Famous Quotes & Sayings

Judith Butler

No matter what someone else has done, it still matters how we treat people. It matters to our humanity that we treat offenders according to standards that we recognize as just. Justice is not revenge - it's deciding for a solution that is oriented towards peace, peace being the harder but more human way of reacting to injury. That is the very basis of the idea of rights.

Josh Brolin

You have to be okay with wins and losses. You can't just be looking for the wins and, when the losses happen, you can't buy more and more because you're sure it's going to bounce. We call that revenge trading.

Moliere

A woman always has her revenge ready.

Natalie Clifford Barney

Seeking revenge: what a lack of foresight.

Mary Baker Eddy

A wicked mortal is not the idea of God. He is little else than the expression of error. To suppose that sin, lust, hatred, envy, hypocrisy, revenge, have life abiding in them, is a terrible mistake. Life and Life's idea, Truth and Truth's idea, never make men sick, sinful, or mortal.

Mario Vargas Llosa

In my case, literature is a kind of revenge. It's something that gives me what real life can't give me - all the adventures, all the suffering. All the experiences I can only live in the imagination, literature completes.

Mario Puzo

Revenge is a dish that tastes best when served cold.

Niels Arden Oplev

Revenge is just a really good drive for drama and good action.

Niels Arden Oplev

Because revenge is a very known feeling in American culture, theres a certain element of an eye for an eye. Theres the saying, Be careful what you wish for, you might get it. When you wish for revenge, and you think youve gotten it, what happens then? Revenge is just a really good drive for drama and good action.

Muhammad Ali

What I will remember most about Mr Mandela is that he was a man whose heart, soul and spirit could not be contained or restrained by racial and economic injustices, metal bars or the burden of hate and revenge.

Mitchell Baker

I mean, who wants to live waking up... at least I don't want to live waking up everyday about revenge.

Mitchell Hurwitz

For the most part you are dealing with jealousy, you are dealing with love, you're dealing with hatred, you are dealing with revenge and all of these sort of classic things.

Mike Carey

I think Louisville will be fired up for this game. They might be in revenge mode. But, this time of the year records, don't mean much. Anything can happen.

Joseph Stanislaw

Wounds heal and become scars, but scars grow with us.

Park Chan-wook

The point of revenge is not in the completion but in the process.

Park Chan-wook

Living without hate for people is almost impossible. There is nothing wrong with fantasizing about revenge. You can have that feeling. You just shouldn't act in it.

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.

Pete Wentz

He felt like the last bullet in a gun meant for revenge, sealed with a kiss.

Pete Townshend

I want to get inside your bitter mind and see what I can find.

Paulo Coelho

You're a man who has suffered and wants revenge,' she said. 'Your heart is dead, your soul is in darkness. The devil by your side is smiling because you are playing the game he invented.

Quentin Tarantino

... Revenge, ... All of a sudden, revenge started brewing in the back of their minds.

Peter Travers

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is beyond bad. It carves out its own category of godawfulness. And, please, you don't have to remind me that the original was a colossal hit ($700 million worldwide) and the sequel will probably do just as well. I know it's popular. So is junk food, and they both poison your insides and rot your brain.

Terry Pratchett

Drinks like this tend to get called Traffic Lights or Rainbow's Revenge or, in places where truth is more highly valued, Hello and Good-Bye, Mr. Brain Cell.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

My good hoe as it bites the ground revenges my wrongs, and I have less lust to bite my enemies. In the smoothing the rough hillocks, I smooth my temper.

Selma Blair

It's a sleepy, wonderful, idyllic town but there's a curse on it from 100 years ago, ... The people who died in this kind of boating accident have come back to take their revenge.

Lesley Gore

One night I saw them kissing at a party, so I kissed some other guy. Johnny jumped up and hit him, cause he still loved me, that's why.

Larry Davis

You can spin it any way you want. You could spin it on their side that this is a revenge game. We can spin it from our side that our guys have confidence. They know they can beat them. They beat them once. But you know what? None of that matters. We're two different teams. We played them almost a month and a half ago. And every team is different at this point.