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  • Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure. -- Oliver Herford
  • The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned. -- W. Somerset Maugham
  • Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems. -- Rainer Maria Rilke
  • I have just returned from visiting the Marines at the front, and there is not a finer fighting organization in the world! -- Douglas MacArthur
  • I have just returned from the dubbing studio where I spoke into a microphone as Severus Snape for absolutely the last time. -- Alan Rickman
  • At last, Russia has returned to the world arena as a strong state - a country that others heed and that can stand up for itself. -- Vladimir Putin
  • The weather was fine and moderate. The hunters all returned, having killed during their absence three elk, four deer, two porcupines, a fox and a hare. -- Meriwether Lewis
  • When my father returned home on the twenty-first of August 1983, he had a speech prepared. Filipinos never got to hear it, because he was murdered right on the tarmac. -- Benigno Aquino III
  • The weather became so intensely cold that we sent for all the hunters who had remained out with captain Clarke's party, and they returned in the evening several of them frostbitten. -- Meriwether Lewis
  • I do think of Bombay as my hometown. Those are the streets I walked when I was learning to walk. And it's the place that my imagination has returned to more than anywhere else. -- Salman Rushdie
  • I seem to be thinking rationally again in the style that is characteristic of scientists. However, this is not entirely a matter of joy as if someone returned from physical disability to good physical health. -- John Forbes Nash, Jr.
  • Here I am, safely returned over those peaks from a journey far more beautiful and strange than anything I had hoped for or imagined - how is it that this safe return brings such regret? -- Peter Matthiessen
  • Soon after, I returned home to my family, with a determination to bring them as soon as possible to live in Kentucky, which I esteemed a second paradise, at the risk of my life and fortune. -- Daniel Boone
  • Someday when peace has returned to this odd world I want to come to London again and stand on a certain balcony on a moonlit night and look down upon the peaceful silver curve of the Thames with its dark bridges. -- Ernie Pyle
  • Never in any case say I have lost such a thing, but I have returned it. Is your child dead? It is a return. Is your wife dead? It is a return. Are you deprived of your estate? Is not this also a return? -- Epictetus
  • It's good for Brazilian football to have idols, stars, big stars coming back to Brazilian clubs. The tournaments become much better, more interesting. Ze Roberto, Juninho Pernambucano, Ronaldinho Gaucho, and other players who have returned to Brazil strengthen the league and improve the tournaments. -- Neymar
  • On the screen were some flashback shots of Daniel, Emma and Rupert from ten years ago. They were 12. I have also recently returned from New York, and while I was there, I saw Daniel singing and dancing (brilliantly) on Broadway. A lifetime seems to have passed in minutes. -- Alan Rickman
  • Well, look at what people are doing for returned veterans now. The wounded warriors. They're working hard to make the wounded veterans feel that they are loved and welcomed home, unlike Vietnam. It was not a very kind, gentle world then. I think we are kinder and gentler. -- Barbara Bush
  • It's the first time I have returned to my roots - like going back to be a trio. The fans really wanted me to go back on stage and do the Supremes music, so I went about trying to make it happen. We'll go on tour in the summer. -- Diana Ross
  • I returned to India because I believe in an India of honesty and hard work, not of corruption and crookedness. I believe in an India of openness and straightforwardness, not of hypocrisy and double-dealing. I believe in an India where opportunities are available to all, and not just to a chosen few. -- Shashi Tharoor
  • We always knew how to honor fallen soldiers. They were killed for our sake, they went out on our mission. But how are we to mourn a random man killed in a terrorist attack while sitting in a cafe? How do you mourn a housewife who got on a bus and never returned? -- A. B. Yehoshua
  • The Lord compensates the faithful for every loss. That which is taken away from those who love the Lord will be added unto them in his own way. While it may not come at the time we desire, the faithful will know that every tear today will eventually be returned a hundredfold with tears of rejoicing and gratitude. -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
  • Here's what happens in a play. You get involved in a situation where something is unbalanced. If nothing's unbalanced, there's no reason to have a play. If Hamlet comes home from school, and his dad's not dead and asks him if he's had a good time, it's boring. But if something's unbalanced, it must be returned to order. -- David Mamet
  • I was a sickly baby, and after two sets of adoptive parents took me home, they returned me to the orphanage because of a serious respiratory infection. But as they say, the third time's a charm, because my mom and dad adopted me and took me into their home where I was raised in a family full of love. -- Rodney Atkins
  • I literally have over a thousand emails in my inbox that need to be returned. I'm sure all of my friends and certain family members are like, 'Oh, look who got nominated for an Emmy and doesn't want to write me an email back!' I need a good few hours to just sit and get on the phone. -- Max Greenfield
  • What was stolen must be returned -- Neil Finn
  • When much is taken, something is returned. -- Terry Pratchett
  • People, your Government has returned to you! -- Vaclav Havel
  • But Blake's voices returned to dictate revisions. -- Donald Hall
  • Perhaps a great love is never returned. -- Dag Hammarskjold
  • I returned to confirm there can be no return. -- Anna Kamienska
  • Passionate grave thought, belief enhanced, ritual returned and magic. -- Hilda Doolittle
  • If you lend the present, it will never be returned. -- Khang Kijarro Nguyen
  • A kindness received should be returned with a freer hand. -- Ambrose
  • A kindness received should be returned with a freer hand. -- Ambrose
  • Gallowglass returned to Sporrengasse with two vampires and a pretzel. -- Deborah Harkness
  • We went to the Moon as technicians; we returned as humanitarians. -- Edgar Mitchell
  • The familiarity of superiors embitters one, because it may not be returned. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
  • In 1971 I returned to the University of Chicago as Professor of Physics. -- James Cronin
  • You could walk out of the house, but you always returned home. -- Witold Rybczynski
  • Respect is earned, Honesty is appreciated. Trust is gained. Loyalty is returned. -- Auliq Ice
  • God made man in his own image, and man returned the favour. -- Frank Wedekind
  • What he needs now is to love and have that love returned. -- Cassandra Clare
  • What we need is a royal army of returned missionaries reenlisted into service. -- L. Tom Perry
  • It was always difficult to get cattle returned once a marriage was dissolved. -- Dave Eggers
  • ......When one loves, one is only too ready to believe one's love returned. -- Alexandre Dumas
  • When I was done traveling, I returned convinced of one thing: we're nothing. -- Roberto Bolano
  • Every summer Lin Kong returned to Goose Village to divorce his wife, Shuyu. -- Ha Jin
  • Beware of the flight of Blessings, For nothing that runs away is returned. -- Ali ibn Abi Talib
  • The entire world would feel the vibration if America returned to its heart. -- Marianne Williamson
  • I returned to my existence, the existence I had chosen instead of you. -- Jhumpa Lahiri
  • A run has never returned me exactly the same. I go, I grow. -- Kristin Armstrong
  • The problem with human attraction is not knowing if it will be returned. -- Becca Fitzpatrick
  • I carried $5000 when I went to Washington. I returned with barely $90 in our pockets. -- Andrew Jackson
  • We thank you [the soldiers recently returned from the middle east] for your service. -- Garrison Keillor
  • My own journey started long before I left, and was over before I returned. -- John Steinbeck
  • "It's nothing," returned Mrs Chick. "It's merely change of weather. We must expect change." -- Charles Dickens
  • The great creator from his work returned Magnificent, his six days' work, a world. -- John Milton
  • I went to the Democratic Convention as a journalist, and returned a cold-blooded revolutionary. -- Hunter S. Thompson
  • The greatest cure for love is still that time honoured medicine - love returned. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
  • If God has made us in his image, we have returned him the favor. -- Voltaire
  • I believe that my life's gonna see the love I give returned to me. -- John Mayer
  • Ray Bannister started to build the guillotine the day Jerry Renault returned to Monument. -- Robert Cormier
  • All love is sweet Given or returned And its familiar voice wearies not ever. -- Edmund Spenser
  • Then tell Wind and Fire where to stop," returned madame; "but don't tell me. -- Charles Dickens
  • I would have been a Republican if Karl Rove had returned my phone calls. -- Wesley Clark
  • When I marry, it will be to a faithful returned missionary in the Temple. -- Richard G. Scott
  • The fact is that Americans were sent to Russia that have not been returned. -- Bo Gritz
  • If the [captured Israeli] soldiers are not returned, we will turn Lebanon's clock back 20 years. -- Dan Halutz
  • I left Beijing in 1987, shortly before my books were banned there, but have returned continually. -- Ma Jian
  • Usually speaking, the worst-bred person in company is a young traveller just returned from abroad. -- Jonathan Swift
  • Man is rated the highest animal, at least among all animals who returned the questionnaire. -- Robert Breault
  • Children consider disliking their parents natural, but if the dislike is returned, they are outraged. -- Mason Cooley
  • I believe to have been one of the rare drivers to have returned to Ferrari. -- Jacky Ickx
  • Happy is love or friendship when returned-- The lovers whose pure flames have equal burned. -- Bion of Smyrna
  • Geraldo has returned to the states. See? I told you airline security was a joke. -- Jay Leno
  • God created man in his own image. And man, being a gentleman, returned the favor. -- Henri Rousseau
  • Give the needs you lack and they will be returned to you one hundred fold. -- Deepak Chopra
  • We are to love our enemies that they might be returned to their right minds. -- Marianne Williamson
  • It was quite elementary,' returned the detective with a languid gesture of one hand. -- Anthony Horowitz
  • I've really gained an appreciation for what coaches do since I returned to the NFL. -- Mike Singletary
  • We never cry out to God and receive a returned check stamped 'Insufficient grace.' -- Sandy Smith
  • ...Jesus Christ might simply have returned to his carpentry following the use of modern psychiatric treatments. -- William Sargant
  • One of the most difficult things to give away is kindness, for it is usually returned. -- Mark Ortman
  • The lives of prisoners of war after they are returned is almost never discussed, never explored. -- Gideon Raff
  • The most precious love is often the kind that isn't returned, and that is given freely. -- Emily Susan Rapp
  • I have returned. By the grace of Almighty God, our forces stand again on Philippine soil. -- Douglas MacArthur
  • He really had been through death, but he had returned because he could not bear the solitude. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • I returned to poetry as a more precise way to describe the world, more precise than science. -- David Whyte
  • I went away, dear Agnes, loving you. I stayed away, loving you. I returned home, loving you! -- Charles Dickens
  • You have already disarmed my men without my knowledge, are their arms to be returned or not? -- Zebulon Pike
  • By the time I returned to Czechoslovakia, I had an understanding of the principles of the market. -- Vaclav Klaus
  • Historically, it's very unusual after a change of government for the new government not to be returned. -- George Brandis
  • Project Xanadu is essentially my trademark. It was originally, and has returned to my arms as that. -- Ted Nelson
  • The desire to see Okinawa returned to Japan developed into a broad national consensus among our people. -- Eisaku Sato
  • My soul may be returned to the heavens but my heart will remain with you for all eternity. -- Richard Dominguez
  • Soon after I returned to private practice, former Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren Burger called me one day. -- Fred F. Fielding
  • Jesca returned the smile. 'You are a brave one--or perhaps foolhardy.''Difficult to tell,' Cope said cheerily. -- Steve Rzasa
  • I grew up very strongly with this sense of time being circular: that it constantly returned upon itself. -- Richard Flanagan
  • I've always been an outsider. Even in London. If I returned to Scotland, I'd feel a complete foreigner. -- Peter Doig
  • The deterioration of symbols is natural. They wear out, needing to be reclaimed, recreated; returned to the spirit. -- Clarissa Pinkola Estes
  • The NAA way is to operate from a servant's heart, and service will be returned to you exponentially. -- Andy Albright
  • The time to prepare for your next expedition is when you have just returned from a successful trip. -- Robert Peary
  • In a world where the dead have returned to life, the word" trouble' loses much of its meaning. -- Dennis Hopper
  • Our memories are card indexes consulted and then returned in disorder by authorities whom we do not control. -- Cyril Connolly
  • Suspense left my life a long time ago, now it has returned. I do not care for it. -- Ben Marcus
  • I visited many places, Some of them quite Exotic and far away, But I always returned to myself. -- Dejan Stojanovic
  • Abstraction returned as soon as artists tried to come to closer grips with reality than naturalistic representation permitted... -- Sigfried Giedion
  • I've now returned to the business again because I finally realised that I really enjoy the creative process. -- Gil Gerard
  • President Herbert Hoover returned his salary to the government. His idea caught on, and now we're all doing it. -- Sam Ewing
  • Written pages are something that can be returned to, reclaimed, and when they are marvelous, never lose their power. -- James Salter
  • Painting bodies with the patterns of Kusama's hallucinations obliterated their individual selves and returned them to the infinite universe. -- Yayoi Kusama
  • We returned home, after these experiments, with the conviction that sailing flight was not the exclusive prerogative of birds. -- Otto Lilienthal
  • The Spanish troops returned and we could yet discover the grass beaten down in the direction which they went. -- Zebulon Pike
  • But I have returned to one hundred percent playing this year. I am fully back to playing full time. -- Miroslav Vitous
  • Betsy returned to her chair, took off her coat and hat, opened her book and forgot the world again. -- Maud Hart Lovelace
  • I am not the same man you found that day! The monster you've created has returned, to kill you! -- Matthew Woodring Stover
  • All love is sweet Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
  • I have just returned from Boston. It is the only thing to do if you find yourself up there. -- Fred Allen
  • I am told that I had a bad temper, and remember being banished to the back hall until civility returned. -- Paul D. Boyer
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