Retribution Quotes - Page 6

• It is a long time,' repeated his wife; 'and when is it not a long time? Vengeance and retribution require a long time; it is the rule.' 'It does not take a long time to strike a man with Lightning,' said Defarge. 'How long,' demanded madame, composedly, 'does it take to make and store the lightning? Tell me?

  Charles Dickens

  Men, Long, Wife

  Charles Dickens (2010). “A Tale of Two Cities and Great Expectations (Oprah's Book Club): Two Novels”, p.150, Penguin

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• I mean, if a person acts irresponsibly in his own life, he will pay the consequences. And it's not so much divine retribution as it's built into the law of nature.

  Pat Robertson

  Mean, Law, Pay

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• Anger he smiles, towering in shiny metallic purple armor. Queen Jealousy, envy waits behind him, her fiery green gown sneers at the grassy ground.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Queens, Revenge, Purple

  Jimi Hendrix (2013). “Starting At Zero: His Own Story”, p.120, A&C Black

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• His frustration running very high, he takes it out on the ones he loves because it's safe.

  John Mellencamp

  Running, Revenge, Love Is

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• I don't want to throw rice. I want to throw rocks.

  Dolly Parton

  Revenge, Rocks, Want

  Song: I Don't Want to Throw Rice, Album: Hello, I'm Dolly

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• I proceeded to take that mitten full of the deadly yellow snow crystals and rub it all into his beady little eyes with a vigorous circular motion.

  Frank Zappa

  Revenge, Eye, Yellow

  Song: Nanook Rubs It

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• I wanna piss on his head, I want his family dead.

  Tupac Shakur

  Revenge, Want

  Song: Death Around The Corner

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• I was ready to approach her with my English charm, when her brass knuckled boyfriend grabbed me by the arm.

  Elton John

  Revenge, Arms, Brass

  Song: Grow Some Funk Of Your Own, Album: Rock Of The Westies

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• I went and got a tire tool out of my truck, and straightened him out as cold as a block of ice. It was an attitude adjustment, and it'll work every time.

  Hank Williams, Jr.

  Revenge, Attitude, Block

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'd love to spit some Beechnut in that dude's eye and shoot him with my ole forty-five.

  Hank Williams, Jr.

  Revenge, Eye, Spit

  Song: A Countryboy Can Survive

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• I'll break your face, have your ass mumbling to the jay, you going against me dawg you makin a mistake. I'll split your wig and leave you open like a mickeal jackson jacket with all them zippers.

  Curtis Jackson

  Revenge, Mistake, Zippers

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• I'm battling with myself and every day it's a war.

  Ludacris

  Revenge, War

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• I'm gonna do everything I can to get even with you. I started today when I wrote your name down in 34 telephone booths.

  Sam the Sham

  Revenge, Names, Telephones

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• The votes elected officials make should be based on the best interests of the American people, not the fear of retribution when shadowy groups spend millions of dollars on negative advertisements.

  Bernie Sanders

  People, Groups, Negative

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• And so it's no surprise that people who object to the death penalty on pure moral grounds also think it has no deterrent effect, and people who like the death penalty on grounds of retribution tend to think it has deterrent effects. They like that, and they believe that. I think with climate change we're seeing very much the same thing where those who deny climate change, they don't like that, and they don't believe it.

  Cass Sunstein

  Believe, Thinking, People

  "Cass Sunstein explains why Star Wars is like America". Interview with Alex McLevy, film.avclub.com. June 2, 2016.

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• Well, human rights defenders, freedom of speech advocates, lawyers that we spoke to said this is really an expansion. After the military ouster of Egypt's unpopular, but elected Islamist president in 2013, we saw political opponents being arrested by the thousands, really. Then we saw a popular comedian go off the air out of fear of retribution.

  Leila Fadel

  Military, Rights, Air

  "Egypt Expands Crackdown On Freedom Of Expression, Advocates Say". "Morning Edition" with Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. December 30, 2015.

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• Nothing comes from violence and nothing ever could, for all those born beneath an angry star, lest we forget how fragile we are.

  Sting

  Stars, Revenge, Violence

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• The shackles and the chains, the violence and aggression, the pettiness and scorn, the jealousy and hatred, the tempest and discord.

  Joe Walsh

  Revenge, Hatred, Violence

  Song: The Confessor

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• Fundamentalist Muslim terrorists kill three thousand Americans, but America isn't supposed to respond, because if we respond, they'll respond. We always hear about 'karmic retributions' and the 'cycle of violence' only after we've been hit.

  Ann Coulter

  America, Three, Violence

  Ann Coulter (2003). “Treason: Liberal Treachery from the Cold War to the War on Terrorism”, p.310, Crown Forum

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• I do see more and more people who are moving away from traditional religions that exclude others and have hatred as their basis, as part of their ideologies, that conceptualize an angry God that is going to take retribution on all the people who are not a certain way.

  Wayne Dyer

  Moving, People, Hatred

  "The Power of Intention with Dr. Wayne Dyer". Interview with Tim Miejan, www.edgemagazine.net. September 1, 2004.

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• Domestic abuse is wrong, but domestic retribution is okay.

  Dov Davidoff

  Abuse, Domestic Abuse, Okay

  FaceBook post by Dov Davidoff from Jun 14, 2012

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• This is how the great post-partisan, post-racial, New Politics presidency ends - not with a bang, not with a whimper, but with a desperate election-eve plea for ethnic retribution.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Bangs, Election, Desperate

  "The great campaign of 2010". www.washingtonpost.com. October 28, 2010.

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• The day came. The wrath descended. Sin, guilt, and retribution? The manic psychoses of those entities we referred to as states, institutions, systems - the powers, the thrones, the dominations - the things which perpetually merge with men and emerge from them? Our darkness, externalized and visible? However you look upon these matters, the critical point was reached. The wrath descended.

  Philip K. Dick

  Men, Psychosis, Wrath

  Philip K. Dick (2013). “Deus Irae”, p.176, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I think war is based in greed and there are huge karmic retributions that will follow. I think war is never the answer to solving any problems. The best way to solve problems is to not have enemies.

  Sheryl Crow

  Peace, War, Thinking

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• Never yet were the feelings and instincts of our nature violated with impunity; never yet was the voice of conscience silenced without retribution.

  Anna Brownell Jameson

  Punishment, Voice, Feelings

  Anna Brownell Jameson (2009). “Winter Studies and Summer Rambles in Canada”, p.76, New Canadian Library

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