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Quotes About Returned

You have already disarmed my men without my knowledge, are their arms to be returned or not?
~ Zebulon Pike
I thought I was benefiting the Indians as well as the government, by taking them all over the United States, and giving them a correct idea of the customs, life, etc., of the pale faces, so that when they returned to their people they could make known all they had seen.
~ Buffalo Bill
The Palestinians must understand that this is our home, to which we have returned, and we also have to understand that this is the homeland of all those born to it.
~ Reuven Rivlin
The fact is that Americans were sent to Russia that have not been returned.
~ Bo Gritz
I was in the utmost astonishment, and roared so loud that they all ran back in a fright; and some of them, as I was afterwards told, were hurt with the falls they got by leaping from my sides upon the ground. However, they soon returned
~ Jonathan Swift
Out of this city marched armies that seemed to be great, and afterwards were when glory had magnified them. As the years went by, an occasional soldier returned, and with a foreign trace to his speech, told tales of what had happened to him in places called Ituzaingo or Ayacucho. These things, now, are as if they had never been. --Martin Fierro
~ Jorge Luís Borges
Jealousy, you know, is usually not an affair of causes. It is much more-how shall I say?-fundamental than that. Based on the knowledge that one's love is not returned. And so one goes on waiting, watching, expecting...that the loved one will turn to someone else.
~ Agatha Christie
In the end, the Company sued for peace. Haidar was successfully bought off: a treaty was signed and the Mysore forces returned home. But the fact that the Company could
~ William Dalrymple
We returned home, after these experiments, with the conviction that sailing flight was not the exclusive prerogative of birds.
~ Otto Lilienthal
Respect is not an obligation nor a favour, it takes a bigger person to give or show some whether it is returned or not.
~ Unarine Ramaru
I am Birgitte Silverbow, Birgitte announced, as if to dispel doubt. The Horn of Valere has sounded, calling all to the Last Battle. The heroes have returned!
~ Robert Jordan
I am a drop of gold he would say I am molten matter returned from the core of earth to tell you interior things-
~ Anne Carson
Our memories are card indexes consulted and then returned in disorder by authorities whom we do not control.
~ Cyril Connolly
While you were anesthetized to the tragedy of life you were able to survive. When clarity was returned to you, when it was painstakingly restored, it could drive you mad.
~ Salman Rushdie
I thought that love was a river, endless and deep. I thought it merely happened, washing over you like water. It was nothing to search for, nothing to force. I didn't understand that even when we can't control our fate, we alone have the last say in matters of the heart. We can give it freely, even in the worst of times, even when it isn't returned.
~ Alice Hoffman
glowered, and she returned
~ Amy Tan
The greatest cure for love is still that time honoured medicine - love returned.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
I was born in Mexico because my father was teaching at a school in Mexico City. I was born during the third year he was there. And when I was 16, I returned to Mexico to learn Spanish.
~ Lupita Nyong'o
Hope, whose whisper would have given Balm to all my frenzied pain, Stretched her wings, and soared to heaven, Went, and ne'er returned again!
~ Emily Bronte
I am a gold lender because I own more gold than I can use in my own trade. I desire my surplus gold to labor for others and thereby earn more gold. I do not wish to take risk of losing my gold for I have labored much and denied myself much to secure it. Therefore, I will no longer lend any of it where I am not confident that it is safe and will be returned to me. Neither will I lend it where I am not convinced that its earnings will be promptly paid to me.
~ George S. Clason
Six hours later, when I returned, I was greeted at the door- and this before it was even opened -by the overpowering smell of vinegar. What were my neighbors thinking? That a douche-obsessed woman with a gigantic, three-foot vagina lived next door?
~ Augusten Burroughs
I returned home feeling renewed gratitude for the sacrifices of our troops.
~ Ben S. Bernanke
All love is sweet Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
All love is sweet Given or returned And its familiar voice wearies not ever.
~ Edmund Spenser