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Tag Name "Revenge" (671)

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I will fight against the division politics of revenge and retribution. If you put me to work for you, I will work to lift people up, not put them down.
Hillary Clinton
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What I have always wanted more than revenge is to bring the other person to recognition of the pain they caused, so they essentially say, I will never do that again.
Anne Rice
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He who wishes to revenge injuries by reciprocal hatred will live in misery. But he who endeavors to drive away hatred by means of love, fights with pleasure and confidence he resists equally one or many men, and scarcely needs at all the help of fortune. Those whom he conquers yield joyfully
Baruch Spinoza
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I'm really only capable to two emotions at this point: lust and hunger. I lost revenge a few years back, and even then, it was reserved only for ex-girlfriends and particular football games that caused me to lose a lot of money.
Jason Mulgrew
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Justice belongs to those who claim it, but let the claimant beware lest he create new injustice by his claim and thus set the bloody pendulum of revenge into its inexorable motion
Frank Herbert
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One night I had a dream and woke up and wrote down the dream. That was my first short story. The dream was a kind of fantasy of me getting revenge on my father.
Dale Peck
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I consider it a mark of great prudence in a man to abstain from threats or any contemptuous expressions, for neither of these weaken the enemy, but threats make him more cautious, and the other excites his hatred, and a desire to revenge himself.
Niccolo Machiavelli
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Just vengeance does not call for punishment.
Pierre Corneille
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The artist will have had his revenge for being made to wait, A revenge not only necessary but right and clever-- Simply to leave him out of the scene forever.
Donald Justice
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One reason writers write is out of revenge.
Cynthia Ozick
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Revenge is a common passion it is the sin of the uninstructed. The savage deems it noblebut the religion of Christ, which is the sublime civilizer, emphatically condemns it. Why? Because religion ever seeks to ennoble man and nothing so debases him as revenge.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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The best revenge is the massive success.
Frank Sinatra
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Delay in vengeance delivers a heavier blow.
John Ford
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An eye for an eye.” “That's a revenge thing, right? From some play.” “The Bible, darling. The Lord of all plays.
Nora Roberts
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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
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The shy man does have some slight revenge upon society for the torture it inflicts upon him. He is able, to a certain extent, to communicate his misery. He frightens other people as much as they frighten him. He acts like a damper upon the whole room, and the most jovial spirits become, in his presence, depressed and nervous.
Jerome K. Jerome
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Publicly humiliating someone for your own gain will only come and haunt you. God's going to have his revenge.
Madonna Ciccone
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There is nothing wrong with revenge. The wrong has already been done, or there would be no need to even the score.
Ashly Lorenzana
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If you're a Bosnian and suddenly you get attacked by the Serbs, there's just one way of getting rid of your opponents. It's taking revenge and trying to fight as hard as you can.
Gaspar Noe
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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
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I'm thinking in my head I'd like to have five minutes alone with this guy to get some payback. But you got to keep a level head. You just got to get to the house, search, find anything you can to put these guys away and bring some justice and get some revenge for our brothers who were lost.
Justin Miller
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I joined the army to avenge the deaths of my family and to survive, but I've come to learn that if I am going to take revenge, in that process I will kill another person whose family will want revenge then revenge and revenge and revenge will never come to an end.
Ishmael Beah
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Zeal is that pure and heavenly flame,The fire of love supplies While that which often bears the name,Is self in a disguise.True zeal is merciful and mild,Can pity and forbear The false is headstrong, fierce and wild,And breathes revenge and war.
John Newton
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There is no truer saying than Revenge is a dish best eaten cold. It is so much sweeter for the waiting, and my only regret is that I cannot broadcast my triumph to the world.
Minette Walters
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