Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

Rosanne Cash

I choose not to give energy to the emotions of revenge, hatred or the desire to subjugate.

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.

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.

Steven Moffat

I don't think, generally speaking, people become writers because they were the really good, really cool, attractive kid in class. I'll be honest. This is our revenge for people who were much better looking and more popular than us. I was a bit like that, I suppose.

Steven Morrissey

I once bought a Manchester United hat, which I think was 12 shillings, and somebody ran up behind me and pulled it off and just ran ahead. I thought, 'It's a very cruel world, I'm not prepared for this'. And I decided to get my revenge on society.

Steven Pinker

Most wars are not fought over shortages of resources such as food and water, but rather over conquest, revenge, and ideology.

Robbie Williams

I know I'm gonna die so my revenge is living well.

Sylvester Stallone

Most action is based on redemption and revenge, and that's a formula. Moby Dick was formula. It's how you get to the conclusion that makes it interesting.

You have many choices. You can choose forgiveness over revenge, joy over despair. You can choose action over apathy..- Stephanie Marston Letting your kids see u helping others and not expect anything in return can be contagious

Ralph Steadman

Evil is always devising more corrosive misery through man's restless need to exact revenge out of his hate.

Rahul Dravid

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

Les Brown

The greatest revenge is massive success.

Thomas Fuller

Men are more prone to revenge injuries than to requite kindness.

Rick Riordan

Piper leaned toward [Jason], her caramel braid falling over her shoulder. Her multicolored eyes made it hard for him to think straight. “And where is this place?” she asked. “A . . . uh, a town called Split.” “Split.” She smelled really good—like blooming honeysuckle. “Um, yeah.” Jason wondered if Piper was working some sort of Aphrodite magic on him—like maybe every time he mentioned Reyna’s name, she would befuddle him so much he couldn’t think about anything but Piper. He supposed it wasn’t the worst sort of revenge.

Paolo Maldini

It certainly is a very difficult group,. We're still bleeding after the Champions League final and want our revenge.

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.