Donna Leon Quotes

When the injustice is great enough, justice will lend me the strength needed to correct it. None may stand against it. It will shatter every barrier, sunder any shield, tear through any enchantment, and lend its servant the power to pass sentence. Know this: There is nothing on all the Planes that can stay the hand of justice when it is brought against them. It may unmake armies. It may sunder the thrones of gods. Know that for all who betray justice, I am their fate. And fate carries an executioner's axe.

It is not according to my mode of doing things, to bring a suit against a man that I have the power in my own hands to punish.

A good servant makes a bad enemy

My turn shall also come: I sense the spreading of a wing.

Living well and ripping your enemy's still-beating heart out with your bare hands is the best revenge.

Because I had sought to challenge Destiny, Destiny had taken vengeance.

But still the block of Vengeance firm doth stand, and Fate, as swordsmith, hammers blow on blow.

The noblest kind of retribution is not to become like your enemy.

Opportunities and choices. When a person makes a heart wish, that wish resonates through the currents and things will happen to give the person an opportunity to make the wish come true. Like a hand offered and accepted.

Chances rule men and not men chances.

With hope or without hope we will follow the trail of our enemies. And woe to them, if we prove the swifter!

I don't chase after things, but I put forward the effort and know the rest of it is out of my hands.

The world is a chessboard, Madam, on which we play out our ploys and follies. You are the Queen, of course. Your moves are the strongest. For myself, I claim only to be a knight, advancing in a crooked progress. Do we move ourselves, do you think, or does a great gloved hand place on our squares

The laws of changeless justice bind oppressor and oppressed; and, close as sin and suffering joined we march to fate abreast.

There is a past which is gone forever, but there is a future which is still our own.

Beth: "I don't think you realize what you're dealing with here. You can't just mess around with the forces of the universe!" Xavier: "What ever happened to free will? Or was that just a myth?

I don't know whether the bird you are holding is dead or alive, but what I do know is that it is in your hands. It is in your hands.

He leant his two elbows on his knees, and his chin on his hands and remained rapt in dumb meditation. On my inquiring the subject of his thoughts, he answered gravely 'I'm trying to settle how I shall pay Hindley back. I don't care how long I wait, if I can only do it at last. I hope he will not die before I do!' 'For shame, Heathcliff!' said I. 'It is for God to punish wicked people; we should learn to forgive.' 'No, God won’t have the satisfaction that I shall,' he returned. 'I only wish I knew the best way! Let me alone, and I'll plan it out: while I'm thinking of that I don't feel pain.

Never leave an enemy behind, or it will rise again to fly at your throat !

Whether we bring our enemies to justice or bring justice to our enemies, justice will be done.

An act by which we make one friend and one enemy is a losing game; because revenge is a much stronger principle than gratitude

Mistrust those in whom the urge to punish is strong.

Decision is the ultimate power. Decisions shape destiny.

We are all puppets in the hands of fate and seldom see the strings.

I think God is how you deal with everything that's out of your own control.