Top 20 Riposte Quotes

#1. Who cares, who cares. The perennial adolescent riposte. I cared, of course. I cared what people thought. I always did care. Unlike Laura, I have never had the courage of my convictions.

Margaret Atwood

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#2. Surely, then, this was a situation that merited the high-minded if somewhat sneering riposte of John Maynard Keynes: When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?

Kathryn Schulz

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#3. If you want to know the outcome of a game before the game has even started, you need to control each side.

David Icke

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#4. The old must pass away. It has served its purpose in the cycles of evolution and must now make way for a new, more expanded and more fruitful manifestation.

David Spangler

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#5. Weirdoes make the world interesting.

Jessica Sorensen

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#6. Riposte of "that old lady in the anecdote who was accused by her nieces of being illogical," Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish! How can I tell what I think till I see what I say?

E. M. Forster

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#7. I didn't consciously make the decision to write an adult novel. I didn't think of it as my riposte to the YA genre.

Mal Peet

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#8. A moment on the lips, a lifetime on the hips," Mrs. Ledbetter taunted. "I'd think twice about dessert. Besides, we don't have a trough.

Nick Wilgus

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#9. Summary riposte
To the dreary wail
There's no knowing what
Love is all about.
Poets know a lot.

Robert Frost

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#10. When you know something is wrong for you, you have to make difficult decisions and trust your instincts.

Michael Jackson

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#11. This is, of course, an easy Berlinian riposte. Start with some graceful hand waving about incommensurability; declare that nothing could reconcile these great goods; and (with a tip of trilby) commend liberal pluralism for living with the contradictions.

Kwame Anthony Appiah

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#12. To the eternal "Opinions are like assholes - everybody's got one," I just say, "Yeah, but not everybody's got ten thousand of them." It distresses me that the wit of this riposte so often fails to impress the asshole I'm talking to.

Robert Christgau

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#13. Dancehall has always had a homophobic problem, but you go to dance parties in Jamaica, and some of the biggest dancers are kinda gay, just not outspoken about it. Dancehall was the first kind of music I was DJing, and it was always more about the rhythm.

Diplo

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#14. In history, we are concerned with what has been and what is; in philosophy, however, we are concerned not with what belongs exclusively to the past or to the future, but with that which is, both now and eternally - in short, with reason.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

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#15. Literature is the heart and the soul of a society. Like music it's the words expressing multitude of emotions, self riposte and gripping thoughts.

Shilpa Sandesh

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#16. An author values a compliment even when it comes from a source of doubtful competency.

Mark Twain

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#17. My favourite riposte to a heckle is to say, 'Excuse me, I'm trying to work here. How would you like it if I stood yelling down the alley while you're giving blow jobs to transsexuals?'

Paul Merton

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#18. The realization of the perfect riposte three hours after the argument: hindser, stairwit, retrotort, afterism.

Steven Pinker

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#19. Writing was a spiritual exercise for my father, the only thing he really believed in.

Mark Vonnegut

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#20. Oscar Wilde: "I wish I had said that." Whistler: "You will, Oscar; you will.

James McNeill Whistler

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