We're not here to act out of some form of vengeance. We're not here to act as a bunch of well-dressed vigilantes.
We're not here to act out of some form of vengeance. We're not here to act as a bunch of well-dressed vigilantes.
Justice is revenge.
Vengeance is having a videotape planted in your soul that cannot be turned off. It plays the painful scene over and over again inside your mind... And each time it plays you feel the clap of pain again... Forgiving turns off the videotape of pained memory. Forgiving sets you free.
Love has its place, as does hate. Peace has its place, as does war. Mercy has its place, as do cruelty and revenge.
Revenge, at first though sweet, bitter ere long, Back on itself recoils.
Delay in vengeance delivers a heavier blow.
Vengeance, deep-brooding o'er the slain, Had locked the source of softer woe, And burning pride and high disdain Forbade the rising tear to flow
We adults forget what we do to children's imaginations when we go through one of our national seizures on an issue. A dozen years ago, Hollywood fell in love with the environmental issue and put enviro messages in all their shows. The messages made their way into the funnies and magazines, and parents went to school officials and said, 'We'd like our children to be better educated on environmental concerns.' The schools came through with a vengeance. Now I have a little son who thinks he's going to die from pollution. We do not educate our children we traumatize them. We are not giving them a vision of a better world we are giving them nightmares.
Let us revenge this with our pikes ere we become
rakes; for the gods know I speak this in hunger for bread, not in
thirst for revenge.
I think that if the beast who sleeps in man could be held down by threats of any kind, whether of jail or retribution, then the highest emblem of humanity would be the lion tamer, not the prophet who sacrified himself.
That's the best performance I've had since I've been in college. This was revenge, because they killed us when we were up there last time.
Secuestro Express' has developed not only as a crime to obtain money but also as a way of social revenge.
No more tears now I will think upon revenge.
Some may seek revenge, but this is not our policy.
What the vengeance, could he not speak 'em fair?
As I rejected amnesty, so I reject revenge. I ask all Americans who ever asked for goodness and mercy in their lives, who ever sought forgiveness for their trespasses, to join in rehabilitating all the casualties of the tragic conflict of the past.
In contrast to revenge, which is the natural, automatic reaction to transgression and which, because of the irreversibility of the action process can be expected and even calculated, the act of forgiving can never be predicted it is the only reaction that acts in an unexpected way and thus retains, though being a reaction, something of the original character of action.
This is the revenge match for us because that 3-0 defeat hurt us because of the way it damaged our image and our fans.
One reason writers write is out of revenge. Life hurts certain ideas and experiences hurt one wants to clarify, to set out illuminations, to replay the old bad scenes and get the Treppenworte said -- the words one didn't have the strength or ripeness to say when those words were necessary for one's dignity or survival.
Which, if not victory, is yet revenge.
Novak is a very good player. I think it will a very nice match. I know which game I have to play against him and I think I have a pretty good chance to beat him. I lost one time to him, so I think this is the time for revenge.
If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge?
Revenge only engenders violence, not clarity and true peace. I think liberation must come from within.
The more they got into this, the more it seemed they had kind of a Shakespearean history, ... By that, I mean there's love and hate, and life and death, and revenge, betrayal and greed and anger.
Justice belongs to those who claim it, but let the claimant beware lest he create new injustice by his claim and thus set the bloody pendulum of revenge into its inexorable motion
The earth we abuse and the living things we kill will, in the end, take their revenge; for in exploiting their presence we are diminishing our future.
My husband is a fall-away Catholic, but with a vengeance. He's actually more of a feminist than I am.
Revenge is sweetest when all goes according to plan but to others it's just a mere coincidence.
THE Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me because the LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound To proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD, and the day of vengeance of our God to comfort all that mourn.
They have everything in their favor. Revenge, the home court, the regional. We just want to play our best.
There's a lot of investment money searching for a home. Investors are buying the argument that it's an emerging asset class and we've been seeing that with a vengeance in January.
It is not a deterrent. It is in a very real sense a revenge by society. ... Revenge is not a proper motivation by the government. Justice should be our aim. I think these recommendations ... will improve our system of justice,
Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge.
I'm just stunned that he would risk his own escape to go back and seek vengeance.
Before there were many violent attacks and then the revenge for that is taken somewhere else and this violence continues -- this will have to be stopped.
Revenge of the Middle-Aged Woman.
God's is the quarrel; for God's substitute,
His deputy anointed in His sight,
Hath caus'd his death; the which if wrongfully,
Let heaven revenge; for I may never lift
An angry arm against His minister.
Souls made of fire, and children of the sun, With whom revenge is virtue.
You have a vengeance against somebody or you have a problem, don't take it out on an innocent animal. These horses are Mr. Davis' life. He's 80 years old and this is what keeps him going, he comes out here, takes care of these horses to the best of his ability.
I understand their reaction is based on their personal loss. Revenge and retaliation are never appropriate goals.
It's always a battle between us and Grants. Last year we let it get away from us. We knew we couldn't let that happen again this year, especially on our own court. So this year was sweet revenge.
I don't want to pass a punitive law, or use politics as a vendetta.
Democrats are right, by the way, when they complain about the way President Clinton's judicial nominations were handled by Republicans. We bottled them up in the Judiciary Committee, which was the functional equivalent of a filibuster. It was crazy, but the cycle of retribution needs to end.
In theory it may seem all right to some, but when it comes to being made the instrument of the Lord's vengeance, I myself don't like it.
Democracy cannot be built on revenge and you will not have the support of the world if you are intolerant and take the law into your own hands,
They intend to come after me with a vengeance.
Extreme patience of long-sufferance, if it once come to be dissolved, produceth most bitter and excessive revenges.
Follow me if I advance! Kill me if I retreat! Revenge me if I die!
In my view, everything was indeed about her. His romancing me was about her, his conversation about her, his rage about her. Rage is not a good basis for sex. Nor is revenge. He was getting his revenge for his chores. He was getting even with her about things I couldn't even imagine.
Doing this book didn't shock me at a personal level. I was no longer haunted by the past and I can honestly say that revenge is not in my nature.
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