Best 93 quotes in «retribution quotes» category

Time and Nemesis will do that which I would not, were it in my power remote or immediate. You will smile at this piece of prophecy - do so, but recollect it: it is justified by all human experience. No one was ever even the involuntary cause of great evils to others, without a requital: I have paid and am paying for mine - so will you.

We all have the beast in us Bill, and it is up to us to control it.

Unfortunately, he had no training in the healers' arts. But if he ever encountered the person who had struck Mechanic Mari like that, Alain knew he would use the skills he did have to even the score. He did not know why he resolved to do that, but he did. At least he was fairly sure that his reason was not love. Whatever love was, other than something to be avoided. Master Mechanic Mari had shown clear signs of being concerned when Alain spoke of it, and had denied experiencing love with other Mechanics, so perhaps Mechanics also were warned to avoid love. It must be a very dangerous thing.

What I did cannot be forgiven, any more than it could have been avoided.

We'd rather have a grand spectacle of retribution of the 'wicked', than their silent walk towards redemption that our wishes questions the depth and nature of our love and hearts.

What happened to the perp?” “Perp?” “The piece of crap who tried to kill my wife. Where is he now?” There was a pause, then, “Well, uh, you see, the guy—he’s in the parking lot right now.” “What’s he doing there? Is he being arrested?” “Actually, he’s resting. As a matter of fact, he’s going to be resting for a really long time.” Nick understood the term. “Tommy, by any chance did he stumble upon an open window?

When you repay evil with evil, you become evil.

All emphasis in American prisons is on punishment, retribution, and disparagement, and almost none is on rehabilitation.

Yes," said Locke."Yes, Master Ibelius. I'm going to put that fucker in the dirt as deeply as any man who's ever been murdered, ever since the world began.

Y esto me hace pensar en la necesidad de inventar previamente algún sistema que permita detectar la canallería en personajes respetables y medirla con exactitud para descontarle a cada individuo la cantidad que merece que se le descuente. Una especie de canallómetro que indique con una aguja la cantidad de mierda producida por el señor X en su vida hasta este Juicio Final, la cantidad a deducir en concepto de sinceridad o de buena disposición, y la cantidad neta que debe tragar, una vez hechas las cuentas.

You know what’s worse than burying your own child? Not burying your own child.

All by yourself, unable to express the pain of your distress with your deeper inside. You alienate yourself and everybody else.

A traitor commits his crime but once. The rest/is retribution.

As they croak, I see myself in the pistol smoke.

But grant the wrath of Heaven be great, 'tis slow. [Lat., Ut sit magna tamen certe lenta ira deorum est.]

An eye for an eye til everyone is blind.

Every time I scratch my nails down someone else's back, I hope you feel it.

A wrong is unredressed when retribution overtakes its redresser. It is equally unredressed when the avenger fails to make himself felt as such to him who has done the wrong.

But if used for retribution, magic is vengeance incarnate.

God's mills grind slow, But they grind woe.

Fundamentalist Muslim terrorists kill three thousand Americans, but America isn't supposed to respond, because if we respond, they'll respond. We always hear about 'karmic retributions' and the 'cycle of violence' only after we've been hit.

Heaven never defaults. The wicked are sure of their wages, sooner or later.

Forgiveness doesn't diminish justice; it just entrusts it to God. He guarantees the right retribution.

I don't know karate, but I know crazy.

It is a just retribution for improper sexual misconduct

I'd love to spit some Beechnut in that dude's eye and shoot him with my ole forty-five.

Heaping glowing coals on another person's head is usually misunderstood and comes to nothing because the other person knows just as well that he is in the right and has also given some thought on his own part to heaping coals.

Justice can span years. Retribution is not subject to a calendar.

My trigger finger itching, positioned at your dome, one twitch and it's on. No remorse or second thoughts.

I was ready to approach her with my English charm, when her brass knuckled boyfriend grabbed me by the arm.

Let's just kill everyone and let God sort them out.

Jealousy endlessly eats through my mind, and jealously endlessly makes me be unkind.

My homie lost his family and snapped, shot up half the block to bring them back.

Revenge is more wild, less calculated...deeply personal. Retribution is a punishment that is morally right and fully deserved. (Mitch Rapp)

Retribution is a dog chasing its tail.

Strip those clowns down to nudity, shove the chrome where they doo doo be.

The best revenge is to always survive yourself.

The light that stopped the night felt like forgiveness.

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.

Too much of nothing, it just makes a fellow mean.

We're out playing ball in the gym, I put boogers on the basketball and pass it to him.

That was clearly a tackle aimed at getting revenge - or maybe it was just out-and-out retribution.

The divine power moves with difficulty, but at the same time surely.

The forces of retribution are always listening. They never sleep.

There are some duties we owe even to those who have wronged us. There is, after all, a limit to retribution and punishment.

We must repay goodness and wickedness: but why exactly to the person who has done us a good or a wicked turn?

You beef wit me, I'm-a even the score equally. Take you on Jerry Springer and beat your ass legally.

You can bring your enemies to their knees with the possible exception of the North Vietnamese.

Your so bitter, like kitty litter.

Ashes, ashes.” Her whispered words of an old rhyme smashed through the silence as thunder, and in unison, the shadow figures answered. “We all fall down.