Quotes About Settling Scores

#1. When a leader used his power over the ruled for the purpose of settling scores and inflating his self-esteem, for remaking society according to his own grand designs, class warfare and genocide ensued.

Dean Koontz

#2. To be able to play and get loads of people together is really cool.

Colin Greenwood

#3. I love Canada. I am from Canada. I will bash the Canadian government but never Canada.

Jason Priestley

#4. There must be amidst all the confusions of the hour a tried and undisturbed remnant of persons who will not become purveyors of coercion and violence, who are ready to stand alone, if it is necessary, for the way of peace and love among men.

Rufus Jones

#5. The ruling of men is the effort to direct the individual actions of many persons toward some end. This end theoretically should be the greatest good of all, but no human group has ever reached this ideal because of ignorance and selfishness.

W.E.B. Du Bois

#6. His eyes went again to the crucifix above his head, reflected in the mirror. The strained arms, the arched spine. All that effort to open the gates of heaven for us and we (he thought) probably spend out first hours among the heavenly hosts settling old scores with relatives.

Alice McDermott

#7. History isn't really about the past - settling old scores. It's about defining the present and who we are.

Ken Burns

#8. My brain might be cracked, but it's not just my brain. The sky is cracked too, and I can sometimes see what's on the other side.

Amy Harmon

#9. The biggest review of taxation ever undertaken in this country, is now dead in the water.

Malcolm Turnbull

#10. The respectable, like the despised, are always at the mercy of circumstances; the influences of environment and the weight of tradition are vastly important to them, for these hide their inward poverty. The

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#11. Mastery requires both the possession of ready knowledge and the conceptual understanding of how to use it.

Peter C. Brown

#12. In this job, you handpick your people. You need the best. You need the most loyal. You need the most ruthless.

Karen Traviss

#13. The pulpit is not a place to settle scores, it's a place to preach the word of God.

Greg Laurie

#14. What the hell am I doing with my life?

Ben Stiller

#15. We have to remember not to tell them, each of them, that they are our new leader. It would only frighten them off, W. says. No one should ever know he or she is our leader, we agree. Only we should know. And we should follow them in secret.

Lars Iyer

#16. Sometimes what we call love is just a settling of old scores, or a seeking of forbidden pain, or a circuitous path to the kingdom of cruelty, or she may simply have confused lack of capital with heroism while searching for rescue without knowing from what.

Anne Roiphe

#17. If there is a possibility of several things going wrong, the one that will cause the most damage will be the one to go wrong.

Arthur Bloch

#18. She did have regrets. Thousands of them, and the weight was too heavy for her to keep moving. She was a ship that could not sail, for its anchor - its thousands of anchors - locked it to the sea floor.

Susan Dennard

#19. Magnificent opportunity is often obscured by a humble veil ...

Simon Boylan