Quotes About Vindication

we have come to depend on the instant rush of energy and delight we feel when we display our cleverness by making an unkind remark and the spurt of triumph when we vanquish an annoying colleague. Thus do we assert ourselves and tell the world who we are. It is difficult to break a habit upon which we depend for our sense of self.

There is no finer revenge than that which others inflict on your enemy. Moreover, it has the advantage of leaving you the role of a generous man.

The most beautiful words in the English language are 'not guilty'.

In spite of the variety of prophetic phenomenon in space (north, south, exile) and in time (premonarchial, monarchial, exilic, and postexilic), the prophets enjoyed the common bond with the past (the Mosaic revelation) and the future acts of God: the new era of God's coming, the transformation of all things, the judgment of the wicked, and the vindication of the righteous.

We are not satisfied to be right, unless we can prove others to be quite wrong.

Had I been wrong, this would still have been the honorable thing to do. I am very glad, however, to find out that I was right.

God declared me righteous!

Evil can be condoned only if in the beyond it is compensated by good and god himself needs immortality to vindicate his ways to man.

It is easy for us to tarnish God's character because He never argues back; He never tries to defend or vindicate himself.

Nor let a god come in, unless the difficulty be worthy of such an intervention. [Lat., Nec deus intersit nisi dignus vindice nodus.]

The opposite of retaliation is to entrust ourselves to God, who judges justly.

All those girls who were mean to me[in high school], I pay them back by going through the drive-through window and asking for my burger. That feels really great.

Condemn me, it does not matter: history will absolve me.

Every failure made me more confident. Because I wanted even more to achieve as revenge, to show that I could.

Survival my only hope. Success my only revenge

Frankenstein as the underdog. Not the monster. The villagers pursuing him are the monster.

As for 'Great Expectations', it is up there for me with the world's greatest novels, not least as it vindicates plot as no other novel I can think of does, since what there is to find out is not coincidence or happenstance but the profoundest moral truth.

I've seen some of those comments and they hurt me a little bit, saying 'This guy's a cheater.' And I feel like if you know me, you know my character, and just my person, you know that's not what I would do, not what I would ever do.

To make a 53-man roster would be a huge accomplishment - right up there with getting exonerated for a crime I didn't commit.

Revenge is sweet and not fattening.

Say I told you so. They're the four most satisfying words in the English language. You could rupture something trying to keep them inside you.

There isn't much justice in this world. Perhaps that's why its so satisfying to occasionally make some.

Longevity is the revenge of talent upon genius.

el argumento que apela al bastón (la lucha) no es un argumento. Jamás convence, tan solo inspira venganza o retirada.