If envy were tangible and had a shape it would be the…

I sometimes think that when the prime minister tries to select a weapon it is the boomerang he finds most effective.

— John Smith

Malice is of the boomerang character, and is apt to turn upon the projector.

— William Makepeace Thackeray

I'm like a boomerang, I always come back.

— Agyness Deyn

I suppose everyone tells little white lies. Quite often they're necessary to make someone feel better or prevent feelings from being hurt. Whoppers? No,…

— Richard Chamberlain

Negative words are powerful boomerangs so be careful what you say about people and yourself.

— Mary J. Blige

“Time throws you out of its dimensionless planar like a boomerang. It unites with you again in death.”

— Vishwanath S J

Love is a boomerang that returns to the thrower's hand.

— Austin O'Malley

Now this is really going to impress Valentine." "I don't know," Clary said. "Other crack teams get bat boomerangs and wall-crawling powers; we get…

— Cassandra Clare

“If--when--you need to go off, fill your soul, feel different earth under your feet, I’ll do my best to handle missing you. As long…

— Donna Kauffman

“It was the age, that time of life when every sight, every feeling, every thought came back, like a boomerang, to me.”

— Haruki Murakami

Make your goals big and broad enough so that they never become answered prayers and boomerang to curse you.

— Douglas Coupland

“Giving credit is a boomerang that comes back with interest.”

— Avi Liran

I wrote short stories for seven years and used to mail them out. You couldn't send them by e-mail. I called them manila boomerangs.…

— Jess Walter

“Beware of those who speak of the spiral of history; they are preparing a boomerang. Keep a steel helmet handy”

— Anonymous

For dishonest thinking, however well-intentioned, can only discredit the cause it serves, and must in the long run boomerang disastrously on those who indulge…

— J. I. Packer