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Quotes About Retaliation

I'm going to get even, I swear I will. Mark my words, I'm a pregnant cranky woman with insomnia. I have time to plot my revenge.
~ Kim Gruenenfelder
Hey, you freakin' bastard," I breathed. "You hit me again and I'll take care of your family planning.
~ Kim Harrison
I am merely biding my time. (Stryder) For what? (Rowena) For the moment when I am out of this cell and am able to wreak havoc on the one who put me here. I'm going to pull out his innards through his nostrils and dance around his entrails. (Stryder)
~ Kinley MacGregor
Jack ignored his greeting and slammed his fist straight into the jaw of the spy.) What did he do? Wear the wrong color coat? Or is it his stock you find offensive this time? (Morgan)
~ Kinley MacGregor
You big crybaby," I whispered into his ear. "Now you know why your mom warned you not to hit girls. Sometimes they hit back.
~ Kirsten Miller
Touch me and I'll gut you like the pig you are.
~ Koushun Takami
The central point is rebellion against the renunciation of the desire to know. A declaration of faith in the comprehensibility of the world, a proud retaliation to those who remain satisfied with their own ignorance, who call "infinite" that which we don't understand and delegate knowledge elsewhere.
~ Carlo Rovelli
Sweet had also been in Washington, D.C., during the Red Summer 1919, when police allowed whites to rampage for days slaughtering black people. The tide turned only after returning African American veterans had seen enough, polished their rifles, and began shooting.93
~ Carol Anderson
Little Red Riding Hood got what she deserved. You don't go walking in the woods alone if you want to avoid wolves." I was about to say something in response, but Nicky Ballard did it for me. "You could say that about the wolf, too. If you go around attacking defenseless girls, you can expect payback.
~ Carol Goodman
Touched by an angel, my ass!" roared the woman, whom I recognized despite the ash covering her face: Moondance. "I'll touch you, asshole!" She fired again.
~ Carol Goodman
Understanding without vengeance, reparation without retaliation, are possible only if we are willing to stop justifying our own position.
~ Carol Tavris
We can all understand why victims would want to retaliate. But retaliation often makes the original perpetrators minimize the severity and harm of their side's actions and claim the mantle of victim themselves, thereby setting in motion a cycle of oppression and revenge. "Every successful revolution," observed the historian Barbara Tuchman, "puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed." Why not? The victors, former victims, feel justified.
~ Carol Tavris
I would knock your head against a Wall until it was soft as a baked apple!
~ Carolyn Meyer
And he don't know...that I dug my key into the side of his pretty little souped up 4 wheel drive, carved my name into his leather seats. I took a Louisville slugger to both headlights, slashed a hole in all 4 tires...Maybe, next time he'll think before he cheats.
~ Carrie Underwood
His belly was flabby, and it got softer every time I hit it. I hit it often.
~ Carroll John Daly
Them that live by the gun should die by the gun, is good sound twentieth century gospel.
~ Carroll John Daly
The next time you raise a hand to me will be the last time you have hands!
~ George R. R. Martin
I will hurt you for this. I don't know how yet, but give me time. A day will come when you think yourself safe and happy, and suddenly your joy will turn to ashes in your mouth, and you'll know the debt is paid.
~ George R.R. Martin
Women do not forget. Women do not forgive.
~ George R.R. Martin
Vengeane, Justice. Fire and Blood
~ George R.R. Martin
Bitter old women with a taste for blood. Women do not forget. Women do not forgive.
~ George R.R. Martin
With those attacks, the terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States. And war is what they got.
~ George W. Bush
After the chaos and carnage of September 11th, it is not enough to serve our enemies with legal papers.
~ George W. Bush
The terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States - and war is what they got.
~ George W. Bush