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?

Adolf Hitler

This game is repeated again and again, and in it the role of the so-called 'German princes' is just as miserable as that of the Jews themselves. These lords were really God's punishment for their beloved peoples and find their parallels only in the various ministers of the present time.

Anna Sui

When punk really started to happen, it was a reaction against the disco craze of the time.

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.

Agatha Christie

Evil never goes unpunished, Monsieur. But the punishment is sometimes secret.

Al Madrigal

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

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.

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.

David Frum

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

Doug Stanhope

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

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.

Ambrose Bierce

PENITENT, adj. Undergoing or awaiting punishment.

Ambrose Bierce

Amnesty, n. The state's magnanimity to those offenders whom it would be too expensive to punish.

Aeschylus

Respect the altar of Justice and do not, looking to profit, dishonor it by spurning with godless foot; for punishment will come upon you.

Dorothy Dix

Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets, and takes its own punishment in silence.

Dalai Lama

Sin contains its own judgement and punishment.

David O. McKay

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

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.

David Platt

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