Repays Quotes & Sayings

I know a mount, the gracious Sun perceives
First when he visits, last, too, when he leaves
The world; and, vainly favored, it repays
The day-long glory of his steadfast gaze
By no change of its large calm front of snow. — Robert Browning

One repays a teacher badly if one always remains nothing but a pupil. — Friedrich Nietzsche

[Nature's] crown is Love. Only through Love can we come near her. She puts gulfs between all things, and all things strive to be interfused. She isolates everything, that she may draw everything together. With a few draughts from the cup of Love she repays for a life full of trouble. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

When I was first going through my separation, someone said to me, 'It will take you half as long as you were in the relationship before you'll feel better.' And I wanted to knock them out cold across the table. Because, of course, I was in agony. And the last thing I wanted to think was that I was going to stay that way for a long time. — Uma Thurman

Art is an absolute mistress; she will not be coquetted with or slighted; she requires the most entire self-devotion, and she repays with grand triumphs. — Charlotte Saunders Cushman

One repays a teacher badly if one remains only a pupil. - FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE — Robert Greene

I'll protect you as long as I can."
"I don't deserve it."
I betrayed him, I ruined his life, and this this is how he repays me. — Victoria Aveyard

Love the LORD, all you his g saints! The LORD preserves the faithful but abundantly h repays the one who acts in pride. — Anonymous

Listen to the Lord's appeal: ... Come, then, return to me and learn to know me as your father, who repays good for evil, love for injury, and boundless charity for piercing wounds. — Peter Chrysologus

Thus we see that the lot of the duck hunter is not a happy one. He is the child of frustration, the collector of mishap, the victim of misfortune. He suffers from cold and wet and lack of sleep. He is punished more often than rewarded. Yet he continues. Why? Because one great day
and great days do come, days when the ducks are willing and the gun swings true
repays him many fold for all the others. — Ted Trueblood

Do not tell me what I can and cannot do. I'll be as asian as I want to (Stretches his eyes in a racist manner). — Thom Yorke

What God may have enabled me to do is but a repayment of debt, and he who repays a debt deserves no praise. — Mahatma Gandhi

I'm always gonna rap. Rapping's what I started doing, I even sang when I first started rapping, when I couldn't really sing at all but I always tried. — SonReal

You seize sentiment better when you get clear of nature. You breathe it in every sense! — Jules Verne

Nothing is more contrary to a heavenly hope than an earthly heart. — William Gurnall

Every morning when I wake up, I kiss her forehead as symbol of gratitude and appreciation and she repays me back with a lovely smile. — M.F. Moonzajer

I sometimes think, with a sad delight, that if one day, in a future I no longer belong to, these sentences, that I write, last with praise, I will at last have the people who understand me, those mine, the true family to be born in and be loved ... I will only be understood in effigy, when affection no longer repays the dead the unaffection that was, when living. — Fernando Pessoa

I still think reading something like 'Ulysses' takes a tremendous investment of time, but it repays all of it with so much interest. — D. B. Weiss

I lost someone close to me once . . . Taught me to live in the moment. Life is short, you know? — Brent Jones

In all the world there is nothing so remarkable as a great man, nothing so rare, nothing which so well repays study. — Theodore Parker

It is the gift of stories that most repays life among settled people. — Robert Michael Pyle

My life is ungrateful to me. I do so much for it to be comfortable, and still, it repays me by throwing tantrums left and right. As soon as I think it's time for a present due to all my efforts, I get repaid with ingratitude. If this is how my life treats me, then maybe it's time I mistreat it, as well. — Lange Weile

I've lived in New York long enough to understand why some people hate it here: the crowds, the noise, the traffic, the expense, the rents; the messed-up sidewalks and pothole-pocked streets; the weather that brings hurricanes named after girls that break your heart and take away everything.
It requires a certain kind of unconditional love to love living here. But New York repays you in time in memorable encounters, at the very least. Just remember: ask first, don't grab, be fair, say please and thank you- even if you don't get something back right away. You will. — Bill Hayes

A clover that sprouts four leaves, rather than three, is a mutation and is considered 'lucky' according to Irish mythology. Why? According to Celtic lore, each leaf of clover represents something special. One leaf represents faith, one hope, one love and, and , if a fourth leaf is present, that's luck. — Leslie Le Mon

Take me less seriously.) 10. Paying the piper. (Parenthood repays a debt. But who wants to pay a debt she can escape? Apparently, the childless get away with something sneaky. Besides, what good is repaying a debt to the wrong party? Only the most warped mother could feel rewarded for her trouble by the fact that at last her daughter's life is hideous, too.) Those, as best I can recall, are the pygmy misgivings I weighed beforehand, and I've tried not to — Lionel Shriver

Nature is just to all mankind, and repays them for their industry. She renders them industrious by annexing rewards in proportion to their labor. — Baron De Montesquieu

He who receives a benefit with gratitude, repays the first installment of it. — Seneca The Younger

A true friend
repays loyalty with loyalty,
honesty with honesty
and favours with favours. — Theodore Volgoff

I think that in any argument about right or wrong in football, a reference to Don Revie's Leeds United is the nuclear option. There is, quite simply, nowhere to go after that. There has never been a more horrible football team. The Leeds of the Seventies were found guilty, week in, week out, of crimes against humanity. — Giles Smith

Hard habit to break, friendship. — Rachel Caine

Every small positive change we make in ourselves repays us in confidence in the future. — Alice Walker