Revenge Quotes - Page 19

• We should have just killed him, that's a lesson, don't get creative with revenge

  China Mieville

  Should Have, Creative, Lessons

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• IAGO: She that was ever fair and never proud, Had tongue at will and yet was never loud, Never lack'd gold and yet went never gay, Fled from her wish and yet said 'Now I may,' She that being anger'd, her revenge being nigh, Bade her wrong stay and her displeasure fly, She that in wisdom never was so frail To change the cod's head for the salmon's tail; She that could think and ne'er disclose her mind, See suitors following and not look behind, She was a wight, if ever such wight were,-- DESDEMONA: To do what? IAGO: To suckle fools and chronicle small beer.

  William Shakespeare

  Beer, Gay, Thinking

  'Othello' (1602-4) act 2, sc. 1, l. 148

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• That machine took my money!' I said. 'I must have revenge!

  James Patterson

  Machines, Said

  James Patterson (2010). “Maximum Ride: Fang: Dystopian Science Fiction”, p.174, Random House

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• Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? ...If you poison us, do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge? If we are like you in the rest, we will resemble you in that. If a Jew wrong a Christian, what is his humility? Revenge. If a Christian wrong a Jew, what should his sufferance be by Christian example?

  William Shakespeare

  Christian, Humility, Eye

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• The best revenge is living well, my dad told me once.

  Barry Lyga

  Dad, Live Well, Wells

  Barry Lyga (2007). “The Astonishing Adventures of Fanboy and Goth Girl”, p.6, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• He'd gone to Louddon's fortress to take Madelyne captive. His plan was revenge; an eye for an eye. And that had been reason enough. Until she'd warmed his feet. Everything had changed at that moment. Duncan had known with a certainty he couldn't deny that they were henceforth bound together. He could never let her go.

  Julie Garwood

  Eye, Feet, Together

  Julie Garwood (2012). “Julie Garwood Box Set: Gentle Warrior, Honor's Splendour, Lion's Lady, and a New Excerpt!”, p.525, Simon and Schuster

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• People tend to think that hate is the most dangerous emotion. But love is equally dangerous,” Will said. “There are many stories of spirits haunting the places and people who meant the most to them. In fact, there are more of those than there are revenge stories.

  Libba Bray

  Hate, Love Is, Thinking

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• I've been in the revenge buisness for so long, now that it's over I don't know what to do with the rest of my life.

  William Goldman

  Princess, Long, Buisness

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• You know what they say. Best revenge is looking good, right?

  Megan Hart

  Best Revenge, Looking Good, Knows

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• Like most, I was a mix of good and bad, anger and protectiveness, kindness and pride. But right now, I had only strangled fear and the promise of revenge.

  Ann Aguirre

  Kindness, Pride, Promise

  Ann Aguirre (2012). “Outpost”, p.168, Macmillan

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• Peace requires something far more difficult than revenge or merely turning the other cheek; it requires empathizing with the fears and unmet needs that provide the impetus for people to attack each other. Being aware of these feelings and needs, people lose their desire to attack back because they can see the human ignorance leading to these attacks; instead, their goal becomes providing the empathic connection and education that will enable them to transcend their violence and engage in cooperative relationships.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Ignorance, People, Goal

  Marshall B. Rosenberg (2005). “Speak Peace in a World of Conflict: What You Say Next Will Change Your World”, p.129, PuddleDancer Press

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• Life will be wonderful when men no longer fear dying. When the last superstitions are thrown out and we meet death with the same equanimity as life. No longer will children's minds be twisted by evil gods whose fantastic origin is in those barbaric tribes who feared death and lightning, who feared life. That's it: life is the villain to to those who preach reward in death, through grace and eternal bliss, or through dark revenge.

  Gore Vidal

  Children, Dark, Men

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• Ordinarily we are swept away by habitual momentum. We don't interrupt our patterns even slightly. With practice, however, we learn to stay with a broken heart, with a nameless fear, with the desire for revenge. Sticking with uncertainty is how we learn to relax in the midst of chaos, how we learn to be cool when the ground beneath us suddenly disappears.

  Pema Chodron

  Heart, Practice, Broken

  Pema Chodron (2003). “Comfortable with Uncertainty: 108 Teachings on Cultivating Fearlessness and Compassion”, p.8, Shambhala Publications

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• Culture is only true when implicitly critical, and the mind which forgets this revenges itself in the critics it breeds. Criticism is an indispensable element of culture.

  Theodor Adorno

  Mind, Criticism, Culture

  Theodor W. Adorno (1982). “Prisms”, p.22, MIT Press

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• Let's just kill everyone and let God sort them out.

  Marilyn Manson

  Letting Go, Retribution

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• No more Mr. Nice Guy.

  Alice Cooper

  Nice, Guy, Retribution

  Song: It's The Little Things, Album: Brutal Planet, 2000

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• No penance serves to renew them, no massive transfusions of trust. Why not even revenge can undo them, so twisted these vows and so crushed.

  Leonard Cohen

  Penance, Why Not, Twisted

  Song: Humbled In Love, Album: Recent Songs, 1979

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• One day I'll be standing at the river looking out across tomorrow, and the bridge I need to get there will be a bridge that I have burned.

  Garth Brooks

  Rivers, Bridges, One Day

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• 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.

  Lesley Gore

  Party, Kissing, Night

  Song: Judy's Turn to Cry

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• Somebody said he came from New Orleans, where he got in a fight over a Cajun queen. And a crushing blow from a huge right hand, sent a Louisiana fella to the Promised Land.

  Jimmy Dean

  Crush, Queens, Fighting

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• The best revenge is to always survive yourself.

  Henry Rollins

  Best Revenge, Retribution

  Song: Alien Blueprint

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• The lesson from the smith and wesson is depressin'.

  The Notorious B.I.G.

  Lessons, Retribution

  Song: Wake Up, Album: Duets: The Final Chapter, 2005

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• They wanna hang us, see us dead, or enslave us, keep us trapped in the same place we raised in. Then they wonder why we act so outrageous, run around stressed out and pull out gauges.

  Dr. Dre

  Running, Stressed, Gauges

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• This violent rage that turned inward cannot be helped by drink.

  Lou Reed

  Inward, Drink, Rage

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• Those neon light nights, couldn't stay out of fights, keeps a-haunting me in memories. There is one in every crowd, for crying out loud, why was is always turning out to be me?

  Waylon Jennings

  Memories, Fighting, Night

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