Taking Revenge Quotes

#1. The terrorists want civil war. Al-Qaida is attacking Shiites. The Shiite militias are taking revenge on the Sunnis. And the Sunnis are become more extremist, with some joining al-Qaida.

Zalmay Khalilzad

#2. I know forgiveness is a man's duty, but, to my thinking, that can only mean as you're to give up all thoughts o' taking revenge: it can never mean as you're t' have your old feelings back again, for that's not possible.

George Eliot

#3. Certainly, in taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy, but in passing it over, he is superior; for it is a prince's part to pardon.

Francis Bacon

#4. In taking revenge upon our enemies, we are only even with them; in passing over their malice we are superior.

Charlotte Lennox

#5. The weapon of suicide bombing is so desperate that you aren't even left with the possibility of taking revenge or punishing anyone; the terrorist is killed along with his victims, his blood mixing with theirs.

A. B. Yehoshua

#6. In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.

Francis Bacon

#7. Gradually this truth is beginning to dawn on the political class, so that even socialists have come to accept that the poor are not helped by taking revenge against the rich, but by opening the doors to social advancement. Since

Roger Scruton

#8. Revenge is the thinking man's reflex, a complex blend of action and consistency no other animal species has so far succeeded in evolving. Evolutionary speaking, the practice of taking revenge has shown itself to the so effective that only the most vengeful of us have survived.

Jo Nesbo

#9. I'm a ballplayer. I know how hard the game is ... and anybody that makes it in the Hall of Fame, I support. They become a member of our special fraternity.

George Brett

#10. It is up to God to take revenge. Only God can judge. I don't have to worry about getting even with anybody or taking out any kind of aggression on anybody. Doing that is a weakness, anyway.

Jim Brown

#11. The man who was once starved may revenge himself upon the world not by stealing just once, or by stealing only what he needs, but by taking from the world an endless toll in payment of something irreplaceable, which is the lost faith.

Anais Nin

#12. Innovation is not only useless without people but it's also useless without implementation.

Jurgen Appelo

#13. Use of paper has continued to soar. It is as though paper is taking its revenge on the futurists - not that any futurist has ever lost business because of a wrong prediction.

Edward Tenner

#14. Revenge is a human trait, one that has been the cause of the destruction of civilisations many times over. But the goblins live on in peace and harmony, taking little notice of us and our mistakes.

Count Anton Dance Of The Goblins

#15. You are wise only if despite of being capable of taking a revenge & holding onto a grudge, you choose to forgive!

Anamika Mishra

#16. The best revenge to get on your distractors is taking the high road. Avoid playing their game, following their murky rules.

Assegid Habtewold

#17. Lucifer, taking his last look of heaven, might have worn just such a look - so full of relentless hate, burning revenge, and undying defiance.

May Agnes Fleming

#18. Last year they came in and won the game; that's how I would define it. Revenge is never on our mind. What's on our mind is playing defense, rebounding, taking care of the ball, and running our transition game.

Karl Hobbs

#19. Anticipation will make it all the more awesome.

Belle Aurora

#20. I was the youngest of the six kids, and to make my older siblings laugh, that was very important. I did a great impression of our dad that made them all laugh, so that gave me a lot of power within the family.

Jim Gaffigan

#21. I'm an actress. To be honest, it's a very awkward business. It's one of those things where it's almost like a first date. There's a way you want to come across. You want to show your goods. The truth starts to slip out sometimes.

Eva Mendes

#22. Sometimes, in a daze, they completely dismantled the cadaver, then found themselves hard put to it to fit the pieces together again.

Gustave Flaubert

#23. Taking part in the Western mission to civilize the East is highly spiritually rewarding. And what is political destabilization and social unrest but a sweet revenge for China's disregard for Western hegemony.

Thorsten J. Pattberg

#24. How many deaths will it take 'till we know that too many people have died?

Bob Dylan

#25. A love without satiety an ecstasy without an end, a surrender to the beloved - God - without ever falling back on egotistic loneliness. Marriage and celibacy are not contraries

Fulton J. Sheen