Back Again Quotes - Page 8

• It's undeserved success that people are so terribly afraid of losing; they know they haven't any way, themselves, of ever getting it back again.

  Mary Deasy

  Success, People, Way

  Mary Deasy (1955). “The Boy who Made Good”

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• He that has no present Christ has a future, dark, chaotic, heaving with its destructive ocean; and over it there goes forever--black-pinioned winging its solitary and hopeless flight, the raven of his anxious thoughts, and finds no place to rest, and comes back again to the desolate ark with its foreboding croak of evil in the present and evil in the future.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Ocean, Dark, Anxious Thoughts

  Alexander Maclaren (1859). “Sermons preached in Union chapel, Manchester”, p.289

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• I was acquainted once with a gallant soldier who assured me that his only measure of courage was this: upon the first fire, in an engagement, he immediately looked upon himself as a dead man. He then bravely fought out the remainder of the day, perfectly regardless of all manner of danger, as becomes a dead man to be. So that all the life or limbs he carried back again to his tent he reckoned as clear gains, or, as he himself expressed it, so much out of the fire.

  Laurence Sterne

  Men, Fire, Soldier

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• There are several states that move from Karl Marx-like policies to Adam Smith-like policies and back again in a weekend. So for the states with huge volatility in their income tax policies over time, the differences in growth rates in those periods are really amazingly consistent with tax rates really mattering.

  Arthur Laffer

  Moving, Weekend, Differences

  "How Low Can They Go? Arthur Laffer Defends Slashing State Income Taxes". Interview with Paul Solman, www.pbs.org. August 1, 2013.

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• We are born to be ourselves-in need of upgrading the gene-to look back again and again and befriend the person we once intended to become.

  Joan Anderson

  Change, Needs, Looks

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• Come back again, old heart! Ah me! Methinks in those thy coward fears There might, perchance, a courage be, That fails in these the manlier years; Courage to let the courage sink, Itself a coward base to think, Rather than not for heavenly light Wait on to show the truly right.

  Arthur Hugh Clough

  Heart, Thinking, Light

  Arthur Hugh Clough, Thomas Burbidge (1849). “Ambarvalia: Poems”, p.14

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• The sense of a long last night over civilization is back again; it has perhaps not been here so intensely in thirty years, not since the Nazis were prospering, but it is coming back.

  Norman Mailer

  Night, Years, Civilization

  Norman Mailer (1970). “Cannibals and Christians”

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• He who boasts of a favor bestowed, would like it back again.

  Publilius Syrus

  Favors, Boast

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• If there's a heaven upon the earth, a fellow knows it when He's been away from home a week, and then gets back again.

  Will Carleton

  Home, Heaven, Earth

  Will Carleton (2001). “Farm Ballads”, p.72, Applewood Books

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• I have to make about a million proofs of everything. I don’t know, it’s just a repetition, like a meditation. You come back to something and then you leave it, and then you come back again and you leave it, and each time it changes. And sometimes you have to wait for new information inside yourself to be able to finish something, to find out how it should go.

  Kiki Smith

  Meditation, Waiting, Information

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• If you put something fragrant on to burning coals, you motivate those who approach to come back again and to stay near, but if instead you put on something with an unpleasant, oppressive smell, you repel them and drive them away. It is the same with the mind. If your attention is occupied with what is holy, you make yourself worthy of being visited by God, since this is the sweet savour which God catches scent of. On the other hand, if you nurture evil, foul and earthly thoughts within you, you remove yourself from God's supervision and unfortunately make yourself worthy of His aversion.

  Gregory Palamas

  Christian, Sweet, Hands

  Saint Gregory Palamas, Christopher Veniamin, Monastery of St. John the Baptist (Essex, England) (2009). “The homilies”, Mount Thabor Pub

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• You throw the sand against the wind and the wind blows it back again.

  William Blake

  Blow, Wind, Sand

  'MS Note-Book' p. 7

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• Wish I could spin my world into reverse just to have you back again

  David Guetta

  Wish, World, Reverse

  Song: Gettin' Over, Album: One Love, 2009

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• Neurotic: someone who can go from the bottom to the top, and back again, without ever once touching the middle.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Touching, Middle, Bottom

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.65, BookBaby

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• We must go back again and again to the Gospel of Christ crucified, so that our hearts are more deeply gripped by the reality of what He did and who we are in Him.

  Timothy Keller

  Heart, Reality, Who We Are

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• I sing about what a holy fool I am, and that although moments in my life are so cruel and relationships can be so cruel I'm still in love with Judas. I still go back again to those evil things.

  Lady G

  Evil, Fool, Moments

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• The trouble with magic is that there's too much it just can't fix. When things go wrong, glimpsing junkyard faerie and crows that can turn into girls and back again doesn't help much. The useful magic's never at hand. The three wishes and the genies in bottles, seven-league boots, invisible cloaks and all. They stay in the stories, while out here in the wide world we have to muddle through as best we can on our own.

  Charles de Lint

  Girl, Hands, League

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• Everything the Power of the World does is done in a circle. The sky is round, and I have heard that the earth is round like a ball, and so are all the stars. The wind, in its greatest power whirls. Birds make their nest in circles... The sun comes forth and goes down again in a circle. The moon does the same and both are round. Even the seasons form a great circle in their changing, and always come back again to where they were.

  John Neihardt

  Stars, Native American, Moon

  "Black Elk Speaks : being the life story of a holy man of the Ogalala Sioux" by John Neihardt, (Ch. 17), 1961.

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• Be not disgusted, nor discouraged, nor dissatisfied, if thou dost not succeed in doing everything according to right principles; but when thou bast failed, return back again, and be content if the greater part of what thou doest is consistent with man's nature, and love this to which thou returnest

  Marcus Aurelius

  Love, Men, Return Back

  Marcus Aurelius (2016). “Meditations”, p.31, Enhanced Media Publishing

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• Everybody - even huge movie stars - have downs. That's just how it is. The work ebbs and flows. My manager and I were saying, 'Let's remember that in 2013 we were soooo busy.' So whenever it is that we're not, maybe it'll come back again. Maybe it won't. But you've gotta love the ride.

  Betsy Brandt

  Love, Stars, Ebb And Flow

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Nostalgia is the aching realization that you can't go back again. The longing, no matter how intense, can never be met.

  R. C. Sproul, Jr.

  Realization, Matter, Nostalgia

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• I am dead against art's being self-expression. I see an inherent failure in any story which fails to detach itself from the author-detach itself in the sense that a well-blown soap-bubble detaches itself from the bowl of the blower's pipe and spherically takes off into the air as a new, whole, pure, iridescent world. Whereas the ill-blown bubble, as children know, timidly adheres to the bowl's lip, then either bursts or sinks flatly back again.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Art, Children, Air

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• DAYS THAT I'LL REMEMBER is a lovingly assembled and beautifully written collection of conversations, observations, and memories of music, friendship, and days gone by. It's good to be back again with John Lennon, his beloved Yoko Ono, and his trusted chronicler and friend Jonathan Cott.

  Martin Scorsese

  Memories, Days Gone By, Beloved

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• To ask for power is forcing uphill a stone which after all rolls back again from the summit and seeks in headlong haste the levels of the plain.

  Lucretius

  Power, Haste, Levels

  Lucretius (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Lucretius (Illustrated)”, p.85, Delphi Classics

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• The sun was in mind to come out but having a look at the weather it was in lost heart and went back again.

  Brendan Behan

  Heart, Weather, Mind

  "Confessions of an Irish Rebel". Book by Brendan Behan, 1967.

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