Comeback Quotes - Page 3

• To my great disappointment, it appears that the politics of division are making a big comeback. Many Americans share my disappointment - especially those who were filled with great hope a few years ago, when then-Senator Obama announced his candidacy in Springfield, Illinois.

  Paul Ryan

  Disappointment, Illinois, Years

  "Saving the American Idea: Rejecting Fear, Envy, and the Politics of Division". Speech at The Heritage Foundation, House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI), www.heritage.org. November 15, 2011.

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• No, you're either born a writer, a storyteller, or you're not.

  John Milius

  Born, Storyteller

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• A stiff apology is a second insult... The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Forgiveness, Im Sorry, Hurt

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• If you love something set it free, but don't be surprised if it comes back with herpes.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Love, Funny, Broken Heart

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• Simplification is one of the most difficult things to do.

  Jonathan Ive

  Kindness, Business, Defeat

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• In the year 1857, passing through Washington on our return from the annual visit to Philadelphia, I had the distinguished honor of visiting a President for the first time.

  John Sergeant Wise

  Time, Years, Philadelphia

  John Sergeant Wise, Paul Dennis Sporer (2005). “End of an Era: The Last Days of Traditional Southern Culture as Seen Through the Eyes of a Young Confederate Soldier”, p.50, Anza Publishing

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• I'm a comeback waiting to happen. No one deserves it more than I do.

  Sean Young

  Waiting, Happens, Deserve

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

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• For the first time in my adult life, I am proud of my country because it feels like hope is finally making a comeback.

  Michel'le

  Country, Adults, Proud

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• The problem with being Comeback Player of the Year is it means you have to go somewhere before you can come back.

  Bert Blyleven

  Mean, Player, Years

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• My relatives used to laugh when I talked of being a writer.

  Taylor Caldwell

  Laughing, Used

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• If all ideas have to be bought, then you have an intellectually regressive system that will assure you have a highly knowledgeable elite and an ignorant mass.

  John Perry Barlow

  Ideas, Ignorant Masses, Knowledgeable

  "John Perry Barlow 2.0". Interview with Brian Doherty, reason.com. August 1, 2004.

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• A boxer makes a comeback for two reasons: either he’s broke or he needs the money.

  Alan Minter

  Two, Needs, Boxers

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• By offering individuals ownership and control of their health care coverage, we return control to the patients; and that is exactly where it should be.

  Chris Chocola

  Offering, Care, Return

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• I'm a writer, and what I do is write. I wasn't able to do anything else.

  Hugh Leonard

  Writing, Able

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• Pornography is the attempt to insult sex, to do dirt on it.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Sex, Dirt, Insult

  Phoenix "Pornography and Obscenity" ch. 3 (1936)

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• I think, over the last couple of years, the written word has made a comeback on the Internet. For example, I'm seeing more long-form narrative experiments there. The overall noise level, however, continues to increase. Do we really need TV screens to watch when we pump gas? Really?

  Charlie Pierce

  Couple, Thinking, Internet

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I’ve made some mistakes. I had to make a turnaround in my life. This is my new expression to the world and this is my comeback and this is my moment. This is my chance to say, ‘This is what God made of me and I’m still worthy.’ If I was a one hundred dollar bill, and I was all messed up, someone would clean me up and use me. I’m still worth something!

  Maia Campbell

  Mistake, Expression, Dollar Bills

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• But I would never insult the people that love this music and I would never insult the blessing of music in my life and I would never insult myself by playing uninspired music.

  Ben Harper

  Blessing, People, Insult

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• I like Frenchmen very much, because even when they insult you they do it so nicely.

  Josephine Baker

  Insults You, Paris, Frenchmen

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• [After the twins' birth,] I spent two years doing nothing. I was a wife and a mom. But you need that time to grow. You can't be afraid of, 'Oh, I'm out of the public, then I'm going to have to make a comeback.' It's ridiculous. No.

  Jennifer Lopez

  Mom, Mother, Years

  "Motherhood Quotes from the Pages of ELLE". www.elle.com. May 11, 2012.

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• The vanity of men, a constant insult to women, is also the ground for the implicit feminine claim of superior sensitivity and morality.

  Patricia Ann Meyer Spacks

  Men, Vanity, Morality

  Patricia Ann Meyer Spacks (1976). “The Female Imagination”

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• My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.

  Susan Sontag

  Writing, Ideas

  Susan Sontag (2013). “Against Interpretation and Other Essays”, p.323, Penguin UK

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• You may talk about Sweden, you may talk about Rome,
  but Rockville Center's Floyd Patterson's home.
  A lot of people said that Floyd couldn't fight,
  but you should have seen him on the comeback night.

  Muhammad Ali

  Home, Fighting, Night

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• Thy Return is as another Sun to Heaven; a new Rose blooming in the Garden of the Soul.

  Omar Khayyam

  Love, Garden, Rose

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• Lifting weights is obviously important, because you want to be strong and fast and all of that, but it's not one of those things you gotta go and try to bench as much as you can every day. A bench press isn't going to help you throw a 15-yard out or a deep comeback. It's not about that. It's about training right

  Mark Sanchez

  Strong, Lifting Weights, Training

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