Famous Quotes & Sayings

Naomie Harris

I'd like to believe that I would be able to give in the same way Mandela did, but in reality, I don't know whether that is true. It is much more likely that I would be left with an immense sense of injustice and immense desire for revenge.

Naomie Harris

It's more instinctive to want revenge, but we are also capable of immense amounts of forgiveness and love and a compassion that extends even to those who have brutalized us.

Naomie Harris

Mandela is this extraordinary individual who can inspire the world. Instead of wanting revenge after being brutalized, he showed the world how to forgive.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Revenge is the naked idol of the worship of a semi-barbarous age.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Revenge and wrong bring forth their kind; The foul cubs like their parents are.

Pierre Charron

Despair is like forward children, who, when you take away one of their playthings, throw the rest into the fire for madness. It grows angry with itself, turns its own executioner, and revenges its misfortunes on its own head.

Pierre Corneille

Just vengeance does not call for punishment.

Pierre Corneille

It is only blood that can wash away such an outrage; die or kill.

Phillip Daniels

We know we should have won that game. But that doesn't mean we look at it as a revenge game. It means we think we should have won; and now, let's correct it.

Philip Schultz

I'm the kind of father I wanted my father to be. That may be the sweetest revenge.

Philip Schultz

There are real facts in my poems, but facts mixed up in the perverse stubborn stew of imagination, add a pinch or two of revenge and retribution, a dash of amplification and reparation.

Peter McWilliams

Pettiness seems to go hand in hand with vindictiveness. The smaller the person, the larger the need for revenge. This may account for the fact that some consensual crimes have stiffer penalties than do most crimes with innocent victims.

Pete Wentz

He felt like the last bullet in a gun meant for revenge, sealed with a kiss.

Pete Townshend

I want to get inside your bitter mind and see what I can find.

Paulo Coelho

You're a man who has suffered and wants revenge,' she said. 'Your heart is dead, your soul is in darkness. The devil by your side is smiling because you are playing the game he invented.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

A readiness to resent injuries is a virtue only in those who are slow to injure.

Thucydides

Indeed men too often take upon themselves in the prosecution of their revenge to set the example of doing away with those general laws to which all can look for salvation in adversity, instead of allowing them to subsist against the day of danger when their aid may be required

Tilda Swinton

Maybe it was my revenge on people who had been unkind to me as a child. But it was very easy and a thrill to freeze up children.

Thomas Szasz

Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse.

Tim LaHaye

The man who seeks revenge is like the man who shoots himself in order to hit his enemy with the kick of the gun's recoil.

Tim LaHaye

Revenge is the most worthless weapon in the world.

S. I. Hayakawa

McDonalds in Tokyo is a terrible revenge for Pearl Harbor.

Susan Sarandon

When I got the script for Thelma & Louise, when I met with the director, Ridley Scott, I said, "I don't want to do a revenge film. I'm not interested in doing that moment in the script after they shoot the truck, where it says they jump up and down and they're real happy about it".

Ralph Waldo Emerson

My good hoe as it bites the ground revenges my wrongs, and I have less lust to bite my enemies. In the smoothing the rough hillocks, I smooth my temper.

Selma Blair

It's a sleepy, wonderful, idyllic town but there's a curse on it from 100 years ago, ... The people who died in this kind of boating accident have come back to take their revenge.

Lesley Gore

One night I saw them kissing at a party, so I kissed some other guy. Johnny jumped up and hit him, cause he still loved me, that's why.

Larry Davis

You can spin it any way you want. You could spin it on their side that this is a revenge game. We can spin it from our side that our guys have confidence. They know they can beat them. They beat them once. But you know what? None of that matters. We're two different teams. We played them almost a month and a half ago. And every team is different at this point.

Marcus Aurelius

The most complete revenge is not to imitate the aggressor.

Marcus Aurelius

The best sort of revenue is not to be like him who did the injury.

Marcus Aurelius

The offender needs pity, not wrath; those who must needs be corrected, should be treated with tact and gentleness; and one must be always ready to learn better. 'The best kind of revenge is, not to become like unto them.'

Marcus Aurelius

To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.

Marcus Aurelius

The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.

Rahul Dravid

You don't play for revenge, you play for respect & pride