Comeback Quotes - Page 4

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

  Frederick Douglass

  Motivational, Men, Gentleman

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

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Book, Important, Earth

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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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• 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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• The talent of a true writer and poet is in the ear.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Ears, Talent, Poet

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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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• 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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• An involuntary return to the point of departure is, without doubt, the most disturbing of all journeys.

  Iain Sinclair

  Travel, Journey, Doubt

  Iain Sinclair (2004). “Downriver, or, The vessels of wrath: a narrative in twelve tales”, Penguin Books Ltd

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

  Wen Jiabao

  Self Confidence, Important, Gold

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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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• 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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• A graceful taunt is worth a thousand insults.

  Louis Nizer

  Clever, Insult, Thousand

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