Coming Back Quotes - Page 3

• He was tall, one of the tallest men she had ever seen. Dressed in jeans, boots and a cotton shirt. Thick black hair grew rakishly long, falling over the collar of his shirt. Intense brown eyes, almost the color of amber, surveyed the diner slowly before coming back to her. Electricity sizzled in the air then, as though invisible currents connected them, forcing her to recognize him on a primitive level. Not that she wouldn’t take notice anyway. He was power, strength, and so incredibly male that her breath caught at the sight of him.

  Lora Leigh

  Fall, Eye, Men

  Lora Leigh (2018). “Elizabeth's Wolf”, p.34, Penguin

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• My manners have always been the first thing to go when I get upset, and some people say that they stopped coming back a long time ago.​

  Mira Grant

  Long, People, Upset

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• I wonder if ever again Americans can have that experience of returning to a home place so intimately known, profoundly felt, deeply loved, and absolutely submitted to? It is not quite true that you can't go home again. I have done it, coming back here. But it gets less likely. We have had too many divorces, we have consumed too much transportation, we have lived too shallowly in too many places.

  Wallace Stegner

  Home, Divorce, Done

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• When When it’s over, it’s over, and we don’t know any of us, what happens then. So I try not to miss anything. I think, in my whole life, I have never missed The full moon or the slipper of its coming back. Or, a kiss. Well, yes, especially a kiss.

  Mary Oliver

  Kissing, Thinking, Moon

  Mary Oliver (2010). “Swan: Poems and Prose Poems”, p.42, Beacon Press

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• The PoWs went through something so horrible, you don't know who's coming back.

  Gideon Raff

  Horrible, Pow, Knows

  "Loved Homeland? Wait until you see its inspiration, Hatufim" by Michael Hogan, www.theguardian.com. May 04, 2012.

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• I will practice coming back to the present moment...not letting regrets and sorrow drag me back into the past or letting anxieties, fears, or cravings pull me out.

  Nhat Hanh

  Regret, Past, Practice

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• She felt like parts of her soul were missing, had left her body long ago. It had happened not in Greece three months ago, but long before that. It was in Greece that she'd realized those parts had left her and were not coming back.

  Ann Brashares

  Long Ago, Missing, Soul

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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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• I had seen these transformations, people who had lost their will to live, coming back from their zombie states and radiating a new life force from their eyes.

  Anthony Kiedis

  Eye, People, Zombie

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• If we go now, there's no coming back. You're mine all night." Her eyes flashed. "Promise?" That was it. Jack grabbed her hand and pulled her off the dance floor, toward the main entrance of the tent.

  Julie James

  Eye, Night, Hands

  Julie James (2010). “Something About You”, p.183, Penguin

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• We sense that ‘normal’ isn’t coming back, that we are being born into a new normal: a new kind of society, a new relationship to the earth, a new experience of being human.

  Charles Eisenstein

  New Relationship, New Experiences, New Normal

  Charles Eisenstein (2011). “Sacred Economics: Money, Gift, and Society in the Age of Transition”, p.20, North Atlantic Books

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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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• I really love doing nothing. I really love just being at home and taking a couple of days, you know, doing nothing. You know what I mean? Just getting up, being around the house, going outside the back yard, coming back in; I really like to do nothing because I travel a lot. There's a lot of travelling. There's a lot of on the phone all the time. There's a lot of looking at papers and reading things and so you don't want to read magazines and you don't want to do anything; you don't want to read books, you just want to just kind of shut down a little bit.

  Jennifer Lopez

  Couple, Reading, Book

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• The immaterial blue colour shown at Iris Clert's in April had in short made me inhuman, had excluded me from the world of tangible reality; I was an extreme element of society who lived in space and who had no means of coming back to earth. Jean Tinguely saw me in space and signaled to me in speed to show me the last machine to take to return to the ephemerality of material life.

  Yves Klein

  Mean, Reality, Blue

  "Yves Klein, 1928 - 1962". Book by Yves Klein, p. 47, 1974.

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• You see a very advanced master who's got a girlfriend, who listens to rock and roll, who thinks about things that are very earthly. The advanced course has to with coming back to everything that you had to reject in the beginning and seeing it as a far greater infiniteness than everything that you've attained.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Girlfriend, Thinking

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• Meditation is coming back to your original self, if we can use self without a sense of self. It's perfect, clear light, radiant, infinite mind of the universe, as it is, without identifying with qualities

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Light, Self

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• There are a lot of shows that have secrets and string people along and use the secrets of the narrative engine to keep people coming back every week. I don't know if those programs even have an answer. I don't know how they build their shows.

  J.H. Wyman

  People, Secret, Use

  "Executive Producers Jeff Pinkner and J.H. Wyman Interview FRINGE Season 4". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 23, 2011.

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• The distance that the dead have gone Does not at first appear- Their coming back seems possible For many an ardent year.

  Emily Dickinson

  Death, Distance, Years

  Complete Poems, no.1742 (first published 1896).

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• Old anchormen, you see, don't fade away. They just keep coming back for more. And that's the way it is, Friday, March 6, 1981.

  Walter Cronkite

  Anchorman, Friday, Justice

  CBS Evening News Farewell, 1981.

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• I'd retired for about six or seven years. Coming back to the business, I found that I was sort of not quite a has-been, and it wasn't a new career, it was just kind of difficult to crack the nut, so to speak.

  Julie London

  Years, Nuts, Careers

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• I was coming back from Tel Aviv recently, and we had forty minutes of bumps. I got so scared I grabbed a paper and pen and put them in my pocket, just in case we crashed and I needed to write a letter from wherever we landed.

  Daniela Pestova

  Writing, Bumps, Paper

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• The old horse is coming back in a high lope. Thousands of people are riding a horse today that five years ago couldn't sit in a Ford with all the doors locked.

  Will Rogers

  Horse, Doors, Years

  Will Rogers (1979). “Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Hoover years, 1931-1933”, Will Rogers Heritage Trust

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• If people maintain the belief systems that empower them, they'll keep coming back with enough action and enough resourcefulness to succeed eventually.

  Tony Robbins

  People, Empowering, Succeed

  Tony Robbins (2008). “Unlimited Power: The New Science Of Personal Achievement”, p.66, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm coming back in... and it's the saddest moment of my life.

  Edward Higgins White

  Space Flight, Moments, Star Gazing

  "Fictional character: Ed White". "From the Earth to the Moon", www.imdb.com. 1998.

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• One of the things I keep coming back to in my writing is that society doesn't work on this mirror principle - you don't have an exact replica on the left of what you have on the right. It just doesn't work that way.

  Thomas Frank

  Writing, Mirrors, Principles

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. February 18, 2011.

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