“My life is about my journey, and your life is about your journey. You are completely unqualified to draw my map, and I am completely unqualified to draw yours. I hope you'll let me know all about the path you've found, so that I may judge it for myself against my own path, and have the freedom to choose between the two. But please don't try and drag me from my path on to yours, and I will be sure to return the favor.” KnowsLifeTryingMayTwoLife IsFoundMy OwnPathJourneyJudgingReturnPleaseDrawsLet MeFavorsMapsDragMy JourneyFreedom To ChooseUnqualified Author:Derek R. Audette
“A young sailor boy came to see me to-day. It pleases me to have these lads seek me on their return from their first voyage, and tell me how much they have learned about navigation.” FirstsYoungBoysJourneyReturnPleaseVoyagesSailorLadNavigationPlease Me Book:Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals Source: Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals
“I've got a lot of cutting and pasting to do, gentlemen, so why don't you please return to your porch rockers and resume whittling.” CuttingReturnPleaseGentlemanResumesPorchRockersTwin PeaksWhittling Author:Albert Rosenfeld
“Would you please publish the enclosed manuscript or return it without delay, as I have other irons in the fire.” FireReturnPleaseIronDelayPublishManuscriptsIrons In The Fire Author:Elinor Glyn
“Fear is concealed in smiles and flashing teeth. 'Please say you still love me,' the kings and queens are really saying. And, when they fare badly, they return to their palaces and sleep fitfully.” StillsFearSleepReturnKingsPleaseTeethQueensPalacesConcealedKings And Queens Author:Shirley MacLaine
“I have often wondered how they manage to get return envelopes which miss, by one-quarter of an inch, fitting the blank you are supposed to return. They say, "Please fill out and return the enclosed envelope," and the enclosed envelope is always one-quarter of an inch too small.” MissingReturnPleaseManageQuartersInchesBlankFittingEnvelopes Author:Robert Benchley
“I just read a book on how to get control of my time and therefore of my life. My time has always had a tendency to slip away from me and do as it pleases. My life follows it, like a puppy after an untrained bird dog. Come night, my life shows up, usually covered with mud and full of stickers, exhausted but grinning happily. My time never returns.” BookShowsNightDogReturnPleaseBirdTendenciesMy TimeCoveredSlipsExhaustedMudPuppyGrinningSticker Author:Patrick F. McManus
“I get thousands of requests for mentorship, but they don't offer anything in return, like filing, cleaning my house, or something. All too often, it's "please mentor me; I need my shot." But they don't offer anything in return.” NeedsHouseReturnPleaseOffersShotsMentorCleaningRequestFiling Author:Ryan Blair
“Hide them all, then. Keep her – them – safe. Please.' And what will you give me in return, Severus?' In – in return? Anything.” GivingReturnPleaseSafeGive Me Author:J. K. Rowling
“Whether or not you find your own way, you're bound to find some way. If you happen to find my way, please return it, as it was lost years ago. I imagine by now it's quite rusty.” IfsWayYearsHappensLostImagineReturnPleaseYears AgoBoundsMy WayPhantom TollboothLost Years Book:The phantom tollbooth Source: The phantom tollbooth
“But Rhett, you mustn't bring me anything else so expensive. It's awfully kind of you, but I really couldn't accept anything else." "Indeed? Well, I shall bring you presents so long as it pleases me and so long as I see things that will enhance your charms. I shall bring you dark-green watered silk for a frock to match the bonnet. And I warn you that I am not kind. I am tempting you with bonnets and bangles and leading you into a pit. Always remember I never do anything without reason and I never give anything without expecting something in return. I always get paid.” GivingWellsKindLongReasonRememberDarkAcceptingReturnPleasePaidGreenCharmExpensiveExpectingPitsSilkTemptingPlease MeBonnetsExpecting SomethingBanglesExpecting Something In Return Author:Margaret Mitchell
“We didn't stow away!" Dan protested. "You sunk our boat and pulled us out of the canal!" "Good point," Ian agreed. "Return them to the canal. Roughly, please.” ReturnPleaseBoatCanals Author:Gordon Korman