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When a 'setback' brings a 'comeback,' that's grace in action!

...unfortunately, I am incapable of thinking up perfectly biting, split-second retorts, in any language. The French even have a word for this: l'esprit de l'escalier; staircase wit, something you only think of on the way out.

What do you mean by that?” Her frustration got the best of her. “You’re so used to feeling superior that you’ve forgotten there are people who might know something you don’t.” One of his big, competent hands landed on the blade of his hip. “What’s your deal anyway? Do you feel like such a failure that you need to attack anybody who’s successful?” “No. Maybe. I don’t know. Fuck you.

What is a whore?" Unsurprisingly, that hadn't been one of the words we had shared over the last span of days. For half a moment I considered lying, but there was no way I could manage it. "He says your mother is a person men pay money to have sex with." Tempi turned back to the mercenary and nodded graciously. "You are very kind. I thank you.

When this is done, Jerkface, I will hold your tarnished and melted pin up as my trophy as your smoldering ship marks your pyre, and the final resting place of your crushed and broken corpse!" - Spensa, pg. 64

You know, you're rather amusingly wrong.

You can tell all Namorn this is what happens when I am vexed," she informed him softly. "Little *bitch*," he snapped. Sandry looked him over soberly. "If you had understood that earlier, we could have avoided this unpleasantness," she replied.

You mustn't mind so much. It's all in your head." "Well, I live in my head.

A comeback in gymnastics is almost impossible in itself.

A comeback is possible so let's hope it's a good day for us. Arsenal is a very fast team but we can get through.

A graceful taunt is worth a thousand insults.

Aggression, the writer's main source of energy.

A great champion deals with setback with a comeback.

An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.

A setback is nothing but a setup for a comeback.

A quick comeback is usually meant as license to be mean.

A setback only paves the way for a comeback.

Believers believe in resurrection, atheists only in comebacks.

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.

But it is possible that, in the days ahead, these years we have lived through may eventually be thought of simply as a period of disturbance and regression

Comeback is a good word, man.

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

Each of us carries within himself a collection of instant insults.

Discrimination against Jews can be read in Thomas Aquinas, and insults against Jews in Martin Luther.

Every setback is a setup for a comeback!

Every setback has a major comeback.

His mind was like a soup dish, wide and shallow; it could hold a small amount of nearly anything, but the slightest jarring spilled the soup into somebody's lap

Every time I show up to do something here it's considered a comeback. If I came into town and they didn't call it that, I'd be disappointed.

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

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.

I do a movie once every four years and they call it a comeback.

Hour after hour, they shouted at me, accused me, insulted me and members of my family.

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

If they had said my writing wasn't good enough, fair enough, that's an opinion. But to say it's too complex is to insult the intelligence of the so-called young.

I feel I should warn you, I’m in a really bad mood. (Syn) You’ll be in a worse mood when we haul you in dead! (a Partini) ‘Syn grimaced in pain at a comment so stupid it didn’t even rate a snotty comeback.’ (Syn)

If you can't ignore an insult, top it; if you can't top it, laugh it off; and if you can't laugh it off, it's probably deserved.

If you have a setback, Don’t take a step back- Get ready for a comeback!

I had to develop the mentality and stay positive about making my comeback.

I'm a good scholar when it comes to reading but a blotting kind of writer when you give me a pen.

I like the saying the every setback is a setup for a comeback. Also, "Todos los tigres son iguales" which means all tigers are the same. A fellow reporter once told me that when I was on assignment in Haiti working around the clock.

Insults are pouring down on me as thick as hail.

In Europe, a writer is supposed to improve up until he's about 75

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

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.

Insults are the business of the court.

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

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?

It's very hard to be a gentleman and a writer.

I've always made some legendary comebacks since 1998 when it first started. So that's kind of just been my MO for my whole career.

I wanted to become a writer. I enjoyed reading as a child.