Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ken Kesey

The man who seeks revenge digs two graves.

That's our only loss. We want to play P.G. to win the championship; it's that revenge factor.

There may have been a little revenge on our minds.

James Scott

Revenge is a really narrow scope through which to view things. In the same way secrets do, it has this ability to warp everything. But secrets are more inward, and revenge is outward.

Lana Parrilla

I do watch Revenge, American Horror Story and Game of Thrones. I am behind on all of them. But I do watch them. Those are my go-to shows.

Lana Parrilla

I'm not one to take revenge. If someone does something wrong to me I leave it in the hands of the universe to take care of that person.

Libba Bray

People tend to think that hate is the most dangerous emotion. But love is equally dangerous,” Will said. “There are many stories of spirits haunting the places and people who meant the most to them. In fact, there are more of those than there are revenge stories.

Friedrich Engels

Don't forget any affront done to you and to all our people, the time of revenge will come and must be put to good use.

Friedrich Schiller

Revenge is barren of itself: it is the dreadful food it feeds on; its delight is murder, and its end is despair.

Jon Huntsman, Jr.

In any walk of life, a positive, upbeat outlook trumps any adversarial act. Revenge is counterproductive. Unproductive emotions limit one's ability to move forward, to focus, to think positively, to act creatively.

James Franco

They say living well is the best revenge but sometimes writing well is even better.

Jake Delhomme

It wasn't a revenge game or a get-back game, because that was a long time ago. This was just a big win for us.

Henry Rollins

A gun in your hand makes a fool out of you. A gun in your hand makes a target out of me.

Henry Rollins

The best revenge is to always survive yourself.

Henry Rollins

All by yourself, unable to express the pain of your distress with your deeper inside. You alienate yourself and everybody else.

Henry Hazlitt

The envious are not satisfied with equality; they secretly yearn for superiority and revenge. In the French Revolution of 1848, a woman coal-heaver is said to have remarked to a richly dressed lady: 'Yes, madam, everything's going to be equal now; I shall go in silks and you'll carry coal.'

Hector Hugh Munro

The revenge of an elder sister may be long in coming, but, like a South-Eastern express, it arrives in its own good time.

John Connolly

On more than one occasion David, in his urge to explore the darker corners of the bookshelves, had found himself wearing strands of spider silk in his face and hair, causing the web's creator to scuttle into a corner and crouch balefully, lost in thoughts of arachnoid revenge.

John Boyd Orr

Some wars have been due to the lust of rulers for power and glory, or to revenge to wipe out the humiliation of a former defeat.

Gloria Steinem

Our children are the only people on whom we can safely take revenge for what was done to us.

Shan Sa

I envied these women I saw before me, their beauty still intact. Life has its revenge of life. Untimely death is the secret of eternal youth.

George W. Bush

Ours is a nation that does not seek revenge.

George W. Bush

You cannot lead America to a positive tomorrow with revenge on one's mind. Revenge is so incredibly negative.

George W. Bush

I don't think you should support the death penalty to seek revenge. I don't think that's right. I think the reason to support the death penalty is because it saves other people's lives.

Christopher Dawson

If man attempts to suppress the animal side of his nature by a sheer effort of conscious will, nature finds a hundred unexpected and unpleasant ways to take its revenge.

Christopher Eccleston

When you seek revenge, be sure to dig two graves.

Gerard Way

Real revenge is making something of yourself.

Herbert Spencer

Is it stupidity or is it moral cowardice which leads men to continue professing a creed that makes self-sacrifice a cardinal principle, while they urge the sacrificing of others, even to the death, when they trespass against us? Is it blindness, or is it an insance inconsistency, which makes them regard as most admirable the bearing of evil for the benefit of others, while they lavish admiration on those who, out of revenge, inflict great evils in return for small ones suffered? Surely our barbarian code of right needs revision, and our barbarian standard of honour should be somewhat changed.

Jerome K. Jerome

The shy man does have some slight revenge upon society for the torture it inflicts upon him. He is able, to a certain extent, to communicate his misery. He frightens other people as much as they frighten him. He acts like a damper upon the whole room, and the most jovial spirits become, in his presence, depressed and nervous.

James A. Forbes

It is not possible to achieve by vigilance in anger and revenge what the soul is longing for. The soul longs for peace.

James A. Garfield

For mere vengeance I would do nothing. This nation is too great to look for mere revenge. But for security of the future I would do every thing.

Freddy Garcia

It's going to be crazy. The fans in Venezuela are tough. They scream. We get to face the Dominicans in the first game - it's going to be crazy, they're looking for revenge. Our fans are loud, so are theirs. But that's good. It's going to be crazy.

Hosea Ballou

Hatred is self-punishment. Hatred it the coward's revenge for being intimidated.