Best return & lasts Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Man works primarily for his own self-respect and not for others or for profit. . . the person who is working for the sake of his own satisfaction, the money he gets in return serves merely as fuel, that is, as a symbol of reward and recognition, in the last analysis, of acceptance by ones fellowmen.”

Men Persons Self Lasts Acceptance Return Rewards Sake Profit Satisfaction Symbols Recognition Analysis Fuel Self Respect Rewards And Recognition

Book:Beyond Psychology

Source: Beyond Psychology

“For all at last return to the sea- to Oceanus, the ocean river, like the ever-flowing stream of time, the beginning and the end.”

Ends Lasts Nature Sea Return Ocean Rivers Streams

Book:The Sea Around Us

Source: The Sea Around Us

“In its mysterious past it encompasses all the dim origins of life and receives in the end, after, it may be, many transmutations, the dead husks of that same life. For all at last return to the sea - to Oceanus, the ocean river, like the ever-flowing stream of time, the beginning and the end.”

May Ends Lasts Past Sea Return Ocean Rivers Mysterious Streams Origin Of Life Transmutation

Book:The Sea Around Us

Source: The Sea Around Us

“Unnur Birna is a Reykjavik-based violinist and singer. She has performed as a session musician with countless Icelandic and international artists while recording and appearing as a solo artist as well. Unnur has joined me as an unpaid guest on a few Icelandic shows in recent years, so it is a great pleasure to return the favour and appear on one of her songs at last. This new track, Sunshine, came about in Italy, written as an ode to sunlight and happiness after fleeing the dark winter in Iceland”

“Those who return evil for good should not expect the kindness of others to last long.”

Should Long Lasts Evil Kindness Return

Book:Aesop's fables

Source: Aesop's fables

“In a man like Friedrich von Schlegel the courage to be as an individual self produced complete neglect of participation, but it also produced, in reaction to the emptiness of this self-affirmation, the desire to return to a collective. Schlegel, and with him many extreme individualists in the last hundred years, became Roman Catholics. The courage to be as oneself broke down, and one turned to an institutional embodiment of the courage to be as a part.”

“More than anything I want to be able to go back to Cuba, to have a house to visit there, to know my roots. Then, at last, I could sing for my people.”

People Lasts Dies Return Castro Havana

Author:Gloria Estefan

“My sculpture can last for days or a few seconds - what is important to me is the experience of making. I leave all my work outside and often return to watch it decay.”

Important Lasts Watches Return Work Out Seconds Decay Sculpture

Book:Rain, sun, snow, hail, mist, calm

Source: Rain, sun, snow, hail, mist, calm

“The immaterial blue colour shown at Iris Clert's in April had in short made me inhuman, had excluded me from the world of tangible reality; I was an extreme element of society who lived in space and who had no means of coming back to earth. Jean Tinguely saw me in space and signaled to me in speed to show me the last machine to take to return to the ephemerality of material life.”

World Mean Made Shows Reality Earth Lasts Space Saws Materials Return Elements Machines Blue Extremes Speed Colour Show Me Coming Back April Tangible Excluded Inhuman Irises

Author:Yves Klein

“We cannot escape our destiny, nor should we try to do so. The leadership of the free world was thrust upon us two centuries ago in that little hall of Philadelphia. In the days following World War II, when the economic strength and power of America was all that stood between the world and the return to the dark ages, Pope Pius XII said, 'The American people have a great genius for splendid and unselfish actions. Into the hands of America God has placed the destinies of an afflicted mankind.' We are indeed, and we are today, the last best hope of man on earth.”

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

Mean Self Lasts Return Why Not Adopted Here And Now

Book:The Spiritual Teaching of Ramana Maharshi

Source: The Spiritual Teaching of Ramana Maharshi

“No family of an American hostage has ever been prosecuted for paying a ransom for the return of their loved ones. The last thing we should ever do is to add to a family's pain.”

Should Pain Lasts Return Add Loved Ones Hostage Ransom

Author:Mark Steyn

“There are but three ways for a man to revenge himself of the censure of the world,--to despise it, to return the like, or to endeavor to live so as to avoid it; the first of these is usually pretended, the last is almost impossible, the universal practice is for the second.”

Men World Way Firsts Lasts Three Practice Impossible Return Universal Revenge Endeavor Despise Censure Three Ways

Book:The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: With Cop'ous Notes and Additions

Source: The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: With Cop'ous Notes and Additions

“Madness is consistent; which is more than can be said for poor reason. Whatever may be the ruling passion at the time continues equally so throughout the whole delirium, though it should last for life. Madmen are always constant in love; which no man in his senses ever was. Our passions and principles are steady in frenzy; but begin to shift and waver, as we return to reason.”

Men Should May Said Reason Whole Lasts Passion Poor Principles Return Madness Constant Senses Consistent Steady Ruling Madmen Frenzy Delirium Ruling Passion

Book:The Posthumous Works of Laurence Sterne: ...

Source: The Posthumous Works of Laurence Sterne: ...

“Moss is inconceivably strong. Moss eats stone; scarcely anything, in return, eats moss. Moss dines upon boulders, slowly but devastatingly, in a meal that lasts for centuries. Given enough time, a colony of moss can turn a cliff into gravel, and turn that gravel into topsoil.”

Enough Lasts Turns Strong Given Century Return Stones Meals Biology Cliffs Enough Time Colony Moss Dine Boulders Gravel Topsoil

Book:The Signature of All Things

Source: The Signature of All Things

“The force behind the movement of time is a mourning that will not be comforted. That is why the first event is known to have been an expulsion, and the last is hoped to be a reconciliation and return. So memory pulls us forward, so prophecy is only brilliant memory - there will be a garden where all of us as one child will sleep in our mother Eve, hooped in her ribs and staved by her spine.”

Firsts Children Has Beens Lasts Mother Time Force Memories Sleep Behinds Known Events Movement Return Garden Brilliant Mourning Prophecy Reconciliation Spine Ribs Expulsion

Author:Marilynne Robinson

“There is no passion more dominant and instinctive in the human spirit than the need of the country to which one belongs.... The time comes when nothing in the world is so important as a breath of one's own particular climate. If it were one's last penny it would be used for that return passage.”

Ifs World Needs Humans Important Country Would Be Lasts Used Spirit Passion Particular Return Breaths Climate Nationalism Passages Dominant Human Spirit Pennies Homesickness

Book:Three Lives

Source: Three Lives

“Learn to self-conquest, persevere thus for a time, and you will perceive very clearly the advantage which you gain from it. As soon you apply yourself to orison, you will at once feel your senses gather themselves together: they seem like bees which return to the hive and there shut themselves up to work at the making of honey. At the first call of the will, they come back more and more quickly. At last, after countless exercises, of this kind, God disposes them to a state of utter rest and of perfect contemplation.”

Feels Firsts Kind Self States Seems Together Lasts Perfect Return Exercise Gains Advantage Senses Perceive Contemplation Honey Bees Conquest Persevere Hives

Author:Teresa of Avila

“I'm the kind of person that as long as you respect me and don't distract me before the game, then I'll respect you in return and accommodate you after the game. Sometimes the situation dictates that I talk, but everybody should understand I'm not going to talk every day, whether we're in first place or last place.”

Should Firsts Kind Persons Long Sometimes Lasts Games Situation Return Accommodate Respect Me Last Place

Author:Albert Belle

“As the smallest drop of water detached from the ocean contains all the qualities of the ocean, so man, detached in consciousness from the Infinite, contains within him its likeness; and as the drop of water must, by the law of its nature, ultimately find its way back to the ocean and lose itself in its silent depths, so must man, by the unfailing law of his nature, at last return to his source, and lose himself in the great ocean of the Infinite.”

Men Way Lasts Law Water Nature Loses Consciousness Quality Source Return Ocean Infinite Silent Depth Smallest Detached Drop Of Water

Book:The Way of Peace

Source: The Way of Peace

“And the view was suddenly clear to me. The world opened out to its grim beyonds and I realized that, at forty, one must learn the rigors of acceptance. Capitalize it: Acceptance. I needed to accept what was put before me--be it a watery grave in Ireland's only natural fjord, or a return to the city and its grayer intensities, or a wordless exile in some steaming Cambodian swamp hole, or poems or no poems, or children or not, lovers or not, illness or otherwise, success or its absence. I would accept all that was put in my way, from here on through until I breathed my last.”

World Way Children Lasts Natural Views Cities Accepting Clear Acceptance Return Needed Lovers Illness Absence I Realized Graves Holes My Way Forty Intensity Ireland Exile Grim Swamps Rigor Fjords

Author:Kevin Barry

“Cinema returns us to anima, religion of matter, which gives each thing its special divinity and sees gods in all things and beings. Cinema, heir of alchemy, last of an erotic science.”

Giving Matter Lasts Special Return All Things Cinema Divinity Erotic Alchemy Heirs

Book:The lords, and The new creatures: poems

Source: The lords, and The new creatures: poems

“The first thing we see about a short story is its mystery. And in the best short stories, we return at the last to see mystery again”

Firsts Stories Lasts Mystery Return Short Story Best Short

Author:Eudora Welty

“The last image created in verse four of this hymn, ["Come, O Thou Glorious King"] that of the promised Messiah coming into his temple, seems appropriate for the day when Jesus was in the Jerusalem temple, teaching and establishing his authority. As with the Triumphal Entry, his actions then seem but a foretaste of even greater fulfillment when he comes again in glory. Just as the early Latter-day Saints were reassured by the promised return of the Savior, so we too can look forward with faith to his return as King.”

“Nowhere does it say that investors should strive to make every last dollar of potential profit; consideration of risk must never take a backseat to return. Conservative positioning entering a crisis is crucial: it enables one to maintain long-term oriented, clear thinking, and to focus on new opportunities while others are distracted or even forced to sell. Portfolio hedges must be in place before a crisis hits. One cannot reliably or affordably increase or replace hedges that are rolling off during a financial crisis.”

“Size will hurt returns. Look at Berkshire Hathaway - the last five things Warren has done have generated returns that are splendid by historical standards, but now give him $100 billion in assets and measure outcomes across all of it, it doesn't look so good. We can only buy big positions, and the only time we can get big positions is during a horrible period of decline or stasis. That really doesn't happen very often.”

Giving Looks Done Bigs Happens Lasts Hurt Five Position Return Periods Standards Historical Size Billions Horrible Outcomes Assets Decline Only Time Splendid Stasis

Author:Charlie Munger

“When you have been compelled by circumstances to be disturbed in any manner, quickly return to yourself, and do not continue out of tune longer than the compulsion lasts. You will have increasing control over your own harmony by continually returning to it.”

Has Beens Lasts Return Circumstances Harmony Tunes Over You Compelled Compulsion Disturbed

Author:Marcus Aurelius

“The lover of photography is fascinated both by the instant and by the past. The moment captured in the image is of near-zero duration and is located in a ever-receding then. At the same time, the spectator's now, the moment of looking at the image, has no fixed duration. It can be extended as long as fascination lasts and endlessly reiterated as long as curiosity returns.”

Long Moments Lasts Past Return Lovers Photography Curiosity Fixed Instant Zero Fascinated Spectators Fascination Captured Duration

Author:Peter Wollen

“Well sometimes I do not listen to music. But when I do it could range from Frank Sinatra to Copeland. I spend a great deal of time playing the piano because it really is my salvation at times. But I am perfectly happy just going on a long bike ride that takes many days to complete and staying away from music for a bit. It always feels so fresh when you return to the instrument with a different observation of things than when you were last there.”

Feels Wells Long Different Sometimes Lasts Bits Deals Return Instruments Salvation Observation Range Piano Staying Frank Bike Listening To Music

Author:Tony MacAlpine

“I think that the most significant, guiding principle was that we wanted to return to a three-piece live form, whereas we became a four-piece for the last record because the songs had more extensive arrangements and we needed a keyboard player to pull off a lot of those songs. We missed the energy, and more push-and-pull of the three-piece.”

Thinking Wanted Lasts Form Song Three Energy Principles Records Pieces Four Player Return Needed Significant Arrangements Keyboards Guiding Principles Keyboard Players

Author:Chris Cain

“Donald Trump is the first candidate ever to run for president in the last 40-plus years who has not released his tax returns, so everything he says about charity or anything else, we can't prove it.”

Years Firsts Running Lasts President Return Trump Prove Taxes Charity Candidates Plus Prove It Tax Returns

Author:Hillary Clinton

“From the time of Cain until the last believer before Christ's return, we are all fundamentally in the same boat. We suffer the same spiritual afflictions and tendencies.”

Lasts Spiritual Suffering Christ Return Believer Tendencies Boat Affliction Cain

Author:Mark Dever

“For many years, questions about the meaning of life were dismissed as senseless. We were told that life, not being a word or sentence or anything language-like, can't intelligibly be said to have meaning. An encouraging development in the last couple of decades is a return by philosophers to addressing - as nearly all people do at some time or another - the question of life's meaning.”

People Years Said Lasts Language Development Return Couple Philosopher Sentences Decades Meaning Of Life

Author:David E. Cooper

“By the last returns to the Department of War the militia force of the several States may be estimated at 800,000 men - infantry, artillery, and cavalry.”

Men May War States Lasts Force Return Department Militia Artillery Infantry Cavalry

Author:James Monroe

“Whoever degrades another degrades me, And whatever is done or said returns at last to me.”

Said Done Lasts Community Return Aggravation Degrade Leaves Of Grass

Book:Leaves of Grass

Source: Leaves of Grass

“I was born from nothing and to nothing I will return. And yet, when i say the word nothing, when i admit, at last, 'I am nothing,' i feel mysteriously like something again, ground zero, genesis, the pull of possibilities.”

Feels Lasts Born Possibility Return Zero Like Something Genesis Ground Zero

Book:Lying: A Metaphorical Memoir

Source: Lying: A Metaphorical Memoir

“The last time I was in Chile, I was hypnotized by a friend who is studying to be a curandero, a healer, who led me back through several incarnations. It wasn't easy to return to the present, however, since my friend hadn't reached that part of the course, but the experiment was well worth the effort because I discovered that in former lives I was not Genghis Khan, as my mother believes.”

Believe Wells Lasts Mother Courses Easy Effort Study Return My Friends Experiments Former Last Time Incarnation Healer Chile Former Life

Book:My invented country: a memoir

Source: My invented country: a memoir

“And I leave my post of observation and find I have had enough of this outside life; I feel that there is nothing more that I can learn here, either now or at any time. And I long to say a last goodbye to everything up here, to go down into my burrow never to return again, let things take their course, and not try to retard them with my profitless vigils.”

Feels Trying Long I Can Enough Lasts Courses Return Observation Posts Goodbye Had Enough Retard Last Goodbye

Book:The Basic Kafka

Source: The Basic Kafka

“If he could learn to love another, and earn her love in return by the time the last petal fell, then the spell would be broken. If not, he would be doomed to remain a beast for all time. As the years passed, he fell into despair and lost all hope. For who could ever learn to love a beast? -Beauty & the Beast”

Ifs Years Would Be Lasts Lost Broken Return Despair All Time Beast Spells Doomed Petals

Author:Walt Disney

“At that moment of realization (that union with God is always present), that's when God let me go, let me slide through His fingers with this last compassionate, unspoken message: You may return here once you have fully come to understand that you are always here.”

May Moments Lasts Spirituality Return Messages Let Me Unions Fingers Realization That Moment Compassionate Slides Unspoken Let Me Go

Author:Elizabeth Gilbert

“When the Dark comes rising six shall turn it back; Three from the circle, three from the track; Wood, bronze, iron; Water, fire, stone; Five will return and one go alone. Iron for the birthday; bronze carried long; Wood from the burning; stone out of song; Fire in the candle ring; water from the thaw; Six signs the circle and the grail gone before. Fire on the mountain shall find the harp of gold Played to wake the sleepers, oldest of old. Power from the Green Witch, lost beneath the sea. All shall find the Light at last, silver on the tree.”

Source: The Dark Is Rising: Movie Tie-in Edition

“How can I ever trust you? (Acheron) You can’t. But I have lived inside your memories for the last three years. I know the pain you hide. I know the pain I caused. If I stay here, I will go mad from the screams. If I return to the Vanishing Isle, I’ll languish there alone and in time I will probably learn to hate you all over again. I don’t want to hate you anymore, Acheron. You are a god who can control human fate. Is it not possible that there was a reason why we were joined together? Surely the Fates meant for us to be brothers. (Styxx)”

Ifs Knows Want Years Humans Reason Pain Together Lasts Hate Three Memories Fate Brother Return Mad Reason Why Scream Three Years Hate You Vanishing Isle If I Stay Languish

Author:Sherrilyn Kenyon

“Heavily and hypnotically,with her soul flattening itself back like the ears of a hissing cat,Kizzy leaned in and drank of Jack Husk's full,moist mouth,and his red,red lips were hungry against hers,drinking her in return.Their eyes closed.Fingers clutched at collars and hair,at the picnic blanket,at the grass.And as they sank down,pinning their shadows beneath them,the horizon tipped on its side,and slowly,thickly,hour by hour,the day spilled out and ebbed away. It was Kizzy's first kiss, and maybe it was her last, and it was delicious.”

Source: Lips Touch: Three Times

“We say that flowers return every spring, but that is a lie. It is true that the world is renewed. It is also true that that renewal comes at a price, for even if the flower grows from an ancient vine, the flowers of spring are themselves new to the world, untried and untested. The flower that wilted last year is gone. Petals once fallen are fallen forever. Flowers do not return in the spring, rather they are replaced. It is in this difference between returned and replaced that the price of renewal is paid. And as it is for spring flowers, so it is for us.”

Ifs World Years Lasts Lying Grows Differences Gone Forever Flower Return Spring Paid Ancient Fallen Last Year Replaced Renewal Vines Petals Spring Flowers

Author:Daniel Abraham

“A feeling is no longer the same when it comes the second time. It dies through the awareness of its return. We become tired and weary of our feelings when they come too often and last too long.”

Long Feelings Lasts Dies Awareness Return Tired Weary

Book:Night Train to Lisbon

Source: Night Train to Lisbon

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