Best 112 quotes in «comeback quotes» category

What you think is a setback, is really a set-up for a greater comeback!

When you combine something to say with the skill to say it properly, then you've got a good writer.

I felt my cheeks turn red, and she laughed out loud. But I didn't mind too much, because the last thing she saw was my middle finger aimed in her direction as I stepped outside

You may be in a tough time but that setback is simply a setup for a greater comeback.

Captain Billings," he drawled finally, "if you will pardon my candor, I might remark that you are something of an ass, don't you know.

don’t be stubborn, mister. we haven't got all day." "you mean this is a part-time job?

I can handle Glory." "Can you?" Eve asked. "Because I notice you never call her Gloriana. Just Glory." He shut up. Which is probably about the only smart thing he can do, Claire thought.

Your setback is just a setup for your comeback.

And I’m stubborn, if you want absolute obedience, get a Labrador.

Better to have been a dickhead and seen it, than be a cunt all your life and not know it.

I am facing a challenge, I am not facing defeat. Remember this.

Oh, yet come back, come back to me, beloved; for I repent me of my choice! Come back, and we will creep away together, to some dark and silent grave where the devouring army shall not find us; and we will lay us down there, locked in one another's arms, and sleep, and sleep, and sleep.

I'm coming back and I'm coming back swinging!

I have a love / hate relationship with things and places the same way I do with people. And I’m getting tired of this place, feeling as if each corner here is asking me to leave; Leave and never come back again …

I was sure I'd have the perfect answer sometime tonight.

Pain is temporary- The pain you feel today is only to get strength to face tomorrow.

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.

...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 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.

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

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.

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

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.

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 comeback in gymnastics is almost impossible in itself.

A great champion deals with setback with a comeback.

A graceful taunt is worth a thousand insults.

Aggression, the writer's main source of energy.

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

An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.

A setback is nothing but a setup for a comeback.

A setback only paves the way for a comeback.

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

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.

Believers believe in resurrection, atheists only in comebacks.

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

Comeback is a good word, man.

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

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

Every setback is a setup for a comeback!

Every setback has a major comeback.

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

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.

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

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

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 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 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)