Comeback Quotes - Page 7

• There is no great invention, from fire to flying, which has not been hailed as an insult to some god.

  John B. S. Haldane

  Funny, Science, Fire

  "Daedalus or Science and the Future". An address, February 4, 1923.

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• If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.

  Edmond de Goncourt

  Atheist, If There Is A God, Religion

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• I have tried to lift France out of the mud. But she will return to her errors and vomitings. I cannot prevent the French from being French.

  Charles de Gaulle

  Errors, History, Vomiting

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• Nearly everything you do is of no importance, but it is important that you do it.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Decision, Important, Conviction

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• Now there is one outstanding important fact regarding spaceship earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Motivational, Wisdom, Book

  Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth ch. 4 (1969)

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• Right before the game, she strolled up to me. "Hey, Seaweed Brain." "Will you stop calling me that?" She knows I hate that name, mostly because I never have a good comeback. She's the daughter of Athena, which doesn't give me a lot of ammunition. I mean, "Owl-head" and "Wise Girl" are kind of lame insults.

  Rick Riordan

  Girl, Wise, Daughter

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• When all by myself, I can think of all kinds of clever remarks, quick comebacks to what no one said, and flashes of witty sociability with nobody. But all of this vanishes when I face someone in the flesh: I lose my intelligence, I can no longer speak, and after half an hour I just feel tired. Talking to people makes me feel like sleeping. Only my ghostly and imaginary friends, only the conversations I have in my dreams, are genuinely real and substantial.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Dream, Witty, Clever

  Fernando Pessoa (2002). “The Book of Disquiet”, p.69, Penguin UK

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• The rich are always advising the poor, but the poor seldom return the compliment.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Advice, Return, Compliment

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• Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Insult, Sexuality, Misfortunes

  "Lettres Persanes" by Charles de Secondat, baron de Montesquieu, No. 3. (Zachi writing to Usbek), 1721.

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• Don’t call it a comeback, I’ve been here for years.

  LL Cool J

  Years

  FaceBook post by LL Cool J from Apr 16, 2013

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• I'm going to insult a whole industry here, but it seems like TV is for people who can't do film. I'm not talking about actresses; I'm talking about lighting people. Lighting on TV is just so... it's sinful, it really is.

  Kevyn Aucoin

  Talking, People, Actresses

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• Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Love, Book, Imagination

  "Fragments of a Poetics of Fire (A Retrospective Glance at the Lifework of a Master of Books)". Book by Gaston Bachelard edited by Suzanne Bachelard, 1988.

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• Nothing is cooler and more attractive than a big comeback, and that'll be me.

  Steven Adler

  Attractive, Bigs

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• The attacks of which I have been the object have broken the spring of life in me... People don't realize what it feels like to be constantly insulted.

  Edouard Manet

  Spring, Broken, People

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• When I first made the comeback it was more about getting fit and hopefully inspiring others to lead a better life... for me to achieve what I have achieved over the last two years has been a dream come true.

  Geoff Huegill

  Sports, Dream, Years

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• Say what you like about my bloody murderous government,' I says, 'but don't insult me poor bleedin' country.

  Edward Abbey

  Country, Government, Liberty

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.23, RosettaBooks

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• The backpackers are back on the bandwagon like this was my comeback season back, back in the day

  Drake

  Back In The Day, Opportunist, Bandwagon

  Song: Over My Dead Body, Album: Take Care, 2011

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• Nothing would make me happier if Peter Falk would finally win his Oscar for this. Not just as the writer but as a fan and a friend. It would be so great

  Paul Reiser

  Winning, Fans, Would Be

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• Democratic presidential candidate Al Gore officially introduced his history-making running mate today, Senator Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut....In their first joint appearance they gave a preview of the Gore-Lieberman fight-back, comeback strategy. Their message: They represent the future, not the past, and they are the ticket of high moral standards most in tune with real mainstream America.

  Dan Rather

  Running, Real, Fighting

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• A saint is a person who gives of themself without asking for anything in return. That's how simple it is to be a saint. Try it! Try being a saint

  Edward James Olmos

  Simple, Giving, Trying

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• I long for the days when athletes were revered. I want to see the romance return to sports, to see people enjoy the game purely for the game and the players.

  Mike Piazza

  Sports, Athlete, Player

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• I always serve the writer first because I'm English trained, even though I'm American.

  Robert Englund

  Firsts

  "The Arrow interviews Robert Englund". Interview, www.joblo.com. July 2, 2003.

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• Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent.

  James A. Baldwin

  Writing, Editors, Literature

  "Notes of a Native Son". Book by James A. Baldwin, archive.nytimes.com. 1955.

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• I am planning to return and contest the October elections in Pakistan.

  Benazir Bhutto

  Pakistan, October, Return

  Interview With Zahid Hussain, newslinemagazine.com. July 2002.

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• There is nothing that people bear more impatiently, or forgive less, than contempt: and an injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Insult To Injury, People, Forgiving

  Lord Chesterfield (1998). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.87, OUP Oxford

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