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Quotes About Return

Two days, he thought—had it been only two days since he had returned to Earth to find Inspector Drayton waiting? So much had happened that it seemed much longer than just two days ago. So many things had happened that were unbelievable, and still were happening and still unbelievable, but on the outcome of these happenings, he knew, might depend the future of all mankind and the federation that man had built among the other stars. He
~ Clifford D. Simak
One part of love is innocence, One part of love is guilt, One part the milk, that in a sense Is soured as soon as spilt, One part of love is sentiment, One part of love is lust, One part is the presentiment Of our return to dust." Eight lines, and it was all over;
~ Clive Barker
I'll shed this Star Wars suit while we're in flight. The Navy can have it back when I get around to returning it.
~ Clive Cussler
Fear drove these people, even more than cotton money. The shadow of the black hand that will return what has been given.
~ Colson Whitehead
On the bed of damp earth, her breathing slowed and that which separated herself from the swamp disappeared. She was free. This moment. She had to go back.
~ Colson Whitehead
In Cora's shock, the world drained to gray impressions. The first color to return was the simmering brown-red of the soil in her family's plot.
~ Colson Whitehead
By his sights, the real movie started after the first one ended, in the impossible return to things before
~ Colson Whitehead
The smallest moments: they return, dwell, endure.
~ Colum McCann
We who have come back, by the aid of many lucky chances or miracles—whatever one may choose to call them—we know: the best of us did not return.
~ Viktor E. Frankl
When we spoke about attempts to give a man in camp mental courage, we said that he had to be shown something to look forward to in the future. He had to be reminded that life still waited for him, that a human being waited for his return.
~ Viktor E. Frankl
To decent Avernus is easy; the gate of Pluto stands open night and day; but to retrace ones's steps and return to the upper air, that is the toil, that is the difficulty.
~ Virgil
Lo scender ne l'Averno è cosa agevole ché notte e dì ne sta l'entrata aperta; ma tornar poscia a riveder le stelle, qui la fatica e qui l'opra consiste.
~ Virgil
oh, they had to go before the end they had to be back at ten
~ Virginia Woolf
The amusing thing about coming back to England [...] was the way it made [...] things stand out as if one had never seen them before [...]. Never had he seen London look so enchanting [...].
~ Virginia Woolf
poco después de mi regreso a la civilización, tuve otro ataque de locura (si puede aplicarse ese término cruel a la melancolía y a una sensación de angustia insoportable).
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Only a Chinaman or a retarded child can imagine being met, in that Next-Installment World, to the accompaniment of all sorts of tail-wagging and groveling of welcome, by the mosquito executed eighty years ago upon one's bare leg, which has been amputated since then and now, in the wake of the gesticulating mosquito, comes back, stomp, stomp, stomp, here I am, stick me on.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
I stay cool, and dig all jive, That's the way I stay alive. My motto, as I live and learn, is Dig and be dug In return.
~ Langston Hughes
Out of love, No regrets-- Though the goodness Be wasted forever. Out of love, No regrets-- Though the return Be never.
~ Langston Hughes
Thank you for bringing me home.
~ Lara Adrian
Goddamn you. How can you still make me feel this way after all these years? Damn you for leaving me! And damn you for coming back like this, just when I thought you were gone forever and I might finally be able to forget you.
~ Lara Adrian
Furthermore, the return on investment for prevention is substantial; for every $1 invested in community-based prevention, the return amounts to $5.60 in the fifth year. Prevention investments result in savings for both public and private health care
~ Larry Cohen
Feeling themselves betrayed by the British and the French, their claim to Palestine thwarted by the Balfour Declaration, the Arabs lived a rude awakening in the aftermath of World War I. As was perhaps inevitable, the focal point of their fury became the Zionist return to a land the Arabs felt had been promised to them.
~ Larry Collins
Instead of celebrating how many people came, the most important measurement would be how many came back.
~ Larry Osborne
Yerinden oynayan akl? bir daha yuvas?na geri dönmedi. Kafas?n?n içinde be?ik gibi salland? durdu.
~ Latife Tekin