Top 100 Get Even Sayings
#1. Don't be trying to give back pain for pain ... You can't get even measures in business like this.
Larry McMurtry
#2. I always told my young umpires, 'Don't get mad. Whatever you do, don't show it. But no matter how long it takes, get even.'
Doug Harvey
#4. Raise your self-esteem to such a level that you only allow loving experiences in your life. Don't waste time trying to get even. It doesn't work. What we give out always comes back to us. So lets drop the past and work on loving ourselves in the now. Then we will have a wonderful future.
Auliq Ice
#5. I film so much and I'm working so much that when I do get even a Saturday or a Sunday off, I just literally watch movies or sleep or hang out with my close friends and relax.
Nina Dobrev
#6. So, you think your coffee-addicted mother is amusing." She pushed at his shoulder. "I'll get even with you. I'll show your naked baby pictures to your girlfriend." ~ Chapter 9 The Truth and Nothing but Lies
Cheri Vause
#7. My grandfather was Orthodox, and he was religious, but neither of my parents were. Of course, as they got older, it seems like they get more religious the older they get, even though they're still not practicing Jews.
Scott Ian
#8. A man has no business to be depressed by a disappointment, anyway; he ought to make up his mind to get even.
Mark Twain
#9. Twain please!" Peck blubbered. "It was never personal. It was just business!"
"Oh Peck, do you think I'm mad at you? I"m a lawyer. I don't get mad. I don't get even." Twain gave him a wicked smile. " I sue people.
Arthur Daigle
#10. BIG GIRLS DON'T CRY...
THEY GET EVEN.
Jenny Han
#11. The only people who you should get even with are those who have helped you.
John Southard
#12. He shouldn't have shot Tiki," Logan said. "Hawaiian gods get even. Did you see what Tiki did to his foot? It flew right off his leg when you kicked it!
Janet Evanovich
#13. You can never get ahead by trying to get even.
Zig Ziglar
#14. You can't run around town tryin' to get even with every person who does you wrong. Ain't enough hours in the day to do that. Besides, two wrongs don't make a right.
Beth Hoffman
#15. I used to be something of an obsessive when it came to research. When I first began writing the Thorne novels, I would drive to a set of traffic lights in the early hours of the morning to make sure you could turn left. I thought it was important to get even the most trivial details right.
Mark Billingham
#16. Maturity is the ability to do a job whether you're supervised or not; finish a job once it's started; carry money without spending it; and the ability to bear an injustice without wanting to get even.
Abigail Van Buren
#17. You can get angry, you can get even, or you can get ahead.
Jeffrey Fry
#19. I like to travel any chance I get, even if it's just a local vacation to San Diego or Palm Springs or wherever. I just like to get out and do stuff and see the world.
Christa B. Allen
#20. Now, in order that true religion may shine upon us, we ought to hold that it must take its beginning from heavenly doctrine and that no one can get even the slightest taste of right and sound doctrine unless he be a pupil of Scripture.
John Calvin
#21. I never hold a grudge. As soon as I get even with the son-of-a bitch, I forget it.
W.C. Fields
#22. The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.
Maureen Dowd
#23. Like Joseph, you've been dumped into the pit. And, like Joseph, you choose to heed the call of God on your life. It's not easy. You're tempted to get even. But you choose instead to ponder your destiny.
Max Lucado
#24. If you prefer an "academic life" as a retreat from reality, do not go into biology. This field is for a man or woman who wishes to get even closer to life. - Hermann Muller We
Siddhartha Mukherjee
#25. 169. We whip them. Starve them. Chain them. Break their spirits. Break their minds. Still they love us. Still they offer up their lives without hesitation. Because when a horse loves you, it's fucking absolute. And all they ask is that you love them back. Most of them never get even that.
Matthew Woodring Stover
#26. You have to fail and then get better. Then you have to fail again, and then get even better.
Lady Gaga
#28. Don't just get mad, try a little creative revenge ... Creative revenge ... allows you to get even - to extract some satisfactory justice - when you are wronged, but lets you do it with a sense of humor, not boiling malice.
Sonia Friedman
#29. You kill people you hate or you kill in rage or you kill to get even, but you don't kill someone you're indifferent to.
Sue Grafton
#30. I've learned ... That when you plan to get even with someone, you are only letting that person continue to hurt you ... More
Andy Rooney
#32. I don't know why Sinclair Lewis fell in love with me. He didn't get even the slightest response from me. But his letters were lovely. And the poems he wrote me were lovely. I used some of them in my book.
Fay Wray
#33. I'm going to get even, I swear I will. Mark my words, I'm a pregnant cranky woman with insomnia. I have time to plot my revenge.
Kim Gruenenfelder
#34. The fact is men can't handle it. They can't take the heat when it gets ugly. Women, on the other hand, band together in the face of pain. They get strong. And then they get even.
Larry Brooks
#35. Some think the only way to get even, to get attention or advantage, or to win is to bash people. This kind of behavior is never appropriate. Oftentimes character and reputation and almost always self-esteem are destroyed under the hammer of this vicious practice.
Marvin J. Ashton
#36. I admit. My sister: master of playing hard to get. Even when she's already gotten.
Anonymous
#37. A boss wants to pay for results, an employee wants recognition for effort. If a boss recognizes effort, they will get even better results.
Simon Sinek
#38. The only people with whom you should try to get even are those who have been kind to you.
Suzanne Woods Fisher
#39. To get even near humility, even for a moment, is like a drink of cold water to a man in a desert.
C.S. Lewis
#40. The old creation lives by pride and retribution: I stand up for myself, and if someone gets in my way I try to get even. We've been there, done that, and got the scars to prove it.
N. T. Wright
#41. Now, when you play this game, even though you've never played it with me before, you're playing to get even - not with me but with what I represent to you, all those terrible people who cheated you out of your right to win. Then
Bernard De Koven
#42. I would love to persuade Christopher Bailey to get even just a section of Burberry that's, like, organic or free trade. I love him, he's a very good person and an amazing designer, and I have a lot of respect and time for him.
Emma Watson
#43. He promised to take care of me, and yet I feel afraid. I feel like something is going wrong, very wrong, and that it will get even worse.
Gillian Flynn
#44. Try to see yourself with power. Not power so that you can get even with anybody else. Power so that you can become even with your vision- Maya Angelo
Willa Shalit
#45. I had hoped all of Congress would recognize that it is imperative for our health, economy, and national security that we address the effects of climate change before they get even worse.
Mark Pocan
#47. The brain upon which my experiences have been written is not a particularly good one. If their were brain-shows, as there are cat and dog shows, I doubt if it would get even a third class prize.
H.G.Wells
#48. I almost didn't turn pro at all. I was tempted to be a career amateur. I worked as an investment banker for nine months after I got out of school, and the money was fantastic and promised to get even more lucrative.
Matt Kuchar
#49. Which maybe that's what love was: liking someone how he was and doing things to help him get even better.
George Saunders
#50. Vegetables are something God invented to let women get even with their children.
P. J. O'Rourke
#51. Accept every blind date you can get, even with a girl who wears jeans. Maybe you can talk her out of them.
Abigail Van Buren
#52. Maturity: Be able to stick with a job until it is finished. Be able to bear an injustice without having to get even. Be able to carry money without spending it. Do your duty without being supervised.
Ann Landers
#53. She stretched up on her tiptoes, tilted her head, trying to get even closer. Seth slid a hand around her waist and kissed her like she was the air, and he was suffocating. And she forgot about everything: there were no faeries, no Sight, nothing €"just them.
Melissa Marr
#54. You hate yourself so much, you'll hurt anybody who loves you. That's it, isn't it? Just to get even with them for loving you.
Lev Grossman
#55. As young, hot actors living in Hollywood, you get even more attractive.
Jennifer Coolidge
#56. Every time the Russians throw an American in jail, the Committee throws an American in jail to get even.
Mort Sahl
#57. Fear is the anticipation of the pain in the future. Anger is the remembrance of pain in the past. Hostility is wanting to get even.
Deepak Chopra
#60. I never thought that I could make a living out of my voice, to be completely honest. I thought that I could probably keep playing pubs. And it was exciting for me to get even just a pub gig in my town or country, when I went to university.
Ellie Goulding
#61. Don't get mad. Don't get even. Do better. Much better. Rise above. Become so engulfed in your own success that you forget it ever happened.
Donald Driver
#62. But it's tempting, isn't it, to give somebody like Olympia or Fenleigh a taste of their own medicine? To get even?'
I agree it's tempting. *Really* tempting. But it doesn't solve anything. It just perpetuates the problem by making us as bad as them. And we don't need any more of them, do we?
Jean Ferris
#63. It's funny how when your kids get sick, they get even cuter when they have a stuffed nose and they mouth breathe.
David Walton
#64. You're learning. So why don't we stop pretending? It's so much easier when you give up all those illusions and realize that the only justice you'll get in this life is the justice you dish out. It's a dog-eat-dog world out there, mate. You need to sharpen your teeth. Don't get angry. Get even.
Barry Jonsberg
#65. I'm really focusing now on how I can get to the next level as a batsman. How can I get even more competitive? How can I get even more consistent? How can I get better?
Sachin Tendulkar
#66. In a diplomatic negotiation, you always meet the same the other side all the time. Even if you should succeed in outsmarting him or in pressuring him, it only sets up a cycle in which he will try to get even.
Henry A. Kissinger
#67. Everything was fine, would continue to be fine, would eventually get even better as long as the supermarket did not slip.
Don DeLillo
#68. The number of illegal activities were so large that one was bound to come out and lead to the uncovering of the others. Nixon was too willing to use the power of government to settle scores and get even with enemies.
Bob Woodward
#69. My motto is: Always get even. When somebody screws you, screw them back in spades.
Donald J. Trump
#70. You'll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him.
Lou Holtz
#71. I was basically raised to look for chances to get even with several families for stuff that happened 30 or 40 years before I was born.
Daniel Woodrell
#72. Don't try to get even with those who wrong you, get ahead.
Mensah Oteh
#73. Dirksen's Three Laws of Politics: 1. Get elected. 2. Get re-elected. 3. Don't get mad, get even.
Everett Dirksen
#75. 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
#76. If you let women have their way, you will generally get even with them in the end.
Will Rogers
#77. If I get even five per cent of my ideas out and documented before I die, I'll be lucky. I'm not in danger of running out of riffs or ideas anytime soon. They overwhelm me and it's hard to find time to deal with them.
Jello Biafra
#78. Instead, she'd let it get even more overgrown and cobwebbed. We'd always joked that it would be a good place to bury a body. It couldn't be.
Gillian Flynn
#79. Let today be the day you stop being haunted by the ghost of yesterday. Holding a grudge & harboring anger/resentment is poison to the soul. Get even with people ... but not those who have hurt us, forget them, instead get even with those who have helped us.
Steve Maraboli
#80. I thought New York had it coming, that it needed a kick in the balls. When I returned to New York, I wanted to get even. Now I had a weapon, photography.
William Klein
#81. Be strong,be kind,be generous of spirit, be understanding and let people know how grateful you are.Dont get even. Comfort the ones i've hurt and let down.Say your prayers and ask for Gods understanding and strength.Finish with a smile and some gustoand do what's' right and finish strong.
George H. W. Bush
#82. And humor has always been a weapon. You want to get even on somebody? You want to attack somebody? Make fun of them.
Alan King
#83. When my cats aren't happy, I'm not happy. Not because I care about their mood but because I know they're just sitting there thinking up ways to get even.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
#84. There is always a chance to get even and I'm proud of the fact that for all the blows I always got back up again. That's what makes me most content.
Luis Suarez
#86. You catch a lot more flies with honey than vinegar, as they say, though I warrant you get even more flies with corpses. Flies aren't too picky, when you come to it.
Thomm Quackenbush
#87. The amount of work that a for-profit has to do to get real money is minimal compared to the amount of work it takes a non-profit to get even a very small grant.
Leila Janah
#88. I know what "custody" [of the children] means. "Get even." That's all custody means. Get even with your old lady.
Lenny Bruce
#89. For the record, I'd like to say that I'm a big fan of forgiveness as long as I have a chance to get even first
Kinsey Millhone, V is for Vengeance
Sue Grafton
#90. The best way to get even with anyone is to put them in the rearview mirror on your way to something better.
Joe Hill
#91. She tried to get even with him through psychological warfare but couldn't, because he didn't care.
Steve Martin
#92. Nobody would ever, ever get even remotely lippy about the Islanders with me, or there'd be bloodshed on the set of 'Entourage.' Everybody knows that you don't even go there.
Kevin Connolly
#93. And don't look for anything out of the law around here," she said. "The Cowgills and the Leapers is kin to the sheriff. No justice in these parts. It's every man for hisself."
"But as the saying goes, if you can't get justice," Mrs. Dowdel remarked, "get even.
Richard Peck
#94. We all cross a hundred peaks to get even this far. And there will be more before we each make it to whatever God has fated for us.
Nadia Hashimi
#95. I get even more nervous singing when everyone's fallen silent, but I really try to communicate the meaning of the lyrics, and there's people there listening to that, and if they're moved by it, then I'm moved as well.
Namie Amuro
#96. Whatever grade I get, even though I do try my best, I'll be happy with. I feel so lucky to have done all the jobs I've done to this point. So, if I continue to work it will be amazing. But I'm going to see how it goes.
Yasmin Paige
#97. I know there are people who believe you should forgive and forget. For the record, I'd like to say I'm a big fan of forgiveness as long as I'm given the opportunity to get even first.
Sue Grafton
#98. The little people will get even, which is one of a thousand reasons why they are not little people at all. If you're a jerk as a leader, you will be torpedoed. And usually it won't be by your vice presidents; it will be on the loading dock at 3am when no supervisors are around.
Tom Peters
#99. Sometimes I feel like one of those sliding tile puzzles. I just get so dang close to what I want to see in the mirror and who I want to be ... but then I have to completely jumble up the pieces to try to get even closer.
Erica Goros
#100. It is nice to have the fans recognize you, not because it makes you feel like a big-time player, but because they enjoy watching baseball and they like watching us play. It's going to get even better being here. Pretty soon, the city could be one of the best places to play.
Ryan Zimmerman
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