Top 100 It Comes Back Quotes
#1. If you love something let it go, if it comes back to you it's yours." She shakes her head. "You never came back.
Emma Chase
#3. Sufferers of depression have 'episodes' the same way those who suffer from multiple sclerosis do. It comes, wipes the floor with you, and then somehow returns you to the world. But it comes back.
Michael Redhill
#4. Even before I had children I wanted the intensity of my life to get greater. I wanted to feel things more strongly. I wanted my intellectual parameters to expand. But it comes back to your own desire to be engaged and to live up to your parameters.
Jeff Koons
#5. I think we manifest the very thing we put out. If you're putting out negativity, then you're going to retrieve that same sentiment. If you emanate joy, it comes back to you.
Robin Wright
#6. Love is an energy. You can feed it to people, and they in turn feed it to others, and eventually it comes back.
Hill Harper
#7. What happens if the scroll gets destroyed? Is your magic gone forever?" "No, then it comes back to me,
Tui T. Sutherland
#8. Boomerang arrow, Kate
It comes back to you in the end. Boomerang. Respect it.
Matt Fraction
#9. It comes back to the same old question people are always asking me: 'When are you going to do a solo record?' Well, if I did, it would probably be similar to 'Baluchitherium,' meaning it would be Van Halen music - which I write anyway - but without singing.
Eddie Van Halen
#10. Who knows what the future holds? It's all on parenting, one way or another. I don't care what level it is, it comes back to people learning how to deal with people.
Ray Lewis
#11. There's nothing like New Orleans. When it comes back, it will be a tremendous highlight for America.
Peter Max
#12. When you're young you don't think, 'This person is going to change your life.' But when you start recording your own songs, it comes back and reminds you.
Fefe Dobson
#13. You try to tap into a memory and you close your eyes and it comes back. So I was doing this in the painting and then that became a practice of mine. Sometimes it was a cathartic situation, a way to meditate.
Jose Parla
#14. I hate to lend a book I love ... it never seems quite the same when it comes back to me ...
L.M. Montgomery
#15. As Eric Dolphy said 'Once you play the music, it's in the air. It's gone'. And that's true. But when you record it, it comes back to haunt you sometimes.
John Abercrombie
#16. If I toss something upward, it comes back down." "Except when it doesn't." "It's a law." "No," Syl said, looking upward. "It's more like . . . more like an agreement among friends.
Brandon Sanderson
#17. My music is like a spinning ball. It can turn in one direction, and then it comes back to origins.
Youssou N'Dour
#18. Being stuck on love was a real bitch to cure. Like cancer, I think. Just when you think you're over it, it comes back.
Tarryn Fisher
#19. If you take the credit, you lose it. If you give away the credit, it comes back multiplied.
Mark Victor Hansen
#20. I had a sister who died and my mother passed away. I know that grief comes in waves. When deep grief hits, I know that it hurts like hell, and then you get a little bit of a respite, and then it comes back, and it hurts like hell. I know it can be survived.
Emily Saliers
#21. If you set something free and it comes back to you, that's the beginning of it being yours.
John De Ruiter
#22. If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.
Douglas Horton
#23. I've often said the most difficult things I have to say to people through humour. I can very quickly put someone in their place with it. But we all walk away unscathed because there's been some funnies around it, and I'll usually make sure that it comes back at me.
Dawn French
#24. I guess it comes back to the old motto, you have you're fifteen minutes a fame.
Steve Brown
#25. Show a little faith in someone when they need it. It's amazing how it comes back around to you.
Garon Whited
#26. She wants to know why she can't hear you," Rue explains. "I told her your voice has been lost, so she's keeping your hand until it comes back.
Josin L. McQuein
#27. They say, if you care about something, you have to set it free and if it comes back to you, it was meant to be."
"They're full of shit."
Obviously, I failed spectacularly at being philosophical.
Kristen Ashley
#28. If you love something set it free, but don't be surprised if it comes back with herpes.
Chuck Palahniuk
#29. I'm interested in why people compromise when they shouldn't. It comes back to what V's about in a sense. We've all got ideals, but given the right circumstances, we'll forget about them and put them behind us. I'm very interested in why people do that.
David Lloyd
#30. It is a charming quality of the happiness we inspire in others that, far from being diminished like a reflection, it comes back to us enhanced.
Victor Hugo
#31. It is difficult to uproot fully grown plants; they become diseased and often perish. In Russia now they practise winter transplanting: a tree is dug up while it is in a dormant condition. In spring it comes back to life in a new place. A good method, especially as a tree has no memory.
Ilya Ehrenburg
#32. Listen - life is really going on, right now, around us. Do you see it? Sometimes I lose it but if I sit still and listen, it comes back, and then I think, How funny, this is what being alive is.
Robin Morgan
#33. The thing about literature is that, yes, there are kind of tides of fashion, you know; people come in and out of fashion; writers who are very celebrated fall into, you know, people you know stop reading them, and then it comes back again.
Salman Rushdie
#34. It's never easy to set up any business, but it comes back to determination and drive and the love of what you do!
Richard Branson
#35. Sorrow is not a raven perched persistently above a chamber door. Sorrow is a thing with teeth, and while in time it retreats, it comes back at the whisper of it's name.
Dean Koontz
#36. My own words, when I am at work on a story, I hear too as they go, in the same voice that I hear when I read in books. When I write and the sound of it comes back to my ears, then I act to make changes. I have always trusted this voice.
Eudora Welty
#37. It comes back to what Chief Jay Strongbow told us years ago, 'In this business you can make friends or you can make money'. And I remember lookin at Kev and X-Pac and going, I already got some friends, I'd like the money.
Scott Hall
#38. Repress the natural and it comes back even stronger: not everyone can be a fetishist
Philippe Lejeune
#39. Love catches fire, it trespasses, it breaks, we break, it comes back to life ... we come back to life. Love may not be eternal but, it can make us eternal.
Julie Maroh
#40. Tell me the truth - do you think I've lost my Southern accent? I feel it comes back to me only when I'm shouting at fights or at baseball games.
Cleo Moore
#41. When we are a comfort and encouragement to others, we are sometimes surprised at how it comes back to us many times over.
Billy Graham
#42. You think it begins to diminish with time, the pain, then it comes back and hits you with a rawness and freshness you had forgotten.
William Boyd
#43. We cannot hurt ourselves just for the sake of it. When you hurt somebody you hurt yourself. Down the line, the ripple of it comes back to you.
Angelique Kidjo
#44. Positivity is like a boomerang. The more we put it out there, the more it comes back to us.
Jon Gordon
#45. And that's the insult of it, how always it comes back to a woman being a "good" mother in the world's eyes or a "bad" mother, how everything in a woman's life is funneled through her body between her legs.
Joyce Carol Oates
#46. Rock is periodically pronounced dead by clear rock critics - killed by world music, or by hip-hop, or electronica, or the Backstreet Boys. But if you wait a year, it comes back to life.
Dean Wareham
#47. When you gossip, it's self-hexing. Because when you do it, it comes back to you. Everything starts with the word. The word is demonstrating a condition of the mind. If it's in your mind and comes out of your mouth, it will be created.
Iyanla Vanzant
#48. Sometimes life turns out hard, Isabel. Sometimes it just bites right through you. And sometimes, just when you think it's done its worst, it comes back and takes another chunk.
M.L. Stedman
#49. I like anything with a live audience. I love sitcom work. I hope it comes back in fashion because I really love it. I love single-camera work, too, but in a different way than that live-audience thing, which is really exciting.
Ana Gasteyer
#50. Onstage, you just have to tell the absolute truth about the character you are playing. You hope you communicate it, and you hope it comes back like a tennis ball. If you're listening to the sound of your own voice, nobody else is. The audience knows, and they freeze on you.
Carol Channing
#51. One thing work gives
is the joy of not working,
a minute here or there
when I stand and only breathe,
receiving the good of the air.
It comes back. Good work done
comes back into the mind,
a free breath drawn.
Wendell Berry
#52. If it comes back, I think that Friday night is not a good night to be on.
Amber Tamblyn
#53. It's a word called symbiotic, you send the messages and it comes back in return. Together, it's a wonderful thing, it's why television is so great and film can never reach.
Robert Stack
#54. Because everything that goes around comes around. Maybe it's luck or maybe it's fate, but either way, it comes back around.
Stephen King
#55. Be yourself and enjoy yourself. Show me a smile and I'll show you one back. Karma: Believe in it. It's real. It comes back to you.
Vanilla Ice
#56. That dead feeling hits hard and permeates the first year. It comes back to test you often in the following years, but if you get through the first year, then you know about it. It will never have the power to defeat you again.
Natalie Goldberg
#57. Years ago at music camp Harry once said to me, "He's not just a musical prodigy, you know. He's a musical genius." It comes back to me now. And I laugh when I kiss my 'musical genius' because really he's just Flynn.
Tabitha Suzuma
#58. Empty the cup every time and it comes back at twice as full. I developed that attitude when I was very, very young, when I decided I didn't want to be a gangster anymore. Whether it's just shining shoes, I said okay, I'm going to do this better than anybody else did it in my life.
Quincy Jones
#59. Baby, if you love someone, let it go. If it comes back to you, its yours forever. If it doesn't, then it was never meant to be yours. - Till We Meet Again
Yoana Dianika
#60. It comes back to the old question: How can the Bible be so wise in some places and so barbaric in others? And why should we put any faith in a book that includes such brutality?
A. J. Jacobs
#61. If you're feeling low, don't despair. The sun has a sinking spell every night, but it comes back up every morning.
Dolly Parton
#62. If you dig into it, it comes back to you. That's the way war is.
Laura Hillenbrand
#63. When I push, the top part of the leg goes ahead of the bottom part, and you can hear a big plonk when it comes back. My caddie said 'What the hell was that?!
Jean Van De Velde
#64. Don't you have anything to stop a dragon?" Lux asked, climbing as fast as he could in the tree. "The only way to stop a dragon is to stab it through its heart!" Wick shouted back. "Get out of the tree before it comes back!
Amanda Hocking
#65. Hold a positive thought of an enlightened person in your mind. When that thought touches their aura, it comes back quickly with a positive lift. You will go up.
Frederick Lenz
#66. She pulls away - and then I see why: she's holding out her palm as a landing place for a firefly. It's easy to forget it's there when it's not glowing, until all of a sudden it comes back and surprises you; it reminds you of grief.
Adam Silvera
#67. Faith is like a boomerang; begin using what you have and it comes back to you in greater measure.
Charles L. Allen
#68. If you stop for one second and do something, everyone is happy. You pay it forward and it comes back to you twelve-fold.
Mariska Hargitay
#69. Why do I speak forth the unpopular? I have a sweet tooth but not when it comes back up.
Donna Lynn Hope
#70. Love is contagious. When I share love, it comes back to me multiplied. Love opens every door.
Louise Hay
#71. I see the horrible way some stars deal with other people, and I don't know how they get away with it. Maybe it comes back to them in a different karma.
Emily Lloyd
#72. A funny thing happens in real estate. When it comes back, it comes back up like gangbusters.
Barbara Corcoran
#73. There have been times when I've written something and it goes out and it comes back in a letter from some kid as to what they think about it and I've taken their analysis to heart so much that I have taken up his thing. Writing what my audience is telling me to write.
David Bowie
#74. His books distracted him for a while. They were like the aspirins you take when you've got a headache. They kill the pain for two hours and then it comes back.
Barbara Vine
#75. People have a range of capacities to deal with overwhelming experience. Some people, some kids particularly, are able to disappear into a fantasy world, to dissociate, to pretend like it isnt happening, and are able to go on with their lives. And sometimes it comes back to haunt them.
Bessel Van Der Kolk
#76. Life is like an echo! when you give something, it comes back to you many, many times.
Choa Kok Sui
#77. What makes one luckier is the good that he has done to others. It comes back to him. A man doesn't become lucky by doing wrong. He becomes lucky because he has done good to others and that good comes back to him. And now he is lucky.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
#78. You can work hard to sharpen your talent, to get better at whatever it is that you do, and I think that's what it comes back to.
Ed Bradley
#79. If you ever want something badly, let it go. If it comes back
to you, then its yours forever. If it doesnt, then it was never
yours to begin with.
Jack Engelhard
#80. What happens in the past, is in the past. But don't be surprised if it comes back and haunts you.
Nicholas Sparks
#81. Even though my first marriage broke up, I'd say that I've had two good marriages and two good men. I've been very lucky. I like to think it's karma because, in a relationship, I give 300 per cent. I'm straight with my men, and I like to think it comes back.
Suzi Quatro
#82. Scatter good will and love and prayers all around, everywhere, and you will be astonished, not only by what it does for other people, but how it comes back to you in generous abundance.
Norman Vincent Peale
#83. The mind can break and be lost forever, but if the will breaks it comes back stronger.
Diane Capri
#84. You don't realize how much you miss something till it comes back to you, and then you wonder how you went so long without it.
Cassandra Rose Clarke
#85. I was delighted to see him growing more cautious and skeptical about what he heard, especially when he heard it from someone in apparent authority. I think that is fundamental to a good education. And if it comes back to bite me from time to time, that's a price worth paying.
Martine Millman
#86. People ask, 'How can you let a defeat hurt you so much?' But it comes back to the effort you have put into your career as a youngster.
Luis Suarez
#87. Oh, well, spit in the ocean and see if it comes back.
Stephen King
#88. If you love something so much let it go. If it comes back it was meant to be; if it doesn't it never was
Albert Schweitzer
#89. We have everything within us for our greatness and for our destruction. It comes back to what we think about.
Tony Curl
#90. I know that there is a force in the world and an energy that you can put out, and when you put out love it comes back to you. I think that's my basic philosophy.
Jennifer Lopez
#91. I think that one of the things that we all ask ourselves, whoever we are, is: who stands to make a lot of money out of this [wars]? And, certainly, it comes back to people like armaments makers, and so on and so forth.
Jacqueline Winspear
#92. So we make this big loan, most of it comes back to the United States, the country is left with the debt plus lots of interest, and they basically become our servants, our slaves. It's an empire. There's no two ways about it. It's a huge empire. It's been extremely successful.
John Perkins
#93. Hurt of this magnitude is like menopause," Phyllis tells me. I've just wiped my nose with one of the hats. She takes it from me and hands me a tissue. "Comes in hot flashes. Just when you feel like you can't take it anymore, it passes for a bit. But it comes back, boy does it.
Tarryn Fisher
#94. If you love someone, let it go. If it comes back to you, its yours forever. If it doesn't, then it was never meant to be yours.
Yoana Dianika
#95. Meditation is a process of liquefying the self temporarily and then allowing the self to rebind. The ice melts and then it comes back again.
Frederick Lenz
#96. When your day has been teeming with different sensations, when you have things on your mind, you can get to sleep to start with but you can't get back to sleep. Sleep comes a lot more easily than it comes back.
Victor Hugo
#97. When it comes to Project Runway, for me the most memorable look ever presented goes back to season one, episode one, when Austin Scarlett created a ravishing cocktail dress out of cornhusks. It was really amazing.
Tim Gunn
#98. I've been around young, talented, non-coachable players. I've been around veteran, talented, non-coachable players. No matter what you do, sooner or later - even if a coach comes in that's able to connect with them - if that's who they are, they're going to go back to it.
Scott Brooks
#99. It's not that I mind being alone, not really. I can distract myself with silly fantasies and daydreams for hours, but in the end it always comes back to me. That's what I'm left with: just me. And that's what scares me more than anything. Me.
Cat Clarke
#100. Penny, how can you behave like a total idiot?"
Anne giggled, "I have no pride when it comes to winning back people I love.
Anya Wylde
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