did a few ripples in the flesh matter when, all too soon, now or later, that flesh would be making its return journey to dust?

He really started out unbelievably to lead 4-1, but I knew that my shots were going too short and that I had to start hitting deeper. From then on I think I returned well, had some good passing shots.

The morrow of this day will be eternity; then Jesus will return you a hundred fold the lovely, rightful joys that you are sacrificing for him

Beauty has been stolen from the people and is being sold back to them as luxury.

Throw me to the wolves and I will return leading the pack

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

The big problem in the long process of dumbing down the schools is that you can reach a point of no return. How are parents who never received a decent education themselves to recognize that their children are not getting a decent education?

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

To return to the city of one’s birth always felt like retreat.

As surely as Water will wet us, as surely as Fire will burn, The Gods of the Copybook Headings with terror and slaughter return!

Whoever has experienced the power and the unrestrained ability to humiliate another human being automatically loses his own sensations. Tyranny is a habit, it has its own organic life, it develops finally into a disease. The habit can kill and coarsen the very best man or woman to the level of a beast. Blood and power intoxicate … the return of the human dignity, repentance and regeneration becomes almost impossible.

Beyond a certain point there is no return. This point has to be reached.

This very second has vanished forever, lost in the anonymous mass of the irrevocable. It will never return. I suffer from this and I do not. Everything is unique – and insignificant.

Time travel used to be thought of as just science fiction, but Einstein’s general theory of relativity allows for the possibility that we could warp space-time so much that you could go off in a rocket and return before you set out.

Every minute you spend in planning saves 10 minutes in execution; this gives you a 1,000 percent Return on Energy!

Tuesday will be a tough night for me. It’s like to return to the family who have not seen you for a long time. I spent a wonderful time there.

Go, and never darken my towels again.

Whatever be the means adopted, you must at last return to the Self, so why not abide as the Self here and now?

To the dumb question, ‘Why me?’ the cosmos barely bothers to return the reply, ‘Why not?’

I have set foot in that region of life where it is not possible to go with any more intention of returning.

While we may have more still to endure, better days will return: we will be with our friends again; we will be with our families again; we will meet again.

Nobody plays this life with marked cards, so sometimes we win and sometimes we lose. Do not expect anything in return, do not expect your efforts to be appreciated, your genius to be discovered, your love to be understood.

Listen to your heart. It knows all things, because it came from the Soul of the World and it will one day return there.

Retreat Hell! We’re just attacking in another direction.

Then tell Wind and Fire where to stop,” returned madame; “but don’t tell me.

You can take away a man’s gods, but only to give him others in return

Whenever we give up, leave behind, and forget too much, there is always the danger that the things we have neglected will return with added force.

We draw our Presidents from the people. It is a wholesome thing for them to return to the people. I came from them. I wish to be one of them again

I’m one of the most adaptable guys I know in as much as travelling is my favourite thing to do in life. With every place I go, I try to stay there long enough to do it justice, long enough so that I can at least imagine what it would be like to live there. Once I imagine that, then it’s OK for me to return home.

An ancient memory of this love haunts all of us all the time, and beckons us to return.

They say love is the best investment; the more you give, the more you get in return

Gods are great but the heart is greater. For it is from our hearts they come, and to our hearts they shall return.

Originality is a return to the origin.

Originality consists in the return to the origin; thus, original is that which returns to the simplicity of the first solutions

For the best return on your money, pour your purse into your head.

No man is limited in the quality, the quantity or the nature of the riches he may acquire, provided he is willing to give adequate value in return.

I always believed that I’d return to Cleveland and finish my career there.

If there was an opportunity for me to return, and those fans welcome me back, that would be a great story.

When we love a thing similar to ourselves, we endeavor, as far as we can, to bring about that it should love us in return.

A SWALLOW, returning from abroad and especially fond of dwelling with men, built herself a nest in the wall of a Court of Justice and there hatched seven young birds. A Serpent gliding past the nest from its hole in the wall ate up the young unfledged nestlings. The Swallow, finding her nest empty, lamented greatly and exclaimed: “Woe to me a stranger! that in this place where all others’ rights are protected, I alone should suffer wrong

The Greek word for return is nostos. Algos means suffering. So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return.