Quotes About Retribution

A woman lies down with the devil, she should expect to cach some hell. One way or another.

I've done a prideful thing, a thing more sinful than she ever done to me. I took the bottom out of her life.

25. Practice Humility Practice humility and do not try to get ahead of each other. A winner requires a loser. Retribution provokes reprisal. What a foolish circle to be trapped within. We are born in humility and we die in humility. From beginning to end, it is a proven path.

On one level, the Catawbas' participation in the Revolutionary War worked to their advantage. While most Native American nations had to face retribution for choosing the wrong side, the Catawbas fared somewhat better.

I once hit Quentin on the head with my ball and chain.

The grieving are surely owed our empathy, but capital punishment can neither right a wrong nor prevent another from happening.

the particular consequence of his moral vanity was that when he did people an injury, he never forgave them. Never again.

Villains are not born—they are made.  And in the case of a Villainess, she is crafted and carved out of the fires of a broken heart and God help the man who thinks to trespass, bruise her further and then survive the encounter.

Many myths and religions have some kind of threat of retribution from their god or gods, and their doctrines warn of the dangers of doing various forbidden things. Why? Because memes involving danger are the ones we pay attention to! As oral traditions developed, our brains were set up to amplify the dangers and give them greater significance than the rest.

I remembered the way Reileen Kawahara had dealt with two unfaithful minions. The animal sounds they had made came back to me in dreams for a long time afterwards. Reileen's argument, framed as she peeled an apple against the backdrop of those screams, was that since no one really dies anymore, punishment can come only through suffering. I felt my new face twitch, even now, with the memory.

In the old days, a child might pay for the sins of the father, or indeed mother. Nowadays, in the most advanced society on earth, the parents might pay for the sins of the child, along with uncles, aunts, cousins, in-laws, colleagues, friends, and even the man who unthinkingly smiled at you as he came out of the lift at three in the morning. The system of retribution had been greatly improved, and was so much more inclusive than it used to be.

if you give respect, yet get respect back. If you offend, you get...retribution.

Femeia aÅŸtepta b?taia, c?ci pedeapsa primit? înseamn?, într-un fel, crim? r?scump?rat.

They thought vengeance made it easier, when, in fact, all it did was fester the sorrow.

I've got my foot so far up your ass that you can taste my nail polish in the back of your throat.

An eye for an eye," Mac said at the squadron reunion. Until everyone was blind, Teddy wondered?)

Wronged wives were a law unto themselves.

A man fashions ill for himself who fashions ill for another, and the ill design is most ill for the designer.

They say I killed six or seven men for snoring. Well, it ain't true. I only killed one man for snoring.

It is as expedient that a wicked man be punished as that a sick man be cured by a physician; for all chastisement is a kind of medicine.

Man's insulting God is not reversed by our insulting man.

Whom man kills, him God restoreth to life.

Foul deeds will rise, Though all the earth o'erwhelm them, to men's eyes.

The man who does ill, ill must suffer too.