R Quotes
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“Revenge isn't always as sweet as it seems”
“Revenge. Justice. Love. They are the three stories that all other stories are made up of. It's the trifecta.”
Source: Wink Poppy Midnight
“Revenge leads to an empty fullness, like eating dirt.”
Source: Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin
“Revenge may be wicked, but it’s natural.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of William Makepeace Thackeray (Illustrated)
“Revenge may not be a particularly high consciousness-oriented activity.”
“Revenge never does anyone any good. Killing the person you hate will never ease the pain. Always look forward! Follow the path of light!”
“Revenge of a loving female heart - the most dangerous phenomenon in the universe. You can easily make her a cruel barbarian by carelessly touching that heart.”
“Revenge of the Middle-Aged Woman.”
“Revenge only engenders violence, not clarity and true peace. I think liberation must come from within.”
“Revenge probably tasted sweeter when it came with washboard abs.”
Source: Willowgrove
“Revenge produces nothing in the end. Even if you hate someone enough to kill them, you won't be saved from it. Always face forward. Walk down the path that has light.”
“Revenge proves it's own executioner.”
Source: The Dramatic Works
“Revenge proves itself to be its own executioner.”
“Revenge requires taking oneself apart from the noise of men and of things, even from what resembles them; only the twisted soul remains. The consequences of my actions can not be remedied nor can they be wiped away. Eight deaths I must atone for in the afterlife. I’m cursed in both worlds. But one more job and my obligation ends. One more kill and I am free. – Akira Sato, Twisted Threads”
Source: Twisted Threads
“Revenge requires work.”
“Revenge tightens the heart as much as the jaw. (La vengeance serre le cœur - Autant que la mâchoire)”
“Revenge tries to solve the problem of vulnerability. If I strike back, I transfer vulnerability from myself to the other. And yet by striking back I produce a world in which my vulnerability to injury is increased by the likelihood of another strike. So it seems as if I'm getting rid of my vulnerability and instead locating it with the other, but actually I'm heightening the vulnerability of everyone and I'm heightening the possibility of violence that happens between us.”
“Revenge was a fierce calling from deep within his soul, a cry, a demand for due recompense.”
Source: Recompense
“Revenge was a very wild kind of justice.”
Source: The Collected Stories of Elizabeth Bowen
“Revenge was akin to dignity for Dia.
Of course, she was willing to pay the price—after all, it was to save her own heart.”
Source: 長い夜の国と最後の舞踏会 1 ～ひとりぼっちの公爵令嬢と真夜中の精霊～
“Revenge was sweet, but blood was sweeter.”
Source: Burning Bridges
“Revenge was the emptiest of emotions. Apparently it motivated people to do the stupidest things as well.”
Source: One Foot in the Grave: A Night Huntress Novel
“Revenge wasn’t what I had in mind. Protection was."
"We can only do what is in our power to achieve."
"In that case, we were going to have to find more power.”
Source: Initiate
“Revenge writing is a female genre. Men who have been left by women or made cuckolds by rivals either lick their wounds in humiliated silence or start the Trojan Wars. Having no other power or public voice, the betrayed woman reaches for her pen.”
Source: The Courtesan’s Revenge
“Revenge, at first though sweet, Bitter ere long back on itself recoils.”
Source: The Poetical Works of John Milton
“Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries, See the Furies arise!”
Source: Dryden: Selected Poems
“Revenge, that thirsty dropsy of our souls, makes us covet that which hurts us most.”
Source: Beauties of Massinger
“Revenge, the attribute of gods! They stamped it with their great image on our natures.”
Source: Venice Preserved: A Tragedy in Five Acts ...
“Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.”
Source: Waverley Novels: The heart of Mid-Lothian
“Revenge, we find, the abject pleasure of an abject mind.”
Source: The satires of Juvenal, Persius, Sulpicia, and Lucilius ...
“Revenge. They took too much. You give up and die, or learn how to take back.”
Source: The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned
“Revenge... is like a rolling stone, which, when a man hath forced up a hill, will return upon him with a greater violence, and break those bones whose sinews gave it motion.”
Source: The Beauties of J. Taylor: Selected from His Works with an Essay on His Life and Writings
“Revenir est la fatalité. Dans ce tout petit village, cette nature épineuse, sablonneuse, imaginée de toutes pièces depuis mon enfance, immuables souvenirs.”
Source: Manikanetish
“Revenue and wealth do not bring disgrace.”
“Revenue has increased in this way is in no small measure, I am convinced, due to our low tax policy which has helped to generate an economic expansion in the face of unfavourable circumstances.”
“Revenue is not a goal, its a natural outcome of great people working with passion towards a shared goal.”
Source: The Leadership Operating System: A Playbook for Aligning Teams, Accelerating Growth, and Dominating Markets
“Revenue on the consumption of foreign articles is paid cheerfully by those who can afford to add foreign luxuries to domestic comforts.”
Source: The writings of Thomas Jefferson
“Revenues should be increased not by increasing the tax rates on the individual but by building a bigger economy for everybody.”
“Reverb does that thing where you make one sound and it grows to 20 times its original size and fills everything up.”
“Revere the body and care for it, for it is a temple.”
“Revere those things beyond science which really matter and about which it is so difficult to speak.”
“Revere thyself, and yet thyself despise”
Source: Night thoughts on life death and immortality ... to which are added the life of the author and a paraphrase on part of the Book of Job
“Reverence awakens in the soul a sympathetic power through which we attract qualities in the beings around us, which would otherwise remain concealed.”
Source: How to Know Higher Worlds
“Reverence begins here, in humility. It begins when we remember that even our breath is borrowed, that each dawn is gifted, that our entire being is held in divine mercy. To live with reverence is to see traces of the Creator in everything.”
“Reverence does not die with mortals, nor does it perish whether they live or die.”
“Reverence for creation comes easily to most people. Reverence for other people presents more of a challenge, especially if those people's lives happen to impinge upon your own.”
Source: An Altar in the World: A Geography of Faith
“Reverence for greatness dies out, and is succeeded by base envy of greatness.”
Source: Morals and Dogma : Scottish Rite in Freemasonry
“Reverence for life . . . does not allow the scholar to live for his science alone, even if he is very useful . . . the artist to exist only for his art, even if he gives inspiration to many. . . . It refuses to let the business man imagine that he fulfills all legitimate demands in the course of his business activities. It demands from all that they should sacrifice a portion of their own lives for others.”
“Reverence for Life affords me my fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good consists in maintaining, assisting, and enhancing life and that to destroy, harm, or to hinder life is evil. Affirmation of the world - that is affirmation of the will to live, which appears in phenomenal forms all around me - is only possible for me in that I give myself out for other life.”
“Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality.”
Source: Albert Schweitzer: An Anthology