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There is a risk, in my view, that the conflict may enter a new phase, which could see retaliatory acts of vengeance and an escalating spiral of violence. – Nicholas Haysom	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
Trump gratuitously went after a Latina, woman governor, popular, and the chairman of the governors’ association. As a matter of what looked like vengeance. It makes no sense politically. – Charles Krauthammer	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
Polio is still out there, (It) has fought back with a vengeance at every stage of the game. And it's still fighting. – Liam Donaldson	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
My presence amongst them has given them refuge, those who are injured or sick are all treated at my hospital. We feed the hungry and we intervene to free those who have been captured. We visit those who fled and sought refuge in Cameroon to give them moral support and encourage them not to seek vengeance. At home, children can now go to school, which gives us a lot of hope for the future, he continued. It’s a profound relief for our people. – Father Bernard Kinvi	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
The defendant violated his oath and responsibilities as a law enforcement officer by exacting personal vengeance, assaulting a handcuffed suspect, and abusing his authority as the highest ranking uniformed member of the Suffolk County Police Department. – Robert Capers	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
It's as though there is a curse that has befallen this city and I expect only news that will shock us. If the city remains in their hands the city is doomed, it is now wanton destruction ... their acts of vengeance are no longer ideologically driven because they are now blowing up buildings with no religious meaning. – Maamoun Abdulkarim	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
It felt like a sweet victory, 'You can vaporize me but it's not gonna make me any different. I'm just gonna come back stronger.' A little different though, but she's definitely back with a vengeance. – Michelle Gomez	Found on CNN 8 years ago
So, here's the deal. My wife is a Mexican-American. She's an American by choice, she loves this country as much as anybody in this room, and she wants a secure border. But she wants to embrace the traditional American values that make us special and make us unique. We're at a crossroads right now. Are we going to take the Reagan approach, the hopeful optimistic approach, the approach that says that, you come to our country legally, you pursue your dreams with a vengeance, you create opportunities for all of us? Or the Donald Trump approach? – Jeb Bush	Found on CNN 8 years ago
It’s back, and it’s back with a vengeance, there's an enormous supply of heroin; it's cheap. In fact, it's a lot cheaper than prescription pills. If you take oxycodone and hydrocodone for a football injury and you get hooked, you're going to pay a dollar a milligram on the street for a pill – thirty milligrams, thirty dollars, give or take. Heroin is probably one-fifth the price, and because it has a similar chemical effect, a similar pharmacological reaction, folks make that transition. – Chuck Rosenberg	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
Gasoline is coming back with a vengeance. Refining margins are not as bad as we had feared. – Ian Taylor	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
If there is anyone who deserves the ultimate punishment, it is the defendant. However, we must overcome the impulse for vengeance. – Jessica Kensky and Patrick Downes	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
There was no moment of reflection, no introspection, only a knee-jerk call for vengeance, in Pakistan, blood will always have blood. – Fatima Bhutto	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Ever since the Charlie Hebdo attacks ‘avenged’ the prophet, there has been a growing trend to justify terrorist acts, such as this murder, by claiming it was an act of vengeance, just this week in Sinai, Egypt, ISIS released a video titled, ‘We Swear We Will Revenge.’. – Veryan Khan	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
I think this is a real act of vengeance by the ECB and the EU and I think it's a shame, you saw the stock market, which had been up over 100 as soon as this hit the wires, drop down to a slight positive ; Bonds go from being down a point to up a point. – Mark Grant	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
I'm a Christian. If someone says something offensive about Jesus, I might find that offensive. But in a free society, I don't have a right to sort of wreak my vengeance on them, in a free society, there is a right to cause offense about someone's religion. – David Cameron	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Milk increases in volume that third to fifth day and it does it with a vengeance. – Cindy Shelton	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
He's in the hands of God now, we don't believe in vengeance, we just forgive. – Ronnie Gonzalez	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
I like him. He's very sad about his hand. There is a crocodile chasing him and he is lonely, I think, he wants vengeance and he also wants a mother. He is very upset Peter Pan has found a mother and he wants to take her away and be his mother. So, he's a little sad. – Christopher Walken	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Revenge tightens the heart as much as the jaw. (La vengeance serre le cœur Autant que la mâchoire) – Charles de LEUSSE	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Something of vengeance I had tasted for the first time; as aromatic wine it seemed, on swallowing, warm and racy: its after-flavor, metallic and corroding, gave me a sensation as if I had been poisoned. – Charlotte Brontë	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Just vengeance does not call for punishment. – Pierre Corneille	added by anonymous 10 years ago
But if used for retribution, magic is vengeance incarnate. – Terry Goodkind, "Blood of the Fold"	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Control thy passions, lest they take vengeance on thee. – Epictetus	added by anonymous 14 years ago
At last is Hector stretch'd upon the plain,Who fear'd no vengeance for Patroclus slainThen, Prince You should have fear'd, what now you feelAchilles absent was Achilles stillYet a short space the great avenger stayed,Then low in dust thy strength and glory laid. – Homer	added by anonymous 14 years ago

There is a risk, in my view, that the conflict may enter a new phase, which could see retaliatory acts of vengeance and an escalating spiral of violence.

– Nicholas Haysom

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

Trump gratuitously went after a Latina, woman governor, popular, and the chairman of the governors’ association. As a matter of what looked like vengeance. It makes no sense politically.

– Charles Krauthammer

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

Polio is still out there, (It) has fought back with a vengeance at every stage of the game. And it's still fighting.

– Liam Donaldson

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

My presence amongst them has given them refuge, those who are injured or sick are all treated at my hospital. We feed the hungry and we intervene to free those who have been captured. We visit those who fled and sought refuge in Cameroon to give them moral support and encourage them not to seek vengeance. At home, children can now go to school, which gives us a lot of hope for the future, he continued. It’s a profound relief for our people.

– Father Bernard Kinvi

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

The defendant violated his oath and responsibilities as a law enforcement officer by exacting personal vengeance, assaulting a handcuffed suspect, and abusing his authority as the highest ranking uniformed member of the Suffolk County Police Department.

– Robert Capers

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It's as though there is a curse that has befallen this city and I expect only news that will shock us. If the city remains in their hands the city is doomed, it is now wanton destruction ... their acts of vengeance are no longer ideologically driven because they are now blowing up buildings with no religious meaning.

– Maamoun Abdulkarim

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It felt like a sweet victory, 'You can vaporize me but it's not gonna make me any different. I'm just gonna come back stronger.' A little different though, but she's definitely back with a vengeance.

– Michelle Gomez

Found on CNN
8 years ago

So, here's the deal. My wife is a Mexican-American. She's an American by choice, she loves this country as much as anybody in this room, and she wants a secure border. But she wants to embrace the traditional American values that make us special and make us unique. We're at a crossroads right now. Are we going to take the Reagan approach, the hopeful optimistic approach, the approach that says that, you come to our country legally, you pursue your dreams with a vengeance, you create opportunities for all of us? Or the Donald Trump approach?

– Jeb Bush

Found on CNN
8 years ago

It’s back, and it’s back with a vengeance, there's an enormous supply of heroin; it's cheap. In fact, it's a lot cheaper than prescription pills. If you take oxycodone and hydrocodone for a football injury and you get hooked, you're going to pay a dollar a milligram on the street for a pill – thirty milligrams, thirty dollars, give or take. Heroin is probably one-fifth the price, and because it has a similar chemical effect, a similar pharmacological reaction, folks make that transition.

– Chuck Rosenberg

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

Gasoline is coming back with a vengeance. Refining margins are not as bad as we had feared.

– Ian Taylor

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

If there is anyone who deserves the ultimate punishment, it is the defendant. However, we must overcome the impulse for vengeance.

– Jessica Kensky and Patrick Downes

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

There was no moment of reflection, no introspection, only a knee-jerk call for vengeance, in Pakistan, blood will always have blood.

– Fatima Bhutto

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Ever since the Charlie Hebdo attacks ‘avenged’ the prophet, there has been a growing trend to justify terrorist acts, such as this murder, by claiming it was an act of vengeance, just this week in Sinai, Egypt, ISIS released a video titled, ‘We Swear We Will Revenge.’.

– Veryan Khan

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

I think this is a real act of vengeance by the ECB and the EU and I think it's a shame, you saw the stock market, which had been up over 100 as soon as this hit the wires, drop down to a slight positive ; Bonds go from being down a point to up a point.

– Mark Grant

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

I'm a Christian. If someone says something offensive about Jesus, I might find that offensive. But in a free society, I don't have a right to sort of wreak my vengeance on them, in a free society, there is a right to cause offense about someone's religion.

– David Cameron

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Milk increases in volume that third to fifth day and it does it with a vengeance.

– Cindy Shelton

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

He's in the hands of God now, we don't believe in vengeance, we just forgive.

– Ronnie Gonzalez

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

I like him. He's very sad about his hand. There is a crocodile chasing him and he is lonely, I think, he wants vengeance and he also wants a mother. He is very upset Peter Pan has found a mother and he wants to take her away and be his mother. So, he's a little sad.

– Christopher Walken

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Revenge tightens the heart as much as the jaw. (La vengeance serre le cœur Autant que la mâchoire)

– Charles de LEUSSE

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Something of vengeance I had tasted for the first time; as aromatic wine it seemed, on swallowing, warm and racy: its after-flavor, metallic and corroding, gave me a sensation as if I had been poisoned.

– Charlotte Brontë

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Just vengeance does not call for punishment.

– Pierre Corneille

added by anonymous
10 years ago

But if used for retribution, magic is vengeance incarnate.

– Terry Goodkind, "Blood of the Fold"

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Control thy passions, lest they take vengeance on thee.

– Epictetus

added by anonymous
14 years ago

At last is Hector stretch'd upon the plain,Who fear'd no vengeance for Patroclus slainThen, Prince You should have fear'd, what now you feelAchilles absent was Achilles stillYet a short space the great avenger stayed,Then low in dust thy strength and glory laid.

– Homer

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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