Comeback Quotes - Page 8

• An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Trust, Insult To Injury, Domestic Violence

  Letters to His Son, 9 Oct. 1746

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• It is also interesting to note that the original supermodels are now making a comeback after being dismissed in the Nineties as being 'greedy' by a gaggle of male designers who lived like Sun Kings.

  Julie Burchill

  Kings, Interesting, Males

  "Do women really need life tips from gay men?" by Julie Burchill, www.theguardian.com. September 6, 2008.

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• We must return to nature and nature's god.

  Luther Burbank

  Nature, Environmental, Return

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• What white woman, however lonely, was ever captive or insulted by me? Yet they say I am a bad Indian.

  Sitting Bull

  Lonely, Native American, White

  Sitting Bull, Mark Diedrich (1998). “Sitting Bull: The Collected Speeches”

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• Daily life is governed by an economic system in which the production and consumption of insults tends to balance out.

  Raoul Vaneigem

  Balance, Insult, Daily Life

  Raoul Vaneigem, Donald Nicholson-Smith (2012). “The Revolution of Everyday Life”, p.15, PM Press

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• No writer need feel sorry for himself if he writes and enjoys it, even if he doesn't get paid.

  Irwin Shaw

  Sorry, Writing, Feelings

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• The importance to the writer of first writing must be out of all proportion of the actual value of what is written.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Writing, Literature, Firsts

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• It is important to do what you don't know how to do. It is important to see your skills as keeping you from learning what is deepest and most mysterious. If you know how to focus, unfocus. If your tendency is to make sense out of chaos, start chaos.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Inspiration, Learning, Creativity

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• Let us rise in the moral power of womanhood; and give utterance to the voice of outraged mercy, and insulted justice, and eternal truth, and mighty love and holy freedom.

  Maria Weston Chapman

  Love, Voice, Giving

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• Aggression, the writer's main source of energy.

  Ted Solotaroff

  Writing, Energy, Source

  Ted Solotaroff (2008). “The Literary Community: Selected Essays : 1967-2007”

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• For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word.

  Catherine Drinker Bowen

  Healing, Writing, Realization

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• Well, any good comeback needs some true believers.

  John Boehner

  Needs, Wells, Believer

  John Boehner's Speech at the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Florida, www.politico.com. September 4, 2012.

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• This happened years and years ago, right as our videos were first being played on MTV. The interviewer said, "You guys are getting famous now. Are you going to be riding around in limousines, doing drugs, and sleeping with beautiful women?" And I was a precocious young man, and my snappy comeback to that cheerful question was, "We're willing to sleep with beautiful women." But no part of the question was in the article.

  John Flansburgh

  Beautiful, Sleep, Men

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I'm not really keen on comebacks. Eurythmics was an incredible thing. When I look back on that work, I feel very satisfied with it.

  Annie Lennox

  Looks, Incredibles, Satisfied

  "Question time: Annie Lennox". Interview with Hannah Pool, www.theguardian.com. November 25, 2009.

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• There is nothing as sweet as a comeback, when you are down and out, about to lose, and out of time.

  Anne Lamott

  Sweet, Down And, Loses

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• Well, I write in exile because I cannot return to my country, so I have no choice but to see myself as an exiled writer.

  Guillermo Cabrera Infante

  Country, Writing, Choices

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• It's not easy being a father, but I've been allowed a comeback.

  Alan King

  Father, Being A Father, Easy

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• Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Hero, Important, Society

  Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.286, Cambridge University Press

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• I love it when someone insults me. That means that I don't have to be nice anymore.

  Billy Idol

  Love, Nice, Mean

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

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• Never insult an alligator until after you have crossed the river.

  Cordell Hull

  Funny, Epic, Rivers

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• Our passion and principals are constantly in a frenzy, but begin to shift and waver, as we return to reason.

  Laurence Sterne

  Passion, Literature, Return

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• We have to judge presidents not only by the long-term consequences of their actions but also by how they make citizens in their own day feel. One reason that Nixon never succeeded in his comeback campaign is that he had such a negative impact on public trust at the time of his presidency.

  David Greenberg

  Impact, Long, Judging

  "Making Presidential History". The Washington Post Live Q&As, www.slate.com. August 9, 2007.

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• Fashion does seem to have a 20s comeback every few seasons, and I completely see why. Its a very feminine look: the fabrics and the shapes are very pretty and distinctive.

  Joanne Froggatt

  Fashion, Doe, Looks

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• If you believe in journalism, you don't insult good journalists.

  Sydney Schanberg

  Believe, Journalism, Insult

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• I love KIND bars. My favorites are coconut and almond and the dark chocolate and sea salt because staying fueled helps keep me from getting sick or injured. Bananas have also made a great comeback in my life. My kids eat them all the time on the go, which has inspired my go-to pre-run morning meal of peanut butter and banana on toast.

  Summer Sanders

  Running, Morning, Kids

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