Clapback Quotes & Sayings

As I travelled around Australia, strangers in pubs, on airplanes, in beach parking lots would bring up Gina Rinehart, not knowing I was writing about her. Everybody had something to say, some of it thoughtful, some of it poorly informed, some of it vividly obscene. — William Finnegan

Choice. - The question is, What influences, directs, or determines the mind or Will to come to such a conclusion or choice as it does? — Jonathan Edwards

If you work hard, whatever you want, it will come to you. I know that's easier said than done, but keep trying. — Beyonce Knowles

Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below. — Alexander Pope

I can only see my life through the lenses of my personal worldview. Everything is coloured by my lenses, and the events are made brighter or dimmer by my perspective.I believe what I see is reality, but everyone else in my world believes what they see is reality too. — Lori Gosselin

If I write for myself, I write a song and I bring in the musicians that are best suited to play it. There's a freedom there. — Paul Stanley

Playing octaves was just a coincidence. And it's still such a challenge, like chord versions, block chords like cats play on piano. There are a lot of things that can be done with it, but each is a field of its own. I used to have headaches every time I played octaves, because it was extra strain, but the minute I'd quit I'd be all right. But now I don't have headaches when I play octaves. — Wes Montgomery

Do not write me studied letters but ramble as you please. — Thomas Jefferson

Even on the left, even in this age of exposed racial rifts, politicians still say with a straight face that this country was founded on principles of equality. Words mean things, we say again and again, but actions mean much more, and still as a nation, we worship the very slave owners who gave legal precedence to the notion of percentages of human beings. We scream equality and freedom while unabashedly modeling our action on the fathers of genocide. The only want to rationalize this most American of contradictions is to devalue the lives of the slaughtered, as was done then, so it must be now, and so apologists remind us that those were the times, and they didn't know better, and one and one. But if those lives matter now then they mattered then, and the clapback stretches through history, unraveling all the creation myths this country has always held most sacred, toppling our many false idols and cleaning out our profaned temples. — Daniel Jose Older

There's something so muffled about the way you experience things. It's as if you were trying to slip through life unchanged. — Kathleen Turner

The perfect church service would be one we were almost unaware of. Our attention would have been on God. — C.S. Lewis

Today was so pointless that when I tried to write about it a moment ago, my pen ran out because it couldn't take the boredom. — Tim Collins