Quotes About Requital

#1. I once knew a man out of courtesy help a lame dog over a stile, and he for requital bit his fingers.

William Chillingworth

#2. What did our nation ever do to provoke these madly vicious enemies? What is seen as injustice in one place is seen as just requital in the other.

Mary Douglas

#3. ...she grasped the terrible truth that love can never be compelled, from man, from sprite, from beast; that one who loves, however she longs for requital, however long she waits, may receive in return the reverse of what she gives, the dark side of the moon.

Thomas Burnett Swann

#4. The problem with secret crushes: in the absence of requital the love turns bitter.

Paul Monette

#5. None of us offers resistance when he is seized, or avenges himself for your unjust violence, although our people are numerous and plentiful ... it is not lawful for us to hate, and so we please God more when we render no requital for injury ... we repay your hatred with kindness.

Cyprian

#6. Whoever extolleth him as a God of love, doth not think highly enough of love itself. Did not that God want also to be judge? But the loving one loveth irrespective of reward and requital.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#7. What I myself experience is indescribable gratitude in the face of God's perpetual and preemptive love, a love which is not contingent upon requital or even belief in His existence.

Franz Wright

#8. For our self respect depends upon our ability to make requital, for good or for evil.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#9. I knew I really had to put down a good run. I played it safe, and took risks when I could, and I came in the fastest, I guess.

Julia Mancuso

#10. The essence of life is in remembering God.

Kabir

#11. The fundamental problem in the evangelical world today is that God rests too inconsequentially upon the church. His truth is too distant, His grace is too ordinary, His judgment is too benign, His gospel is too easy, and His Christ is too common.

David F. Wells

#12. Round, cat-eye frames, wayfarers, and aviators are my go-tos.

Georgia May Jagger

#13. A nerd will be a nerd all his life.

John Hughes

#14. I think it's so much sexier to be understated. It's more intriguing to be sexy in a less obvious way.

Emma Watson

#15. I come from a time when pop music was the coin of the cultural realm and in a certain way was the only coin of the realm; movies didn't matter as much, and not TV - it was all about pop music. In the era when I started - which was the early '60s - it was all about singles leading to albums.

Fred Seibert

#16. Have little,
Need less:
This is the way
To inner peace.
Surrender is a journey
From the outer turmoil
To the inner peace.
Peace
Is in inner awakening,
And this inner awakening
We must share
With the rest of the world.

Sri Chinmoy

#17. I wonder why when I told him that my chest still ached even though I had finally told him how I felt, he said, "So you finally realize how I've felt these past three years?" and laughed.

Kou Yoneda

#18. If you tell an ugly woman that she is beautiful, you offer her the great homage of corrupting the concept of beauty.

Ayn Rand