Famous Quotes & Sayings

Auberon Waugh

The main objection to killing people as a punishment...is that killing people is wrong

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.

Eddie Vedder

After the Ramones, it was more about new wave for me than punk.

Elizabeth Bibesco

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

Edna O'Brien

Irish Catholicism is very much founded on the stone of fear and of punishment.

Anton Chekhov

It is the writer's business not to accuse and not to prosecute, but to champion the guilty, once they are condemned and suffer punishment.

August Strindberg

Religion must be a punishment, because nobody gets religion who does not have a bad conscience.

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.

Bertrand Russell

Prison is a severe and terrible punishment; but for me, thanks to Arthur Balfour, this was not so. I was much cheered on my arrival by the warder at the gate, who had to take particulars about me. He asked my religion, and I replied 'agnostic.' He asked how to spell it, and remarked with a sigh: 'Well, there are many religions, but I suppose they all worship the same God.' This remark kept me cheerful for about a week.

Benigno Aquino III

The message has to be sent that if you commit a crime there has to be punishment.

Steve Yzerman

I don't know much about the techniques of fighting, but I know throwing a punch on skates is a lot different than throwing a punch from the ground.

Gabe Norwood

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Al Madrigal

I'm not much for setup... punch line. I talk about my kids. I talk about my wife.

Frank Luntz

One of the things that you have trouble with politicians, particularly in Washington, is when you get mad at them and you can't touch them; you can't punch them; you can't yell at them.

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

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.

Killing me doesn't punish me, it punishes my family,

He's a tough guy. He had to be with all the punishment he was taking.

He tends to remind me about that a lot. You just have to roll with the punches around here.

Khalil Gibran

What do the nationalists say about killers punishing murderers and thieves sentencing looters?

Stella Young

The purpose of our justice system is to reflect the values of our society and to punish those who violate our standards.

It is a terrible thing that happened, and they will be punished accordingly.

Omar Suleiman

I think it (suspending aid) will be a punishment for the people, which we don't want.

C. S. Lewis

...this new idea of cure instead of punishment, so humane in seeming, had in fact deprived the criminal of all rights and by taking away the name Punishment made the thing infinite.

Melissa McCarthy

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