A Quote by Sarah Jakes
Revenge isn't always as sweet as it seems
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Revenge is not always sweet, once it is consummated we feel inferior to our victim.
Simply coming to the perpetrator and delivering the message is Nozick's definition of revenge. And in that sense, Adi is exacting revenge. When people ask, "Does Adi want revenge?" - they mean violent revenge. But in Nozick's formulation, it is revenge. That is the essence of revenge.
Sweet is revenge-especially to women.
Revenge is sweet and not fattening.
Revenge is sweet but not nourishing.
I joined the army to avenge the deaths of my family and to survive, but I've come to learn that if I am going to take revenge, in that process I will kill another person whose family will want revenge; then revenge and revenge and revenge will never come to an end.
I only want sweet peace and kindliness when I awaken -- but there's always some finger pointing, telling me some terrible deed I committed during the night. It seems I make a lot of mistakes and it seems that I am not allowed any.
People don't remember. Revenge is sweet.
Sweet is the rose, but grows upon a brere;
Sweet is the juniper, but sharp his bough;
Sweet is the eglantine, but stiketh nere;
Sweet is the firbloome, but its braunches rough;
Sweet is the cypress, but its rynd is tough;
Sweet is the nut, but bitter is his pill;
Sweet is the broome-flowre, but yet sowre enough;
And sweet is moly, but his root is ill.
There is no profit in deceit. An honest man knows revenge is not sweet.
I named my first album 'The Sound of Revenge' because I wanted to get revenge on everyone who doubted me. But when I finally got revenge, I didn't enjoy it.
I wear Sweet Revenge, the legging boots, a lot particularly in the winter.
It is commonly said that revenge is sweet, but to a calm and considerate mind, patience and forgiveness are sweeter.
I tasted too what was called the sweet of revenge - but it was transient, it expired even with the object, that provoked it.
Revenge, at first though sweet, Bitter ere long back on itself recoils.
I think that friendship always makes us feel such sweet gratitude, because the world almost always seems like a very hard desert, and the flowers that grow there seem to grow against such high odds.
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