Quotes About Return

Introspection, or 'sitting in the silence,' is an unscientific way of trying to force apart the mind and senses, tied together by the life force. The contemplative mind, attempting its return to divinity, is constantly dragged back toward the senses by the life currents.

People forget... that we structured it so that the government, or the people, would be repaid with a really good rate of return. And as it turns out, that aspect of TARP, that's what happened.

I remember Tom Baker once said to me many years ago: never go back, particularly with TV shows. This is because the track record for characters returning to series they've left is not very good.

Books are anchored. You return to books. You don't return to a tweet.

Every hero must return home. Starks to Winterfell. Harry to Privet Drive. Luke Skywalker to Tattoine. Katniss to District twelve. The fun is in seeing how they return.

I read the Odyssey because it was the story of a man who returned home after being absent for more than twenty years and was recognized only by his dog.

Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time.

Actually, I only left twice. I left then, and then rejoined literally two years later for Going For The One.

In late 2009, I returned to Baghdad after a lengthy absence. I was living alone, in the Hamra Hotel, the twice bombed-out de facto international news bureau.

I get a lot of return business. I think it's all those years I put in traveling around the country; people saw me before and had a good time so they want to see me again.

I don't have any intentions to return to England. I would go back if I could return as a free person. I don't want to return to prison.

I'm coming back to give the people what they want.

What happens when we get back? I don't know. I guess we try and forget. I don't want to forget.

I both love and am terrified by Greg Van Eekhout's vision of Los Angeles. I already want to go back.

When you are an athlete, it's difficult to take time off and say you want to come back without everyone judging you and attacking you.

I'll be a Houston Astro no matter what ... I would certainly want to leave myself open to a return to the team if that made sense for the organization and for me as well.

You always see people coming back to the sport, and I've always thought, 'Gosh, when you're done playing, wouldn't you just want to stay at home?

I love film, very, very much, and I always want to go back to it.

Perhaps Harvard's greatest contribution to our nation is its requirement that its on-leave professors who want to keep their crimson seats must return from Washington after 24 months.

It's been a long time since I've been in the playoffs. I want to get back there.

I interviewed survivors, I went to Poland, saw the cities and spent time with the people and spoke to the Jews who had come back to Poland after the war and talked about why they had come back.

I've had songs written during the Falklands war, and during the first Gulf war I got letters from soldiers saying they were listening to these songs, like Island of no return.

There is no precedent of a civilian population, displaced by a war that their leadership started and lost, claiming a right to return to territory that they failed to conquer.

What at one time one refuses to see never vanishes but returns, again and again, in many forms.