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Quotes About Retribution

And it be well for a knowlessman that he should not be here, for he would be taken from this place and his gaskin slit, his moules shown to the four winds, his welchet torn asunder with many hooks and his figgin placed upon a spike (...)
~ Terry Pratchett
They couldn't do anything worse to him than he had coming to him already. He felt free at last.
~ Terry Pratchett
In other words, it's the familiar hot sinking feeling experienced by everyone who has let the waves of their own anger throw them far up on the beach of retribution, leaving them, in the poetic language of the everyday, up shit creek.
~ Terry Pratchett
Jane remained in her chair thinking about justice, about how the dead never benefited from it. For them it always comes too late.
~ Tess Gerritsen
Hell calls to Hell sounds ominous enough. Abyssus abyssum invocat is a saying that dates back at least a thousand years. It means One evil deed leads to another.
~ Tess Gerritsen
Just as rust produced by iron corrodes iron, so is the violator of moral law destroyed by his own wrong action.
~ Thích Nh?t H?nh
You are too kind and generous," said Justine. Irene smiled. "Or really, really mad at those bastards. When I shoot a man, I expect him to die!
~ Theodora Goss
At the end of the day, on the day of judgment day when everybody be judged, you're going to get your fair share.
~ Ghostface Killah
As any daytime judge show can tell you, spending someone's money or taking their stuff because they hurt your feelings is not justified.
~ Emily V. Gordon
I'm kind of crazy with karma. I really believe that everything you do revisits you, so, I'm really adamant about the kids seeing the grandparents, so like, I can see my grandkids, you know what I mean?
~ Joel Madden
I don't believe in karma.
~ Sandra Bernhard
I always say karma is a thing that is real.
~ Maryse Mizanin
I believe in karma.
~ Scooter Braun
There's no such thing as a free lunch, at least on the karmic level.
~ Joan D. Vinge
I would not kill my enemies, but I will make them get down on their knees. I will, I can, I must.
~ Maria Callas
You live by the gun and knife, and die by the gun and knife.
~ Joe Valachi
I may not have saved you but I fucking avenged you.
~ Karen Marie Moning
He growls, "That fuck is dead. I burned what was left of him, poked around in the ashes, and waited to see if anything rose. It didn't. I ate them." I burst out laughing. "You did not eat Cruce's ashes." "The fuck I didn't.
~ Karen Marie Moning
When someone hurts you - and I'm not talking about forgivable offenses, some things are irrevocable and demand recompense-you have two choices: slice them out of your life or slice them into delicious, bloody pieces. While the latter would be infinitely more satisfying in an immediate, animalistic way, it changes you. And, although you think the memory of the battle won will be a please-if it is a pleasure, you've lost the war.
~ Karen Marie Moning
Revenge is a dish best served cold. I never used to understand that saying, but I think I finally get it.
~ Karen Marie Moning
I know that I'm here until this is over. Until either they're dead or I am. Alina's death will be avenged.
~ Karen Marie Moning
A once-robbed John, it won't remove its wallet from its trousers again until it gets the action it paid for. Nice try, sweet thing. NOT.
~ Karen Marie Moning
She gave him her most forbidding you-will-obey-me-little-boy-or-die glance. They waged a battle with their glares—his challenging, hers promising divine retribution—until with a gamin grin he leaped to his feet, slipped behind her, and was gone.
~ Karen Marie Moning
There's no place on Earth, feck, there's no place in all of heaven or hell that they'll ever be safe from me again!
~ Karen Marie Moning