Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

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.

David Platt

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

It is unfair to us and now we are one of the smallest teams in double-A. Other schools have been recruiting and we see it as a punishment because of other schools.

Anna Jameson

Never yet were the feelings and instincts of our nature violated with impunity; never yet was the voice of conscience silenced without retribution.

Nicholas Sparks

...when a wife wouldn't testify, little punishment was meted out. Alex came to understand that only those who pressed charges ever became truly free, because the life they were leading was a prison, even if most of them wouldn't admit it.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Make your way to death row and speak with the tragic victims of criminality. As they prepare to make their pathetic walk to the electric chair, their hopeless cry is that society will not forgive. Capital punishment is society's final assertion that it will not forgive.

George Herbert

The Wolfe must dye in his owne skinne.

Jayne Mansfield

If you're going to do something wrong, do it big, because the punishment is the same either way.

Oscar Wilde

As one reads history ... one is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted.

Pasquier Quesnel

There is no greater punishment than that of being abandoned to one's self.

Lillian Hellman

If you are willing to take the punishment, you're halfway through the battle. That the issues may be trivial, the battle ugly, is another point.

P. G. Wodehouse

Gussie, a glutton for punishment, stared at himself in the mirror.

Ovid

Indulgent gods, grant me to sin once with impunity. That is sufficient. Let a second offence bear its punishment.

Ovid

Death is less bitter punishment than death's delay.

Ovid

The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting.

Mitt Romney

No punishment for women who have partial birth abortions.

R. C. Sproul

The only thing that we have earned at the hands of perfect justice is perfect punishment.

Honore de Balzac

With every one, the expectation of a misfortune constitutes a dreadful, punishment. Suffering then assumes the proportions of the unknown, which is the soul's infinite.

Hypatia

To rule by fettering the mind through fear of punishment in another world is just as base as to use force.

Omar Suleiman

Allah is Most Merciful even when He sends us trials, for even His punishment is for our own good.

Oliver Goldsmith

The work of eradicating crimes is not by making punishment familiar, but formidable.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

There are some duties we owe even to those who have wronged us. There is, after all, a limit to retribution and punishment.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Let the punishment be equal with the offence. [Lat., Noxiae poena par esto.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Anger should never appear in awarding punishment.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Let the punishment be proportionate to the offense.