Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sleep is a reward for some, a punishment for others. For all, it is a sanction.

Daniel Okrent

I know there are reporters who ridicule pundits.

Cormac McCarthy

He thought that in the history of the world it might even be that there was more punishment than crime but he took small comfort from it.

We knew. We didn't want that knockout punch to come.

It was so quiet, you could hear a pun drop.

There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse.

Olympia Snowe

There is only one reason for that change, and it is to punish people.

Kurt Vonnegut

Humanists try to behave decently and honorably without any expectation of rewards or punishments in an afterlife. The creator of the universe has been unknown to us so far. We serve as well as we can to the highest abstraction of which we have some understanding, which is our community.

David Jeremiah

Peter was filled with the Holy Spirit and spoke the Word with boldness. Even when threatened with punishment, he said that he could not help but share the things he had seen and heard.

David O. McKay

The latest I like to be to meeting is 15 minutes early

Gabe Norwood

With a shooter like that, he's going to punish you.

Barack Obama

I've got two daughters. 9 years old and 6 years old. I am going to teach them first of all about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don't want them punished with a baby.

Melissa McCarthy

I was never sullen. I was a terrible punk - I was still so chatty.

We didn't do nothing. How can you punish somebody for doing nothing?

Christopher Paolini

It is a better world. A place where we ate responsible for our actions, where we can be kind to one another because we want to and becauseit is the right thing to do instead of being frightened into behaving by the threat of divine punishment.

Albert Camus

Capital punishment is the most premeditated of murders.

Conrad Black

All emphasis in American prisons is on punishment, retribution, and disparagement, and almost none is on rehabilitation.

Clarence Darrow

Punishment as punishment is not admissible unless the offender has had the free will to select his course.

Doug Stanhope

Every vice is already a punishment in itself... you don't need a ticket on top of it.

David Frum

People need to understand that in Washington, the process is the punishment.

David Platt

And ultimately, If you sin against an infinitely holy and eternal God, you are infinitely guilty and worthy of eternal punishment.

Confucius

If one leads them with administrative measures and uses punishments to make them conform, the people will be evasive, but if one leads them with virtue, they will come up to expectations.

Confucius

Guide them by edicts, keep them in line with punishments, and the common people will stay out of trouble but will have no sense of shame. Guide them by virtue, keep them in line with the rites, and they will, besides having a sense of shame, reform themselves.

David Cameron

You will feel the full force of the law and if you are old enough to commit these crimes you are old enough to face the punishments. And to these people I would say this: you are not only wrecking the lives of others, you are potentially wrecking your own life too.

Alfie Kohn

It's not just that humiliating people, of any age, is a nasty and disrespectful way of treating them. It's that humiliation, like other forms of punishment, is counterproducti ve. 'Doing to' strategies -- as opposed to those that might be described as 'working with' -- can never achieve any result beyond temporary compliance, and it does so at a disturbing cost.

Alfie Kohn

Punishments erode relationships and moral growth.

Andre Gide

In hell there is no other punishment than to begin over and over again the tasks left unfinished in your lifetime.

Anatole Broyard

To be misunderstood can be the writer's punishment for having disturbed the reader's peace. The greater the disturbance, the greater the possibility of misunderstanding.

Anjem Choudary

Whoever insults the message of Mohammed is going to be subject to capital punishment.

Chuck Palahniuk

The joke is, we all have the same punchline.

Chuck Berry

Music is music; you can't change rock and say well this is punk rock and this is acid rock or rockabilly.

Amos Bronson Alcott

Every sin provokes its punishment.

Andrew Fastow

I wish I could undo what I did at Enron but I can't. I understand that I deserve punishment. Your honor, I accept the prison sentence that you are about to impose and will serve it without bitterness.