Payback Quotes

• Justice is blind until she gets the person that blinded her. Then it's payback time.

  Jason Jones

  Justice, Blind, Persons

  "The Daily Show with John Stewart", October 02, 2007.

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• Revenge is a meal best served cold.

  Denzel Washington

  Revenge, Meals, Cold

  "Fictional character: Creasy". "Man on Fire", www.imdb.com. 2004.

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• Old habits die hard, I guess.  If you dont kick them, they kick you.

  Mel Gibson

  Old Habits, Kicks, Dies

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• Most of the time I'm not even working, I'm just helping people, because I feel that I am too lucky. If there really is a god, then he really looks after me. All these years he's taken care of me, my career keeps getting better and better. Whatever I want just seems to come. And it keeps coming. So I promised myself that I have to pay for this, payback society. So this is why I started my Jackie Chan Foundation to help children and sick kids and people in hospitals.

  Jackie Chan

  Children, Taken, Kids

  Interview with Spence D., www.ign.com. September 25, 2002.

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• In the end, we all have to decide what we're willing to give up for payback. We all have parents or grandparents or children who will need us. Agonizing decisions sometimes. You have to weigh the memories and debt against what's being taken from you.

  Iris Johansen

  Children, Giving Up, Memories

  Iris Johansen (2011). “An Eve Duncan Collection From Iris Johansen: Quicksand, Blood Game, Eight Days to Live, and Chasing the Night”, p.457, Macmillan

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• Shake off the self-pity, shake off the defeat and get ready for God to do something new. He is going to pay you back for every injustice.

  Joel Osteen

  Self, Pay, Injustice

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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

  Revenge, Healing, Vengeance

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• Everyone dies whether one is good in their lifetime or evil in their lifetime. So virtue has no payback. Life is meaningless. When you die, you die!

  Gerry Lindgren

  Evil, Life Is, Lifetime

  Interview with Mick Grant, John Molvar, www.youthrunner.com. January 12, 2011.

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• The thing that I find so bad about anger is the desire for payback. Of course, it is very human to wish for revenge. Your mother has died in the hospital, and the first thought a lot of people have is, I'll sue the doctor. You feel helpless, and you think, I'm less helpless if I'm doing something active that makes someone else pay. And social media make it easy to inflict all kinds of pain on other people. But what good does it do?

  Martha C. Nussbaum

  Mother, Pain, Revenge

  Source: www.neh.gov

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• Whatever vocation you decide on, track down the best people in the world at doing it and surround yourself with them. Aim high and be ridiculously persistent. Your happiness is at the intersection of your passions and learning from great people. Working at a big company sucks--avoid it. Smaller companies are 10 times better for learning. Be generous with your time and money--it has an amazingly fast payback. Be in the moment with everyone you love--and this frequently means tuning out work completely. And drive slow in parking lots.

  Scott Weiss

  Mean, Passion, People

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• Before we can even begin to grapple with the frustrations and tragedies of life in this world, we must do away with our faithless morality of payback and reward.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Frustration, Tragedy, World

  Tullian Tchividjian (2012). “Glorious Ruin: How Suffering Sets You Free”, p.68, David C Cook

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• We help other people because we can, or because it makes us feel good, not because we're counting on some future payback. There is a word for this; love.

  Eric Weiner

  Helping Others, People, Feel Good

  Eric Weiner (2014). “The Geography of Bliss”, p.187, Random House

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• We don't see it as revenge or payback. This year's team is a different team.

  Taurean Green

  Revenge, Team, Years

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• In other words, fiction is payback for those who have wronged you.

  Colson Whitehead

  Fiction, Wronged

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• I think it's a nice payback. There aren't many people that kind of give back to artists that were their inspiration. Most people think they're . . . they're very self bloated.

  Joey Ramone

  Nice, Inspiration, Artist

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• Both of my grandparents died of lung cancer. So I got quite a lesson in the payback later in life of smoking, and if you keep it up how bad it can be.

  George Clooney

  Cancer, Later In Life, Grandparent

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• What do they say about meeting a bear in the woods? Oh right, you shouldn't. And to make sure you don't, you should make a lot of noise so that they'll will know where you are and keep their distance because, supposedly, they're as nervous of us as we are of them. Which is all goo, except this bear doesn't seem the least bit nervous. He's giving me a look like I'm Goldilocks, ate his porridge, broke his chair, slept in his bed, and now it's payback time."- Widdershins

  Charles de Lint

  Distance, Giving, Bed

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• Far from the richest rapper, but my biggest personal achievement thus far in my life has been retiring my mom early from her job at the Post Office. It's a tiny payback for the sacrifices she made that allowed me to chase a far-fetched dream of becoming a successful artist. I'm forever grateful.

  J. Cole

  Mom, Dream, Jobs

  "J. Cole tributes his mom Kay Cole in Born Sinner series" by Nadeska Alexis, www.mtv.com. May 8, 2013.

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• It was obvious that their profits were simply cash borrowed from destiny with some random payback time.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Destiny, Risk, Cash

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2016). “Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile”, p.831, Random House

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• A company has only so much money and managerial time. Winning leaders invest where the payback is the highest. They cut their losses everywhere else.

  Jack Welch

  Cutting, Loss, Winning

  Jack Welch, Suzy Welch (2009). “Winning: The Ultimate Business How-To Book”, p.38, Harper Collins

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• Whether as a radical student, a community organizer or a far left politician, Barack Obama's ideology has been based on a vision of the Haves versus the Have Nots. . .Obama's ideology is an ideology of envy, resentment, and payback.

  Thomas Sowell

  Envy, Community, Vision

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• This is payback, isn't it?" Jim glared at me. "Don't be ridiculous," I told him. "As the Consort of the Pack, I'm far above petty revenge.

  Ilona Andrews

  Revenge, Ridiculous, Packs

  Ilona Andrews (2012). “Gunmetal Magic: A Novel in the World of Kate Daniels”, p.302, Penguin

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• It's impossible for minorities, impossible for people of color to be ever guilty of hate crimes. Because their only crimes are justified. Their crimes are justifiable. It’s retribution and payback for years and decades and maybe even centuries of oppressive behavior at the hands of the white majority.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Hate, Hands, Color

  "Scrambling Liberals Don’t Know Who to Blame for the Istanbul Airport Attack". "The Rush Limbaugh Show", www.rushlimbaugh.com. June 29, 2016.

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• Mars could very well be a staging location for the resources of the asteroid belt. We have to learn how to get a payback somewhere, but it's beyond Mars that the real payoff will come from minerals.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Real, Asteroids, Location

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• There's something rotten in the state of Denmark, and Hamlet says...it's payback time!

  Jasper Fforde

  Rotten, Denmark, States

  Jasper Fforde (2004). “Something rotten”

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