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«Somehow, not only for Christmas but all the long year through, The joy that you give to others Is the joy that comes back to you. And the more you spend in blessing The poor and lonely and sad, The more of your heart's possessing Returns to you glad.»
Author: John Greenleaf Whittier
(Writer)
| About:
Christmas,
Kindness
| Keywords:
possessing, returns
«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»
Author: Marcelene Cox
| About:
Children,
Gifts,
Politicians
| Keywords:
aunt, aunts, await, Christmas present, district, districts, Fred, his uncle, precinct, presents, returns, Ruth, The District, uncle
«There is only one thing that arouses animals more than pleasure, and that is pain. Under torture you are as if under the dominion of those grasses that produce visions. Everything you have heard told, everything you have read returns to your mind, as if you were being transported, not toward heaven, but toward hell. Under torture you say not only what the inquisitor wants, but also what you imagine might please him, because a bond (this, truly, diabolical) is established between you and him.»
Author: Umberto Eco
(Critic, Novelist)
| Keywords:
arouses, bond, diabolical, dominion, grasses, inquisitor, returns, the Dominion, The Inquisitor, torture, transport, transported, transporting, transports, visions
«Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have lent to me»
Author: Anatole France
(Writer)
| About:
Books
| Keywords:
Book One, folks, For No One, lend, lending library, Lent, library, returns
«Social values in general are incrementally variable: neither safety, diversity, rational articulation, nor morality is categorically a good thing to have more of, without limits. All are subject to diminishing returns, and ultimately negative returns.»
Author: Thomas Sowell
(Economist, Writer)
| Keywords:
articulation, categorically, diminishing, diminishing returns, diversity, returns, subject to, variable, variables
«That one I love who is incapable of ill will, and returns love for hatred. Living beyond the reach of I and mind, and of pain and pleasure, full of mercy, contented, self-controlled, with all his heart and all his mind given to Me / with such a one I am in love.»
Author: Bhagavad Gita
| Keywords:
A-one, beyond control, contented, controlled, ill will, incapable, pain and pleasure, returns
«The rain water enlivens all living beings of the earth both movable (insects, animals, humans, etc.) and immovable (plants, trees, etc.), and then returns to the ocean it value multiplied a million fold.»
Author: Chanakya
(Politician, strategist, Writer)
| Keywords:
enlivens, etc, insects, plants, returns
«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.»
Author: Jean Cocteau
(Actor, Film Director, Novelist, Painter, Poet)
| Keywords:
headlong, returns, shaves
«On my way here I passed a local cinema and it turned out you were expecting me after all, for the billboards read: The Mummy Returns.»
Author: Margaret Thatcher
(Politician, Prime Minister)
| Keywords:
billboard, billboards, mummies, mummy, returns, the Billboard, The Mummy, turned out
«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.»
Author: Victor Hugo
(Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
dawn, eclipse, eclipsed, eclipses, eclipsing, endless, entitle, entitled, entitles, His Resurrection, nations, provided, reappearance, resurrection, resurrections, returns, survival, survivals, synonymous, The Light
