Revenge Quotes - Page 35

• Of ill-temper there are three kinds: irascibility, bitterness, sullenness. It belongs to the ill-tempered man to be unable to bear either small slights or defeats but to be given to retaliation and revenge, and easily moved to anger by any chance deed or word. Ill-temper is accompanied by excitability of character, instability, bitter speech, and liability to take offence at trifles and to feel these feelings quickly and on slight occasions.

  Aristotle

  Anger, Character, Men

  Aristotle (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)”, p.2945, Delphi Classics

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• Gentleness is the ability to bear reproaches and slights with moderation, and not to embark on revenge quickly, and not to be easily provoked to anger, but be free from bitterness and contentiousness, having tranquility and stability in the spirit.

  Aristotle

  Attachment, Bitterness, Bears

  Aristotle (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)”, p.2944, Delphi Classics

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• The whole idea of revenge and punishment is a childish day-dream. Properly speaking, there is no such thing as revenge. Revenge is an act which you want to commit when you are powerless and because you are powerless: as soon as the sense of impotence is removed, the desire evaporates also.

  George Orwell

  Dream, Punishment, Ideas

  George Orwell (2009). “Facing Unpleasant Facts: Narrative Essays”, p.186, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The hope that fuels the pursuit of endless economic growth - that billions of consumers in India & China will one day enjoy the lifestyles of Europeans and Americans - is as absurd & dangerous a fantasy as anything dreamt up by Al-Qaeda. It condemns the global environment to early destruction & looks set to create reservoirs of nihilistic rage & disappointment among hundreds of millions of have-nots - the bitter outcome of the universal triumph of Western Modernity, which turns the revenge of the East into something darkly ambiguous, and all its victories truly Pyrrhic.

  Pankaj Mishra

  Disappointment, Growth, Victory

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• One reason writers write is out of revenge.

  Cynthia Ozick

  Writing, Reason

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• Hatred, revenge, bitterness - these are negative emotions. The person harbouring those emotions suffers more.

  Ahmed Kathrada

  Hatred, Suffering, Negative

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• My good hoe as it bites the ground revenges my wrongs, and I have less lust to bite my enemies. In the smoothing the rough hillocks, I smooth my temper.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Hoe, Lust, Enemy

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edward Waldo Emerson, Waldo Emerson Forbes (1911). “Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1820-1872 [1876] Ed”

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• There is no greater love than that a man lays down his life for his neighbor. When you hear someone complaining and you struggle with yourself and do not answer him back with complaints; when you are hurt and bear it patiently, not looking for revenge; then you are laying down your life for your neighbor.

  Poemen

  Christian, Hurt, Struggle

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• The swordswoman and I are not so dissimilar. May my people understand the resemblance soon so that I can return to them. What we have in common are the words at our backs. The idioms for revenge are 'report a crime' and 'report to five families.' The reporting is the vengeance-not the beheading, not the gutting, but the words.

  Maxine Hong Kingston

  Inspiring, People, May

  Maxine Hong Kingston (2010). “The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts”, p.62, Vintage

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• I believe teenagers are God's revenge on mankind. It's like He said, 'Hey let's see how they like it to create something in their own image that denies their existence.'

  Jeff Allen

  Teenager, Believe, Hey

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• When you don't flow freely with life in the present moment, it usually means that you're holding on to a past moment. It can be regret, sadness, hurt, fear, guilt, blame, anger, resentment, or sometimes even a desire for revenge. Each one of these states comes from a space of unforgiveness, a refusal to let go and come into the present moment. Only in the present moment can you create your future.

  Louise Hay

  Letting Go, Hurt, Regret

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• The best revenge is to live an awesome life.

  Ramon Bautista

  Awesome Life, Best Revenge

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• You have to be okay with wins and losses. You can't just be looking for the wins and, when the losses happen, you can't buy more and more because you're sure it's going to bounce. We call that revenge trading.

  Josh Brolin

  Loss, Winning, Trading

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm not one to take revenge. If someone does something wrong to me I leave it in the hands of the universe to take care of that person.

  Lana Parrilla

  Hands, Doe, Care

  Biography/Person Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The myth of hell represents all the meanness, all the revenge, all the selfishness, all the cruelty, all the hatred, all the infamy of which the heart of man is capable.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Heart, Men, Heaven

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• Night gangsters! For this crime I will exact a thousand fold revenge!

  Adolf Hitler

  Military, Night, Crime

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• There's not a lot of money in revenge.

  Mandy Patinkin

  Money, Princess Bride, Princes Bride

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• The best revenge is to live well.

  Oscar Wilde

  Stay Strong, Live Well, Wells

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• Revenge could steal a man's life until there was nothing left but emptiness.

  Louis L'Amour

  Men, Emptiness, Stealing

  Louis L'Amour (2004). “Comstock Lode”, p.58, Bantam

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• Mind is a duality; it is always split. There is no single point on which the mind agrees in totality. Half of the mind will agree and half of the mind will disagree, and whatever you choose, you are choosing only the half. The remaining half is going to take revenge. The unchosen part, the left over, will wait for its chance to show you that whatever you have chosen is wrong. But it does not matter which part you choose. Choice itself is wrong.

  Rajneesh

  Choices, Waiting, Mind

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• If another girl ever steals your man, there's no better revenge than letting her keep him. REAL MEN CAN'T BE STOLEN.

  Wiz Khalifa

  Girl, Meaningful, Real

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• Injuries accompanied with insults are never forgiven: all men, on these occasions, are good haters, and lay out their revenge at compound interest.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Men, Insult, Injury

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.215

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• I belonged to a small minority of boys who were lacking in physical strength and athletic prowess. ... We found our refuge in science. ... We learned that science is a revenge of victims against oppressors, that science is a territory of freedom and friendship in the midst of tyranny and hatred.

  Freeman Dyson

  Science, Boys, Hatred

  "Brilliant Light" by Oliver Sacks, www.newyorker.com. December 20, 1999.

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• Virtue is its own revenge.

  Yip Harburg

  Integrity, Drinking, Ethics

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• Men regard it as their right to return evil for evil and, if they cannot, feel they have lost their liberty.

  Aristotle

  Men, Evil, Liberty

  Aristotle (1953). “Ethics: The Nicomachean Ethics”

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