Famous Quotes & Sayings

Al Yankovic

Got a brand new semi-automatic weapon with a laser sight. Oh, I'm praying that somebody tries to break in here tonight.

Alain de Botton

Gaffe-focused journalism: revenge of intelligent people who know true evils are out there but lack the access/time to get to them.

Alain de Botton

Most victories are, in the best way, acts of revenge.

I was winning with seven seconds left. I wanted to get my revenge on him.

Bill Crawford

Images of resentment and revenge only have us spending the precious moments of our lives imagining the 'other' as both dangerous and important!

Big Pun

Strip those clowns down to nudity, shove the chrome where they doo doo be.

Carrie Underwood

Getting revenge on a guy is just not worth it to me. I mean, it definitely sucks at the time, but obviously you're not supposed to be with that person.

Carl Sagan

Teller contended, not implausibly, that hydrogen bombs keep the peace, or at least prevent thermonuclear war, because the consequences of warfare between nuclear powers are now too dangerous. We haven't had a nuclear war yet, have we? But all such arguments assume that the nuclear-armed nations are and always will be, without exception, rational actors, and that bouts of anger and revenge and madness will never overtake their leaders (or military and secret police officers in charge of nuclear weapons). In the century of Hitler and Stalin, this seems ingenuous.

Bill Vaughan

Rarely has a people paid the lavish compliment and taken the subtle revenge of turning its oppressor's speech into sorcery.

The best revenge is to improve yourself.

Adolf Hitler

Night gangsters! For this crime I will exact a thousand fold revenge!

Dalai Lama

The death penalty fulfills a preventive function, but it is also very clearly a form of revenge. It is an especially severe form of punishment because it is so final. The human life is ended and the executed person is deprived of the opportunity to change, to restore the harm done or compensate for it.

Dolly Parton

Mine is a jealous heart, imagines things that never are.

Dolly Parton

I don't want to throw rice. I want to throw rocks.

Dolly Parton

Understanding isn't learned from punishment and anger. An iron has no gentle touch, and love ain't learned from hate.

Desmond Tutu

To forgive is indeed the best form of self-interest since anger, resentment, and revenge are corrosive of that summum bonum, the greatest good.

Desmond Tutu

To take a life when a life has been lost is revenge, not justice.

Desmond Tutu

Before Nelson Mandela was arrested in 1962, he was an angry, relatively young man. He founded the ANC's military wing. When he was released, he surprised everyone because he was talking about reconciliation and forgiveness and not about revenge.

Desmond Tutu

Forgiveness is abandoning your right to revenge.

Donald Glover

Revenge is for the weak so I have settled my vendettas with all of the kids who made my early life a living hell.

Coolio

As they croak, I see myself in the pistol smoke.

Ally Carter

There are six reasons anyone does anything: Love. Faith. Greed. Boredom. Fear..." he said, ticking them off on his fingers; but he lingered on the last, drawing a deep breath before he said, "Revenge.

Ally Carter

There are 6 reasons that a person does anything: Love, faith, greed, boredom, fear... revenge.

Aeschylus

I pray for no more youth To perish before its prime; That Revenge and iron-heated War May fade with all that has gone before Into the night of time.

Alberto Manguel

As readers, we are seldom interested in the fine sentiments of a lesson learnt; we seldom care about the good manners of morals. Repentance puts an end to conversation; forgiveness becomes the stuff of moralistic tracts. Revenge - bloodthirsty, justice-hungry revenge - is the very essence of romance, lying at the heart of much of the best fiction.

Alexander the Great

May God keep you away from the venom of the cobra, the teeth of the tiger, and the revenge of the Afghans.

Daniel Craig

Revenge doesn't stop.

Albert Camus

The best revenge you can have on intellectuals is to be madly happy.

D. H. Lawrence

Recklessness is almost a man's revenge on his woman. He feels he is not valued so he will risk destroying himself to deprive her altogether.

Clarence Darrow

There is no such thing as justice - in or out of court.

Curtis Jackson

I'll break your face, have your ass mumbling to the jay, you going against me dawg you makin a mistake. I'll split your wig and leave you open like a mickeal jackson jacket with all them zippers.

Confucius

Virtuous people often revenge themselves for the constraints to which they submit by the boredom which they inspire.

David Lehman

Obscurantism is the academic theorist's revenge on society for having consigned him or her to relative obscurity - a way of proclaiming one's superiority in the face of one's diminished influence.