Famous Quotes & Sayings

Omar Suleiman

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

Saint Augustine

Let us understand that God is a physician, and that suffering is a medicine for salvation, not a punishment for damnation.

William J. Brennan

Capital punishment...treats members of the human race...as objects to be toyed with and discarded.

William J. Brennan

The principle inherent in the clause that prohibits pointless infliction of excessive punishment when less severe punishment can adequately achieve the same purposes invalidates the punishment.

Woody Allen

Capital punishment would be more effective as a preventive measure if it were administered prior to the crime.

William Gilmore Simms

To make punishments efficacious, two things are necessary. They must never be disproportioned to the offence, and they must be certain.

William Ellery Channing

No punishment is so terrible as prosperous guilt.

Ric Flair

I can take more punishment than anyone in the business.

Robert Duvall

I wanted to show that crime doesn't pay. If you are saved and accept the Lord, you cannot use that as an excuse to avoid punishment.

Matt Stone

He wants a different standard for religions other than his own, and to me, that is where intolerance and bigotry begin.

Richard Dawkins

Science shares with religion the claim that it answers deep questions about origins, the nature of life, and the cosmos. But there the resemblance ends. Scientific beliefs are supported by evidence, and they get results. Myths and faiths are not and do not.

William James

Religions have approved themselves; they have ministered to sundry vital needs which they found reigning. When they violated other needs too strongly, or when other faiths came which served the same needs better, the first religions were supplanted.

William Cowper

Religion, if in heavenly truths attired, Needs only to be seen to be admired.

Robert Southey

Without religion the highest endowments of intellect can only render the possessor more dangerous if he be ill disposed; if well disposed, only more unhappy.

Sandra Day O'Connor

(W)e do not count heads before enforcing the First Amendment.

Neale Donald Walsch

Everywhere religion has gone it has created disunity.

Marcel Proust

Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.

Jorge Luis Borges

To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.

Sandra Bullock

I've pretty much kicked over every stone. And there's nothing in me that says, "I must create this particular thing."

Tyra Banks

I've always seen modeling as a stepping stone.

Walter Winchell

He (Alexander Woollcott) always praises the first production of each season, being reluctant to stone the first cast.

Louis MacNeice

Let them not make me a stone and let them not spill me, otherwise kill me.

Eric Kripke

When you start a show, the plans are not set in stone. They're really mutable, cocktail napkin sketches.

Keith Richards

The Stones in a club is still the ultimate rush.

Muddy Waters

I rambled all the time. I was just like that, like a rollin' stone.

Elizabeth I

The stone often recoils on the head of the thrower.

Lenny Bruce

If you can take the hot lead enema, then you can cast the first stone.