Revenge famous quotes
04-24-2025
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The weapon of suicide bombing is so desperate that you aren't even left with the possibility of taking revenge or punishing anyone; the terrorist is killed along with his victims, his blood mixing with theirs
-- A. B. Yehoshua -
Revenge is not worthy of you. If you concentrate on revenge, you will keep those wounds fresh that would otherwise have healed.
-- Adeline Yen Mah -
Night gangsters! For this crime I will exact a thousand fold revenge!
-- Adolf Hitler -
I don't have the feeling of being motivated by anger, revenge or frustration.
-- Agnes Obel -
Hatred, revenge, bitterness - these are negative emotions. The person harbouring those emotions suffers more.
-- Ahmed Kathrada -
Why seek revenge? Karma is going to get the bastards anyway
-- Ajahn Brahm -
Got a brand new semi-automatic weapon with a laser sight. Oh, I'm praying that somebody tries to break in here tonight.
-- Al Yankovic -
He put Ben Gay inside my jock strap and filled my tooth paste tube up with glue.
-- Al Yankovic -
Most victories are, in the best way, acts of revenge.
-- 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 -
Getting inside the mind of a terrorist wasn't difficult at all. Even as children, human beings fabricate elaborate revenge fantasies. We're not a particular species. Check out popular video games.
-- Alan Dean Foster -
Every time I scratch my nails down someone else's back, I hope you feel it.
-- Alanis Morissette -
The best revenge you can have on intellectuals is to be madly happy.
-- Albert Camus -
It is said to be a deterrent. I cannot agree....I do not now believe that any one of the hundreds of executions I carried out has in any way acted as a deterrent against future murder. Capital punishment, in my view, achieved nothing except revenge.
-- Albert Pierrepoint -
I have come to the conclusion that executions solve nothing, and are only an antiquated relic of a primitive desire for revenge which takes the easy way and hands over the responsibility for revenge to other people...The trouble with the death penalty has always been that nobody wanted it for everybody, but everybody differed about who should get off.
-- Albert Pierrepoint -
Capital punishment in my view achieved nothing except revenge.
-- Albert Pierrepoint -
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.
-- Alberto Manguel -
To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
-- Alexander Pope -
May God keep you away from the venom of the cobra, the teeth of the tiger, and the revenge of the Afghans.
-- Alexander the Great -
The damnable frustration of revenge. Revenge is for dreams...never for reality.
-- Alfred Bester -
The best revenge is to improve yourself.
-- Ali ibn Abi Talib -
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.
-- Ally Carter -
Meekness: Uncommon patience in planning a revenge that is worth while.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
You are not permitted to kill a woman who has wronged you, but nothing forbids you to reflect that she is growing older every minute.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
Man must have some recognized stake in society and affairs to knit him lovingly to his kind, or he is wont to revenge himself for wrongs real or imagined.
-- Amos Bronson Alcott -
I'm pretty Sicilian if I've been crossed. I don't seek revenge, but I never forget. And I make it hard to repair, which is not a great quality because if people held me to that standard, no one would be around me - ever.
-- Amy Adams -
The man who was once starved may revenge himself upon the world not by stealing just once, or by stealing only what he needs, but by taking from the world an endless toll in payment of something irreplaceable, which is the lost faith.
-- Anais Nin -
They whooped our tail last time we was here. So it's time for a little revenge, and show that Florida football is coming back.
-- Andre Caldwell -
The kind of power mothers have is enormous. Take the skyline of Istanbul - enormous breasts, pathetic little willies, a final revenge on Islam. I was so scared I had to crouch in the bottom of the boat when I saw it
-- Angela Carter -
He is, I think, already pondering a magisterial project: that of buggering the English language, the ultimate revenge of the colonialised.
-- Angela Carter -
I tasted too what was called the sweet of revenge - but it was transient, it expired even with the object, that provoked it.
-- Ann Radcliffe -
I wanted revenge; I wanted to dance on the graves of a few people who made me unhappy. It's a pretty infantile way to go through life - I'll show them - but I've done it, and I've got more than I ever dreamed of.
-- Anthony Hopkins -
The general opinion of Revenge of the Sith seems to be that it marks a distinct improvement on the last two episodes, The Phantom Menace and Attack of the Clones. True, but only in the same way that dying from natural causes is preferable to crucifixion.
-- Anthony Lane -
Once [a soul] is condemned by God, then God's friends agree in God's judgment and condemnation. For all eternity they will not have a kind thought for this wretch. Rather they will be satisfied to see him in the flames as a victim of God's justice. ("The just shall rejoice when he shall see the revenge . . ." Psalm 57:11) They will abhor him. A mother will look from paradise upon her own condemned son without being moved, as though she had never known him.
-- Anthony Mary Claret -
Is not Justice just a nice way to say revenge.
-- Antonya Nelson -
Science and Technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response. Expelled from individual consciousness by the rush of change, history finds its revenge by stamping the collective unconscious with habits, values, expectations, dreams. The dialectic between past and future will continue to form our lives.
-- Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. -
Expelled from individual consciousness by the rush of change, history finds its revenge by stamping the collective unconsciousness with habits and values.
-- Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. -
On the 'Revenge' set, even if they're not showing my feet, I'll still wear my heels because it gets me in the feeling of Ashley Davenport.
-- Ashley Madekwe -
There is nothing worse than having an enemy who is a total loser. It's incredibly frustrating when seeking revenge against one, because you come to the realization that there is really nothing you can do to make the person's life worse than it already is. They have nothing to take; there is no way to screw them over if you have been their victim. It's maddening.
-- Ashly Lorenzana -
There is nothing wrong with revenge. The wrong has already been done, or there would be no need to even the score.
-- Ashly Lorenzana -
There are four basic human needs; food, sleep, sex and revenge.
-- Banksy -
The best revenge is living well, my dad told me once.
-- Barry Lyga -
Democracy is the best revenge. After Benazir Bhutto's death, her son's brief public remarks were captured on video, and they were reported in international newspapers. Bilawal Bhutto Zardari announced, "My mother always said, ' Democracy is the best revenge.
-- Benazir Bhutto -
A politics of vengeance is not politics. Revenge is a recklessness towards the future in a vain attempt to make the present abolish a suffering which is already past.
-- Bernard Crick -
For me the greatest revenge of all is having a happy adulthood, waking up in my gorgeous turquoise bedroom in the morning beside a person who really inspires me. That's the best revenge a girl-loving girl from the Bible belt could possibly have. And, importantly, it's healthy.
-- Beth Ditto -
When an editor works with an author, she cannot help seeing into the medicine cabinet of his soul. All the terrible emotions, the desire for vindications, the paranoia, and the projection are bottled in there, along with all the excesses of envy, desire for revenge, all the hypochondriacal responses, rituals, defenses, and the twin obsessions with sex and money. It other words, the stuff of great books.
-- Betsy Lerner -
Strip those clowns down to nudity, shove the chrome where they doo doo be.
-- Big Pun -
I can't let my mother's death have been in vain. Democracy is the best revenge, and we will have it.
-- Bilawal Bhutto Zardari -
My mother always said democracy is the best revenge.
-- Bilawal Bhutto Zardari -
Rarely has a people paid the lavish compliment and taken the subtle revenge of turning its oppressor's speech into sorcery.
-- Bill Vaughan -
We're out playing ball in the gym, I put boogers on the basketball and pass it to him.
-- Biz Markie -
Too much of nothing, it just makes a fellow mean.
-- Bob Dylan -
I don't know about them, but I sure am. I'm out for revenge.
-- Bob Thomason -
In reality, all those guys are gone, so you can't say it's revenge. It's a completely new team.
-- Bobby Frasor -
The Black Panther Party were not revenge nationalists.
-- Bobby Seale -
I've had to write in a different way because I'm not in a bad place and I'm not heartbroken, so there's no one I want revenge on.
-- Boy George -
My revenge is just begun! I spread it over centuries, and time is on my side.
-- Bram Stoker -
It's not so much revenge, but I think you want to hold on to a little of that just for extra motivation.
-- Brenden Morrow -
They are a very tough opponent, and they took us the first game. So we want our revenge, and we are going to go right back after them hard. We are really looking forward to getting after them.
-- Brian Jeroloman -
You may be a geek. You may have geek written all over you. You should aim to be the geek they will never forget. Don’t aim to be civilized. Don’t hope that straight people will keep you on as some sort of pet. To hell with them, they put you here. You should realize what society has made of you and take full revenge. Get weird. Get way weird. Get dangerously weird. Get sophisticatedly thoroughly weird and don’t do it half way, put every ounce of your horse power into it. Have the artistic courage to realize your significance in culture.
-- Bruce Sterling -
They also work as half-hours. The stories are all different but include elements of revenge, or the supernatural, or some sort of surprise.
-- Bryan Brown -
This is a darker Lex too, because he's been in prison and he wants revenge. He's not playing around.
-- Bryan Singer -
You have to plan ahead so that rather then seek revenge for the horse's misbehavior, you see his aggressive behavior shaping up and can redirect it. You change his mind before he's acted and move on to something else.
-- Buck Brannaman -
The cruelties of property and privilege are always more ferocious than the revenges of poverty and oppression. For the one aims at perpetuating resented injustice, the other is merely a momentary passion soon appeased.
-- C. L. R. James -
The Bobbit case, which brought to life the ancient mythic archetype of woman as castrator, demonstrated that women are as aggressive as men and that sex is a dark, dangerous force of nature. But of course the feminist establishment, stuck in its battered-woman blinders, learned nothing as usual from this lurid refutation of its normal views. Classic art works like Bizet's Carmen tell us more about the irrationality of love, jealousy and revenge than do all the pat formulas of the counseling industry.
-- Camille Paglia -
Everybody was kung-fu fighting, those kids were fast as lightning. In fact, it was a little bit frightening, make sure you have expert timing.
-- Carl Douglas -
Ardent, intelligent, sweet, sensitive, cultivated, erudite. These are the adjectives of praise in an androgynous world. Those who consider them epithets of shame or folly ought not to be trusted with leadership, for they will be men hot for power and revenge, certain of right and wrong.
-- Carolyn Heilbrun -
Revenge may not be a particularly high consciousness-oriented activity.
-- Carrie Fisher -
It wouldn't be a Carrie Underwood album without a revenge song on it. People really like when I do that. I don't mean to. I don't hate men that much. But it turns out so well!
-- Carrie Underwood -
I don't want tea," said Clary, with muffled force. "I want to find my mother. And then I want to find out who took her in the first place, and I want to kill them." "Unfortunately," said Hodge, "we're all out of bitter revenge at the moment, so it's either tea or nothing.
-- Cassandra Clare -
Violence is almost an everyday occurrence in some Muslim lands: it should not be exacerbated by revenge attacks on more innocent families and communities.
-- Cat Stevens -
There is no finer revenge than that which others inflict on your enemy. Moreover, it has the advantage of leaving you the role of a generous man.
-- Cesare Pavese -
That love at first sight should happen to me, was Life's most delicious revenge on a self-opinionated fool.
-- Charles Boyer -
In taking revenge upon our enemies, we are only even with them; in passing over their malice we are superior.
-- Charlotte Lennox -
We should have just killed him, that's a lesson, don't get creative with revenge
-- China Mieville -
Revenge is self-defeating. It will eat away you until there is nothing left.
-- Chris Bradford -
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.
-- Chris Hardwick -
We want revenge. We played well against them last time, and we feel like it's our turn.
-- Chris Johnson -
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!
-- Christa B. Allen -
Abbey," Sarah said, "life is to be lived. If you're living, you're going to stumble along the way." "All the time?" Abigail lept to her feet and began to pace. "I have such a bad temper and when I was in my teens, I wasn't above using my gift for revenge. None of you did that." Joley slowly raised her hand, sliding down in the chair as she did so. Hannah followed suit, though she didn't look in the least remorseful. Sarah shrugged her shoulders and raised her hand and glared at Elle, who just grinned sheepishly and put up a couple of fingers. Carol tossed her head and waved her arm with gusto.
-- Christine Feehan -
If man attempts to suppress the animal side of his nature by a sheer effort of conscious will, nature finds a hundred unexpected and unpleasant ways to take its revenge.
-- Christopher Dawson -
When you seek revenge, be sure to dig two graves.
-- Christopher Eccleston -
Revenge is a particularly interesting concept, especially the notion of whether or not it exists outside of just an abstract idea.
-- Christopher Nolan -
First, let no one rule your mind or body. Take special care that your thoughts remain unfettered... . Give men your ear, but not your heart. Show respect for those in power, but don't follow them blindly. Judge with logic and reason, but comment not. Consider none your superior whatever their rank or station in life. Treat all fairly, or they will seek revenge. Be careful with your money. Hold fast to your beliefs and others will listen.
-- Christopher Paolini -
Let'sss just kill him," said the shorter Ra'zac. "He has caused us much grief." The taller one ran his finger down his sword. "A good plan. But remember, the king's instructions were to keep them alive." -from Eragon, Chapter Title: The Ra'zac's Revenge.
-- Christopher Paolini -
Treat all fairly or they will seek revenge.
-- Christopher Paolini -
Consider non your superior, whatever their rank or station in life. Treat all fairly or they will seek revenge. Be careful with your money. Hold fast to your belief and others will listen." he continued at a slower pace, " of the affairs of love ... my only advice is to be honest. thats your most powerfull too to unlock a heart or gain forgiveness. that is all i have to say"Garrow to Roran p 64
-- Christopher Paolini -
Revenge is good. It's what separates us from the animals and the hippies.
-- Christopher Titus -
When nobody will look at you, you can stare a hole in them. Picking out all the little details you'd never stare long enough to get if they'd even just return your gaze, this, this is your revenge.
-- Chuck Palahniuk -
Me with nothing left to lose, plotting my big revenge in the spotlight. Give me violent revenge fantasies as a coping mechanism.
-- Chuck Palahniuk -
Sometimes people hurt us unintentionally. We may view that they've hurt us intentionally and want revenge. But sometimes when we really look back again, we can see that they weren't intentional in trying to hurt us. That's when we need to confess our judgment of them and forgive them for their unintentional hurts committed against us.
-- Cindy Wright -
She had opened a door... and now she was walking with demons. And at the end of her travels, she would have her revenge... Pain had made a ***** of her.
-- Clive Barker
