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  • Man is by nature competitive, combative, ambitious, jealous, envious, and vengeful. -- Arthur Keith
  • Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious. -- Phillips Brooks
  • Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
  • I didn't really escape that gravity until I moved 300 miles south to go to college at 18, where authorship no longer seemed something liable to induce vengeful punishment. -- David Knopfler
  • It is only partly true that religion does more harm than good in society. The community makes God into the image it wants, vengeful, or milky sweet, or scrupulously just, and so on. -- Mary Douglas
  • Vengeful as nature herself, she loves her children only in order to devour them better and if she herself rips her own veils of self-deceit, Mother perceives in herself untold abysses of cruelty as subtle as it is refined. -- Angela Carter
  • A Native American grandfather was talking to his grandson about how he felt. He said, 'I feel as if I have two wolves fighting in my heart. One wolf is the vengeful, violent one, the other wolf is the loving compassionate one.' The grandson asked him, 'Which wolf will win the fight in your heart?' The grandfather answered, 'The one I feed.' -- Black Hawk
  • No one can make you jealous, angry, vengeful or greedy. Unless you let him. -- Napoleon Hill
  • The vengeful hag is played by Ingrid Bergman, which is like casting Eleanor Roosevelt as Lizzie Borden. -- Kenneth Tynan
  • I think God is everything. Human beings created the punitive, vengeful deity who considers us to be innate sinners. -- Alanis Morissette
  • I'm not a very vengeful person. I like to accept people; I tend to see the good in everybody, so I'm kind of stupid like that. -- Felicia Day
  • If I had a religion, its deity would be Audysseus, the sound God, and He would be a vengeful god, dishing out eternal damnation to people with cheap stage monitors. -- Tim Minchin
  • There is not the slightest question but that the God of the Old Testament is a jealous, vengeful God, inflicting not only on the sinful pagans but even on his Chosen People fire, lighting, hideous plagues and diseases, brimstone, and other curses. -- Steve Allen
  • (Wil Wheaton) was so fun to have on the set, and he was such a good guy, just in general. He seemed to be completely okay with the fact that his entire name became a mantra of vengeful hate. That didn't seem to bother him. -- Jim Parsons
  • American fighters of the Pacific War were not heroes. The desperation of island combat included exchanged barbarities of which no one would willingly speak for a generation. On the American side, there were foul racism, vengeful refusals to take prisoners, a generalized brutality that extended to a savage air war. -- James Carroll
  • As much as you don't want to say you are a vengeful person, when someone drags your name through the mud and plays press games and puts things out there like that, you are kind of like, alright. US Weekly will be gone next week, the songs I am writing won't. -- Kid Rock
  • The wish to be understood may be our most vengeful demand, may be the way we hang on, as asults, to our grudge against our mothers; the way we never let our mothers off the hook for their not meeting our every need. Wanting to be understood, as adults, can be our most violent form of nostalgia. -- Adam Phillips
  • The slow-rising central horror of "Watergate" is not that it might grind down to the reluctant impeachment of a vengeful thug of a president whose entire political career has been a monument to the same kind of cheap shots and treachery he finally got nailed for, but that we might somehow fail to learn something from it. -- Hunter S. Thompson
  • Human relationships didn't work anyhow. Only the first two weeks had any zing, then the participants lost their interest. Masks dropped away and real people began to appear: cranks, imbeciles, the demented, the vengeful, sadists, killers. Modern society had created its own kind and they feasted on each other. It was a duel to the death--in a cesspool. -- Charles Bukowski
  • The source of most human violence and suffering has been a hidden children's holocaust throughout history, whereby billions of innocent human beings have been routinely murdered, bound, starved, raped, mutilated, battered, and tortured by their parents and other caregivers, so that they grow up as emotionally crippled adults and become vengeful time bombs who periodically restage their early traumas in sacrificial rites called wars. -- Lloyd DeMause
  • In The Lost Message of Jesus I claim that penal substitution is tantamount to 'child abuse - a vengeful Father punishing his Son for an offence he has not even committed.' Though the sheer bluntness of this imagery (not original to me of course) might shock some, in truth, it is only a stark 'unmasking' of the violent, pre-Christian thinking behind such a theology. -- Steve Chalke
  • Vengeful conquerors burn books as if the enemy's souls reside there, too. -- James Gleick
  • If you read the history of the national Socialist party, they're all people who felt like life should have been better to them. They're disappointed, vengeful, angry. -- Alan Furst
  • Writing music is such a freeing exercise, and it's really nice to play in that world of being confident, vengeful - getting back at all the bad boyfriends. -- Gin Wigmore
  • Politicians are nauseating by definition... They can produce nothing, neither a loaf of bread nor a table nor a picture; and this inability to create value, this total inferiority, makes them jealous, vengeful, insolent and a menace to life and limb. -- Gerhard Richter
  • Before they got vengeful, conservatives had some useful points to make about welfare. Government 'help' is too often guilt-assuaging gesture. It creates layers of wasteful bureaucracy. Too much help of the wrong sort creates a culture of dependency that swamps our ability to provide. -- Donella Meadows
  • To wake up one morning and feel that I was a last a grown-up person, emptied of resentment, vengeful thoughts and other wasteful childish emotions. To find myself, in other words, an adult. Truman Capote -- Truman Capote
  • Addicts turn their pleasures into vengeful Gods. -- Mason Cooley
  • Thunder on! Stride on! Democracy. Strike with vengeful stroke! -- Walt Whitman
  • We are vengeful. God is forgiving. We remember. God redeems. -- Aiden Wilson Tozer
  • Innocents, the meat in a ghastly sandwich between an uncaring society and a vengeful state. -- Bryce Courtenay
  • Not all librarians are evil cultists. Some librarians are instead vengeful undead who want to suck your soul. -- Brandon Sanderson
  • When God is truly angry, He will not send vengeful angels. He will send Magdalena. Then take her away. -- Josh Bazell
  • Apologies have more power than most of us realize to restore strained relationships, free us from vengeful impulses, and create possibilities for growth. -- John Kador
  • Estrogen is a powerful if vengeful hormone affecting a woman's fertility, moods, sleep patterns, appetite. Estrogen is the household heating oil of womanhood. -- Marilyn Suzanne Miller
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  • Don't pursue something with a vengeful heart, or it will destroy you. Hate wraps a cold hand around your heart and hollows you out. - Justus -- Dannika Dark
  • Don't pursue something with a vengeful heart, or it will destroy you. Hate wraps a cold hand around your heart and hollows you out." - Justus -- Dannika Dark
  • Do not be reactive and vengeful and if you look deeply into your anguish, you will see that it is the anguish of our wounded collective soul. -- Deepak Chopra
  • This hand, to tyrants ever sworn the foe, For Freedom only deals the deadly blow; Then sheathes in calm repose the vengeful blade, For gentle peace in Freedom's hallowed shade. -- John Quincy Adams
  • I'm a fool, to confuse this with goodness. I am not good. I know too much to be good. I know myself. I know myself to be vengeful, greedy, secretive and sly. -- Margaret Atwood
  • The only good produced by the disappearance of Africville was the appearance of a conscious black nationalism "¦ In this regard, Consecrated Ground is the heir of fierce, vengeful, and epic activism. -- George Elliott Clarke
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