Quotes About Vindictiveness

#1. In all likelihood, I was going to be in charge of his entire business empire soon. I would hold the purse strings, and Jo was worried that my main vice - vindictiveness - would mean she was going to lose her cushy lifestyle. For once in her miserable life, she was right.

L.J. Shen

#2. Dangerous because your present Administration and its specialized agencies by all accounts know no restraint in hitting out at any perceived enemy of America, and nobody or nothing can protect one from their vindictiveness.

Breyten Breytenbach

#3. She wanted, out of a kind of mysterious vindictiveness born of despair, to torture us with her torture, to arraign us, the hale and hearty, in the place of God.

Stefan Zweig

#4. In the sex war, thoughtlessness is the weapon of the male, vindictiveness of the female.

Cyril Connolly

#5. When you come from desperate poverty, and that's exactly what I come from, you know that nonsenses are not to be tolerated. I'm not sure who gains from chaos, but I know it's not the poor folks in the council flats. The politics of vindictiveness is never, ever anything like a solution.

John Lydon

#6. Pettiness seems to go hand in hand with vindictiveness. The smaller the person, the larger the need for revenge. This may account for the fact that some consensual crimes have stiffer penalties than do most crimes with innocent victims.

Peter McWilliams

#7. The photographic industry was the refuge of all the painters who couldn't make it, either because they had no talent or because they were too lazy to finish their studies. Hence this universal infatuation was not only characterized by blindness and stupidity, but also by vindictiveness.

Charles Baudelaire

#8. So revenge is obviously a deeply messed-up expression of vindictiveness. It is hard to even call it "evil." It is just plain insanity. A result of deeply messed-up thinking.

Venkatesh G. Rao

#9. Give him the ones in which the floods of venom and vindictiveness were dammed up behind thin walls of ineptitude and low-grade paranoia.

Terry Pratchett

#10. In a mind charged with an eager purpose and an unfinished vindictiveness, there is no room for new feelings.

T. S. Eliot

#11. The truth is that cupidity, selfishness, envy, malice, lust, vindictiveness, are constant vices of human nature.

William Graham Sumner

#12. Human beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#13. Even wondered about the difference?
Autobiography: The usually self-serving accounts of personal accomplishments by a public figure.
Memoir: The usually self-serving accounts of someone whose only accomplishments are often self-pity and vindictiveness.

Raul Ramos Y Sanchez

#14. My Quotes are about who I truly am, as a person, a professional and a human being. I have no time for regression, for vindictiveness, or ulterior motives. Those things are for the insecure.

Emma Paul

#15. This is a world of process, not a world of things.

Margaret J. Wheatley

#16. And I do not want a stranger - unsympathising, alien, different from me; I want my kidred: those with whom I have a full fellow-feeling.

Charlotte Bronte

#17. I hate not giving the people what they want.

Robin Thicke

#18. We need to have financial literacy in America, not just complaining about obstructionism. We need solutions. And I think the solutions are using high finance to make capitalism work for people around the world.

Kabir Sehgal

#19. I don't think the role of the critic has changed very much. In the most positive sense, the music critic is one who helps the public navigate what's out there, especially in bringing attention to things they otherwise wouldn't hear about, or to provide a new window into something familiar.

Michael Hersch

#20. Anyone who thought women were softer, or calmer, or gentler had obviously never visited Edge: home of vindictive females.

Trish Mercer

#21. Sometimes the longest journey we make is the sixteen inches from our heads to our hearts.

Elena Avila

#22. No, we don't walk away. But when we're holding on to something precious, we run. We run and run, fast as we can, and we don't stop running until we are out from under the shadow.

Neil Cross

#23. Just a simple choice, right now, between fear and love. The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your doors, buy guns, close yourself off. The eyes of love instead see all of us as one.

Bill Hicks

#24. Ranger was dressed in jeans and a black T-shirt and boots,

Janet Evanovich

#25. God sees nothing but beauty in you.

Kate Wicker

#26. How insane we are as humans when having received a nasty offense we return the same awful offense. If given an apple found to be rotten and wormy, would we not toss it aside rather than force a soul to eat it? Offenses should be discarded, not returned.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#27. Not writing is never an option. This is not words of advice. It's just literally never an option!

Lillian R. Melendez

#28. In religions which have lost their creative spark, the gods eventually become no more than poetic motifs or ornaments for decorating human solitude and walls.

Nikos Kazantzakis

#29. People complain that life is short,for me it seems very long.

Alija Izetbegovic

#30. The researchers concluded that during intercourse in the missionary position, the penis has the shape of a boomerang.

Mary Roach

#31. Sticky toffee pudding is my favorite dessert in the U.K.

Eve

#32. I estimated the ambient humidity at roughly a thousand percent, but tipped a little of my sweetened coffee into the saucer and blew on it nonetheless.

Diana Gabaldon