Best 112 quotes in «comeback quotes» category

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

To admit you want to have a comeback means you have to admit you weren't what you were supposed to be. You dropped below your own standard.

This pilot, by far, was the best I ever read - and I hope that insults every other pilot I worked on.

Today I should not be identified with any kind of regressive therapy.

The writer works in a lonely way.

Unlike an external enemy, the inner enemy cannot regroup and launch a comeback once it has been destroyed from within.

Ultimately, there is no compromise. Westerners will either retain their civilization, including the right to insult and blaspheme, or not.

Well, any good comeback needs some true believers.

Well, Marx is having a comeback. I hear him mentioned a lot in terms of the global financial situation and the general sense of injustice out there. A lot of economic experts in America refer to him without actually using the M word, but he's around.

To say 'we' and mean 'I' is one of the most recondite insults.

We must return to nature and nature's god.

Whatever insults my state insults me.

What is working in the economy is a natural comeback plus some effects of the policies we've been following. But I'm sort of worried about the long term effects.

Well, I can throw a mean comeback, so there's that. I will crush them on wit.

What makes a person a success is how they handle the lows in life and how they make their comeback.

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

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

Your setback is just a setup for your comeback.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

...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.

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.

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

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 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.

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

You know, you're rather amusingly wrong.

A comeback in gymnastics is almost impossible in itself.

Aggression, the writer's main source of energy.

A great champion deals with setback with a comeback.

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 setback only paves the way for a comeback.

An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.

A setback is nothing but a setup for a comeback.

A graceful taunt is worth a thousand insults.

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

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

Comeback is a good word, man.