Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Milton

Which, if not victory, is yet revenge.

Miguel de Cervantes

Give the devil his due.

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.

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.

Cat Stevens

Violence is almost an everyday occurrence in some Muslim lands: it should not be exacerbated by revenge attacks on more innocent families and communities.

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!

J. B. Priestley

We must beware the revenge of the starved senses, the embittered animal in its prison.

Abraham Lincoln

The one victory we can ever call complete will be that one which proclaims that there is not one slave or one drunkard on the face of God's green earth.

Douglas MacArthur

For those to whom much is given, much is required. It is not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up. There is no substitute for victory.

Amy Carmichael

O Love of God, do this for me: Maintain a constant victory.

Stephen Covey

Private victories precede public victories. You can't invert that process any more than you can harvest a crop before you plant it.

Nick Vujicic

The victory is when I realize that I can't do it on my own.

Miranda Hart

Very important to celebrate victories, however tiny, I always say.

Mason Cooley

Victory brings obliviousness; defeat, attentiveness.

Oscar Wilde

If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat.

Louis L'Amour

Victory is not won in miles but in inches.