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To be left alone, and face to face with my own crime, had been just retribution.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Passing too eagerly upon a provocation loses the guard and lays open the body; calmness and leisure and deliberation do the business much better.
— Jeremy Collier
It's easier to fall back into the same old patterns of hate and retribution, because at least then we're doing something.
— Dan Wells
I kind of want to see Mara Crucio their asses.
— Michelle Hodkin
Pain is just a feeling, and feelings aren't real.
— Michelle Hodkin
people only follow their inclinations, and sooner or later find their reward or retribution. That's the natural law of life,
— R.K. Narayan
Retribution is just outstanding.
— Douglas Preston
Petty minds foster petty hearts, and have the funny habit of shooting themselves in the foot.
— Adriano Bulla
There is a law of retribution in all things, direct or indirect, visible or invisible.
— Miles Franklin
A society built upon a foundation of vengeance is a society doomed to destroy itself.
— Richelle E. Goodrich
That was clearly a tackle aimed at getting revenge - or maybe it was just out-and-out retribution.
— Joe Royle
God gives each his due at the time allotted.
— Euripides
Most thoughts of wrongdoing are tempered by fear of retribution, which doesn't exonerate us or make us better. We are what we are.
JT Barrett — James T. Barrett
JT Barrett — James T. Barrett
Plans to exact retribution are never going to make us safer.
— Marshall B. Rosenberg
He knows that the only way to break the cycle of retribution and oppression and heartbreak is to demolish the ladder of deserving altogether.
— Tullian Tchividjian
What I did cannot be forgiven, any more than it could have been avoided.
— Heather Day Gilbert
Never yet were the feelings and instincts of our nature violated with impunity; never yet was the voice of conscience silenced without retribution.
— Anna Brownell Jameson
Still, who knew how the old mountain took retribution for having its insides clawed out.
— Sandra Dallas
I like walking. Each step is a thought without words, a thought without words is a thought without blame, without retribution, without consequence.
— Kate Griffin
Real, lasting closure is never secured through retribution or retaliation.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
It is a just retribution for improper sexual misconduct
— Mother Teresa
I see now that my faith was becoming an ally rather than an enemy because I could vent anger freely, even toward God, without fearing retribution.
— Gerald L. Sittser
Revenge is more wild, less calculated ... deeply personal. Retribution is a punishment that is morally right and fully deserved. (Mitch Rapp)
— Vince Flynn
There is no elegance in hate, but there is tremendous beauty in the unintended revenge of living well and being happy.
— Victoria Malin Gregory
I'll tell you God's truth. His right hand suddenly ordered divine retribution to stand by.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
Let's just kill everyone and let God sort them out.
— Marilyn Manson
There is no satisfaction in vengeance unless the offender has time to realize who it is that strikes him, and why retribution has come upon him.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
How could the Law of Retribution function properly when one party in a dispute was so wealthy and so powerful as to be virtually untouchable?
— Reza Aslan
The Angel of Death had sworn retribution, and she wasn't going to stop until she'd killed them all.
— Anam Iqbal
Accidents and sicknesses are accepted as deserved retribution by the person who has feelings of guilt
— Sunday Adelaja
Retribution often means that we eventually do to ourselves what we have done unto others.
— Eric Hoffer
The condemned man's voice is laced with dark promise as he continues. "Remember Father, evil is simply 'live' spelt backwards."
Hellbound — David McCaffrey
Hellbound — David McCaffrey
No. There is no balance, and no retribution, and no rules. The rules and balances you blather about are hopeful creations of a man fearing death.
— Dave Eggers
You are what happiness means to me. And I would rather have today with you than forever with anyone else.
— Michelle Hodkin
I'll love you to ruins.
— Michelle Hodkin
My trigger finger itching, positioned at your dome, one twitch and it's on. No remorse or second thoughts.
— Snoop Dogg
Get ready to die, tell God I say hi.
— The Notorious B.I.G.
Retribution for the death of comrades who had perished because they were sent to that death ...
— Stanislaw Lem
Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.
— Hosea Ballou
All by yourself, unable to express the pain of your distress with your deeper inside. You alienate yourself and everybody else.
— Henry Rollins
Those who put their faith in fire, in fire their faith shall be repaid.
— Gordon Lightfoot
Somewhere deep inside, his humanity had been shaken by something so unnatural, so foreign in its essence, his very being withdrew from it ...
— Tamara Rose Blodgett
The poor homosexuals
they have declared war upon nature, and now nature is extracting an awful retribution (AIDS). — Pat Buchanan
they have declared war upon nature, and now nature is extracting an awful retribution (AIDS). — Pat Buchanan
The noblest kind of retribution is not to become like your enemy.
— Marcus Aurelius
I was ready to approach her with my English charm, when her brass knuckled boyfriend grabbed me by the arm.
— Elton John
But if used for retribution, magic is vengeance incarnate.
— Terry Goodkind
Only the weak hit the fly with a hammer
— Bangambiki Habyarimana
God's mills grind slow, But they grind woe.
— William Rounseville Alger
All my ghosts had vanished; the retribution that they sought had been exacted. I had nothing more to give, and nothing to fear.
— Abraham Verghese
I'm chasing oblivion I will never find.
— Michelle Hodkin
To love those who hate us is to refuse to borrow their hatred.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Drew a mustache on your picture, threw your ring away.
— Sam The Sham
If the children acquiesce, they may learn to suppress their anger to avoid retribution. But the rage remains inside, often just below the surface.
— Alvin Rosenfeld
When they finally put you in the ground, I'll stand on your grave and tramp the dirt down.
— Elvis Costello
I believe in one, incomprehensible God, the immortality of the soul and eternal retribution for our acts.
— Leo Tolstoy
Give me anger.
Flash.
Give me vengeance.
Flash.
Give me total and complete justified retribution.
Flash. — Chuck Palahniuk
Flash.
Give me vengeance.
Flash.
Give me total and complete justified retribution.
Flash. — Chuck Palahniuk
My name is Inigo Montoya, you killed my father, prepare to die!
— William Goldman
The urge for retribution depends upon our not seeing the underlying causes of human behavior.
— Sam Harris
The two of them together in a place like Retribution Falls would result in alcoholic carnage, sure as bird shit on statues.
— Chris Wooding
We are all guilty of sin, error, and moments of sheer stupidity; none of us should be casting stones. The occasional arced pebble might be overlooked.
— Richelle E. Goodrich
The lesson from the smith and wesson is depressin'.
— The Notorious B.I.G.
Everyone's a little crazy. Some people just hide it better than others.
— Michelle Hodkin
All emphasis in American prisons is on punishment, retribution, and disparagement, and almost none is on rehabilitation.
— Conrad Black
While your guns raisin', mine is blazin'.
— The Notorious B.I.G.
Truer words were never spoken.
— Michelle Hodkin
Maybe sometimes we can only see the truth about ourselves if someone shows us where to look.
— Michelle Hodkin
If you don't care about money, Nina dear, call it by its other names."
"Kruge? Scrub? Kaz's one true love?"
"Freedom, security, retribution. — Leigh Bardugo
"Kruge? Scrub? Kaz's one true love?"
"Freedom, security, retribution. — Leigh Bardugo
He whom God hath gifted with a love of retirement possesses, as it were, an extra sense.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Lo! A call for a bloody trial-
Retribution should it hail!
Whose? you ask,
For he that deems it a worthy task! — Carol Robi
Retribution should it hail!
Whose? you ask,
For he that deems it a worthy task! — Carol Robi
It's difficult to turn from the promise of retribution. Even if it's the barest promise.
— Sarah MacLean
Artists speak the truth to the public without fear of retribution or damage to their careers.
— Ron Silver
Memory is earth's retribution for man's sins.
— Augusta Jane Evans
I stole their future from them; I can only being to repay by seeing what I can learn from their past.
— Orson Scott Card
RETRIBUTION, n. A rain of fire-and-brimstone that falls alike upon the just and such of the unjust as have not procured shelter by evicting them.
— Ambrose Bierce
There's always enough retribution to be dealt.
— Amber Silvia
People are always ashamed of the misery that has befallen them, as though it were an act of divine retribution for a long-forgotten sin of theirs
— Pascal Garnier
For some offenses, there is only retribution." Nora Hawks, "One Woman's Vengeance.
— Dennis R. Miller
Forgiveness doesn't diminish justice; it just entrusts it to God. He guarantees the right retribution.
— Max Lucado
Nemesis is one of God's handmaids.
— William Rounseville Alger
I feel something, I do it. I want something, I take it.
— Michelle Hodkin
Retribution. In a way, by asking me to kill
— Jodi Picoult
The best revenge is to always survive yourself.
— Henry Rollins
The mills of God grind slowly.
— Lord Acton
Revenge is solely about passion. Rage. Fury. Vengeance, on the other hand, is about retribution for a crime done against oneself.
— Pete Kahle
I know what I can do to a girl with a word, a look, a touch. And I want to do them all to her.
— Michelle Hodkin
It is not a vending-machine world, however, in which every coin of sin that is inserted results in individually packaged retribution.
— Anonymous