Repartees Quotes

#1. About two hours afterwards Gethryn discovered a suitable retort, but, coming to the conclusion that better late than never does not apply to repartees, refrained from speaking it.

P.G. Wodehouse

#2. What the hell did people have to keep them occupied on a damp and windy day in January apart from sitting indoors and lapping up the story of somebody who had suffered even more than they were doing.

Hakan Nesser

#3. may I be I is the only prayer

E. E. Cummings

#4. Time means succession, and succession, change: Hence timelessness is bound to disarrange Schedules of sentiment.

Vladimir Nabokov

#5. Oh! then repeat the truth that never tires; No God is like the God my soul desires; He at whose voice heaven trembles, even He, Great as He is, knows how to stoop to me.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#6. Maintaining one's vigilance against biases is a chore - but the chance to avoid a costly mistake is sometimes worth the effort.

Daniel Kahneman

#7. You asked what it would be like. This is what it will be like. I don't want to be just friends.

Jandy Nelson

#8. I just can't wait to continue creating music.

James Wolpert

#9. There's always a tension in me between my urge to destroy and my will to live ... Every morning I wake up with a new wrath, a new suspiciousness, a new desire to live.

Ingmar Bergman

#10. I'd like to do something involving jazz. But books are how I earn my living, and I'd like to stay with the horse I rode in on.

James McBride

#11. You need three things to win: discipline, hard work and, before everything maybe, commitment. No one will make it without those three. Sport teaches you that.

Haile Gebrselassie

#12. The experience at Suez was little help. Probably they would have been better off in the long run had there been no Suez Canal in their past.

David McCullough