Comeback Quotes - Page 6

• Confidence is the most important thing, more important than gold or currency.

  Wen Jiabao

  Self Confidence, Important, Gold

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• The most important thing about Spaceship Earth - an instruction book didn't come with it.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Book, Important, Earth

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• Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness.

  Stephen Fry

  Garden, Tree, Wickedness

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• The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.

  Sigmund Freud

  Inspirational, Anger, Civilization

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.

  Lawrence Durrell

  Insult To Injury, Age, Aging

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• I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death... I think... peace and tranquillity will return again.

  Anne Frank

  Peace, Thinking, Confusion

  "Selling the Holocaust: From Auschwitz to Schindler". Book by Tim Cole, p.35, 2000.

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• A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.

  Frederick Douglass

  Motivational, Men, Gentleman

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• A graceful taunt is worth a thousand insults.

  Louis Nizer

  Clever, Insult, Thousand

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• The winds that blow our billions away return burdened with themes of scorn and dispraise.

  Garet Garrett

  Peace, War, Blow

  Garet Garrett (1965). “The people's pottage”, Caxton Printers

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• I was thinking about making a comeback, until I pulled a muscle vacuuming.

  Johnny Bench

  Sports, Thinking, Muscles

  "The Most Utterly Comprehensive List Of Exemplary Poeticisms — Be they great, inadvertent, or unsound — As Uttered by our most Esteemed Exemplars And Guardians of Popular Culture". Article by John Reed, logger.believermag.com. November 26, 2014.

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• I was asked to memorise what I did not understand; and, my memory being so good, it refused to be insulted in that manner.

  Aleister Crowley

  Education, Memories, Philosophical

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• This is the truth: as from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Truth, Fire, Sparks

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• Ugly. Is irrelevant. It is an immeasurable insult to a woman, and then supposedly the worst crime you can commit as a woman. But ugly, as beautiful, is an illusion.

  Margaret Cho

  Beauty, Beautiful, Badass

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• Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Music, Food, Literature

  Quoted in The NewYork Times, 16 Nov 1967.

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• Well, I can throw a mean comeback, so there's that. I will crush them on wit.

  Rachel Caine

  Crush, Mean, Wit

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• I was on one of my fruitarian diets" Steve Jobs recalled "I had just comeback from the apple farm. It sounded fun, spirited, and not intimidating. Apple took the edge of the word 'computer', plus it would get us a head of Atari in the phone book. He told Wozniak if a better name did not hit them by the next afternoon, they would just stick with apple and they did.  1 Apr 1976 

  Walter Isaacson

  Jobs, Fun, Book

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• I'm trying to think of a witty comeback, when Boggs says brusquely, “Well, don't expect us to be too impressed. We just saw Finnick Odair in his underwear.” I decide to go ahead and like Boggs.

  Suzanne Collins

  Witty, Thinking, Trying

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.82, Scholastic Inc.

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• We lavish on animals the love we are afraid to show to people. They might not return it; or worse, they might.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Animal, People, Might

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.25, BookBaby

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• Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Insult To Injury, Argument, Insulted

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• The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

  Florence Scovel Shinn

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Florence Scovel Shinn, Ruth L. Miller (2012). “The New Game of Life and How to Play It”, p.53, Simon and Schuster

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• The circle of the return to birth can only remain open, but this is a chance, a sign of life, and a wound.

  Jacques Derrida

  Circles, Return, Chance

  Jacques Derrida (1995). “Points . .: Interviews, 1974-1994”, p.340, Stanford University Press

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• Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers.

  Herbert Hoover

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

  Herbert Hoover (1963). “Fishing for Fun - and to Wash Your Soul”

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• The British are the last national group who can be insulted by Hollywood without any comeback. These days if you depict Italians as gangsters, Saudis as terrorists or Mexicans as violent drug dealers you'll never hear the end of it. But as still the largest - and possibly the richest - ethnic group in the States, the British just have to take it.

  Simon Hoggart

  Drug, Hollywood, Groups

  "What do men guilty of 'inappropriate behaviour' think they will get from it?" by Simon Hoggart, www.theguardian.com. March 1, 2013.

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• If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Writing, Water, Movement

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• Never insult anyone by accident.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Insult, Accidents

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