Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jeaniene Frost

Revenge was the emptiest of emotions. Apparently it motivated people to do the stupidest things as well.

Jeaniene Frost

Maximus grunted. "Some days you remind me of Vlad." "Meaning?" I said sharply. "Your obsession with revenge. Next you'll want to drive a pole through that vampire once you find her." The thought was appealing, but...

George Eliot

I know forgiveness is a man's duty, but, to my thinking, that can only mean as you're to give up all thoughts o' taking revenge: it can never mean as you're t' have your old feelings back again, for that's not possible.

Chris Hardwick

I think people have this stereotypical idea in their head of what a nerd is. People have said to me before, "You're not a nerd!" because I think they think of the classic Revenge Of The Nerds archetype.

Christa B. Allen

Sometimes work is a bit slow, and I always wanted to be a princess at Disneyland. There were 1,500 of us who auditioned, and 11 of us were hired. I went through all of the training, but never ended up actually getting to play Belle because 'Revenge' started. It was the time of my life, though!

Chris Pine

Maybe the realisation of the full human potential is the utopian thing. Maybe that is our collective struggle, is to find a way to get there. But right now it seems like we're duplicating what was written in the Bible, a millennium ago, which is "An eye for an eye." Revenge policy; "If you hit me, we'll hit you back worse"; ad infinitum.

Chris Johnson

We want revenge. We played well against them last time, and we feel like it's our turn.

George W. Bush

Ours is a nation that does not seek revenge.

George W. Bush

You cannot lead America to a positive tomorrow with revenge on one's mind. Revenge is so incredibly negative.

George W. Bush

I don't think you should support the death penalty to seek revenge. I don't think that's right. I think the reason to support the death penalty is because it saves other people's lives.

Garth Brooks

One day I'll be standing at the river looking out across tomorrow, and the bridge I need to get there will be a bridge that I have burned.

George Eliot

To see an enemy humiliated gives a certain contentment, but this is jejune compared with the highly blent satisfaction of seeing him humiliated by your benevolent action or concession on his behalf. That is the sort of revenge which falls into the scale of virtue.

Euripides

Stronger than lover's love is lover's hate. Incurable, in each, the wounds they make.

Francis Bacon

Revenge is a kind of wild justice.

Francis Bacon

A man who contemplates revenge keeps his wounds green.

Francis Bacon

In revenge a man is but even with his enemy; for it is a princely thing to pardon, and Solomon saith it is the glory of a man to pass over a transgression.

Francis Bacon

There is no passion in the mind of man so weak, but it mates and masters the fear of death . . . Revenge triumphs over death; love slights it; honor aspireth to it; grief flieth to it.

Graham Greene

Perhaps the sexual life is the great test. If we can survive it with charity to those we love and with affection to those we have betrayed, we needn't worry so much about the good and the bad in us. But jealousy, distrust, cruelty, revenge, recrimination ... then we fail. The wrong is in that failure even if we are the victims and not the executioners. Virtue is no excuse.

Gregory David Roberts

Silence is the tortured man's revenge.

Hugo Chavez

I haven't any thirst for revenge.

Hosea Ballou

Hatred is self-punishment. Hatred it the coward's revenge for being intimidated.

Hannah Arendt

In contrast to revenge, which is the natural, automatic reaction to transgression and which, because of the irreversibility of the action process can be expected and even calculated, the act of forgiving can never be predicted; it is the only reaction that acts in an unexpected way and thus retains, though being a reaction, something of the original character of action.

Friedrich Nietzsche

It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Our knowledge will take its revenge on us, just as ignorance exacted its revenge during the Middle Ages.

Friedrich Nietzsche

One who is unassuming in dealing with people exhibits his arrogance all the more strongly in dealing with things (city, state, society, age, mankind). That is his revenge.

Friedrich Nietzsche

In war personal revenge maintains its silence.

George Bernard Shaw

Some persons, by hating vice too much, come to love men too little. Hatred is self-punishment. Hatred is the cowards revenge for being intimidated.

George Bernard Shaw

Hate is the revenge of a coward intimidated.

George Bernard Shaw

Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated.

Freeman Dyson

I belonged to a small minority of boys who were lacking in physical strength and athletic prowess. ... We found our refuge in science. ... We learned that science is a revenge of victims against oppressors, that science is a territory of freedom and friendship in the midst of tyranny and hatred.

Thomas Fuller

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

That's our only loss. We want to play P.G. to win the championship; it's that revenge factor.

There may have been a little revenge on our minds.