Quotes about revenge
revenge important resentment
Images of resentment and revenge only have us spending the precious moments of our lives imagining the 'other' as both dangerous and important! Bill Crawford
revenge nudity clown
Strip those clowns down to nudity, shove the chrome where they doo doo be. Big Pun
revenge mean guy
Getting revenge on a guy is just not worth it to me. I mean, it definitely sucks at the time, but obviously you're not supposed to be with that person. Carrie Underwood
revenge military war
Teller contended, not implausibly, that hydrogen bombs keep the peace, or at least prevent thermonuclear war, because the consequences of warfare between nuclear powers are now too dangerous. We haven't had a nuclear war yet, have we? But all such arguments assume that the nuclear-armed nations are and always will be, without exception, rational actors, and that bouts of anger and revenge and madness will never overtake their leaders (or military and secret police officers in charge of nuclear weapons). In the century of Hitler and Stalin, this seems ingenuous. Carl Sagan
revenge taken people
Rarely has a people paid the lavish compliment and taken the subtle revenge of turning its oppressor's speech into sorcery. Bill Vaughan
revenge seconds seven winning
I was winning with seven seconds left. I wanted to get my revenge on him.
revenge nails scratches
Every time I scratch my nails down someone else's back, I hope you feel it. Alanis Morissette
revenge gay jocks
He put Ben Gay inside my jock strap and filled my tooth paste tube up with glue. Al Yankovic
revenge sight trying
Got a brand new semi-automatic weapon with a laser sight. Oh, I'm praying that somebody tries to break in here tonight.
revenge intelligent true-evil
Gaffe-focused journalism: revenge of intelligent people who know true evils are out there but lack the access/time to get to them. Alain de Botton
revenge victory way
Most victories are, in the best way, acts of revenge.
revenge sacrifice trying
You kill yourself and you make a big old sacrifice and try to get your revenge. That all you're gonna end up with is a paragraph in a newspaper. In the end, it does nothing. Nothing changes. The world goes on and you're gone. The best revenge is to live on and prove yourself. Eddie Vedder
revenge justice kind
Revenge was a very wild kind of justice ... Elizabeth Bowen
revenge excuse lost
I would like to take revenge but I'm not looking for excuses for having lost to her Elena Dementieva
revenge military enemy
Military necessity does not admit of cruelty - that is, the infliction of suffering for the sake of suffering or for revenge, . . . nor of torture to extort confessions. Abraham Lincoln
revenge numbers doe
Vengeance does not subtract any numbers from the equation of murder; it only adds them. Barbara Kingsolver
revenge ignorance hands
Terrorism is a state of mind that on the one hand has to do with ignorance and, on the other hand, can be attributed to a feeling of desperation over the political situation, which at some point takes the form of revenge. Bashar al-Assad
revenge mean fighting
He who wishes to revenge injuries by reciprocal hatred will live in misery. But he who endeavors to drive away hatred by means of love, fights with pleasure and confidence; he resists equally one or many men, and scarcely needs at all the help of fortune. Those whom he conquers yield joyfully Baruch Spinoza
revenge consciousness habit
Expelled from individual consciousness by the rush of change, history finds its revenge by stamping the collective unconsciousness with habits and values. Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
revenge people justice
Those who wish to punish the current and future generations for the inequities of a generation long gone, and who equate justice with revenge, are the most dangerous people in the world. Dean Koontz
revenge ideas soul
THE thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could, but when he ventured upon insult I vowed revenge. You, who so well know the nature of my soul, will not suppose, however, that gave utterance to a threat. At length I would be avenged; this was a point definitely, settled --but the very definitiveness with which it was resolved precluded the idea of risk. I must not only punish but punish with impunity. A wrong is unredressed when retribution overtakes its redresser. It is equally unredressed when the avenger fails to make himself felt as such to him who has done the wrong. Edgar Allan Poe
revenge ambition men
Tell a scoundrel, three or four times a day, that he is the pink of probity, and you make him at least the perfection of "respectability" in good earnest. On the other hand, accuse an honorable man, too petinaciously, of being a villain, and you fill him with a perverse ambition to show you that you are not altogether in the wrong.
revenge done failing
A wrong is unredressed when retribution overtakes its redresser. It is equally unredressed when the avenger fails to make himself felt as such to him who has done the wrong.
revenge anger character
Of ill-temper there are three kinds: irascibility, bitterness, sullenness. It belongs to the ill-tempered man to be unable to bear either small slights or defeats but to be given to retaliation and revenge, and easily moved to anger by any chance deed or word. Ill-temper is accompanied by excitability of character, instability, bitter speech, and liability to take offence at trifles and to feel these feelings quickly and on slight occasions. Aristotle
revenge attachment bitterness
Gentleness is the ability to bear reproaches and slights with moderation, and not to embark on revenge quickly, and not to be easily provoked to anger, but be free from bitterness and contentiousness, having tranquility and stability in the spirit.
revenge heart tears
Fool that I am," said he,"that I did not tear out my heart the day I resolved to revenge myself". Alexandre Dumas
revenge lying heart
As readers, we are seldom interested in the fine sentiments of a lesson learnt; we seldom care about the good manners of morals. Repentance puts an end to conversation; forgiveness becomes the stuff of moralistic tracts. Revenge - bloodthirsty, justice-hungry revenge - is the very essence of romance, lying at the heart of much of the best fiction. Alberto Manguel
revenge best-revenge improving-yourself
The best revenge is to improve yourself.
revenge military night
Night gangsters! For this crime I will exact a thousand fold revenge! Adolf Hitler
revenge may teeth
May God keep you away from the venom of the cobra, the teeth of the tiger, and the revenge of the Afghans. Alexander the Great
revenge opponents conflict
Never ascribe to an opponent motives meaner than your own. James M. Barrie
revenge writing reason
One reason writers write is out of revenge. Cynthia Ozick
revenge genius aging
Longevity is the revenge of talent upon genius. Cyril Connolly