Famous Quotes & Sayings

Maria Sharapova

It'll be great. Of course I was disappointed last year. But . . I'll get my revenge.

Max Lucado

Revenge is the raging fire that consumes the arsonist.

Max Lucado

Resentment is when you allow what’s eating you to eat you up. Revenge is the raging fire that consumes the arsonist. Bitterness is the trap that snares the hunter. And mercy is the choice that can set them all free.

Marianne Williamson

May we not succumb to thoughts of violence and revenge today, but rather to thoughts of mercy and compassion. We are to love our enemies that they might be returned to their right minds.

Michael K. Williams

Revenge is not a positive state of mind or energy to indulge your self in.

Meir Kahane

No trait is more justified than revenge in the right time and place.

Masashi Kishimoto

Darkness... When everything that you know and love... is taken from you so harshly... all you can think about is anger, hatred, and even revenge... and no one can save you.

Mason Cooley

After rejection - misery, then thoughts of revenge, and finally, oh well, another try elsewhere.

Martina Hingis

I'm sure she wants revenge. I'll just try not to let that happen.

Michel Gondry

Perhaps my favourite story is 'Le Passe-Muraille' by Marcel Ayme. It's about a guy who wakes up with a weird faculty that means he can walk through walls. He's a very shy clerk, and he uses it to get revenge, or vent his frustration.

Martha Stewart

Revenge of the Middle-Aged Woman.

Marge Piercy

The politics of the exile are fever, revenge, daydream, theater of the aging convalescent. You wait in the wings and rehearse. You wait and wait.

Theodor Adorno

Culture is only true when implicitly critical, and the mind which forgets this revenges itself in the critics it breeds. Criticism is an indispensable element of culture.

Theodor Adorno

The thought that murders the wish that fathered it will be overtaken by the revenge of stupidity

Theodor Adorno

Thus is order ensured: some have to play the game because they cannot otherwise live, and those who could live otherwise are kept out because they do not want to play the game. It is as if the class from which independent intellectuals have defected takes its revenge, by pressing its demands home in the very domain where the deserter seeks refuge.

Milan Kundera

When we want to give expression to a dramatic situation in our lives, we tend to use metaphors of heaviness. We say that something has become a great burden to us. We either bear the burden or fail and go down with it, we struggle with it, win or lose. And Sabina - what had come over her? Nothing. She had left a man because she felt like leaving him. Had he persecuted her? Had he tried to take revenge on her? No. Her drama was a drama not of heaviness but of lightness. What fell to her lot was not the burden, but the unbearable lightness of being.

Johnny Depp

'm a big fan of revenge, I think [Sweeney Todd] it's a story of a man who clearly has obsessions to avenge the horror that happened to him.

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.

Louise Erdrich

I spend my time dwelling on revenge and try to deal with the monsters crawling out of the ashes.

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 Adams

As unbalanced parties of every description can never tolerate a free inquiry of any kind, when employed against themselves, the license, and even the most temperate freedom of the press, soon excite resentment and revenge.

John Adams

I have long been settled in my own opinion that neither Philosophy, nor Religion, nor Morality, nor Wisdom, nor Interest, will ever govern nations or Parties, against their vanity, their Pride, their Resentment, or Revenge, or their Avarice, or Ambition. Nothing but Force and Power and Strength can restrain them.

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.