Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

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.

George R. R. Martin

Sins may be forgiven. Crimes require punishment.

George Eliot

Loquacity with tongue or pen is its own reward -- or, punishment.

J. C. Ryle

The fear of punishment, the desire of reward, the sense of duty, are all useful arguments, in their way, to persuade people to holiness. But they are all weak and powerless, until a person loves Christ.

Georges Bernanos

Purity is not imposed upon us as though it were a kind of punishment, it is one of those mysterious but obvious conditions of that supernatural knowledge of ourselves in the Divine, which we speak of as faith. Impurity does not destroy this knowledge, it slays our need for it.

Friedrich Nietzsche

One is punished best for one's virtues.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

In a well governed state, there are few punishments, not because there are many pardons, but because criminals are rare; it is when a state is in decay that the multitude of crimes is a gaurantee of impunity.

Bai Ling

I also like to follow nature's rhythm. In times or places, they have their own rhythm. So you cannot push it. So we must accept that as well. Wherever we're born at this time, we just live it.

Eliot Brenner

We ran a number of tests and were not fully satisfied with procedures being followed for accepting cargo. Everyone involved has now been notified and is aware of the correct procedures.

Earl Wilson

We all know it's a high-profile case, ... I don't know Moe Amery from a hole in the ground, so I had no difficulty in accepting the file.

John Watson

I felt it was time to make a change and he was very professional. He was very disappointed, yet accepting of the decision.

Jennifer Fallon

Accept what you can not change-change that which is unacceptable.

James Frey

Let things be, let yourself be, let everything be and accept it as it is. Nothing more. Nothing less.

Saul Alinsky

The establishment can accept being screwed, but not being laughed at

John Gerzema

If men can learn to be less defensive, more open to others, and more accepting of accountability, they will adapt well to the new global economy.

George White

The first attempts embraced information access and not commerce, ... The next phase was commerce, phones connected to Web sites. Now voice portals are accepting phone calls and retrieving information from Web databases, ... databases that would normally be driving Web sites.

Alan McCoy

This is not chest-thumping. This is not done to intimidate. It is about serving our customers." ()