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Quotes About Retribution

If you dare try to leave me behind, I'll follow on foot, and when I die in the snow, Ill come back and haunt you. I'll make your life a complete misery. No ghost will ever have been as inventive in its nastiness as I'll be: I'll turn your food rancid; I'll transform your drink into blood; I'll howl and moan throughout the night; there'll be no place safe from me. And don't think I couldn't do it, Thirrin, Queen of Icemark, because I can assure you, I could.
~ Stuart Hill
You never know what Nature may do. She has ways of her own of getting even with people," remarked her friend, solemnly.
~ Susan Coolidge
The world hates us, but the bottom line is we're gonna have to show the world why they hate us by bombing the hell out of some people that have been hurting us. That's all. That's the end of it.
~ Jimmie Walker
With some things, karma is good enough. Lessons come back in different ways, you know what I mean?
~ Big Narstie
Ruining someone else's life for attention or revenge should also come with a price.
~ Tomi Lahren
Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned.
~ William Congreve
We'd rather have a grand spectacle of retribution of the 'wicked', than their silent walk towards redemption that our wishes questions the depth and nature of our love and hearts.
~ Ufuoma Apoki
There is no forgiveness in ancestor worship, only retribution and eternal debt.
~ Monique Truong
If you throw a rotten orange into someone's face, you can bet the orange will sooner or later come flying back.
~ Nancy Farmer
In twenty cities, or about that number, the godly [Huguenots] have been slaughtered by raging mobs," Calvin noted grimly to his chief disciple, Théodore Beza, in a letter written in May 1561. In Provence, enraged Protestants ransacked Catholic churches and destroyed relics in retaliation.
~ Nancy Goldstone
Now, that isn't to say that I don't think Cain should have at least counted to ten, like I was trying to do, but maybe Abel was a meddler, just like my sister. And perhaps, even though Cain had repeatedly told him to back off, Abel decided to stick his nose into his brother's business one to many times—thus deserving a good wallop on the noggin after all.
~ Nancy Martin
But I couldn't think it more hateful of them to have taken my fur tippet. Burglars never seem to realize one might feel the cold. How would they like it if I took away their wife's shawl?
~ Nancy Mitford
I will see you bereft of all that you have, of home and happiness and beautiful things. I will see your nation cast down and your allies drawn away. I will see you as alone and friendless and wretched as am I; and then you may live as long as you like, in some dark and lonely corner of the earth, and I shall call myself content. -Lien, Albino Celestial (Dragon)
~ Naomi Novik
You have not paid for this victory, false one, cheat, and I will give you nothing.
~ Naomi Novik
All the bad things you do in life come back to you, (David). And I've done a lot of bad things. A lot. But I've paid the price. (The Angel's Game)
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
In 1654, for example, Elizabeth Drew was whipped twelve stripes (a punishment comparable to that for rape of a single woman) for naming her master's son as the father of her child. When Drew persisted in her story she was whipped an additional twenty stripes and forced to stand in public on lecture day with a paper on her forehead proclaiming herself "A SLANDERER OF MR ZEROBABELL ENDICOTT.
~ Carol F. Karlsen
Douglass's hesitation was understandable. His own letters and speeches were consistently full of retribution and bloodshed, but Douglass never actually participated in any such activities.
~ Catherine Clinton
You just don't want a vampire pissed off at you.
~ Charlaine Harris
You might have been paid back enough to suit you I said, but I don't know if you've been paid back enough to suit me.
~ Charlaine Harris
It's not that I approve of murder—but some people just beg to be killed, don't they?
~ Charlaine Harris
When karma lands, it lands hard.
~ Tom Fitton
If I never do anything else in this career as a member of Congress, I'm gonna make somebody pay for what they've done to my community and to my people!
~ Maxine Waters
If I was a bad character that got away with murder like we see on other shows, I do not think I would like it because that sends a message that you can do these horrible things and never pay for it.
~ Hunter Tylo
If someone messes with me, I'm going to mess with them.
~ Tom Sizemore