Best Return Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 5

Source: Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion

“The return to solid values is always hard... Distress, panic, and hard times have marked our pathway in returning to solid values.”

Hard Values Return Hard Times Panic Distress Pathways

Author:James A. Garfield

“I am not surprised that there are gambling houses, like so many snares laid for human avarice; like abysses where many a man's money is engulfed and swallowed up without any hope of return; like frightful rocks against which the gamblers are thrown and perish.”

Men Humans House Rocks Return Thrown Gambling Abyss Avarice Snares

Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“My aging body transmits an ageless life stream. Molecular and atomic replacement change life's composition. Molecules take part in structure and in training, countless trillions of them. After my death, the molecules of my being will return to the earth and sky. They came from the stars. I am of the stars.”

Body Earth Stars Sky Return Training Structure Aging Life Changing Streams Composition Molecules Transmit Replacements Earth And Sky Ageless

Book:Autobiography of values

Source: Autobiography of values

“It is the magician's bargain: give up our soul, get power in return. But once our souls, that is, ourselves, have been given up, the power thus conferred will not belong to us. We shall in fact be the slaves and puppets of that to which we have given our souls.”

Giving Has Beens Soul Facts Given Return Giving Up Slave Magician Given Up Bargains Puppets

Author:C. S. Lewis

“Many a man may thank his talent for his rank, but no man has ever been able to return the compliment by thanking his rank for his talent.”

Men May Able Talent Return Compliment

Book:Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

“No grant of feudal privilege has ever equaled, for effortless return, that of the grandparent who bought and endowed his descendants with a thousand shares of General Motors or General Electric.”

Share Return Thousand Privilege Grants Electric Grandparent Motor Descendants Effortless General Motors General Electric

Book:the new industrial state

Source: the new industrial state

“A gentleman is one who understands and shows every mark of deference to the claims of self-love in others, and exacts it in return from them.”

Self Shows Return Self Love Claims Mark Gentleman Deference

Book:Table Talk: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things

Source: Table Talk: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things

“Thou spring'st a leak already in thy crown, A flaw is in thy ill-bak'd vessel found; 'Tis hollow, and returns a jarring sound, Yet thy moist clay is pliant to command, Unwrought, and easy to the potter's hand: Now take the mould; now bend thy mind to feel The first sharp motions of the forming wheel.”

Feels Mind Firsts Hands Found Easy Sound Return Spring Ill Command Wheels Flaws Crowns Clay Vessel Hollow Potters Leaks Mould Pottery

Book:Poetical Works: With a Memoir

Source: Poetical Works: With a Memoir

“When you want to do your homework, fill out your tax return, or see all the choices for a trip you want to take, you need a full-size screen.”

Want Needs Reality Choices Technology Journey Return Taxes Size Screens Homework Computing Tax Returns

Author:Bill Gates

“When I look over my past, I see that the stages in my life are like the phases of the moon. I've had periods where I was the waxing gibbous: fat with wealth and success. There have been other seasons when my happiness was like the waning crescent and I watched my joy fade away slowly, merging with the atmosphere around me as if it never existed. Then I felt as if I was left with nothing more than an illusion, but happiness returns in time and glows once more in corpulent fullness. It's time that makes the difference.”

“The individual produces an object and, by consuming it, returns to himself, but returns as a productive and self reproducing individual. Consumption thus appears as a moment of production.”

Self Moments Individual Objects Produce Return Productions Productive Consumption Consuming Reproducing

Book:Grundrisse: Foundations of the critique of political economy

Source: Grundrisse: Foundations of the critique of political economy

“Not the poem which we have read , but that to which we return , with the greatest pleasure, possesses the genuine power, and claims the name of essential poetry .”

Names Pleasure Return Essentials Claims Genuine Greatest Pleasures

Book:The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Poetry, Plays, Literary Essays, Lectures, Autobiography and Letters (Classic Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of the English poet, literary critic and philosopher, including The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan, Christabel, Lyrical Ballads, Conversation Poems and Biographia Literaria

Source: The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Poetry, Plays, Literary Essays, Lectures, Autobiography and Letters (Classic Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of the English poet, literary critic and philosopher, including The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan, Christabel, Lyrical Ballads, Conversation Poems and Biographia Literaria

“It is saying less than the truth to affirm that an excellent book (and the remark holds almost equally good of a Raphael as of a Milton) is like a well-chosen and well-tended fruit tree. Its fruits are not of one season only. With the due and natural intervals, we may recur to it year after year, and it will supply the same nourishment and the same gratification, if only we ourselves return to it with the same healthful appetite.”