Revenge Quotes - Page 39

• My dad had a very difficult life, a hard struggle all the time at work. I've always felt like I'm seeking his revenge.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Dad, Struggle, Difficult

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I've always been interested in themes of memory, paranoia, and revenge.

  Jonathan Nolan

  Memories, Paranoia, Theme

  "Comic-Con 2011: Jonathan Nolan, Jim Caviezel, Michael Emerson, and Taraji P. Henson Talk PERSON OF INTEREST & the Creepiness of Modern Surveillance". Interview with Jason Barr, collider.com. July 16, 2011.

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• I did have the resource of having taught Greek mythology and the history of Western civilization, and you can go back into the plays of Aeschylus and follow what happens when people seek revenge, and there are people plucking their eyes out. And Greek mythology is filled with all kinds of monsters and whatnot.

  Wes Craven

  Eye, Civilization, Play

  Interview with Scott Tobias, film.avclub.com. March 11, 2009.

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• Some tropes are universal. Boy meets girl. Betrayal and revenge. The search to discover a hidden truth.... A mother's love isn't cliché, it's universal. These things are archetypes. They're the building blocks of myth and legend. They are a big part about what it means to be human.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Girl, Mother, Betrayal

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• Know that there is nothing you can't aspire to do. Take offense. Bide your time. Pick your battles. Take revenge when you can - and never pull the ladder up after you.

  Linda Hirshman

  Battle, Ladders, Offense

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Revenge tries to solve the problem of vulnerability. If I strike back, I transfer vulnerability from myself to the other. And yet by striking back I produce a world in which my vulnerability to injury is increased by the likelihood of another strike. So it seems as if I'm getting rid of my vulnerability and instead locating it with the other, but actually I'm heightening the vulnerability of everyone and I'm heightening the possibility of violence that happens between us.

  Judith Butler

  Trying, Violence, World

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• Just really be passionate and stick to your creative vision. Because it's competitive, and there are so many mind games and so many things that could get in the way. But success is the best revenge, so build yourself up rather than knock others down.

  Tavi Gevinson

  Games, Creative, Vision

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I have always been astonished by hate. Revenge and hate. That is such strange human elements. I have seen a lot of that in my life. I am just as surprised each time. By revenge and hate.

  Odd Nerdrum

  Hate, Elements, Strange

  Source: sturm-lie.be

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• Revenge is a really narrow scope through which to view things. In the same way secrets do, it has this ability to warp everything. But secrets are more inward, and revenge is outward.

  James Scott

  Views, Secret, Way

  "James Scott’s Violent Landscape". Interview with Royal Young, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 7, 2014.

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• I'm the kind of father I wanted my father to be. That may be the sweetest revenge.

  Philip Schultz

  Father, May, Kind

  Source: poems.com

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• There are real facts in my poems, but facts mixed up in the perverse stubborn stew of imagination, add a pinch or two of revenge and retribution, a dash of amplification and reparation.

  Philip Schultz

  Real, Two, Imagination

  Source: poems.com

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• I'd made pretty clear to the people at Paramount and Dreamworks that, if they wanted Lemony Snicket to comment, he would be completely horrified by the entire film. And as long as they understood that, it was okay. I'm not much of a fan of DVD commentaries myself, so this was my way of getting revenge, in a sense, for all the puffed-up directors and stars who talk endlessly about the self-aggrandizing minutiae of making a movie.

  Daniel Handler

  Stars, Dvds, Self

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. November 16, 2005.

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• Karma is the universal law of cause and effect. You reap what you sow. You get what you earn... If you give love, you get love. Revenge returns itself upon the avenger. What goes around comes around... Karma is justice. It does not reward or punish. It shows no favoritism because we have to earn all that we receive. Karma doesn't predestine anyone or anything. We create our own causes, and karma adjusts the effects with perfect balance.

  Mary T Browne

  Karma, Love You, Law

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• A man who contemplates revenge keeps his wounds green.

  Francis Bacon

  Men, Green, Contemplating

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• In any walk of life, a positive, upbeat outlook trumps any adversarial act. Revenge is counterproductive. Unproductive emotions limit one's ability to move forward, to focus, to think positively, to act creatively.

  Jon Huntsman, Jr.

  Kindness, Moving, Thinking

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• Our revenge will be the laughter of our children.

  Bobby Sands

  Happiness, Laughter, Children

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

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• Bitterness is the coward's revenge on the world for having been hurt.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Hurt, Coward, World

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• I don't want tea," said Clary, with muffled force. "I want to find my mother. And then I want to find out who took her in the first place, and I want to kill them." "Unfortunately," said Hodge, "we're all out of bitter revenge at the moment, so it's either tea or nothing.

  Cassandra Clare

  Mother, Tea, Want

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (4 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels”, p.78, Simon and Schuster

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• She had opened a door... and now she was walking with demons. And at the end of her travels, she would have her revenge... Pain had made a sadist of her.

  Clive Barker

  Pain, Doors, Demon

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• Recklessness is almost a man's revenge on his woman. He feels he is not valued so he will risk destroying himself to deprive her altogether.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Men, Risk, Destroying

  D.H. Lawrence (2015). “D. H. Lawrence The Dover Reader”, p.181, Courier Dover Publications

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• My revenge is just begun! I spread it over centuries, and time is on my side.

  Bram Stoker

  Sides, Century, Spread

  Bram Stoker (2016). “Dracula”, p.262, Zillmann Publishing

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  The earth we abuse and the living things we kill will, in the end, take their revenge; for in exploiting their presence we are diminishing our future.

  Marya Mannes

  Abuse, Environmental, Green Trees

  Marya Mannes (1958). “More in Anger”

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• To stay with that shakiness-to stay with a broken heart, with a rumbling stomach, with the feeling of hopelessness and wanting to get revenge-that is the path of true awakening. Sticking with that uncertainty, getting the knack of relaxing in the midst of chaos, learning not to panic-this is the spiritual path.

  Pema Chodron

  Broken Heart, Spiritual, Buddhist

  Pema Chodron (2000). “When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times”, p.14, Shambhala Publications

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• Writing well is the best revenge.

  Dorothy Parker

  Writing, Wells, Best Revenge

  "Fictional character: Sir Hugh Carleton Greene". "Filth: The Mary Whitehouse Story", www.imdb.com. 2008.

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• No matter what someone else has done, it still matters how we treat people. It matters to our humanity that we treat offenders according to standards that we recognize as just. Justice is not revenge - it's deciding for a solution that is oriented towards peace, peace being the harder but more human way of reacting to injury. That is the very basis of the idea of rights.

  Judith Butler

  Rights, Ideas, People

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