Vengeance taken will often tear the heart and torment the conscience.
Vengeance taken will often tear the heart and torment the conscience.
A political convention is after all not a meeting of a corporation's board of directors it is a fiesta, a carnival, a pig-rooting, horse-snorting, band-playing, voice-screaming medieval get-together of greed, practical lust, meeting, feud, vendetta, conciliation, of rabble-rousers, fist fights (as it used to be), embraces, drunks (again as it used to be) and collective rivers of animal sweat.
They came after me with a vengeance.
Revenge is barren of itself: it is the dreadful food it feeds on; its delight is murder, and its end is despair.
Vengeance is mine I will repay, saith the Lord.
Revenge is a way of life and definitely some thing that we identify with. We all feel cheated in some way about some thing and how nice it would be to do something about it. I mean ultimately it's not the most Christian of sentiments.
We have known each other since we were nine years old and we have played together in Russia, ... We played in the Under-16 European championships and he beat me in the quarterfinals. He's one of my best friends and I really like him. It will be nice to play him and hopefully get revenge.
She once used me with that insolence, that in revenge I took her to pieces sifted her, and separated her failings I studied 'em, and got 'em by rote. The catalogue was so large, that I was not without hopes, one day or other to hate her heartily.
How it is possible to imagine that a religion breathing the spirit of mercy and benevolence, teaching the forgiveness of injuries, the exercise of charity, and the return of good for evil, can be so perverted as to breathe the spirit of slaughter and persecution, of discord and vengeance, for differences of opinion, is a most unaccountable and extraordinary phenomenon. Still more extraordinary, that it should be the doctrine, not of base and wicked men merely seeking to cover up their own misdeeds, but of good men, seeking the way of salvation with uprightness of heart and purpose. It affords a melancholy proof of the infirmity of human judgment, and teaches a lesson of humility from which spiritual pride may learn meekness, and spiritual zeal a moderating wisdom.
It's not a vendetta, ... You've got to look at Letitia. She left, and she didn't say anything. ... She's not making these accusations out in the open. She's making them in a sworn deposition. That's a little different than shooting off your mouth.
I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation. War is hell.
After the report tomorrow, demand will come back with a vengeance.
While seeking revenge, dig two graves - one for yourself.
Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.
To the nation of Islam, we give you the good news that the battles of revenge for the Sunni people of Tal Afar began yesterday, ... yesterday.
It developed with a vengeance. It's a major storm.
For profit is the No. 1 cause. Then there's revenge, retaliation and now ...terrorism. You still have your traditional fire-setting just for thrills.
Service members, family and friends are beginning to learn that 'don't ask, don't tell' is a very effective weapon of vengeance.
You don't rest well as long as you're seeking vengeance. I feel sad justice wasn't done, but it's time to move on and sleep well.
Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.
It was a bit of a revenge game, but I think we had some first-game jitters. The first half they made it difficult for us. They played with a lot of energy and passion. The second half we regrouped and it went as how we had hoped. We played much more compo
And whom Allah guides, there is none that can lead him astray is not Allah Mighty, the Lord of retribution And should you ask them, Who created the heavens and the earth They would most certainly say Allah. Say Have you then considered that what you call upon besides Allah, would they, if Allah desire to afflict me with harm, be the removers of His harm, or (would they), if Allah desire to show me mercy, be the withholders of His mercy Say Allah is sufficient for me on Him do the reliant rely.
The rarer action is In virtue than in vengeance.
Deep vengeance is the daughter of deep silence.
To stick a dagger in their heart right when they thought they were going to win it, it don't get no better than that. That's sweet revenge.
But I find the best things I do, I do when I'm trying to avoid doing something else I'm supposed to be doing. You know, you're working on something. You get bugged, or you lose your enthusiasm or something. So you turn to something else with an absolute vengeance.
The jealous God, when we profane his fires,
Those restless passions in revenge inspires;
And bids them make mistaken mortals groan,
Who seek in love for aught but love alone.
His appetite has returned with a vengeance. This is an excellent sign.
No more tears now I will think about revenge.
Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.
I choose not to give energy to the emotions of revenge, hatred or the desire to subjugate.
And thus the whirligig of time brings in his revenges.
PEOPLE They range from animals to gods. They pray for you and they prey on you. They are bears for punishment and brutes for revenge. They want to be Everyone, Everywhere, Everything. Their restlessness fills them with wanderings and spurs them into wande.
These three teams are in top of the MAC. And we've kept with them. There are a lot of people out there that look at us at the bottom. If we can stay with the top three teams in the MAC, that says a lot come tournament time because we are going be looking for revenge.
O God, which this blood mad'st, revenge his death!
Kenneth is back with a vengeance. He can be an asset to this team, and this week (in practice) he's been an asset.
If he was right, here was our quiet English house suddenly invaded by a devilish Indian Diamondbringing after it a conspiracy of living rogues, set loose on us by the vengeance of a dead man.
Today, we are not asking for revenge. We are asking for justice. And justice will take its course, its full course, God willing.
Vengeance is not the point; change is. But the trouble is that in most people's minds the thought of victory and the thought of punishing the enemy coincide.
So, I called Tim and said, 'You know, I think this is a mistake.' He called back with that response about what it was really about. So, I don't know. The newspaper might be a business you want to get the hell out of right now, because there seems to be quite a vendetta from what I'm hearing on the senior staff and everything else.
Revenge is the act of passion, vengeance is an act of justice.
Revenge is a kind of wild justice.
This is a measure of revenge after what happened yesterday (Saturday). At least we could get back to proper skiing. I did pretty well. It felt very easy.
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.
I'm offended. I really do think this is a personal vendetta. Les has had it in for me for a long time. I don't deserve it.
In the Seventies, a lot of executions via electric chair failed because of technical problems. Seed tells the true story of someone who survived and sought revenge. They buried him alive to make it seem he was dead.
There have been temporary successes, but always health care costs have bounced back with a vengeance.
Revenge is sweet and not fattening.
Just vengeance does not call for punishment.
Revenge is always the weak pleasure of a little and narrow mind.
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