Revenge Quotes - Page 31

• What do we call love, hate, charity, revenge, humanity, forgiveness? Different results of the master impulse, the necessity of securing one's self-approval.

  Mark Twain

  Love, Life, Success

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• Revenge is never the best driver for a battle, but a common one.

  Janet Morris

  War, Sleep, Battle

  Janet Morris, Chris Morris (2010). “The Sacred Band”, p.186, Paradise Publishing

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• Politicians - power itself - are abject because they merely embody the profound contempt people have for their own lives. One should be grateful to the politicians for accepting the abstractness of power, and ridding others of its burden. This inevitably kills them but they get their revenge by passing onto others the corpse of power.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Grateful, Power, People

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• I love acting because it's a bit of an escape. It gives you the ability to reinvent yourself. They say that acting is the shy man's revenge.

  Hayden Christensen

  Men, Giving, Acting

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• The idea of revenge coming from a 14-year-old girl isn't, you know, exactly right.

  Hailee Steinfeld

  Girl, Years, Ideas

  "Hailee Steinfeld: For A Young Actress, A Gritty Debut". Interview with Melissa Block, www.npr.org. December 17, 2010.

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• I do watch 'Revenge,' 'American Horror Story' and 'Game of Thrones.' I am behind on all of them. But I do watch them. Those are my go-to shows.

  Lana Parrilla

  Horror Stories, Games, Watches

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

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• I saw Madeleine Stowe from Revenge recently, and she totally blew me away. And growing up I loved Morticia Addams and Lily Munster on one hand, and Jeannie from I Dream of Jeannie on the other. Two completely different ends of the spectrum, kind of like me.

  Sarah Shahi

  Dream, Growing Up, Two

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• Dancing well is the best revenge

  Allegra Kent

  Dancing, Best Revenge, Wells

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

  Nick Wechsler

  Stories, Redemption, Futility

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• I'm not much of a revenge person, because I think when you start with revenge it cheapens what you've been through. My rule is to hold your head high and never stop looking that person in the eye, because they know and you know, and you're still the professional. And they can just feel like an ass for the rest of their lives. That's my favorite thing to do.

  Sophia Bush

  Eye, Thinking, Favorites Things

  Interview with Shawn Adler, www.ign.com. July 26, 2006.

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• I went to a Catholic high school, which, to this day, I could burn down. And I got great revenge because they had their fiftieth anniversary, andThe Baltimore Sun called me and said, ‘What did you think of your high school?’ And I said, ‘They discouraged every interest I ever had.’ And I saw that in print.

  John Waters

  School, Thinking, Catholic

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• I was indeed a snob, if you agree with this definition: 'A person who believes that their tastes in a particular area are superior to those of other people.' I do believe that. Not superior to all other people, but to some, most probably including those who think Transformers: Revenge of The Fallen is a great film. That is not simply ego on my part. It is a faith that after writing and teaching about films for more than 40 years, my tastes are more evolved than those of a fanboy.

  Roger Ebert

  Believe, Teaching, Writing

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• I pulled out the manuscript [from the envelope] and a great big stiff cardboard finger sprung up. This is someone that was so certain they would be rejected, they would be getting their revenge in advance. I was lucky - it could have been a pipe bomb.

  Gardner Dozois

  Sprung Up, Would Be, Lucky

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• Revenge is a particularly interesting concept, especially the notion of whether or not it exists outside of just an abstract idea.

  Christopher Nolan

  Ideas, Interesting, Abstract

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• Those who write ill, and they who ne'er durst write,
  Turn critics out of mere revenge and spite.

  John Dryden

  Writing, Spite, Critics

  John Dryden (1870). “The Poetical Works of John Dryden”, p.409

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• Man represses the irrational passions of destructiveness, hate, envy, revenge; he worships power, money, the sovereign state, the nation; while he pays lip service to the teachings of the great spiritual leaders of the human race, those of Buddha, the prophets, Socrates, Jesus, Mohammed-he has transformed these teachings into a jungle of superstition and idol-worship. How can mankind save itself from destroying itself by this discrepancy between intellectual-technical overmaturity and emotional backwardness?

  Erich Fromm

  Spiritual, Jesus, Hate

  Erich Fromm (2013). “Escape from Freedom”, p.11, Open Road Media

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• Indeed men too often take upon themselves in the prosecution of their revenge to set the example of doing away with those general laws to which all can look for salvation in adversity, instead of allowing them to subsist against the day of danger when their aid may be required

  Thucydides

  Adversity, Men, Law

  Thucydides, Victor Davis Hanson, Robert B. Strassler (2008). “The Landmark Thucydides”, p.201, Simon and Schuster

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• If it had not been for the pernicious power of envy, men would not so have exalted vengeance above innocence and profit above justice... in these acts of revenge on others, men take it upon themselves to begin the process of repealing those general laws of humanity which are there to give a hope of salvation to all who are in distress.

  Thucydides

  Men, Law, Giving

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• Oh sons of Arabs and the Arab Gulf, rebel against the foreigner...Take revenge for your dignity, holy places, security, interests and exalted values.

  Saddam Hussein

  Son, Holy Places, Rebel

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• I recently enrolled at an elementary school and they accepted me. I am finally going to get revenge on those kids that beat me up as a boy, assuming they are still attending.

  Thom Yorke

  School, Kids, Boys

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• God is a mean-spirited, pugnacious bully bent on revenge against His children for failing to live up to his impossible standards.

  Walt Whitman

  Children, Mean, Bully

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• The damnable frustration of revenge. Revenge is for dreams...never for reality.

  Alfred Bester

  Dream, Frustration, Reality

  Alfred Bester (1974). “Tiger! Tiger!”

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• I am not against anyone. Neither am I here to speak in terms of personal revenge against the Taliban or any other terrorist group. I am here to speak for the right of education for every child. I want education for the sons and daughters of the Taliban and all the terrorists and extremists.

  Malala Yousafzai

  Daughter, Children, Son

  Malala Yousafzai's Speech to the UN General Assembly, www.independent.co.uk. July 12, 2013.

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• The weapon of suicide bombing is so desperate that you aren't even left with the possibility of taking revenge or punishing anyone; the terrorist is killed along with his victims, his blood mixing with theirs

  A. B. Yehoshua

  Suicide, Blood, Mixing

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• To think is to take a cunning revenge in which we camouflage our baseness and conceal our lower instincts.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Thinking, Camouflage, Instinct

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