Economy is a savings-bank, into which men drop pennies, and get dollars in return.
Josh Billings

When I write about a 15-year old, I jump, I return to the days when I was that age. It's like a time machine. I can remember everything. I can feel the wind. I can smell the air. Very actually. Very vividly.
Haruki Murakami

I would return to the Blackadder character if the opportunity came up. I have no qualms about that at all.
Rowan Atkinson

At a car dealership, the person who sells the car is the hero, and also gets the commission. But if the mechanics don't service that car well, the customer won't return.
Roger Staubach

Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass out into adventure and sunshine, to them, alas! we return.
E. M. Forster

To the dumb question, why me? The cosmos barely bothers to return the reply: 'Why not.'
Christopher Hitchens

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

I feel that the Christian experience and the Jewish one have much to give each other. If this open society continues and there is no return to political anti-Semitism, then this encounter, deeper than any theology, may happen.
Lionel Blue

On the way to work good-hearted young girls sometimes offer me their seats, which I accept and bless them in return, a transaction satisfying to all concerned.
Lionel Blue

The circle of the return to birth can only remain open, but this is a chance, a sign of life, and a wound.
Jacques Derrida

When our thousands of Chinese students abroad return home, you will see how China will transform itself.
Deng Xiaoping

We lavish on animals the love we are afraid to show to people. They might not return it; or worse, they might.
Mignon McLaughlin

Our destiny is greatness and we must return to its fulfillment.
Paul Tsongas

The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past.
Robertson Davies

I have tried to lift France out of the mud. But she will return to her errors and vomitings. I cannot prevent the French from being French.
Charles de Gaulle

The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.
Gore Vidal

Their plan is to return the entire world - not just the Middle East - to the days of the caliphate and either convert all of us so-called infidels into born-again Islamic believers or kill us.
David Hackworth

Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Remember that lost time does not return.
Thomas a Kempis

Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. Like friends, too, we should return to them again and again for, like true friends, they will never fail us - never cease to instruct - never cloy.
Charles Caleb Colton