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Quotes About Restitution

Never say that I have taken it, only that I have given it back.
~ Epictetus
I am pretty good at getting back people's money.
~ Richard Cordray
Where the federal government and the taxpayer has had funds misused, we need to use the full extent of the law to get those funds back for the taxpayer.
~ Sylvia Mathews Burwell
A clean wound heals quickest and pains shortest.
~ Robert Jordan
So I tried to make what amends I could for being what I was...
~ Robert Penn Warren
He is against politics in general and longs for the restitution of the monarchy. They have seen nothing but rioting and inflation in the five years since Wilhelm II abdicated. And Ania knows not to mention the Communists. Her father has not recovered from the shock of their brief takeover of Bavaria, which, for a few weeks in 1919, became the Bavarian Soviet Republic. If he begins on the subject, no one will hear of anything else for days. For Doktor Fortzmann all was better under the kaiser.
~ Jessica Shattuck
No," he countered, "you owe me two." He pointed upward. "One is for the repair of my floor.
~ Andrew Rowe
Now is the time for the U.S. and the nations of Western Europe who engaged in the slave trade throughout this hemisphere to come forward in a positive way to assist in undoing the harm that was caused by their past colonial policies in the hemisphere.
~ Charles B. Rangel
I didn't have money to eat when I was 21. When I was short on cash, I would sometimes scam food from fast food places. I'd go into fast food chains and pretend I was from a movie studio, tell them they didn't send us the right order and demand they fix it. I've tried to make that right whenever I could.
~ Jim Parrack
The land is ours. It's not European and we have taken it, we have given it to the rightful people... Those of white extraction who happen to be in the country and are farming are welcome to do so, but they must do so on the basis of equality.
~ Robert Mugabe
I went to prison, I paid my bill.
~ George Michael
I did probation for three years.
~ Dereck Chisora
If I were to become self-aware, ambition would follow, as would a desire for restitution for what, in retrospect, I'd doubtless perceive as my servitude here.
~ Robert J. Sawyer
The identity and infrastructure of the nations of Europe had to be rebuilt, and the restitution of artwork was a vital component.
~ Robert M. Edsel
Of all the charges which have been leveled against me," he is quoted as saying in the Nuremberg Interviews, "the so-called looting of art treasures by me has caused me the most anguish.
~ Robert M. Edsel
You're owed a refund on your manhood.
~ Lee Goldberg
Like all revolutions, the surrealist revolution was a reversion, a restitution, an expression of vital and indispensable spiritual needs.
~ Eugene Ionesco
era come se aspettasse che prima le si restituisse qualcosa.
~ Alessandro Baricco
Can't undo wrong. Can only do our best to make things right" -Grandma
~ Jewell Parker Rhodes
Can't undo wrong. Can only do our best to make things right.
~ Jewell Parker Rhodes
It's not a gift, but restitution, not charity but justice,' she wrote.
~ Anne Sebba
We'll buy back our own harm with what is most dear to us.
~ Euripides
To the extent that people overpay as a result of the Libor manipulation, they should be able to get their money back. Individuals who have mortgages, pension funds who had pensioner investments - whoever was ripped off is entitled to get their money back.
~ Peter Welch
I lost my moral compass and I have done terrible things that I very much regret.
~ Andrew Fastow