"There is nothing as sweet as a comeback,……" — Anne Lamott
"There is nothing as sweet as a comeback, when you are down and out, about to lose, and out of time."
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489 Quotes by Anne Lamott
Anne Lamott has 489 quotes on this site.
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'Help' is a prayer that is always answered.
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I've seen prayers answered. But often, in my experiences, if you get what you pray for, you've really shortchanged yourself.
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You get your confidence and intuition back by trusting yourself, by being militantly on your own side. ... Don't look…
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Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor; the enemy of the people. It will keep you insane your whole life.
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Age has given me what I was looking for my entire life - it gave me me. It provided the…
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You are desperate to communicate, to edify or entertain, to preserve moments of grace or joy or transcendence, to make…
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You get your intuition back when you make space for it, when you stop the chattering of the rational mind.
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In fact, not forgiving is like drinking rat poison and then waiting for the rat to die.
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Charles had once remarked that holding onto a resentment was like eating rat poison and waiting for the rat to…
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To love yourself as you are is a miracle, and to seek yourself is to have found yourself for now.…
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...after a few days at the desk, telling the truth in an interesting way turns out to be as easy…
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They believe that if they do get published, a wonderful new life is in store. It will turn out that…
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More Comeback Quotes
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I'm going to insult a whole industry here, but it seems like TV is for people who can't do film.…
— Kevyn Aucoin
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To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.
— Isaac Asimov
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Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against…
— James A. Baldwin
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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
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Nothing is cooler and more attractive than a big comeback, and that'll be me.
— Steven Adler
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I am planning to return and contest the October elections in Pakistan.
— Benazir Bhutto
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Well, any good comeback needs some true believers.
— John Boehner
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The importance to the writer of first writing must be out of all proportion of the actual value of what…
— Elizabeth Bowen
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I won't insult your intelligence by suggesting that you really believe what you just said.
— William F. Buckley, Jr.
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What white woman, however lonely, was ever captive or insulted by me? Yet they say I am a bad Indian.
— Sitting Bull
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We must return to nature and nature's god.
— Luther Burbank
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It is also interesting to note that the original supermodels are now making a comeback after being dismissed in the…
— Julie Burchill
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