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Author:Horace

“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.”

Feels Years Return Paid Gentleman Now And Then Entitled Fourteen

Book:Good-Bye to All That: With a Prologue and an Epilogue

Source: Good-Bye to All That: With a Prologue and an Epilogue

“When a friend is carried to his grave, we at once find excuses for every weakness, and palliation of every fault. We recollect a thousand endearments, which before glided off our minds without impression, a thousand favors unrepaid, a thousand duties unperformed; and wish, vainly wish, for his return, not so much that we may receive as that we may bestow happiness, and recompense that kindness which before we never understood.”

Mind May Death Wish Kindness Duty Return Thousand Understood Weakness Faults Excuse Favors Graves Impression Recompense Endearment

Book:The Wisdom of the Rambler, Adventurer, and Idler

Source: The Wisdom of the Rambler, Adventurer, and Idler

“I return with feelings of misgiving from my third war-I was the first American commander to put his signature to a paper ending a war when we did not win it.”

Firsts War Feelings Winning Return Paper Thirds Commanders Signatures Misgivings

Author:Bill Vaughan

“In the sweat of thy face thou shalt eat bread, Till thou return unto the ground; for thou Out of the ground wast taken; know thy birth, For dust thou art, and shalt to dust return.”

Knows Art Faces Taken Return Birth Bread Dust Sweat

Book:Paradise Lost: A Poem, in Twelve Books. The Author John Milton

Source: Paradise Lost: A Poem, in Twelve Books. The Author John Milton

“I often think about, 'How do we return to a simpler way of living? Is there some way that we can start to think of each other as human beings again, instead of worshiping money, instead of worshiping electronics, instead of worshiping getting ahead just for me?'”

Thinking Way Humans Human Beings Return Electronics

Author:Giancarlo Esposito

“The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident.”

Life Action Acting Hard Work Return Generosity Generous Evident Reap

Author:Francesco Guicciardini

“I think the first movie I ever saw was a 'Star Wars' triple bill, when 'Return of the Jedi' was released.”

Thinking Firsts War Stars Saws Return Bills

Author:Richard Coyle

“The art of compromise centers on the willingness to give up something in order to get something else in return. Successful artists get more than they give up.”

Giving Art Artist Order Successful Return Giving Up Compromise Willingness Successful Artists

Book:The Art and Science of Negotiation

Source: The Art and Science of Negotiation

“I shall not return to Constantinople until I have conquered Egypt!”

Return Egypt Constantinople

Author:Djemal Pasha

“Art is not for the personal satisfaction of one or the other, but art wants to return all what's in life... Art wants to give back everything what's in our lives. The more comprehensive the artist stands in life the more powerful his work will speak, and therefore a work of art is a measure of the mental size of his creator.”

Want Giving Art Artist Speak Powerful Our Lives Return Art Is Size Satisfaction Creator Works Of Art Giving Back Comprehensive Personal Satisfaction

Author:Bram van Velde

“In Paris there are few changes; one always finds one's niche there when one returns - no matter how long one may have been away.”

May Long Has Beens Matter Return Paris Niche

Author:Janet Scudder

“I want to know what good is a web search engine that returns 324,909,188 'matches' to my key word. That's like saying, "Good news, we've located the product you're looking for. It's on Earth.”

Knows Want Earth Products Keys Return News Engines Good News Search Engine

Author:W. Bruce Cameron

“It does not matter how other people treat you. That is their lookout. The only real thing is how you treat them. Give love out, but do not worry and expect any in return, and you will be happy and contented.”

People Giving Doe Real Matter Kindness Worry Return Expectations Treats Real Things Happy And Contented

Book:Father Struck It Rich

Source: Father Struck It Rich

“Try to think of your thoughts as boomerangs - that is actually what they are - except that our thoughts multiply and each returns to us with a brood like itself.”

Thinking Trying Return Our Thoughts Think Of You Boomerang

Author:Margery Wilson

“I always have plans to return to the stage. I leave myself very open. I think what would be more likely is if I did a limited run of something, whether it be a play or a musical.”

Ifs Thinking Play Would Be Running Plans Stage Return Musical

Author:Laura Bell Bundy

“When allowed to return to the class, your feelings of humility and lonesomeness will render you a much finer student and person.”

Persons Feelings Class Students Humility Return Lonesomeness

Author:Naomi Shihab Nye

“Those who go forth ministering to the wants and necessities of their fellow beings experience a rich return, their souls being as a watered garden, and a spring that faileth not”

Want Soul Rich Return Spring Garden Fellows

Author:Lucretia Mott

“To be on Coast to Coast, you have to be willing to stay awake in the middle of the night. But in return you get a great audience of millions of listeners all across the nation.”

Night Nations Millions Audience Middle Willing Return Awake Listeners Coast Middle Of The Night

Author:George Noory

“Sport is a seductive metaphor (life as a game in which we gain victory through hard work, discipline, and visualizing success). but the older metaphor of farming (life as hard labor that is subject to weather and quirks of blind fate and may return no reward whatsoever and don't be surprised) is still in our blood.”

May Stills Hard Games Sports History Fate Blood Subjects Hard Work Return Victory Discipline Gains Labor Blind Rewards Metaphor Weather Farming Seductive Quirks Visualizing

Author:Garrison Keillor

“Every sea-captain who sailed to the West Indies was expected to bring home a turtle on the return voyage for a feast to his expectant friends.”

Home Sea Return West Expected Captains Voyages Turtles West Indies

Book:Stage-coach and Tavern Days

Source: Stage-coach and Tavern Days

“But the human character, however it may be exalted or depressed by a temporary enthusiasm, will return by degrees to its proper and natural level, and will resume those passions that seem the most adapted to its present condition.”

Humans May Character Seems Passion Natural Levels History Conditions Return Degrees Enthusiasm Temporary Exalted Adapted Roman Empire Resumes

Book:Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Source: Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

“Sixty thousand blacks are annually embarked from the coast of Guinea, never to return to their native country; but they are embarked in chains: and this constant emigration, which, in the space of two centuries, might have furnished armies to overrun the globe, accuses the guilt of Europe and the weakness of Africa.”

Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

“All men, or most men, wish what is noble but choose what is profitable; and while it is noble to render a service not with an eye to receiving one in return, it is profitable to receive one. One ought therefore, if one can, to return the equivalent of services received, and to do so willingly; for one ought not to make a man one's friend if one is unwilling to return his favors.”

Ifs Men Eye Wish Human Nature Return Ought Noble Favors Receiving Profitable Unwilling

Author:Aristotle

“Have confidence. Return. Invoke our Lady and you'll be faithful.”

Religious Return Faithful Have Confidence Being Faithful Invoke Virgin Mary

Author:Josemaria Escriva

“Finally, in our progress toward a resumption of work we require two safeguards against a return of the evils of the old order: there must be a strict supervision of all banking and credits and investments; there must be an end to speculation with other people's money, and there must be provision for an adequate but sound currency.”

People Two Ends Order Evil Sound Progress Return Investment Investing Credit Currency Strict Banking Speculation Adequate Provision Supervision Resumption

Author:Franklin D. Roosevelt

“The main insight learned from interdisciplinary studies is the return to specialization”

Study Return Insight Economist Specialization Interdisciplinary

Author:George Stigler

“Every person - whether Greek or Barbarian - who is in training for wisdom, leading a blameless, irreproachable life, chooses neither to commit injustice nor return it unto others, but to avoid the company of busybodies, and hold in contempt the places where they spend their time - courts, councils, marketplaces, assemblies - in short, every kind of meeting or reunion of thoughtless people. ... People such as these, who find their joy in virtue, celebrate a festival their whole life long.”

“Every Day Is for the Thief is a vivid, episodic evocation of the truism that you can't go home again; but that doesn't mean you're not free to try. A return to his native Nigeria plunges Cole's charming narrator into a tempest of chaos, contradiction, and kinship in a place both endearingly familiar and unnervingly strange. The result is a tale that engages and disturbs.”

Trying Mean Home Results Strange Return Chaos Tales Familiar Native Contradiction Thieves Charming Vivid Nigeria Plunge Tempest Kinship Narrators Truism

Author:Billy Collins

“What but education has advanced us beyond the condition of our indigenous neighbors? And what chains them to their present state of barbarism and wretchedness but a bigoted veneration for the supposed superlative wisdom of their fathers and the preposterous idea that they are to look backward for better things and not forward, longing, as it should seem, to return to the days of eating acorns and roots rather than indulge in the degeneracies of civilization?”

Source: Thomas Jefferson, revolutionary philosopher: a selection of writings

“No one wants to pursue anything creative anymore, because that's too risky. They may not get the kind of return on the financial investment they've made in their education that they think they should.”

Thinking Want Should Kind May Made Creative Return Investment Financial Pursue Financial Investment

Author:Meg Cabot

“Study me, reader, if you delight in me, because on very few occasions shall I return to the world, and because the patience for this profession is found in very few, and only in those who wish to compose things anew. Come, oh men, to see the miracles that such studies will disclose to nature.”

Ifs Men World Found Wish Study Return Reader Miracle Delight Profession Occasions

Author:Leonardo da Vinci

“When a copier sales person cold calls a purchasing manager whom he has never met is it any surprise that the purchasing manager will most likely never return that call?”

Persons Cold Return Mets Surprise Managers Purchasing Sales Person Copiers

Author:Josh Turner

“I accept all interpretations of my films. The only reality is before the camera. Each film I make is kind of a return to poetry for me, or at least an attempt to create a poem.”

Kind Reality Film Accepting Return Cameras Interpretation

Author:Bernardo Bertolucci

“Because it is gone you cannot say it will not return; even though you may say it has never yet returned-you cannot say that it will not. It is blasphemy to say a bit of metal has destroyed life, just as it is presumptuous to say that because life has disappeared it has been destroyed. I stood among the heaps of the dead and I knew-no, I felt that death is only a sound we make to signify the Thing we do not know.”

Knows May Has Beens Felt Bits Sound Gone Return Destroyed Metals Blasphemy Presumptuous

Book:Helmet For My Pillow [Illustrated Edition]

Source: Helmet For My Pillow [Illustrated Edition]

“When new hopes fail, old hopes return in the endless cycle of desperation.”

Failing Return Endless Cycles Desperation New Hope

Book:Frankenstein: Prodigal Son: A Novel

Source: Frankenstein: Prodigal Son: A Novel

“In bullfighting there is a term called querencia. The querencia is the spot in the ring to which the bull returns. Each bull has a different querencia, but as the bullfight continues, and the animal becomes more threatened, it returns more and more often to his spot.As he returns to his querencia, he becomes more predictable. And so, in the end, the matador is able to kill the bull because in.”

Different Ends Able Term Animal Return Rings Spots Threatened Bulls Predictable Bullfighting Matadors

Author:Carly Fiorina

“Looking up at the stars, I know quite well That, for all they care, I can go to hell, But on earth indifference is the least We have to dread from man or beast. How should we like it were stars to burn With a passion for us we could not return? If equal affection cannot be, Let the more loving one be me. Admirer as I think I am Of stars that do not give a damn, I cannot, now I see them, say I missed one terribly all day. Were all stars to disappear or die, I should learn to look at an empty sky And feel its total dark sublime, Though this might take me a little time.”

“I did not want to move. For I had the feeling that this was a place, once seen, that could not be seen again. If I left and then came back, it would not be the same; no matter how many times I might return to this particular spot the place and feeling would never be the same, something would be lost or something would be added, and there never would exist again, through all eternity, all the integrated factors that made it what it was in this magic moment.”

Ifs Want Made Matter Moments Feelings Might Would Be Moving Lost Left Magic Particular Return Eternity Factors Spots Made It Integrated Magic Moments

Book:Cemetery World

Source: Cemetery World

“In the spiritual lore of India there is a story that the Lord whispered only one word in our ears when he sent us into the world: 'Give.' Give freely of your time, your talent, your resources; give without asking for anything in return. This is the secret of living in joy and security.”

World Giving Stories Spiritual Joy Secret Lord Talent Security Return Resources Ears India Asking One Word

Book:Like a Thousand Suns: The Bhagavad Gita for Daily Living, Volume II

Source: Like a Thousand Suns: The Bhagavad Gita for Daily Living, Volume II

“I do not live to play, but I play in order that I may live, and return with greater zest to the labors of life.”

May Play Order Greater Return Labor Zest

Author:Plato

“I will tell you, in the case of education, you have to make the investment if youre going to get the return. Theres no doubt about that. Its a proven fact the return is there if you make the investment. It really is about priorities.”

Ifs Facts Cases Doubt Return Investment Priorities No Doubt Proven

Author:Jon Tester

“On my knees, I beg of you to turn away from the paths of violence and to return to the path of peace. Those who resort to violence always claim that only violence brings about change. You must know there is a political, peaceful way to justice.”

Knows Way Political Turns Justice Path Violence Return Claims Peaceful Knees Resorts

Author:Pope John Paul II

“Perhaps Harvard's greatest contribution to our nation is its requirement that its on-leave professors who want to keep their crimson seats must return from Washington after 24 months.”

Want Nations Education Months Return Contribution Seats Professors Requirements Harvard Crimson

Author:Malcolm Forbes

“It's heartening to return to live music, heartening for people like me in a band. It's a very traditional thing to return to. It re-validates the original form that we fell in love with.”

People Form Return Band Originals Like Me Traditional Live Music

Author:Mick Jagger

“We need to return and go forward to the understanding that there is God in all living things, not more in men than women, and not more in humans than in nature. To believe otherwise is only an excuse for dominating women and nature.”

Men Needs Believe Humans Understanding Return Excuse Living Things Dominating

Author:Gloria Steinem

“A smart policy should be one that tends to receive the capitals, pays the price for that capital - which is the interest - returns the capital and in the end the factories, the industries, are left to remain in the country.”

Should Ends Country Left Interest Pay Policy Industry Return Smart Factories Pay The Price

Author:Fidel Castro

“Give a man an inch he will try to give you six in return.”

Men Giving Trying Return Six Inches

Author:Teresa Mummert

“There have been many stones on my path, which frequently made me trip and give up, however I keep telling myself this is only momentary, I will get back up. Since it's our responsibility to return back the love that we have received from so many. That is why no matter how difficult or tough it becomes I cannot let go. And that is why no matter how difficult it becomes we are able to gain strength.”

Giving Has Beens Made Matter Able Difficult Responsibility Path Return Letting Go Giving Up Tough Gains Stones Get Back Momentary Return Back

Author:Kwon Yuri

“You have my word. If you return with me, you won't be harmed. I'd die first.”

Ifs Firsts Dies Return

Author:Sophie Jordan

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