Quotes on Comeback

The private citizen, beset by partisan appeals for the loan of his Public Opinion, will soon see, perhaps, that these appeals are not a compliment to his intelligence, but an imposition on his good nature and an insult to his sense of evidence.

For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return.

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.

I'm always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I've been.

As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress.

What white woman, however lonely, was ever captive or insulted by me? Yet they say I am a bad Indian.

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

There is no great invention, from fire to flying, which has not been hailed as an insult to some god.

To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.

To force a man to pay for the violation of his own liberty is indeed an addition of insult to injury.

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'm not really keen on comebacks. Eurythmics was an incredible thing. When I look back on that work, I feel very satisfied with it.

The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed.

I have tried to lift France out of the mud. But she will return to her errors and vomitings. I cannot prevent the French from being French.

Looking back, yes, I made too many comebacks. But each comeback I was 100 percent sure that I would win. I never came back for the money, because I didn't need it. The adulation I was getting anyway in other spheres. But I'm a guy who likes to see how close he can get to the edge of the mountain - that's what makes me tick.

Art is going to make a bigger comeback than ever. That's the upside to things getting challenging.

Success comes to a writer as a rule, so gradually that it is always something of a shock to him to look back and realize the heights to which he has climbed.

It's been phenomenal, but everybody keeps congratulating me on my resurgence and my big comeback. I haven't been away, guys. I've been working steadily for the last 63 years.

The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.

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