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Returns decrease as motion increases. -- Warren Buffett
Batman Returns' was a huge movie and one of my favorites growing up. It's incredible. -- Robin Lord Taylor
If you refuse to see Superman Returns this summer, what you're saying about yourself is: I heart Al Qaeda. -- Christian Finnegan
The Law of Diminishing Returns is true of everything in life, except sex, which seems endlessly repeatable with effect. -- Robert McKee
I'm back... and you knew I was coming. On my way here I passed a cinema with the sign 'The Mummy Returns'. -- Margaret Thatcher
And the more you spend in blessing The poor and lonely and sad, The more of your heart's possessing Returns to you glad. -- John Greenleaf Whittier
Earth does not understand her child, Who from the loud gregarious town Returns, depleted and defiled, To the still woods, to fling him down. -- Edna St. Vincent Millay
Other composers have taken this particular technique much further than I in the meantime, with the result that the Law of Diminishing Returns has begun to apply. -- Brian Ferneyhough
I explain the law of compensation like this: 'Returns are minimal in spite of massive effort at the start, yet returns can be massive with minimal effort over time. -- Robert Kiyosaki
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When I read Frank Miller's 'The Dark Knight Returns', I think it's a wonderful record of the Reagan era. I think it's amazing. This is the time I lived in. -- Max Brooks
So Europe's a big driver. And at one point, if the euro hadn't devalued, they would have been making as much money as the US with half the stores. Returns were higher. -- Jim Cantalupo
The morning breaks; the steeds in their stalls Stamp and neigh, as the hostler calls; The day returns, but nevermore Returns the traveler to the shore, And the tide rises, the tide falls. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I think Batman Returns is right for riffs. I love it but it's the ultimate Tim Burton movie. There is so much that happens that's crazy and there are a ton of things to riff. -- Baron Vaughn
Of all the things I've done, the first 'Strongman' story was one of the easiest things to write. It was almost fully formed from the get-go. It's almost a 'Dark Knight Returns' riff, except you have a battle-worn Mexican wrestler instead of Batman. -- Charles Soule
I know it's hard to blame the time, but there's a bit of an expectation for a summer movie. I think that 'Superman Returns' was a bit nostalgic and romantic, and I don't think that was what people were expecting, especially in the summer. -- Bryan Singer
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The undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveler returns. -- William Shakespeare
Life comes from the earth and life returns to the earth. -- Zhuangzi
An angry man is again angry with himself when he returns to reason. -- Publilius Syrus
There are two main drivers of asset class returns - inflation and growth. -- Ray Dalio
Investing in early childhood nutrition is a surefire strategy. The returns are incredibly high. -- Anne M. Mulcahy
A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it. -- George A. Moore
When a father, absent during the day, returns home at six, his children receive only his temperament, not his teaching. -- Robert Bly
I believe in Karma. If the good is sown, the good is collected. When positive things are made, that returns well. -- Yannick Noah
There is always a period when a man with a beard shaves it off. This period does not last. He returns headlong to his beard. -- Jean Cocteau
Our children await Christmas presents like politicians getting in election returns: there's the Uncle Fred precinct and the Aunt Ruth district still to come in. -- Marcelene Cox
I believe the returns on investment in the poor are just as exciting as successes achieved in the business arena, and they are even more meaningful! -- Bill Gates
Now, one thing I tell everyone is learn about real estate. Repeat after me: real estate provides the highest returns, the greatest values and the least risk. -- Armstrong Williams
Where you have no religion, you are sure to have no government, for as religion disappears, anarchy takes place and fixes a compleat Hell on earth till religion returns. -- Daniel Morgan
The universe lies before you on the floor, in the air, in the mysterious bodies of your dancers, in your mind. From this voyage no one returns poor or weary. -- Agnes de Mille
The fact is, every thinker, every philosopher, the moment he is forced to abandon his one-sided intellectual occupation by practical necessity, immediately returns to the general point of view of mankind. -- Ernst Mach
We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from... Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements. -- William Shakespeare
I really thought I was on the way out. My husband Blake saved my life. Often I don't know what I do, then the next day the memory returns. And then I am engulfed in shame. -- Amy Winehouse
A paradigm shift, where, in addition to physical inputs for farming, a focused emphasis placed on knowledge inputs can be a promising way forward. This knowledge-based approach will bring immense returns, particularly in rain fed and dry land farming areas. -- Pratibha Patil
Nations, like stars, are entitled to eclipse. All is well, provided the light returns and the eclipse does not become endless night. Dawn and resurrection are synonymous. The reappearance of the light is the same as the survival of the soul. -- Victor Hugo
My mother and father had so many ups and downs and stayed with each other and helped each other. My mother took in ironing and she was a waitress. My father was working in the factory and he did people's tax returns. -- Patti Smith
All of imagination - everything that we think, we feel, we sense - comes through the human brain. And once we create new patterns in this brain, once we shape the brain in a new way, it never returns to its original shape. -- Jay S. Walker
Hosting the Olympic Games of course guarantees the world's attention, but there is more to it than simply bathing in the global spotlight. Most importantly, host cities can use the opportunity to create a positive and lasting legacy, resulting in both tangible and intangible returns to local communities. -- Eduardo Paes
Countries with higher levels of gender equality have higher economic growth. Companies with more women on their boards have higher returns. Peace agreements that include women are more successful. Parliaments with more women take up a wider range of issues - including health, education, anti-discrimination, and child support. -- Ban Ki-moon
A revival does two things. First, it returns the Church from her backsliding and second, it causes the conversion of men and women; and it always includes the conviction of sin on the part of the Church. What a spell the devil seems to cast over the Church today! -- Billy Sunday
After costs, only the top 3% of managers produce a return that indicates they have sufficient skill to just cover their costs, which means that going forward, and despite extraordinary past returns, even the top performers are expected to be only as good as a low-cost passive index fund. The other 97% can be expected to do worse. -- Eugene Fama
Happiness always returns to port . . . -- Duong Thu Huong
When liberty returns, I will return. -- Victor Hugo
Happiness pursued eludes, happiness given returns. -- John Templeton
Modesty once lost, never returns into favour. -- Publilius Syrus
Sleep comes more easily than it returns. -- Victor Hugo
Activity is the enemy of investment returns. -- Warren Buffett
In stillness the muddied water returns to clarity. -- Laozi
You can't be normal and expect abnormal returns. -- Jeffrey Pfeffer
But one always returns to one's first loves. -- Etienne Aigner
People don't talk much about my punt returns. -- Richard Sherman
Now Spring returns; but not to me returns. -- Michael Bruce
One returns to the place one came from. -- Jean de La Fontaine
Love, like reputation, once fled, never returns more. -- Aphra Behn
Improve with each breath. Every negative vibration returns 10 fold. -- Harbhajan Singh Yogi
An honor prudently declined often returns with increased luster. -- Livy
You can't find returns in investments you haven't made. -- Clayton Christensen
An investment in education always pays the highest returns. -- Benjamin Franklin
An education is the investment with the greatest returns. -- Benjamin Franklin
The out-of-date returns in due course as the picturesque. -- Agatha Christie
Good counsel rejected returns to enrich the givers bosom. -- Oliver Goldsmith
Investment performance doesn't determine real-life returns; investor behavior does. -- Nick Murray
Trust God in the dark until the light returns. -- Aiden Wilson Tozer
Any act in the name of God returns 10 fold. -- Harbhajan Singh Yogi
Never lend books, for no one ever returns them -- Anatole France
All things flourish, and each returns to its source. -- Laozi
There is no such thing as high returns without risk. -- Gerry Schwartz
Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value - zero. -- Voltaire
Richard Nixon released tax returns when he was under audit. -- Tim Kaine
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Love opens my chest, and thought returns to its confines. -- Rumi
A boomerang returns back to the person who throws it. -- Vera Nazarian
Sanity returns (in most cases) when the book is closed. -- Ursula K. Le Guin
Strategy is, above all else, the search for above average returns. -- Gary Hamel
Voting is fundamental in our democracy. It has yielded enormous returns. -- Arlen Specter
The only imaginative fiction being written today is income tax returns. -- Herman Wouk
Having different types of stocks in your portfolio can enhance returns. -- Kenneth Fisher
But every one has a besetting sin to which he returns. -- Jean de La Fontaine
Confidence, like the soul, never returns whence it has once departed -- Publilius Syrus
Tax returns give you nothing. Tax returns give you no information. -- Donald Trump
In the life of one man, never The same time returns. -- T. S. Eliot
That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The cheaper the stock, the better the outlook for future returns. -- Robert Haugen
The law of diminishing returns is something I really believe in. -- Thomas Keller
One's fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride. -- Bernard Malamud
What goes out always returns; remember to be kind to yourself. -- Janni Styles
I get diminishing returns when I bore myself in an interview. -- Ben Harper
Drive away what springs from nature; it returns at a gallop. -- Philippe Nericault Destouches
Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today. -- Herman Wouk
The best art on a football field usually happens during kickoff returns. -- Kevin Sampsell
The networks are not some chicken-coop manufacturing lobby whose calls nobody returns. -- Ralph Nader
For ebbing resolution ne'er returns, But falls still further from its former shore. -- Alec Douglas-Home
Yes, instruction! Light! Light! Everything comes from light, and to everything it returns. -- Victor Hugo
I'll bring my tax returns; you bring yours. I'll meet you anytime anywhere. -- Warren Buffett
Karate is like boiling water: without heat, it returns to it's tepid state -- Gichin Funakoshi
The hero wanders, the hero suffers, the hero returns. You are that hero. -- Steven Pressfield
The miracle of compounding returns is overwhelmed by the tyranny of compounding costs. -- John C. Bogle
Death walks faster than the wind and never returns what he has taken. -- Hans Christian Andersen
Awakening in the morning returns us to life, and to awareness of death. -- Mason Cooley
We need the dark to appreciate the light. And the light always returns. -- Cheryl Richardson
The more fully we give our energy, the more it returns to us. -- Gautama Buddha
We are fallen mostly into pieces but the wild returns us to ourselves -- Robert Macfarlane
Every action generates a force of energy that returns to us in kind. -- Deepak Chopra
The day For whose returns, and many, all these pray; And so do I. -- Ben Jonson
The hardest thing for me is the sense of impermanence. All passes; nothing returns. -- Ellen Glasgow
Whoever has character also has his typical experience, which returns over and over again. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Knowledge is the only instrument of production that is not subject to diminishing returns. -- John Maurice Clark
The mind that opens to a new idea never returns to its original size -- Albert Einstein
The way to build long-term returns is through preservation of capital and home runs. -- Stanley Druckenmiller
The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sometimes I'm happy when he's gone, but I'm always happy when he returns. -Clare -- Audrey Niffenegger
Surprise! The returns reported by mutual funds aren't actually earned by mutual fund investors. -- John C. Bogle
As far as my tax returns, you don't learn that much from tax returns. -- Donald Trump
All things but one you can restore; the heart you get returns no more. -- Edmund Waller
Investments in greater email marketing sophistication often lead to even higher returns, not diminishing returns. -- Chad White
The essence of investment management is the management of risks, not the management of returns. -- Benjamin Graham
But still, the other voice, the intuitive, returns, like grass forcing its way through concrete. -- Susan Griffin
It was considered very bad form to wish authors on their birthdays 'many happy returns. -- Olivia Goldsmith
Only a strong economy can create higher asset values and sustainably good returns for savers. -- Ben Bernanke

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