Quotes About Vindication

They took one from us last time, so now we took one from them

When starting to think about any novel, part of the motive is: I'm going to show them, this time.

First they ignore you, then they denounce you, and then they say that they knew what you were saying all the time.

This may well be," I said, "the darkest hour just before dawn. We have moved all of these months with the daring faith that God was with us in our struggle. The many experiences of days gone by have vindicated that faith in a most unexpected manner. We must go out with the same faith, the same conviction. We must believe that a way will be made out of no way.

Whoever proves right in the end must first be and do wrong. But it is only after the fact that we learn who was right to begin with.

Victory is a thousand times sweeter when you're the underdog.

Religion in the form of polytheism entered the world as the vindication of power. Not only was there no separation of church and state; religion was the transcendental justification of the state.

He saw the firm's success as a personal validation.

Oddly enough, I think that everybody can relate to revenge, on some level. Everyone has wanted to exact it, at some point, and everybody has tampered with the idea, even if they didn't actually go through with it.

There were some that said if you hung in long enough, the world would catch on, and they have.

See, there I am. I told you I lived. I told you I was.

I don't have anything else to add. I just wanted to make sure I had the last word. I think I've earned that.

No. I couldn't allow that. No. Never. Never. He doesn't get to do this to me and still fucking win. I changed my name for that piece of shit. Historical records have been altered -- Amy Elliott to Amy Dunne -- like it's nothing. No, he does not get to win. So I began to think of a different story, a better story, that would destroy Nick for doing this to me. A story that would restore my perfection. It would make me the hero, flawless, and adored. Because everyone loves the dead girl.

I don't have anything else to add. I just wanted to make sure I had the last word. I think I've earned that.

The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.

When 'Newsies' first came out, it just crash-landed with a thud; it won a Razzie for worst song of the year, and I felt such embarrassment. Fast-forward, and it's a hit on Broadway, and I win a Tony for the score!

No, she wasn't going to go to Martin's, curse him, but she wasn't going to run back to her room either, if just to spite Mr. Nobley. The man deserved to be spited. Or spitted. Or both.

It is sometimes too delicious to hear evil of a person one has despised for many years.

She could hardly think of a punishment she would enjoy more.

She had been proved right so eloquently, she had thought, that comments were unnecessary.

why would it? He had won, and

The Independent said he was "living vindication for conspiracy theorists that there is nothing, however evil, pointless or even lunatic, that unaccountable intelligence agencies will not get up to in the pursuit of their secret wars.

After I won Halliday's contest

If you are defamed, let time vindicate you — silence is a thousand times better than explanation. Explanations do not explain. Let your life be its own excuse for being — cease all explanations and all apologies and just live your own life. By minding your own business you give others an opportunity to mind theirs; and depend upon it, the great souls will appreciate you for this very thing.' In