Best return & world Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 3

“Finding a single investment that will return 20% per year for 40 years tends to happen only in dreamland. In the real world, you uncover an opportunity, and then you compare other opportunities with that. And you only invest in the most attractive opportunities. That's your opportunity cost. That's what you learn in freshman economics. The game hasn't changed at all. That's why Modern Portfolio Theory is so asinine.”

World Years Real Happens Opportunity Games Modern Changed Theory Return Cost Findings Economics Investment Compare Attractive Real World Portfolios Freshman Dreamland Opportunity Cost

Author:Charlie Munger

“To witness that calm rhythm of life revives our worn souls and recaptures a feeling of belonging to the natural world. No one can return from the Serengeti unchanged, for tawny lions will forever prowl our memory and great herds throng our imagination.”

World Soul Feelings Imagination Natural Memories Forever Return Calm Rhythm Witness Belonging Lions Worn Natural World Our Memories Herds Revive Rhythm Of Life

Author:George Schaller

“Childhood has been idealised as a lost garden paradise to which we can never return. We are excluded from this world of carelessness, innocence and unity. But the imaginary kingdom is nothing more than a projection of adult ideas and concerns onto the image, an expression of our own yearnings. By photographing children alone, divorced from any social setting, I allow them to exist on their own...I am exploring the equivocal connection between self and world.”

“The world is a spinning die, and everything turns and changes: man is turned into angel, and angel into man, and the head into the foot, and the foot into the head. Thus all things turn and spin and change, this into that, and that into this, the topmost to the undermost, and the undermost to the topmost. For at the root all is one, and salvation inheres in the change and return of things.”

Men World Dies Turns Feet Return Angel All Things Roots Salvation Spinning

Book:Ten Rungs: Collected Hasidic Sayings

Source: Ten Rungs: Collected Hasidic Sayings

“As the show's executive producer, I envisioned something akin to "Gilligan's Island" meets Lord of the Flies meets Ten Little Indians mets "The Real World." "Survivor" marks a return to a core element of adventure: staying alive.”

Source: Survivor: The Ultimate Game : the Official Companion Book to the CBS Television Show

“Pastor Saeed Abedini is coming home. Held for three and a half years, his unyielding faith has inspired people around the world in the global fight to uphold freedom of religion. Now Pastor Abedini will return to his church and community in Idaho.”

People World Years Home Fighting Three Community Church Half Return Inspired Around The World Coming Home Pastor Freedom Of Religion Half A Year Idaho Unyielding

Author:Barack Obama

“Today, philanthropy is a very unsophisticated, old world process where people who make a shitload of money go and give it away and when they're making their money, they're focused on 10x, 100x returns on the dollar.”

People World Giving Today Process Return Dollars Focused Philanthropy Old World

Author:Peter Diamandis

“There is a point at which we begin to receive a diminishing return on the accumulation of sacred knowledge unless we use it to at least try to improve the world.”

World Trying Use Return Sacred Accumulation Diminishing Returns

Author:Marianne Williamson

“In order for the second scenario to win, the world would have to return where the struggle for independence and against Western colonialism and imperialism was lost or abandoned more than 50 years ago. Let's face it: the world was never really completely de-colonized. It would be total hypocrisy to claim otherwise.”

World Years Would Be Faces Order Winning Lost Struggle Return Years Ago Claims Independence Western Hypocrisy Abandoned Colonialism Imperialism Scenarios

Author:Andre Vltchek

“The thing for me is, what if one returns to these maxims, these rather simplistic maxims "Be the change you want to see in the world." Because what canvas have we but the self for these kind of explorations, ultimately.”

Ifs World Want Kind Self Return What If Exploration Canvas Maxims

Author:Russell Brand

“I was encouraged to break all the rules but to take the best of philanthropy, the best of investing, and the best of development finance, and experiment with new ways to create this venture capital model of using philanthropy to back patient capital investments, and then build solutions that were measured in terms of the kind of impact and change they were making on people's lives and in the world, not just on the financial return.”

“We're not to be surprised at all what we see happening in every part of the world. It's a change of the return of things.”

World Return Happenings

Author:Jimmy Cliff

“We need a transformation of the world economy and of how we use and share the Earth's resources. We are running out of time. We are truly at the point of no return.”

World Needs Use Running Earth Economy Share Return Resources Transformation World Economy Running Out Of Time

Author:Graciela Chichilnisky

“The attraction of power we take for granted in politics.. But in economics...the thrust...is for pecuniary return, for money. And I have always felt that denies in the economic world a very large part of the motivation.”

World Motivation Felt Economic Return Economics Deny Attraction Granted Thrust

Author:John Kenneth Galbraith

“There's Doom Patrol, which is the world's strangest superheroes, and they're making their return.”

World Return Superhero Doom

Author:Gerard Way

“We know that from the GI Bill after the Second World War, where Congress found that for every dollar we put in as taxpayers into free higher education for returning GIs, we got back $7 for every dollar invested. An enormous return on our money in public benefits and improved revenue.”

Knows World War Found Return Higher Benefits Bills Dollars Congress Enormous War Of The Worlds Revenue Taxpayers Second World War Higher Education Gis

Author:Jill Stein

“Somebody's buying these treasury bills at 1/20th of one percent. Consuming about $2 billion a day of goods and services beyond what we're producing. In other words, the rest of the world sends about $2 billion a day net of something.We got to send them something in return, don't we. So we send them little pieces of paper.”

World Littles Pieces Return Paper Percent Bills Billions Buying Goods Consuming Treasury Goods And Services Treasury Bill

Author:Warren Buffett

“I do feel we live through what I like to call The 2nd Renaissance, but although I foresee a widespread return to the European religion I don't foresee a return to the past. The world has changed, everything is different today, and so will Paganism be.”

World Feels Different Today Past Changed Return Paganism Renaissance

Author:Varg Vikernes

“We can choose the attitude that says, I have been wronged. People have hurt me, but with the help of God, I am going to learn how to return good for evil, and I am going to make a difference in this world.”

People World Has Beens Helping Evil Differences Hurt Attitude This World Return Making A Difference Hurt Me Wronged

Author:Gary Chapman

“The individual problem is the world problem. Therefore let us return to the problem of individual perfection and the establishing of peace in the heart and in the mind of the individual.”

World Mind Heart Problem Individual Return Perfection World Problems

Author:Jiddu Krishnamurti

“After Hurricane Katrina, I wanted to go back to New Orleans to help musicians return to the city. But Andrew Young advised me, "If you want to help people, go work at an investment bank." His contrarian advice opened my eyes to the importance of capital. "Learn how to make some money before you give it away." I learned that you can bring about good in the world especially if you have a paycheck.”

People Ifs World Want Giving Helping Eye Wanted Young Cities Advice Return Musician Importance Investment New Orleans Hurricanes Andrew Paychecks Katrina Hurricane Katrina Good In The World

Author:Kabir Sehgal

“If heaven is understood more as God's space on earth than as an ethereal region apart from the essential reality we know, then what happens on earth matters even more than we think, for the Christian life becomes a continuation of the unfolding work of Jesus, who will one day return to set the world to rights.”

“A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.”

Ifs World Writing Book Reading Return Reader Drink Offers Versions Beer Reading Books Book Reading Books And Reading Book Readers This Is A Book Inspiring Book

Book:In good faith

Source: In good faith

“During World War II, the pilot losses were staggering. In some bombing raids, as many as 80% of the planes that left did not return.”

World War Left Loss Return Planes War Of The Worlds World War Ii Pilots Bombing Staggering

Author:Simon Sinek

“But in a story, which is a kind of dreaming, the dead sometimes smile and sit up and return to the world.”

World Kind Sometimes Stories Dream Return

Book:The Things They Carried

Source: The Things They Carried

“Misuse of reason might yet return the world to pre-technological night; plenty of religious zealots hunger for just such a result, and are happy to use the latest technology to effect it.”

World Reason Use Might Night Religious Results Technology Effects Return Hunger Plenty Technological Misuse Zealot Latest Technology

Book:The Heart of Things: Applying Philosophy to the 21st Century

Source: The Heart of Things: Applying Philosophy to the 21st Century

“Once, in my father's bookshop, I heard a regular customer say that few things leave a deeper mark on a reader than the first book that finds its way into his heart. Those first images, the echo of words we think we have left behind, accompany us throughout our lives and sculpt a palace in our memory to which, sooner or later—no matter how many books we read, how many worlds we discover, or how much we learn or forget—we will return.”

“Humankind cannot gain something without first giving something in return. To obtain, something of equal value must be lost. This is Alchemy's First Law of Equivalent Exchange. In those days, we really believed that to be the world's one, and only, truth.”

World Giving Firsts Law Values Lost Return Equal Gains Humankind Alchemy Alchemist Anime Fma

Author:Hiromu Arakawa

“The mind wants to live forever, or to learn a very good reason why not. The mind wants the world to return its love, or its awareness... The mind's sidekick, however, will settle for two eggs over easy. The dear, stupid body is easily satisfied as a spaniel. And, incredibly, the simple spaniel can lure the brawling mind to its dish. It is everlastingly funny that the proud, metaphysically ambitious mind will hush if you give it an egg.”

“When you don't cover up the world with words and labels, a sense of the miraculous returns to your life that was lost a long time ago when humanity, instead of using thought, became possessed by thought.”

World Long Spiritual Humanity Lost Wonder Return Long Time Miracle Labels Awe Possessed Miraculous Long Time Ago Cover Ups New Earth

Book:A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

Source: A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

“...Human thought has no limit. At its risk and peril, it analyzes and dissects its own fascination. We could almost say that, by a sort of splendid reaction, it fascinates nature; the mysterious world surrounding us returns what it receives; it is likely that contemplators are contemplated.”

World Humans Risk Return Limits Reactions Mysterious Peril Splendid Fascination Human Thought Mysterious World

Book:Les Misérables

Source: Les Misérables

“According to the most common interpretation of biblical prophecy, Jesus will return only after things have gone horribly awry. Imagine the consequences if any significant component of the U.S. government believed that the world was about to end and that its ending would be glorious. The fact that nearly half of the American population apparently believes this should be considered a moral and intellectual emergency.”

“Television is the Antichrist, and I can assure you after only three or four generations, people will no longer even know how to fart on their own and humans will return to medieval savagery and to the general state of imbecility that slugs overcame back in the Pleistocene era. Our world will not die as a result of the bomb...it will die of laughter, of banality, of making a joke of everything and a lousy joke at that.”

“The world was a terrible place, cruel, pitiless, dark as a bad dream. Not a good place to live. Only in books could you find pity, comfort, happiness - and love. Books loved anyone who opened them, they gave you security and friendship and didn't ask anything in return; they never went away, never, not even when you treated them badly.”

World Book Dream Reading Asks Dark Security Return Terrible Comfort And Love Treated Pity Good Place Places To Live Happiness And Love Bad Dream Inkheart

Author:Cornelia Funke

“The whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.”

World Whole Return Whole World Exile No Hope

Author:Simone de Beauvoir

“It is said that what is called "the spirit of an age" is something to which one cannot return. That this spirit gradually dissipates is due to the world's coming to an end. For this reason, although one would like to change today's world back to the spirit of one hundred years or more ago, it cannot be done. Thus it is important to make the best out of every generation.”

World Years Said Important Ends Reason Done Age Today Spirit Generations Return Hundred Dues Today's World Coming To An End

Book:Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai

Source: Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai

“When evening comes, I return home and go into my study. On the threshold I strip off my muddy, sweaty clothes of everyday, and put on the robes of court and palace, and in this graver dress I enter the antique courts of the ancients and am welcomed by them, and there I taste the food that alone is mine, and for which I was born. And there I make bold to speak to them and ask the motives of their actions, and they, in their humanity, reply to me. And for the space of four hours I forget the world, remember no vexation, fear poverty no more, tremble no more at death; I pass indeed into their world.”

“I will go wherever the truth leads me. It is secular scholarship, Rebbe; it is not the scholarship of tradition. In secular scholarship there are no boundaries and no permanently fixed views.” Lurie, if the Torah cannot go out into your world of scholarship and return stronger, then we are all fools and charlatans. I have faith in the Torah. I am not afraid of truth.”

Ifs World Views Fool Return Tradition Stronger Boundaries Fixed Have Faith Not Afraid Secular Scholarship Leading Me No Boundaries Charlatans Torah

Author:Chaim Potok

“And for adults, the world of fantasy books returns to us the great words of power which, in order to be tamed, we have excised from our adult vocabularies. These words are the pornography of innocence, words which adults no longer use with other adults, and so we laugh at them and consign them to the nursery, fear masking as cynicism. These are the words that were forged in the earth, air, fire, and water of human existence, and the words are: Love. Hate. Good. Evil. Courage. Honor. Truth.”

“What he could bear in the waking world he could not by night and he sat awake for fear the dream would return.”

World Dream Night Return Bears Awake Sat Waking

Book:The Road film tie-in

Source: The Road film tie-in

“All those who love Nature she loves in return, and will richly reward, not perhaps with the good things, as they are commonly called, but with the best things of this world-not with money and titles, horses and carriages, but with bright and happy thoughts, contentment and peace of mind.”

World Mind This World Return Horse Good Things Rewards Titles Best Things Contentment Peace Of Mind Carriages Nature Love Happy Thoughts Contentment And Peace Horse And Carriage

Book:The beauties of nature and the wonders of the world we live in

Source: The beauties of nature and the wonders of the world we live in

“I hope you will have a wonderful year, that you'll dream dangerously and outrageously, that you'll make something that didn't exist before you made it, that you will be loved and that you will be liked, and that you will have people to love and to like in return. And, most importantly (because I think there should be more kindness and more wisdom in the world right now), that you will, when you need to be, be wise, and that you will always be kind.”

People Thinking World Love Needs Should Years Kind Made Dream Age Kindness Wise Wonderful Return Right Now Made It Be Kind Being Wise

Author:Neil Gaiman

“When I return to the world, I will be a man. I will walk among you. I will lick my lips with my small, dexterous tongue. I will shake hands with other men, grasping firmly with my opposable thumbs. And I will teach all people that I know. And when I see a man or a woman or a child in trouble, I will extend my hand, both metaphorically and physically. I will offer my hand. To him. To her. To you. To the world. I will be a good citizen, a good partner in the endeaver of life that we all share.”

People Knows Men World Children Hands Walks Teach Trouble Share Return Citizens Offers Lips Tongue Partners Shakes Be A Man Thumbs Grasping Good Citizen

Author:Garth Stein

“We are all a part of the divine spark. All have a purpose in creation and that purpose is called Love. That love, however, shouldn't be concentrated in just one person, it should be scattered throughout the world, waiting to be discovered. Wake up that love. What is gone cannot return. What is about to arrive needs to be recognized.”

World Needs Should Persons Purpose Waiting Gone Creation Divine Return Wake Up Just One Sparks

Author:Paulo Coelho

“I was secretly convinced that with such a marvel one would be able to write anything, from novels to encyclopedias, and letters whose supernatural power would surpass any postal limitations--a letter written with that pen would reach the most remote corners of the world, even that unknowable place to which my father said my mother had gone and from where she would never return.”

World Writing Said Would Be Able Mother Father Novel Gone Written Return Letters Corners Convinced Limitation Pens Encyclopedia Corners Of The World Supernatural Powers

Book:The Shadow Of The Wind

Source: The Shadow Of The Wind

“Off we skip like the most heartless things in the world, which is what children are, but so attractive; and we have an entirely selfish time, and then when we have need of special attention we nobly return for it, confident that we shall be rewarded instead of smacked.”

World Needs Children Attention Special Return Selfish Attractive Heartless Skip

Book:Peter Pan: Top 100 Classic Novels

Source: Peter Pan: Top 100 Classic Novels

“When my parents were liberated, four years before I was born, they found that the ordinary world outside the camp had been eradicated. There was no more simple meal, no thing was less than extraordinary: a fork, a mattress, a clean shirt, a book. Not to mention such things that can make one weep: an orange, meat and vegetables, hot water. There was no ordinariness to return to, no refuge from the blinding potency of things, an apple screaming its sweet juice.”

“The late great Horace Lloyd Swithin (1844-1917), British essayist, lecturer, satirist, and social observer, wrote in his autobiographical Appointments, 1890-1901 (1902), "When one travels abroad, one doesn't so much discover the hidden Wonders of the World, but the hidden wonders of the individuals with whom one is traveling. They may turn out to afford a stirring view, a rather dull landscape, or a terrain so treacherous one finds it's best to forget the entire affair and return home.”

Source: Special Topics in Calamity Physics

“Travel changes you. As you move through this life and this world you change things slightly, you leave marks behind, however small. And in return, life - and travel - leaves marks on you. Most of the time, those marks - on your body or on your heart - are beautiful. Often, though, they hurt.”

Source: The Nasty Bits: Collected Cuts, Useable Trim, Scraps and Bones

“Every man carries within himself a world made up of all that he has seen and loved; and it is to this world that he returns, incessantly, though he may pass through and seem to inhabit a world quite foreign to it.”

Men World May Made Seems This World Return Every Man Carrie Incessantly

Author:François-René de Chateaubriand

Return Quotes

Related topics

Return Quotes