Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charlotte Bronte

But I feel this, Helen: I must dislike those who, whatever I do to please them, persist in disliking me; I must resist those who punish me unjustly. It is as natural as that I should love those who show me affection, or submit to punishment when I feel it is deserved.

Charles Caleb Colton

God is on the side of virtue; for whoever dreads punishment suffers it, and whoever deserves it, dreads it .

Richard G. Scott

Repentance is not punishment, it is the hope filled path to a more glorious future.

Bram Fischer

I wish you to inform the Court that my absence, though deliberate, is not intended in any way to be disrespectful. Nor is it prompted by any fear of the punishment which might be inflicted on me.

David Shore

The saying within the writer's room, which were my words of wisdom, if you will, was, "The punishment doesn't have to fit the crime, but there has to be a crime."

Bryan Stevenson

Embracing a certain quotient of racial bias and discrimination against the poor is an inexorable aspect of supporting capital punishment. This is an immoral condition that makes rejecting the death penalty on moral grounds not only defensible but necessary for those who refuse to accept unequal or unjust administration of punishment.

Cesare Beccaria

Crimes are more effectually prevented by the certainty than the severity of punishment

Charles Spurgeon

Death is no punishment to the believer: it is the gate of endless joy.

Chanakya

Punishment when awarded with due consideration, makes the people devoted to righteousness and to works productive of wealth and enjoyment.

Charles Caleb Colton

The moral cement of all society is virtue; it unites and preserves, while vice separates and destroys.

William Shakespeare

For in the fatness of these pursy times Virtue itself of vice must pardon beg.

Juvenal

Vice deceives us when dressed in the garb of virtue.

Juvenal

The love of popularity holds you in a vice.

Diane Arbus

One thing that struck me early is that you don’t put into a photograph what’s going to come out. Or, vice versa, what comes out is not what you put in.

Arthur Helps

The world will tolerate many vices, but not their diminutives.

Elfriede Jelinek

Vice is basically the love of failure.

Benjamin Franklin

Let thy vices die before thee.

David Hume

The end of all moral speculations is to teach us our duty; and, by proper representations of the deformity of vice and beauty of virtue, beget correspondent habits, and engage us to avoid the one, and embrace the other.

David Mitchell

Folks with most to complain about seldom complain most.

Jan Brewer

The Democrats complain; I choose to compete.

Jane Wagner

It's my belief we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain.

Chris Christie

The fact is that, once you are the person - and Ms.[Hillary] Clinton is the person who injected this type of commentary [bigot] into this race [2016] - once you inject that type of commentary into this race, you can't then sit back and start complaining about it or have some of your handmaidens in the media complain about it.

Cher

Sometimes I feel like an old hooker.

Bruce Campbell

We make our own problems every time. Everything that we complain about is something we can solve.

Brian Tracy

Never criticize, condemn or complain in a conversation with a customer or prospect.

Charles Goodyear

I am not disposed to complain that I have planted and others have gathered the fruits.

Benjamin Hoff

Unfortunately complaining is one thing Eeyores are not afraid to do. They grudgingly carry their thimbles to the Fountain of Life, then mumble and grumble that they weren't given enough.