Coming Back Quotes - Page 2

• I keep coming back to you in my head, but you couldn't know that, and I have no carbons.

  Adrienne Rich

  I Miss You, Missing You, Missing Someone

  Adrienne Rich (1971). “The Will to Change: Poems 1968-1970”, p.26, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Look as long as you can at the friend you love,
  no matter whether that friend is moving away from you
  or coming back toward you.

  Rumi

  Moving, Long, Looks

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• When I do things with people it's not with the hopes of them coming back because that would be a selfish reason for me to do anything.

  Mic Geronimo

  Selfish, People, Would Be

  Source: halftimeonline.net

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• Coming back to your native land after an absence of many years is a surprisingly unsettling business, a little like waking from a long coma. Time, you discover, has wrought changes that leave you feeling mildly foolish and out of touch.

  Bill Bryson

  Years, Land, Long

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• I kept quiet, but the knowledge gathered like a storm. I could see the future: My father wasn't coming back. And this one fact seemed to point to other facts and others still: Love frays and humans fail, time passes, eras end.

  Karen Thompson Walker

  Father, Storm, Eras

  Karen Thompson Walker (2012). “The Age of Miracles: A Novel”, p.219, Random House

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• It's never safe to be nostalgic about something until you're absolutely certain there's no chance of its coming back

  Bill Vaughan

  Safe, Chance, Nostalgia

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• If the employees come first, then they're happy. A motivated employee treats the customer well. The customer is happy so they keep coming back, which pleases the shareholders. It's not one of the enduring green mysteries of all time, it is just the way it works.

  Herb Kelleher

  Airline Business, Green, Way

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• Every day is Thanksgiving for me, man. Yeah, I still have an audience, and they ask the local promoter, "When is Al coming back?"

  Al Jarreau

  Men, Als, Yeah

  "Jazz vocalist Al Jarreau". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. November 5, 2013.

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• The scroll is coming back (Twitter is a scroll.)

  Margaret Atwood

  Interview with Paul D. Miller, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• The ultimate purpose of Zen,' I remembered the roshi telling me, 'is not in the going away from the world but in the coming back. Zen is not just a matter of gaining enlightenment; it's a matter of acting in a world of love and compassion.

  Pico Iyer

  Love, Compassion, Going Away

  Pico Iyer (2006). “The Lady and the Monk: Four Seasons in Kyoto”, p.336, Tauris Parke Paperbacks

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• I wish I was still an atheist. Believing I was born into a harsh, uncaring cosmos - in which my existence was a random roll of the dice and I was destined to die and rot and then be gone forever - was infinitely more comforting than the truth. Because the truth is that my God is coming back. When he arrives I’ll be waiting for him with a shotgun. And I’m keeping the last shell for myself.

  Charles Stross

  Atheist, Believe, Waiting

  "The Fuller Memorandum (The Laundry Files, Book 3)". Book by Charles Stross, July 1, 2010.

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• I'm coming back to what you said about seeing and listening and hearing. I had to think of a remark that I heard yesterday, somebody came and said ' I saw you concert' Can we change the usage of, of this phrase please? And I hope that some of the people in our concert tonight will listen and even hear what we are doing!

  Alfred Brendel

  Thinking, Yesterday, People

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• It's nice to have some continuity you can come back to. I feel that in coming home, coming back to London.

  Felicity Jones

  Nice, Home, London

  "Felicity Jones and the buzz about Hysteria" by Emine Saner, www.theguardian.com. September 10, 2012.

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• Make notes—I’ve lost more material than I’ve ever written. Contrary to popular opinion, it’s not still up there in one’s brain. It’s in outer space and it ain’t coming back.

  Judith Guest

  Writing, Space, Brain

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• When someone shows you how little you mean to them and you keep coming back for more, before you know it you start to mean less to yourself.

  Lena Dunham

  Mean, Littles, Kind Of Girl

  Lena Dunham (2014). “Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned"”, p.61, Random House

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• If you have to give a carnival to get people to come to church, then you will have to keep giving carnivals to keep them coming back.

  Charles Spurgeon

  People, Giving, Church

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• Because it's kind of great, being an idea that everybody likes. But I could never be the idea to myself, not all the way. And Agloe is a place where a paper creation became real. A dot on the map became a real place, more real than the people who created the dot could never have imagined. I thought maybe the paper cutout of a girl could start becoming real here also. And it seemed like a way to tell that paper girl who cared about popularity and clothes and everything else: 'You are going to the paper towns. And you are never coming back.

  John Green

  Girl, Real, Ideas

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• And I saw Australia anew through her eyes. And I realised what a tremendously thrilling country it was. And ever since then I have been coming back regularly.

  Robert Helpmann

  Country, Art, Eye

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• I was always nervous about coming back to Australia which was a complete hangover of the days when I left when ballet was not accepted, when I was not accepted, when I was considered a freak for wanting to be a ballet dancer. And, to be 100% honest, I rather dreaded coming back.

  Robert Helpmann

  Art, Hangover, Australia

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

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• My mom's coming home soon," I said. "We should go to your place." Patch ran a hand across the shadow of stubble along his jaw. "I have rules about who I take there." I was getting really tired of that answer. "If you showed me, you'd have to kill me?" I guessed, fighting the urge to feel irritated. "Once I'm inside, I can never leave?" Patch studied me a moment. Then he reached into his pocket, twisted a key off his key chain, and slipped it into the front pocket of my pajama top. "Once you've gone inside, you have to keep coming back.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Mom, Home, Tired

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.539, Simon and Schuster

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• If you listen to a song and get an image in your head, and then you go home and watch mtv and the image they're showing is the same as the one in your head, kill yourself. You're better off coming back as a lobster.

  Lewis Black

  Funny, Song, Home

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• The search for total knowledge starts from the Self and finds its fulfillment in coming back to the Self, finding that everything is the expression of the Self - everything is the expression of my own Self.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Self, Expression, Fulfillment

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• I don't know... there's something kind of beautiful about it, don't you think? That we keep living and growing even though our world is a corpse? That we keep coming back no matter how many of us die?

  Isaac Marion

  Beautiful, Thinking, Our World

  Isaac Marion (2016). “Warm Bodies and The New Hunger: A Special 5th Anniversary Edition”, p.157, Simon and Schuster

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• The commemoration of Christ's saving Passion is at hand, and the new, great spiritual Passover, which is the reward for dispassion and the prelude of the world to come. Lazarus proclaims it in advance by coming back from the depths of Hades and rising from the dead on the fourth day just by voice and command of God, Who has power over life and death (cf. Jn. 11:1-45).

  Gregory Palamas

  Christian, Spiritual, Passion

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

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• Some places are like family. They annoy us to no end, especially during the holidays, but we keep coming back for more because we know, deep in our hearts, that our destinies are intertwined.

  Eric Weiner

  Heart, Holiday, Destiny

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