I love vengeance like normal people love sunsets and long walks on the beach. I eat vengeance with a spoon like it’s honey. In fact, I may not even be a real person, but just a vow of vengeance made flesh.
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Related I want to be indifferent to vengeance. It's degrading. Not having a spirit of vengeance protects... SEGOLENE ROYAL Fealty with love, Valor with honor, oathbreaking with vengeance. J.R.R. TOLKIEN A secret, if it’s kept, can be sweet and comforting, but once it leaks out it can turn on you with... YASUNARI KAWABATA I studied every page of this book, and I didn't find enough love to fill a salt shaker. God is not l... RUTH HURMENCE GREEN Aye, well, I've got my garden. LIKE I I told my Nike representative, 'Why didn't you guys use me for this?''' Williams said, laughing. LIKE I On the interception, I was out of bounds, LIKE I casually made his 'abort black fetuses' argument. LIKE I I can field my position. If I start worrying about being ready for a line drive too soon that means ... LIKE I I told him that he played a great game,'' said Falcons quarterback Michael Vick , who like Manning w... LIKE I I was so concerned with getting the ball out of my hands and not taking the sack, that sometimes I t... LIKE I I knew I had to throw the ball better,'' Manning said of his poor start. LIKE I I think the reason that I have that title or that moniker is because people don't know what to expec... LIKE I You're either ready and prepared to take on the task, or you're not,'' he said. LIKE I I did not have one butterfly out there today,'' he said. LIKE I Married to the Mob. LIKE I Hello you're with Drudge. LIKE I I don't expect Christian Fundamentalists to reach out to me. They are adamant that homosexuals are i... LIKE I throw enough shit at the wall and some should stick? LIKE I I'm not happy, that's all I can say about it,'' he said. LIKE I There is no vengeance as terrible as the vengeance a coward plots in the dark of his heart. GLEN COOK I think we just came out with a vengeance. We came out with heart, hustle, and intensity. ERIN LAWLESS And I will execute great vengeance upon them with furious rebukes; and they shall know that I am the... BIBLE Vengeance and retribution require a long time; it is the rule. CHARLES DICKENS Just vengeance does not call for punishment. PIERRE CORNEILLE Just vengeance does not call for punishment. PIERRE CORNEILLE Vengeance is mine, and I will repay. LEO NIKOLAEVICH TOLSTOY They came after me with a vengeance. ELEANOR COOK I don't believe in the death penalty, but I understand personal vengeance. IAN MCSHANE I'm a religious person. I remember my mom told me: 'Vengeance belongs to God. It's up to... RODNEY KING Just before consumers stop doing something, they do it with a vengeance. FAITH POPCORN Just before consumers stop doing something, they do it with a vengeance. FAITH POPCORN Techs are back with a big vengeance. People continue to chase momentum. BRIAN CONROY But secondly you say 'society must exact vengeance, and society must punish'. Wrong on both counts. ... VICTOR HUGO Winter, it seems, is back with a vengeance. MATTHEW DOBSON Delay in vengeance delivers a heavier blow. JOHN FORD Delay in vengeance gives a heavier blow JOHN FORD She was like an avenging angel, her vengeance swift and deadly. CASSANDRA CLARE You cannot take vengeance on a whole people because of the doings of a few wicked men. KATHERINE ARDEN My husband is a fall-away Catholic, but with a vengeance. He's actually more of a feminist than ... OLYMPIA DUKAKIS Vengeance was one hell of a roommate. J.R. WARD Vengeance Is a Lazy Form of Grief NICOLE KIDMAN They intend to come after me with a vengeance. BILL NELSON On wrongs swift vengeance waits. ALEXANDER POPE Vengeance is mine, I will repay, saith the Lord. BIBLE Forgiveness has healing power, vengeance has destructive power, hate has limited power, but love has... MATSHONA DHLIWAYO At an age when most actresses are being phased out, I am being phased in - with a vengeance. CANDICE BERGEN Vengeance would have us assault an enemy's pride to beat him down. But vengeance hides a dangerous t... RICHELLE E. GOODRICH She swore vengeance on all men with dark hearts. LISA PAPADEMETRIOU I expect that we will become matured enough not to seek vengeance. PAUL BAMIKOLE Avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I wil... ROMANS 12:19 No one delights more in vengeance than a woman.
Juvenal, Satires, XIII. JUVENAL SATIRES THE 13TH Revenge is the abject pleasure of an abject mind. JUVENAL Retribution often means that we eventually do to ourselves what we have done unto others. ERIC HOFFER Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged. JOSEPH JOUBERT The rarer action is In virtue than in vengeance. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Vengeance is not the point; change is. But the trouble is that in most [people's] minds the thought... BARBARA DEMING Vengeance is a dish best eaten cold ENGLISH PROVERB Vengeance, deep-brooding o'er the slain, Had locked the source of softer woe, And burning pride and ... SIR WALTER SCOTT Impenetrable in their dissimulation, cruel in their vengeance, tenacious in their purposes, unscrupu... DENIS DIDEROT When the time comes, let loose a tiger and a devil; but wait for the time with the tiger and the dev... CHARLES DICKENS I am glad that though someone did me grossly wrong my final mark on this world is not one of counter... SHERRILYN KENYON Upon him I will visit famine and a fire, Till all around him desolation rings And all the ... PATRICK ROTHFUSS We came out with a vengeance and a lot of intensity. We knew what we had to do to win this game. ERIN LAWLESS The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: he shall wash his feet in the blood of the ... BIBLE Everybody's taking it personal and we're going to come back with a vengeance. JAMAAL MAGLOIRE [As he's traversing Texas on his quest for vengeance, Vegas runs into a Texas Ranger.] His name is H... KARL KESEL Vengeance is the act of turning anger in on yourself. On the surface it may be directed at someone e... JANE GOLDMAN Vengeance is sweet. Vengeance taken when the vengee isn't sure who the venger is, is sweeter still. GARY D. SCHMIDT When it comes to world news, attitude is what marks the distinction between justice and vengeance. J... CRISS JAMI Vengeance is a dish best eaten cold. PROVERB You don't rest well as long as you're seeking vengeance. I feel sad justice wasn't done, but it's ti... JAMES CAMERON I'm not violent, I don't believe in killing people, but standing up for yourself, speaking o... EVA GABRIELSSON And I will execute vengeance in anger and fury upon the heathen, such as they have not heard. BIBLE Racial segregation has come back to public education with a vengeance. JONATHAN KOZOL Vengeance is a monster of appetite, forever bloodthirsty and never filled. RICHELLE E. GOODRICH Say to them that are of a fearful heart, Be strong, fear not: behold, your God will come with vengea... BIBLE I love fitness, yoga. I love fashion. On the weekends, I try to relax. I have pretty crazy weeks. I ... CHARLOTTE MCKINNEY Justice is merely vengeance in disguise. J. "CYLO" G. Is it to be thought unreasonable that the people, in atonement for wrongs of a century, demand the v... MAXIMILIEN ROBESPIERRE Vengeance has no foresight. NAPOLEON BONAPARTE Vengeance has no foresight NAPOLEON BONAPARTE Sympathy for Lady Vengeance LEE YOUNG Victory is the supreme vengeance in life. SCOTTIE SOMERS In a world where the name of God is sometimes associated with vengeance and even a duty of hatred an... POPE JOHN PAUL II I have little left in myself -- I must have you. The world may laugh -- may call me absurd, selfish ... CHARLOTTE BRONTë There have been temporary successes, but always health care costs have bounced back with a vengeance... DREW ALTMAN For jealousy is the rage of a man: therefore he will not spare in the day of vengeance. BIBLE Ignoring vengeance is a virtue.
Ignoring justice is a sin. LORIANN ZEMANOVICH Regarding vengeance and arch-enemies, one must not only be timely but prideful, and pride exacts pro... ADAM LEVIN Behold, on wrong
Swift vengeance waits; and art subdues the strong. HOMER ("SMYRNS OF CHIOS") The rarer action isIn virtue than in vengeance. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Where vice is vengeance follows. SCOTTISH PROVERB (Israel) carried out vengeance against people who had nothing to do with the Munich attack, people w... MOHAMMED DAOUD Control thy passions, lest they take vengeance on thee. EPICTETUS One good act of vengeance deserves another. JOHN JEFFERSON Vengeance is one of life's great motivators. K.S. BROOKS Deep vengeance is the daughter of deep silence. VITTORIO ALFIERI Seventeen-year highs are impressive, with the bond market showing us that inflation will be returnin... LEONARD KAPLAN I love walks, hiking, exploring and being on the beach. IRELAND BALDWIN
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