Famous Quotes & Sayings

Marilyn vos Savant

Revenge feels right only to those directly involved. Justice feels right even to outsiders.

Marilynne Robinson

John Calvin's theology emphasizes the sanctity of conscience, the sanctity of companionate marriage, and the obligation of those in power to attend to the well-being of the people in general, especially the poor. Interestingly, for the interpretation of Hamlet, for example, he forbids even the thought of revenge. This is not the Calvin of myth, but when the Elizabethans read him there was no such myth, nor would there be now, if he were read.

Patricia Cornwell

Survival my only hope. Success my only revenge

Pablo Neruda

Raw hatred took its time making an outpost of its rage and prepared for me a savage crown with rusty, bloodstained spikes. It wasn't pride that made me keep my heart at a distance from such terror, nor did I waste on revenge or the pursuit of power the forces that came from my selfish griefs or my accumulated joys. It was something else-my helplessness.

Johnny Depp

'm a big fan of revenge, I think [Sweeney Todd] it's a story of a man who clearly has obsessions to avenge the horror that happened to him.

Missy Elliot

I'm kind of speaking for the females, ... what's in our mind if we could get revenge, what it would be like. Not to say that we would do it because we would be locked up if you go by my video version of it but just in our minds, if we could have our way with a relationship gone bad. So it's crazy.

Philip Russell

His victims were for the most part financial institutions who exact their revenge in courtrooms.

Maria Sharapova

It'll be great. Of course I was disappointed last year. But . . I'll get my revenge.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

I so love the smell of hatred and revenge. It’s the headiest of concoctions. (Noir) I personally feel that way toward blood. No better smell in the universe than when it’s combined with the aroma of those fearing death. (Jericho)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

For the moment, he's off plotting his Igoresque revenge. I don't know about you, but I have this image of him rubbing his hands together and laughing like Dexter from Dexter's Laboratory. (Kyrian)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

You have twenty-four hours, horseguy, to kill your betrayer any way you see fit and to take your revenge. Make them count. Oh, and know that you can’t let daylight touch you. If you do…Well, you don’t want to die without your soul. It’s highly unpleasant. Sometime in the next few days, a man named Acheron Parthenopaeus will find you and teach you everything you need to know about being a Dark-Hunter. If you’re smart, you’ll listen to him. Welcome to the madness.” – Artemis

Nick Wechsler

Any story about revenge is ultimately a story about forgiveness, redemption, or the futility of revenge.

Nora Roberts

An eye for an eye.” “That's a revenge thing, right? From some play.” “The Bible, darling. The Lord of all plays.

Miranda July

Are you angry? Punch a pillow. Was it satisfying? Not hardly. These days people are too angry for punching. What you might try is stabbing. Take an old pillow and lay it on the front lawn. Stab it with a big pointy knife. Again and again and again. Stab hard enough for the point of the knife to go into the ground. Stab until the pillow is gone and you are just stabbing the earth again and again, as if you want to kill it for continuing to spin, as if you are getting revenge for having to live on this planet day after day, alone.

Mignon McLaughlin

Revenge leads to an empty fullness, like eating dirt.

Johnny Galecki

There is that stereotype of a nerd with the high pants and pocket protector and that kind of thing. That can sustain comedy for maybe a movie - hence the 'Revenge of the Nerds' franchise - but not for hopefully years on the air. It's a sight gag, not a story.

Marianne Williamson

We are to love our enemies that they might be returned to their right minds.

Marianne Williamson

May we not succumb to thoughts of violence and revenge today, but rather to thoughts of mercy and compassion. We are to love our enemies that they might be returned to their right minds.

Michael K. Williams

Revenge is not a positive state of mind or energy to indulge your self in.

Meir Kahane

No trait is more justified than revenge in the right time and place.

Masashi Kishimoto

Darkness... When everything that you know and love... is taken from you so harshly... all you can think about is anger, hatred, and even revenge... and no one can save you.

Mason Cooley

After rejection - misery, then thoughts of revenge, and finally, oh well, another try elsewhere.

Martina Hingis

I'm sure she wants revenge. I'll just try not to let that happen.

Michel Gondry

Perhaps my favourite story is 'Le Passe-Muraille' by Marcel Ayme. It's about a guy who wakes up with a weird faculty that means he can walk through walls. He's a very shy clerk, and he uses it to get revenge, or vent his frustration.

Martha Stewart

Revenge of the Middle-Aged Woman.

Oscar Wilde

Indifference is the revenge the world takes on mediocrities.

Madonna Ciccone

You're so consumed with how much you get, you waste your time with hate and regret.

Madonna Ciccone

Publicly humiliating someone for your own gain will only come and haunt you. God's going to have his revenge.

Louis L'Amour

Revenge could steal a man's life until there was nothing left but emptiness.

Louis L'Amour

A man can lose sight of everything else when he's bent on revenge, and it ain't worth it.

Michael Jackson

The more passive one's life in the field, the greater the need to reverse the situation when one returns home, which is why the arcane and authoratative character of academic writing may be seen, to some extent, as a vengeful reaction to the inertia, uneventfulness, and waiting one had to endure as a guest at someone else's banquet. A way of redressing an existental imbalance, as it were reclaiming authorial will by superimposing one's own meaning on theirs...

Michel de Montaigne

Since we cannot match it let us take our revenge by abusing it.

Michel de Montaigne

Since we cannot attain unto it, let us revenge ourselves with railing against it.