Famous Quotes & Sayings

Saddam Hussein

Oh sons of Arabs and the Arab Gulf, rebel against the foreigner...Take revenge for your dignity, holy places, security, interests and exalted values.

Robert Jordan

But men often mistake killing and revenge for justice. They seldom have the stomach for justice.

Rodney Crowell

A fist in the face is all you deserve from love you've misplaced.

Walt Frazier

When a player keeps a calm demeanor on the court, it's easier for his ability to shine. The best response to an opposing player's physical or psychological tactics is to keep cool and come right back at him with the force of your game, not your fists. Revenge is always sweeter if your team wins the game.

Viswanathan Anand

If revenge motivates you, go for it! But the main thing is to set your game in order.

Walt Whitman

God is a mean-spirited, pugnacious bully bent on revenge against His children for failing to live up to his impossible standards.

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".

Suge Knight

The best revenge in the world is success.

Shannon Brown

They've been a thorn in our side, but we're playing for more than just revenge. We're coming out and playing for the Big Ten tournament championship. If we beat them, that'll be great.

Shannon Brown

Of course they remember. But it's not gonna be about revenge; it's gonna be about the Big Ten championship.

Taurean Green

We don't see it as revenge or payback. This year's team is a different team.

Tavi Gevinson

Just really be passionate and stick to your creative vision. Because it's competitive, and there are so many mind games and so many things that could get in the way. But success is the best revenge, so build yourself up rather than knock others down.

Tony Scott

All my movies, like Revenge, are under two hours.

Simone de Beauvoir

Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction ...

Thomas Merton

But precisely this illusion that everything is "clear" is what is blinding us all. It is a serious temptation, and it is a subtle form of pride and worldly love of power and revenge.

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.

Vin Diesel

It would be flattering to call it a modern Dirty Harry, but I think this film deals more with the loss of his wife than the traditional revenge vigilante films.

Thucydides

If it had not been for the pernicious power of envy, men would not so have exalted vengeance above innocence and profit above justice... in these acts of revenge on others, men take it upon themselves to begin the process of repealing those general laws of humanity which are there to give a hope of salvation to all who are in distress.

Thomas Otway

Revenge, the attribute of gods! They stamped it with their great image on our natures.

Thomas Paine

The moral duty of man consists of imitating the moral goodness and beneficence of God, manifested in the creation towards all his creatures. Everything of persecution and revenge between man and man, and everything of cruelty to animals is a violation of moral duty

Thomas Paine

America could carry on a two years' war by the confiscation of the property of disaffected persons, and be made happy by their expulsion. Say not that this is revenge, call it rather the soft resentment of a suffering people, who, having no object in view but the good of all, have staked their own all upon a seemingly doubtful event. Yet it is folly to argue against determined hardness; eloquence may strike the ear, and the language of sorrow draw forth the tear of compassion, but nothing can reach the heart that is steeled with prejudice.

Thomas F. Wilson

It costs more to revenge injuries than to bear them.

Thomas Browne

Women do most delight in revenge.

Thomas Browne

Since women do most delight in revenge, it may seem but feminine manhood to be vindictive.

Todd Martin

It was a rivalry-revenge game for us. They beat us very badly on our field last year.

Steve Wozniak

I think Apple's revenge is just the fact that Windows, you know, PCs all became Macintoshes in a way.

Uwe Boll

In the Seventies, a lot of executions via electric chair failed because of technical problems. Seed tells the true story of someone who survived and sought revenge. They buried him alive to make it seem he was dead.