Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chris Davis

I accept my punishment and will begin serving my suspension immediately.

Dennis Prager

Opponents of capital punishment argue that the state has no right to take a murderer's life. Apparently, one fact that abolitionists forget or overlook is that the state is acting not only on behalf of society, but also on behalf of the murdered person and the murdered person's family.

Elbert Hubbard

When you grow suspicious of a person and begin a system of espionage upon him, your punishment will be that you will find your suspicions true.

Elbert Hubbard

Punishment - The justice that the guilty deal out to those that are caught.

Eduardo Galeano

Any open net was an unforgivable crime meriting immediate punishment, and [Di Stefano] carried out the sentence by stabbing at it like a mischievous elf.

Ben Jonson

Many punishments sometimes, and in some cases, as much discredit a prince as many funerals a physician.

Ben Jonson

Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.

Elizabeth Bibesco

Are there any punishments in life but our joys turned against us?

Abraham Lincoln

The case of Andrews is really a very bad one, as appears by the record already before me. Yet before receiving this I had orderedhis punishment commuted to imprisonmentand had so telegraphed. I did this, not on any merit in the case, but because I am trying to evade the butchering business lately.

Isabella Rossellini

It always amazed me that people believed I was this beautiful object.

Isabella Rossellini

I'm always a little worried when people have met me in person because I'm worried they'll be disappointed.

Rick Perlstein

Do people still read before bed? I play 'Words With Friends.'

Robert Mankoff

People often ask me about my upbringing, and if there was anything particular about it that made me become a cartoonist.

Robert Mankoff

I don't think most people know what's going to be in their obituary, but I do.

Robert Teeter

There are not enough people out talking about the President positively.

Roger Penrose

Some people take the view that we happen by accident. I think that there is something much deeper, of which we have very little inkling at the moment.

Kristy Swanson

My parents were like the kind of people who read the 'Enquirer' and believed everything it said.

Malorie Blackman

I think what we need, especially in publishing, is more commissioning editors and editors who are people of colour.

Charles Stanley

It is not the trials in your life that develop or destroy you, but rather your response to those hardships.

Charles Spurgeon

Great faith must have great trials.

Bill McCollum

A trial without witnesses, when it involves a criminal accusation, a criminal matter, is not a true trial.

Bernhard Goetz

The whole trial seemed surreal.

Jane Austen

A very short trial convinced her that a curricle was the prettiest equipage in the world.

Richard G. Scott

Trials are not consequences of your disobedience, they are evidence that the Lord feels you are prepared to grow more.

Connie Willis

I watched the entire O.J. Simpson trial, and he was guilty.

Elizabeth Warren

I'm really concerned that too-big-to-fail has become too-big-for-trial.

Ann Coulter

[Alan] Dershowitz has also offered to defend Osama bin Laden in court, saying it would be an act of high patriotism. It's kind of too bad there isn't going to be a trial. Having Dershowitz defend him could be Osama's only shot at not being the least popular person in the courtroom.