Donella Meadows

Before they got vengeful, conservatives had some useful points to make about welfare. Government 'help' is too often guilt-assuaging gesture. It creates layers of wasteful bureaucracy. Too much help of the wrong sort creates a culture of dependency that swamps our ability to provide.

American Environmentalist

David Steward

As an African-American, I think the way I treated others affected how people treated me. If people do attack you in certain ways, you can focus on it and be vengeful in your approach or take the high road - get over it.

American Businessman

Alan Furst

If you read the history of the national Socialist party, they're all people who felt like life should have been better to them. They're disappointed, vengeful, angry.

American Author

Gin Wigmore

Writing music is such a freeing exercise, and it's really nice to play in that world of being confident, vengeful - getting back at all the bad boyfriends.

New Zealander Musician

Mandy Patinkin

We need to learn to accept and certainly mourn any harm that comes to any human being on this earth. But we also need to not be vengeful.

American Actor

Friedrich Nietzsche

Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm.

German Philosopher

AJ Tracey

I'm a very vengeful person - if someone didn't wanna get on board with me and I'm doing it well I'm gonna rub it in their face.

British Musician

Ciara

I don't believe in being vengeful or trying to send a message to someone. You waste your energy that way.

American Musician

Phillips Brooks

Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious.

American Clergyman

JaVale McGee

American Athlete

Vengeful has a negative tone, indicating dark or harmful intentions.

Negative Connotation

Vengeful often describes deep, intense emotions leading to extreme actions.

Emotional Intensity

Vengeful can be used both literally for actual revenge and figuratively for a grudge.

Literal vs Figurative

 They might be a nurturing god. They might be bootstrapping life on planets, trying to terraform and spread civilization. You might be a vengeful god, conquesting, because you actually can do that, you can attack other intelligent races. You might be a networking god, building alliances, or just curious, going around and wanting to explore as much as you possibly can.

Will Wright: Spore,...

 And while they are powerful creatures, our stories have given them the reputation of being vengeful killers. Hollywood says so. - You're gonna need a bigger boat. - So does the media. - A life or death struggle with one of the ocean's most dangerous predators.

Where Our Fear of Sharks...

 This is no ordinary storm, but a violent and vengeful tempest, and it sets the stage for Shakespeare’s most enigmatic play. As the skies clear, we are invited into a world that seems far removed from our own, but is rife with familiar concerns

Why should you read...

 ghosts are portrayed as mean, vengeful, destructive forces. They’re terrifying at worst and unsettling at best. Unexpected presences who show up and demand your emotional attention, at any cost. We are taught to be afraid of dying and death,

Coya Paz Brownrigg: The...

 and was quite paranoid about revolution he may have thought these threats would follow him into the afterlife the army faces east toward States Qin conquered during his lifetime as if he anticipated vengeful troops coming over the horizon

The Terra-Cotta Warriors...

 I inhabit another self, and I give it life for awhile, because when the self is suspended so is divisiveness and judgment. And I've played everything from a vengeful ghost in the time of slavery

Embracing otherness,...

 The sound is of walls being built, vengeful political rhetoric, humanitarian values and principles on fire in the very countries that 70 years ago said never again

The refugee crisis is a...

 thin-skinned ravaged by the vengeful Sun my craggy grimy surface yields no fertile bouncy yay I am now ill-fated and hard lot yet there was a time when

Destined to Grow Apart...

 As parents, as neighbors, as citizens, we witness and sometimes ignore each other into being. You were not born vengeful.

A letter to all who have...

 Gripped with vengeful passion, The Queen of the Night tears across the stage. She begins to sing her titular aria,