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  • As the books of Job, Jeremiah, and Habakkuk clearly show, God has a high threshold of tolerance for what appropriate to say in a prayer. God can "handle" my unsuppressed rage. I may well find that my vindictive feelings need God's correction - but only by taking those feelings to God will I have the opportunity for correction and healing.

    Jobs   Prayer   Book  
    Philip Yancey (2010). “The Bible Jesus Read: Why the Old Testament Matters”, p.130, Harper Collins
  • The Christian god is a being of terrific character - cruel, vindictive, capricious and unjust.

  • The denizens of Citizens Service Houses are not, as a rule, gifted with a lot of common sense, but they often make up for that by being extremely argumentative and vindictive.

    Robert Silverberg (2013). “Hot Times in Magma City: The Collected Stories”, p.208, Hachette UK
  • I've always been sceptical about the notion that the market is a person you can engage in an argument with, and that that person is an intelligent, rational, well-intentioned person: it is fantasy. We know that ... the market is subject to irrational optimism and pessimism, and is vindictive ... You're dealing with a crazy man ... Having got what he wants he will still kill you.

    "The Money Man: Super-economist Joseph Stiglitz on how to fix the recession". Interview with Sean O'Grady, www.independent.co.uk. February 9, 2010.
  • God is erratic, sometimes vindictive, sometimes merciful. The people I was taught were heroes - Jacob or Moses or David - were ambivalent figures, or worse. But that messiness was joyful, and challenging. I loved having a Bible that I could argue with.

    "Biblically Speaking". Online chat, www.slate.com. March 4, 2009.
  • On the one hand, you don't want to disrupt the nation with what might look like a vindictive prosecution, even though it might not be. On the other hand, you want equal justice under the law and if [Hillary Clinton] has violated the law - you know, the FBI never completed the Foundation investigation. That's, as far as I know, that's still an ongoing investigation. They completed the e-mail investigation, but not the Foundation investigation.

    Hands   Law   Justice  
    Source: abcnews.go.com
  • Refusing to be disillusioned is the cause of much of the suffering of human life. And this is how that suffering happens-if we love someone, but do not love God, we demand total perfection and righteousness from that person, and when we do not get it, we become cruel and vindictive; yet we are demanding of a human being which he or she cannot possibly give.

    Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.425, Discovery House
  • As Bartok put it so succinctly: "Competitions are for horses." Nothing could be more barbaric that the practice or ranking artists as though they were divers or figure skaters....What one suspects is that the appetite for dividing the world into winners and losers, anointed and anonymous, is so compulsive that it feeds with special, vindictive hunger on the most elusive and ephemeral of subjects. For if music can be reduced to games of power and success, then innocence-love without profit-can be dealt a crushing blow.

    Crush   Horse   Artist  
  • Modern Romans insisted that there was only one god, a notion that struck Alobar as comically simplistic. Worse, this Semitic deity was reputed to be jealous (what was there to be jealous of if there were no other gods?), vindictive, and altogether foul-tempered. If you didn't serve the nasty fellow, the Romans would burn your house down. If you did serve him, you were called a Christian and got to burn other people's houses down.

    "Jitterbug Perfume". Book by Tom Robbins, 1984.
  • Whenever a woman would come too close, I would cut her off. Part of that was vindictive - but that was totally subconscious.

  • Since women do most delight in revenge, it may seem but feminine manhood to be vindictive.

    Revenge   Delight   May  
    Sir Thomas Browne (1835). “Sir Thomas Browne's Works: Repertorium. A letter to a friend. Christian morals. Certain miscellany tracts. Unpublished papers”, p.101
  • Al was cruel, vindictive, angry, elegant, powerful. He gave me strength, he gave me wisdom, not only about magic, but about myself. He was a lot like Trent, only harsher around the edges.

    Powerful   Magic   Als  
  • To presume a want of motives for such contests . . . would be to forget that men are ambitious, vindictive, and rapacious.

    Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (2004). “The Federalist Papers”, p.30, Simon and Schuster
  • I mean, is 'fat' really the worst thing a human being can be? Is 'fat' worse than 'vindictive', 'jealous', 'shallow', 'vain', 'boring' or 'cruel'? Not to me I'd rather [my daughters] were independent, interesting, idealistic, kind, opinionated, original, funny - a thousand things, before 'thin'. Let my girls be Hermiones, rather than Pansy Parkinsons.

    Girl   Daughter   Mean  
  • I think it's almost immoral to keep on with a marriage that's really bad. It just gets more and more rotten and vindictive and everybody gets more and more hurt. There's not enough honesty about marriage, I think. I wish more people would face the truth about their marital situations.

    Hurt   Honesty   Thinking  
    Source: www.alex-haley.com
  • Is 'fat' really the worst thing a human being can be? Is 'fat' worse than 'vindictive', 'jealous', 'shallow', 'vain', 'boring' or 'cruel'? Not to me.

  • One of my major shortcomings - I'm vindictive. I don't know why that is. Even in petty things in my life I tend to strike back. It's a lot more pleasurable a sensation than feeling threatened.

  • I saw the Count lying within the box upon the earth, some of which the rude falling from the cart had scattered over him. He was deathly pale, just like a waxen image, and the red eyes glared with the horrible vindictive look which I knew so well.

    Lying   Fall   Eye  
    Bram Stoker (2007). “Dracula”, p.597, Book Jungle
  • We must present a national persona of being irrational and vindictive, because that's going to terrify people. And then, they'll back off. And this is not [Donald] Trump, this is [Bill] Clinton. It's not [Richard] Nixon, you know. We have to be irrational and vindictive, because that's going to frighten people.

    People   Bills   Clinton  
    Source: www.counterpunch.org
  • Forgiveness is an embrace, across all barriers, against all odds, in defiance of all that is mean and petty and vindictive and cruel in this life.

    Mean   Odds   Embrace  
    Kent Nerburn (2010). “Calm Surrender: Walking the Path of Forgiveness”, p.130, New World Library
  • This is real. This is the real mad man theory. We have to be irrational and vindictive, so people don't know what we're up to. This is not [Donald] Trump and [Steve] Bannon, it's from the [Bill] Clinton era.

    Real   Men   People  
    Source: www.counterpunch.org
  • I, for my own part, had much rather people should say of me that there neither is nor ever was such a man as Plutarch, than that they should say, "Plutarch is an unsteady, fickle, froward, vindictive, and touchy fellow.

    Men   People   Fickle  
    Plutarch, William Watson Goodwin (1874). “Plutarch's Morals”
  • When men cut jobs, they're seen as decisive. When women do, they're vindictive.

    Jobs   Cutting   Men  
    "A very bad business". Interview with Andrew Clark, www.theguardian.com. October 27, 2006.
  • The Expulsion from Eden is an act of vindictive womanish spite; the Fall of Man, as recounted in the Bible, comes nearer to the Fall of God.

    Fall   Men   Eden  
  • We have to be irrational and vindictive, because that's going to frighten people. And we have to maintain this for years. And then we'll be able to carry out the actions that we want to carry out.

    Years   People   Want  
    Source: www.counterpunch.org
  • I'm opinionated, but I'm not a vindictive person and I never say anything unprovoked, either.

    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
  • As a young victim of bullying and then, later, a vindictive perpetrator of violence myself, I've known both sides of this experience, and I tried very hard in the writing here to be as absolutely honest as I possibly could, to not romanticize myself or my past actions or cowardly inactions in any way.

    Bullying   Writing   Past  
    Source: therumpus.net
  • What will happen once the authentic mass man takes over, we do not know yet, although it may be a fair guess that he will have more in common with the meticulous, calculated correctness of Himmler than with the hysterical fanaticism of Hitler, will more resemble the stubborn dullness of Molotov than the sensual vindictive cruelty of Stalin.

    Men   Sensual   Stubborn  
    Hannah Arendt (1968). “Totalitarianism: Part Three of The Origins of Totalitarianism”, p.49, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • What is needed in the world today is a Civil Rights Movement for the Soul, freeing humanity at last from the oppression of its belief in a violent, angry, and vindictive God.

    Rights   Soul   Humanity  
    "A Revolution Is What's Called For Here" by Neale Donald Walsch, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. April 7, 2013.
  • I was always the clown in school. I had a personal put down sense of humor. I wasn't vindictive. I didn't make fun of people.

    Fun   School   People  
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