Haunt Quotations

It's ironic that early on in the war with Afghanistan, the Americans and the British were saying, 'We recognise there must be a Palestinian state,' then they rapidly forgot about it. I think history will show that that kind of amnesia will come back to haunt you.

I love the fact that little kids think I'm a witch. A mum might come over and say 'I'm sorry to disturb you, but my daughter thinks you're in 'Harry Potter.' I'll say 'That's cool' and take the kid aside and say, 'I'm a witch. If you don't listen to your mum, I'm going to haunt you!' It's brilliant. I can scare kids into doing their homework.

Life is about choices. Some we regret, some were proud of. Some will haunt us forever. 'Black Rain' was very much about choices. The message - we are what we chose to be.

Maybe 'Doonby' will haunt people for awhile and make them wonder, 'What was that really about?' And that excites me as an artist.

In a marriage, in any long-term relationship, not to bother with lying. There's no time for that. If you have any sort of secret life, it will come back to haunt you.

The Miguel Syjuco character is not me. I wanted him to represent my own fears and frustrations and guilt, my own worst tendencies and my optimistic expectations. He's a cautionary tale for me. But he's also an examination of the darkest things that haunt me as a person.

In regards to your love life, you're just entering into a whole of pain if you talk about it. If you've never said anything, there are no sound bites to haunt you when you're crying into a box of Kleenex after it all goes wrong.

Much of the stress and emptiness that haunt us can be traced back to our lack of attention to beauty. Internally, the mind becomes coarse and dull if it remains unvisited by images and thoughts that hold the radiance of beauty.

A lot of people, when they say 'forgive and forget,' they think you completely wash your brain out and forget everything. That is not the concept. What I think is you forgive and you forget so you can transform your experiences, not necessarily forget them but transform them, so that they don't haunt you or handicap you or kill you.

I can think of no other experience quite like that of being 20 or so pages into a book and realizing that this is the real thing: a book that is going to offer the delicious promise of a riveting story, arresting language and characters that will haunt me for days.

Ever since the world began, it has been the belief of mankind that desolate places are the special haunt of supernatural beings.

The problem with being in the public eye for a long time is there are 20 years worth of looks to come back and haunt you!

When I was 10 years old, I loved - I loved books, and I used to haunt the secondhand bookshop. And I found a little book I could just afford, and I bought it, and I took it home. And I climbed up my favorite tree, and I read that book from cover to cover. And that was Tarzan of the Apes. I immediately fell in love with Tarzan.

I like knowing that the further back one traces any lineage, the narrower the path grows, to the haunt of just a few shaggy ancestors, with luck on their side, little gizmos in their cells and a future storied with impulses and choices that will ultimately define them.

I never try to convey a message, I just want to tell a story. Why that story in particular? I have no idea, but I have learned to surrender to the muse. I become obsessed with a theme or with certain stories; they haunt me for years, and finally, I write them.

Here's the problem: Profiteers haunt America, and for everything we try to control, someone's going to profit from it, more than you control it.

When you stick to the path of Truth and Righteousness, pain and poverty haunt you. But they are only clouds passing through the sky, hiding for a little time, the splendor of the Sun.

We're going to play in conference games that are going to be close, and those type of things will come back and haunt you. Special teams had a letdown tonight and we didn't play to our potential.

We failed to take advantage of Brittany's first half foul trouble and it came back to haunt us in the second half. I thought Washington County's bench came in and did a great job while Brittany was on the bench.

When we started the season, we knew this team would have trouble shooting free throws. And we did all kinds of things to try to take the kids' minds off it. Everyone on our bench knew it could come back to haunt us, and it did. I remember thinking three weeks ago, this could cost us a state championship.

Make no mistake: you both are responsible for this proceeding, This will be an abandonment of responsibility that will, and should, haunt all of you.

Make sure you're putting yourself in a situation this weekend where the consequences are not going to come back and haunt you next week.

O, my past years in Rangoon are spectres to haunt my soul; and they seem to laugh at me as they shake the chains they have riveted on me.

One of the toughest things in the world to try to stave off is when you walk somebody, especially the leadoff man in the bottom of the ninth, and that's exactly what happened. It's tough. It's unfortunate. More times than not, it's going to come back to haunt you, and it did.

One bad play can come back and haunt you. That's what happened a lot to us this year. We played a good game and had one inning other teams capitalized on.

None of this is being paid for. At some point, all of that borrowing comes back to haunt you.

Monetary policy expectations were the driving forces on the FX markets in most of 2005 and while we expect structural problems to come back to haunt the dollar in 2006 we expect monetary policy expectations to lend support to the greenback early in the year.

Monetary policy expectations were the driving forces on the FX (foreign exchange) markets in most of 2005 and while we expect structural problems to come back to haunt the dollar in 2006 we expect monetary policy expectations to lend support to the greenback early in the year.

Now those memories come back to haunt meThey haunt me like a curse

Obviously I'm on the outside looking in at this situation, but what I think is the past is really starting to haunt them. They've had so many losing seasons, very few players want to try out for the team. From what I understand, they barely got enough players in this season to hold a formal training camp.

Personally, it's devastating . . . this will definitely haunt me for a little while to come. The scores tonight were a lot lower than I expected. But if I had stuck my second jump I could be out there on the podium.

I don't know what to say. When you don't get innings out of your rotation, it's always going to come back to haunt you. That's been the case the last couple of days.

I don't know what happened. I had the chance to score and missed. Luckily, that didn't come back to haunt us.

I am very concerned about adjusting revenues, but, as has been said, it is the only thing that's going to pass. It may come back to haunt us.

Four specters haunt the Poor -- Old Age, Accident, Sickness and Unemployment. We are going to exorcise them. We are going to drive hunger from the hearth. We mean to banish the workhouse from the horizon of every workman in the land.

From playing with him, if you don't capitalize on him early he gets stronger. You hope it doesn't come back to haunt you, but looking at it now we wished we could have gotten a couple more runs there. But he made good pitches and he got out of the inning and then we had opportunities later in the game and didn't do anything with it.

He got too sloppy on his feet in the first two periods. The early takedowns hurt him. He needed to be sharper. The thing that hurt him was the third false start. That penalty point is going to haunt him for a while.

We're playing them 1-1, and we've out-hit them 4-3, and then we give up six errors. The walks are always going to come back and haunt you, but we just kept making error after error.

What we were doing at the end of the game, we've never done before. The other side of it is, if we don't do it, for instance when we did take a knee against Texas Tech, does that then come back and haunt you? Is that the reason that maybe kept you out of something, and how do you live with that as well? Its really a rotten position to play in.

We made too many mistakes, and when you make that many mistakes, you're not going to win. We left to many chances offensively. We were down inside the five, we fumbled going in. That's the problem. We scored 34, but we probably left 14 to 21 hanging in the locker room, and that's going to come back and haunt you.

We made mistakes all day. That comes back to haunt you when you're playing a good team like Florida and you're in a one-run game. You're probably going to lose.

He just hit me in the back bumper. When you're up in the top five, you better respect your competitors, 'cause it'll come back to haunt you.

It is a good idea to be alone in a garden at dawn or dark so that all its shy presences may haunt you and possess you in a reverie of suspended thought.

I was concerned that was going to come back to haunt us. Fortunately, we were able to come back and make some plays, but we have to get better in short-yardage situations.

I think we all understand that a running game allows you to control the game. When we were able to run the football, that allows you to protect your defense and it allows you to do a lot of things that help you to win. We were very, very average running the football. And I think that always comes back to haunt you. I can guarantee you this spring that becomes an area that we must improve in, and we will.

Jamie disliked all forms of pomp and pomposity so his spirit would return to haunt me should I make exaggerated claims about his virtues, ... But I can say this: Jamie represented something of great importance in today's media world ... a simple desire to inform the public as accurately and impartially and comprehensibly as possible within the constraints of daily, news agency reporting.

I said it back then, that those early losses at home were going to come back and haunt us because we knew we would be playing five of our last seven on the road, ... I just knew that those early losses were going to hurt us and they have. In this league, with how even the teams are, it's critical that you win those home games.

Please don't remind me. It's going to haunt me for while. I wish I would have done better in this game.

Just in baseball terms, he's a leadoff hitter who can work the pitcher, make him throw up to 20 pitches. I'm sure Johnny Damon is going to come back to haunt us.

That would be something that would haunt us.

That was big. We had just crawled back to 2-1, and we tried to force something and it came back to haunt us.

You keep waiting for it to just happen. We've done this before. But at some point, it's going to come back and haunt us if we don't start to capitalize.

Who are we? Where do we come from? Why are we this way and not some other? What does it mean to be human? Are we capable, if need be, of fundamental change, or do the dead hands of forgotten ancestors impel us in some direction, indiscriminately for good or ill, and beyond our control? Can we alter our character? Can we improve our societies? Can we leave our children a world better than the one that was left to us? Can we free them from the demons that torment us and haunt our civilization? In the long run, are we wise enough to know what changes to make? Can we be trusted with our own future?

We do not ask the right questions when we are young, so we miss the important answers. Now it is too late to ask, too late for the illuminating answers, and the unanswered questions haunt us for a lifetime.

We have a lot of momentum going. We're hoping the (district-opening) game against Trinity doesn't come back to haunt us, but I feel like we'll be set to play them the next time.

Usually when you get field goals and you don't get touchdowns, it comes back to haunt you later in the game. Sure enough, it did. That just shows you that you really have to capitalize when you get that opportunity.

We just didn't knock down some shots. We missed some easy ones in the first half and left some points out on the floor. As a coach, you always worry if that's going to come back and haunt you.

We were slow getting over. Beating out that ball changed that inning that came back to haunt us.

We came out strong in the first half. We had our opportunities but didn't capitalize on them and that can haunt you.

We didn't execute at all on the power play. Fortunately it didn't come back to haunt us. 'When you get a couple of nice goals at even strength like the ones Danny scored and a short-hander, it kind of helps to make up for it.

We had an opportunity to put some runs on the board and couldn't take advantage. We had two straight innings with second and third and less than two outs and only got one run, so I thought that was going to come back and haunt us.

We prefer this approach to the gain subscribers at any cost approach. DirecTV and others tried that in 2004 and it came back to haunt them the following year with higher churn numbers.

We prefer this approach to the 'gain subscribers at any cost' approach. DirecTV and others tried that in 2004 and it came back to haunt them the following year with higher churn numbers.

We gave them extra outs, and you can't do that with a team like Riverside. It'll come back to haunt you.

We let so much get away from us early that it came back to haunt us. It's not any one thing. We just did not play well enough to win. And when you do that in a bowl game, you're not going to win.

We left too many people on early in the game and it came back to haunt us. We had seven hits, we just have to get them in.

There is a concern on our side that the moneys transferred will come back to haunt us in the form of suicide bombings.

To this day, I'd still have Kyle Orton running that boot on the corner, by himself, clearly having picked up the first down. It doesn't haunt me. I sleep well at night, knowing we did the best thing we could do under the circumstances. Based on what some of the other guys (on the team) say, maybe that haunted them.

The questions and allegations against President Arroyo will haunt her and her allies. The simple allegations that she lied, cheated and stole will always follow her wherever she goes. What we didn't achieve inside Congress we will try to achieve through peaceful protests, peaceful prayer and peaceful convincing of our colleagues here in Congress.

The paradox of this vice president is the things that made him so valuable in the beginning and so important to the president - his willingness to take the lead and be a strong visible advocate on some issues - have come back to haunt him. It's almost like everything that's bad in the administration has come back to stick to Dick Cheney .

When you get those opportunities early and you don't take advantage of it, they usually come back to haunt you.

When you fail to score when you get down there like we did, it might haunt you sometime. I'm sure that 'Well here we go again,' entered my mind.

When you look at the standings, it's all jumbled up. There's still plenty of games. But you don't want to give up games that could come back to haunt you at the end of the year.

We've got to be more focused, and it starts with lining up right and staying onside. Mistakes in the second quarter turned a great half into a good one, and we can't afford to have mental letdowns that could come back and haunt us. We've got to eliminate the silly mistakes.

When the economy goes back down again, years down the road, will consumer credit be a major problem, like it was in the 1990-91 recession? ... Yes, it could come back to haunt us. But right now, it's a macroeconomic plus.

Two mistakes haunt me: Not completing the manuscript of my book sooner and not buying Microsoft in 1986 before it split nine times.

You are not going to beat that team 1-0 and trying to get that second goal is important. We couldn't do it. You kind of knew that it was going to come back and haunt you sooner or later.

We've had those (dry spells) all year. It came back to haunt us again tonight.

This team has learned over the last three years that things can swing and move quickly. The fact that we lost seven in a row earlier in the season shouldn't haunt us, but it does provide a really sharp, bold reminder that things can turn very quickly.

We find you have be careful about what you make up, because it'll come back to haunt you. I make up so much stuff, I say it's growing like a snowball.

We had a good approach and swung the bats well early in the game. I was concerned in the eighth and ninth when we got a runner to third with one out and couldn't get them in. You know those things will come back to haunt you, but it didn't tonight. This team (Fresno State) is very talented and every single guy is capable of hitting a home run here.

When you make mistakes against good teams, they come back to haunt you. We got careless with the puck.

What happened to him, something like that is always going to haunt him. He can get some of it back, but it's not going to be where he used to be. They're going to make it hard to get back, but he's Kobe Bryant. He might take it back.

We just let too many opportunities get early. We got his pitch count way up and had opportunities to score and couldn't put the ball in play. That always finds a way to come back and haunt you.

We just let too many opportunities get by early. That always comes back to haunt you. We preach to put the ball in play. Nothing good happens with a strikeout.

We were really debating before we decided to take a shot at it. It's one of those things that'll haunt you.

We missed a penalty kick in the first half and it came back to haunt us.

Even if they are not capable of doing serious damage to oil infrastructure, political instability and the threat to the ruling family is of real concern and promises to haunt the oil market for some time to come,

At some time the lack of breadth in the market is going to come back to haunt people,

The tragedy of Srebrenica will forever haunt the history of the United Nations

I've been preaching to the guys out there, if you . . . keep making these silly mistakes, it comes back to haunt you in close ballgames, ballgames you should win, ... You're taking away opportunities from yourselves. We're beating ourselves more often than we're getting beat.

The safety was big because that turns it into a two possession game. Grand Rapids pushed some buttons early on and got us fired up with some of their quotes and some things they do off the field and it may come back to haunt them.

The sound of animals howling for their owners and the sight of drowning pets will haunt me the rest of my life.

seen a lot of things that will haunt me the rest of my life.

Our days are filled with a constant stream of decisions. Most are mundane, but some are so important that they can haunt you for the rest of your life.

Our failure to turn double plays is starting to haunt us.

Normally, when you miss chances like that, ... it comes back to haunt you.

A couple of plays here or there made the difference. They're a good hitting team, they put the ball in play. And I told the girls beforehand, if we make the plays, we should be OK. Unfortunately we gave them a few extra outs, and that always comes back to haunt you.

Southern played good defense, but the opportunities we missed weren't about the defense. Several times we had open shots and just missed. When you miss easy shots against a team like Southern, it comes back to haunt you.

Once Walton went down this road ... where he was persuaded Libby was entitled to some of the information, this issue (of national security) was going to haunt this trial.