Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tim Kaine

I'm not going to be anybody's punching bag.

Ronald Reagan

In case anybody asks you about my position on capital punishment, you can tell them I favor it; and if they want to know why, you can tell them this story.

Ron Perlman

That's always been Guillermo's preference, is to have as much there practically as is humanly possible, and that digital graphic images are more a punctuation mark than they are a replacement.

Shunryu Suzuki

Hell is not punishment, it's training.

Lady Gregory

Well, there's no one at all, they do be saying, but is deserving of some punishment from the very minute of his birth.

Terry Pratchett

This was the definition of eternity; it was the space of time devised by the Great God Om to ensure that everyone got the punishment that was due to them.

Marc Jacobs

Grunge is a hippied romantic version of punk.

Simone Weil

Punishment is a vital need of the human soul.

Simone Weil

Whenever a human being, through the commission of a crime, has become exiled from good, he needs to be reintegrated with it through suffering. The suffering should be inflicted with the aim of bringing the soul to recognize freely some day that its infliction was just.

Julius Caesar

It is the custom of the immortal gods to grant temporary prosperity and a fairly long period of impunity to those whom they plan to punish for their crimes, so that they may feel it all the more keenly as a result of the change in their fortunes.

Otto von Bismarck

Let them stew in their own grease (or juice).

Oscar Wilde

If you want to be a grocer, or a general, or a politician, or a judge, you will invariably become it; that is your punishment. If you never know what you want to be, if you live what some might call the dynamic life but what I will call the artistic life, if each day you are unsure of who you are and what you know you will never become anything, and that is your reward.

Ovid

Let those who have deserved their punishment, bear it patiently. [Lat., Aequo animo poenam, qui meruere, ferant.]

Ovid

It is less to suffer punishment than to deserve it. [Lat., Estque pati poenas quam meruisse minus.]

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If we could do away with death, we wouldn't object; to do away with capital punishment will be more difficult. Were that to happen, we would reinstate it from time to time.

John Locke

If punishment reaches not the mind and makes not the will supple, it hardens the offender.

Penelope Fitzgerald

An unjust punishment is never forgotten.

Robert Herrick

Who with a little cannot be content, endures an everlasting punishment.

Tamora Pierce

Face it," Gary told her kindly. "You'll never catch up. You just do as much as you can and take the punishments without saying anything. Sometimes I wonder if that isn't what they're really trying to teach us--to take plenty and keep our mouths shut.

Tacitus

Every great example of punishment has in it some injustice, but the suffering individual is compensated by the public good.

Ujjwal Nikam

I am in favour of capital punishment if the execution of the sentence is immediate. The purpose of the death penalty is to send out a message to society.

Robert Mugabe

Was it not enough punishment and suffering in history that we were uprooted and made helpless slaves not only in new colonial outposts but also domestically.

Richard Paul Evans

People aren't wired to be alone. Even in the stressful population of prison, solitary confinement is still considered a cruel punishment.

Saint Augustine

Let us understand that God is a physician, and that suffering is a medicine for salvation, not a punishment for damnation.

Thomas Paine

Lay then the axe to the root, and teach governments humanity. It is their sanguinary punishments which corrupt mankind.

Robert Baden-Powell

Correcting bad habits cannot be done by forbidding or punishment.

Ric Flair

I can take more punishment than anyone in the business.

Spiro T. Agnew

The criminal left belongs not in a dormitory, but in a penitentiary.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

People who are well represented at trial do not get the death penalty.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

I have yet to see a death case among the dozen coming to the Supreme Court on eve-of-execution stay applications in which the defendant was well represented at trial... People who are well represented at trial do not get the death penalty.

Tony Campolo

I contend that it's impossible to read the Sermon on the Mount and not come out against capital punishment.

Tim Vine

If you compulsively pun you are called a paronomasiac.

Thomas Bernhard

I would be the unhappiest person imaginable, confronted daily with disastrous works crying out with errors, imprecision, carelessness, amateurishness. I avoided this punishment by destroying them, I thought, and suddenly I took great pleasure in the word destroying.