Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jim Les

Obviously, ISU will be primed for revenge and wants to get that bad taste of the last game out of their mouth.

Jimi Hendrix

Hey Joe, where you going with that gun in your hand? I'm going out to find my woman, caught her messing around with another man.

Eric Davis

I tell you, revenge plays a big part in momentum down here.

Jodie Foster

a woman who struggles to recover from a brutal attack and sets out on a dark, psychological and physical journey for revenge and justice.

Ellen Hopkins

revenge is living well with out you.

Ellen Hopkins

The more I think about it, the more I believe there has to be a subtle yet satisfying method of revenge.

Elizabeth Fry

Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal.

John Bunyan

Therefore if mine enemy hunger, let me feed him; if he thirst, let me give him drink. Now in order to do this, (1) We must see good in that, in which other men can see none. (2) We must pass by those injuries that other men would revenge. (3) We must show we have grace, and that we are made to bear what other men are not acquainted with. (4) Many of our graces are kept alive, by those very things that are the death of other men's souls.... The devil, (they say) is good when he is pleased; but Christ and His saints, when displeased.

Julie Garwood

He'd gone to Louddon's fortress to take Madelyne captive. His plan was revenge; an eye for an eye. And that had been reason enough. Until she'd warmed his feet. Everything had changed at that moment. Duncan had known with a certainty he couldn't deny that they were henceforth bound together. He could never let her go.

Lois McMaster Bujold

Power is better than revenge. Power is a live thing, by which you reach out to grasp the future. Revenge is a dead thing, reaching out from the past to grasp you.

Lois McMaster Bujold

Have you ever heard the phrase, Living well is the best revenge?" "Where I come from, someone's head in a bag is generally considered the best revenge

Ludacris

I'm battling with myself and every day it's a war.

Lord Byron

A material resurrection seems strange and even absurd except for purposes of punishment, and all punishment which is to revenge rather than correct must be morally wrong, and when the World is at an end, what moral or warning purpose can eternal tortures answer?

Lord Chesterfield

If a man, notoriously and designedly, insults and affronts you, knock him down; but if he only injures you, your best revenge is to be extremely civil to him in your outward behaviour, though at the same time you counterwork him, and return him the compliment, perhaps with interest.

Mahatma Gandhi

If an enemy strikes your left cheek, offer him your right.

Mahatma Gandhi

Cowardice is impotence worse than violence. The coward desires revenge but being afraid to die, he looks to others, maybe to the government of the day, to do the work of defense for him. A coward is less than a man. He does not deserve to be a member of a society of men and women.

Gavrilo Princip

I am the son of peasants and I know what is happening in the villages. That is why I wanted to take revenge, and I regret nothing

Oscar Arias

It is essential that justice be done, and it is equally vital that justice not be confused with revenge, for the two are wholly different.

Oliver Stone

Crom, I have never prayed to you before. I have no tongue for it. No one, not even you, will remember if we were good men or bad. Why we fought, and why we died. All that matters is that today, two stood against many. Valour pleases you, so grant me this one request. Grant me revenge! And if you do not listen, the HELL with you!

Emilie Autumn

There is no such thing as justice, all the best that we can hope for is revenge.

Emile M. Cioran

To think is to take a cunning revenge in which we camouflage our baseness and conceal our lower instincts.

Emile M. Cioran

In most cases we attach ourselves to in order to take revenge on life, to punish it, to signify we can do without it, that we have found something better, and we also attach ourselves to God in horror of men.

Emily Giffin

Happiness is the best revenge, you know? Just be happy. It's a choice.

Emily Dickinson

Mine Enemy is growing old -- I have at last Revenge -- The Palate of the Hate departs -- If any would avenge Let him be quick -- the Viand flits -- It is a faded Meat -- Anger as soon as fed is dead -- 'Tis starving makes it fat

Kate Moss

A lot of horrible, unfair, untrue things have been said about me. I can only say that the best revenge is success.

Leonard Cohen

No penance serves to renew them, no massive transfusions of trust. Why not even revenge can undo them, so twisted these vows and so crushed.

Laurell K. Hamilton

I'm not real big on repentence ... I like revenge better.

Laurell K. Hamilton

I'd killed him in the end, but revenge only makes things all better in the movies. In real life, once the villain is dead the trauma lives on inside the victims.

Lindsey Harding

It's kind of like a revenge thing. Yeah, we beat them twice in a row, but they beat us last. We want to get that back. It worked out perfectly with this being the last game of the year. I think it will be a great game.

Linda Hirshman

Know that there is nothing you can't aspire to do. Take offense. Bide your time. Pick your battles. Take revenge when you can - and never pull the ladder up after you.

Linda Grant

Revenge is so much more satisfying than regret.

Jonathan Swift

There are but three ways for a man to revenge himself of the censure of the world,--to despise it, to return the like, or to endeavor to live so as to avoid it; the first of these is usually pretended, the last is almost impossible, the universal practice is for the second.

Jonathan Nolan

I've always been interested in themes of memory, paranoia, and revenge.