Famous Quotes & Sayings

Muhammad Ali

What I will remember most about Mr Mandela is that he was a man whose heart, soul and spirit could not be contained or restrained by racial and economic injustices, metal bars or the burden of hate and revenge.

Muhammad Ali

If you lose a big fight, it will worry you all of your life. It will plague you - until you get your revenge.

Mitchell Baker

I mean, who wants to live waking up... at least I don't want to live waking up everyday about revenge.

Mitchell Hurwitz

For the most part you are dealing with jealousy, you are dealing with love, you're dealing with hatred, you are dealing with revenge and all of these sort of classic things.

Madonna Ciccone

You're so consumed with how much you get, you waste your time with hate and regret.

Madonna Ciccone

Publicly humiliating someone for your own gain will only come and haunt you. God's going to have his revenge.

Louis L'Amour

Revenge could steal a man's life until there was nothing left but emptiness.

Louis L'Amour

A man can lose sight of everything else when he's bent on revenge, and it ain't worth it.

Michael Jackson

The more passive one's life in the field, the greater the need to reverse the situation when one returns home, which is why the arcane and authoratative character of academic writing may be seen, to some extent, as a vengeful reaction to the inertia, uneventfulness, and waiting one had to endure as a guest at someone else's banquet. A way of redressing an existental imbalance, as it were reclaiming authorial will by superimposing one's own meaning on theirs...

Michel de Montaigne

Since we cannot match it let us take our revenge by abusing it.

Michel de Montaigne

Since we cannot attain unto it, let us revenge ourselves with railing against it.

Michael O'Donoghue

Living well and ripping your enemy's still-beating heart out with your bare hands is the best revenge.

Marianne Williamson

We are to love our enemies that they might be returned to their right minds.

Mark Buehrle

Toughest [lineup] I've faced. Hopefully, if it comes down to the playoffs, I can get my revenge.

Mike Carey

I think Louisville will be fired up for this game. They might be in revenge mode. But, this time of the year records, don't mean much. Anything can happen.

Nelson Mandela

I am not the only one who did not want revenge. Almost all my colleagues in prison did not want revenge, because there is no time to do anything else except to try and save your people.

Margaret Atwood

Debt is part of the human condition. Civilization is based on exchanges - on gifts, trades, loans - and the revenges and insults that come when they are not paid back.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Those wars are unjust which are undertaken without provocation. For only a war waged for revenge or defense can be just.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Enmity is anger watching the opportunity for revenge.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

We can more easily avenge an injury than requite a kindness; on this account, because there is less difficulty in getting the better of the wicked than in making one's self equal with the good.

Khloe Kardashian

I don't believe in revenge. When people are bullies it's because of a deeper-rooted issue - either their family life is tough or they're being bullied by someone bigger than they are.

Kid Rock

The best formula for revenge is success.

Park Chan-wook

The point of revenge is not in the completion but in the process.

Park Chan-wook

Living without hate for people is almost impossible. There is nothing wrong with fantasizing about revenge. You can have that feeling. You just shouldn't act in it.

Leon Trotsky

The revenge of history is more powerful than the revenge of the most powerful General Secretary.

Oscar Wilde

Indifference is the revenge the world takes on mediocrities.

Ishmael Beah

I joined the army to avenge the deaths of my family and to survive, but I've come to learn that if I am going to take revenge, in that process I will kill another person whose family will want revenge; then revenge and revenge and revenge will never come to an end...

Gloria Steinem

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

Natalie Clifford Barney

Seeking revenge: what a lack of foresight.

Kathy Mattea

An eye for an eye til everyone is blind.

Kate DiCamillo

There are those hearts, reader, that never mend again once they are broken. Or if they do mend, they heal themselves in a crooked and lopsided way, as if sewn together by a careless craftsman. Such was the fate of Chiaroscuro. His heart was broken. Picking up the spoon and placing it on his head, speaking of revenge, these things helped him to put his heart together again. But it was, alas, put together wrong.

Ken Kesey

The man who seeks revenge digs two graves.

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.