Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Nelly

I think he's going down, ... It's gonna be the 'Revenge for O.J. '

Niccolo Machiavelli

For it must be noted, that men must either be caressed or else annihilated; they will revenge themselves for small injuries, but cannot do so for great ones; the injury therefore that we do to a man must be such that we need not fear his vengeance.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Men ought either to be well treated or crushed, because they can avenge themselves of lighter injuries, of more serious ones they cannot; therefore the injury that is to be done to a man ought to be of such a kind that one does not stand in fear of revenge.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Any harm you do to a man should be done in such a way that you need not fear his revenge.

Niccolo Machiavelli

People should either be caressed or crushed. If you do them minor damage they will get their revenge; but if you cripple them there is nothing they can do. If you need to injure someone, do it in such a way that you do not have to fear their vengeance.

Niccolo Machiavelli

If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Men should be either treated generously or destroyed, because they take revenge for slight injuries - for heavy ones they cannot.

Niccolo Machiavelli

I consider it a mark of great prudence in a man to abstain from threats or any contemptuous expressions, for neither of these weaken the enemy, but threats make him more cautious, and the other excites his hatred, and a desire to revenge himself.

Joe Royle

That was clearly a tackle aimed at getting revenge - or maybe it was just out-and-out retribution.

Joe Browne

Getting even throws everything out of balance.

Joe Dubuque

I know he's going to be fired up. He's going to try to get some revenge for the NCAA finals. He's probably been looking forward to this match since last March.

Jodi Picoult

Whether it was power they sought, or revenge, or love-well, those were all just different forms of hunger. The bigger the hole inside you, the more desperate you became to fill it.

Jodi Picoult

When you begin a journey of revenge, start by digging two graves: one for your enemy, and one for yourself.

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.

Oscar Wilde

Indifference is the revenge the world takes on mediocrities.

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...

Mary Baker Eddy

A wicked mortal is not the idea of God. He is little else than the expression of error. To suppose that sin, lust, hatred, envy, hypocrisy, revenge, have life abiding in them, is a terrible mistake. Life and Life's idea, Truth and Truth's idea, never make men sick, sinful, or mortal.

Marquis de Sade

Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust.

Mario Vargas Llosa

In my case, literature is a kind of revenge. It's something that gives me what real life can't give me - all the adventures, all the suffering. All the experiences I can only live in the imagination, literature completes.

Mario Puzo

Revenge is a dish that tastes best when served cold.

Niels Arden Oplev

Revenge is just a really good drive for drama and good action.

Niels Arden Oplev

Because revenge is a very known feeling in American culture, theres a certain element of an eye for an eye. Theres the saying, Be careful what you wish for, you might get it. When you wish for revenge, and you think youve gotten it, what happens then? Revenge is just a really good drive for drama and good action.

Marya Mannes

The earth we abuse and the living things we kill will, in the end, take their revenge; for in exploiting their presence we are diminishing our future.