Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Strahan

He showed a lot of poise. He commands the huddle and he commands the offense.

John Gibbons

His presence, that's a big boy. He commands respect that way.

John Austin

Law is commands joined to threats of punishment

George Orwell

He who controls the past commands the future. He who commands the future conquers the past.

Leonardo da Vinci

He who does not punish evil commands it to be done.

Blaise Pascal

Reason commands us far more imperiously than a master. When we disobey the latter we are punished, when we disobey the former we are fools.

Khalil Gibran

Once I, deemed myself a poet. But when I stood before him in Bethany I knew what is was to hold an instrument with but a single string before one who commands all instruments

R. Bakker

It is the difference in knowledge that commands respect. This is why the true test of every student lies in the humiliation of his master.

Jay Pultz

A person who commands loyalty despite cutting jobs says things.

Rosemary Palmer

He was persuaded that if he joined the Marines he would get a new sense of purpose.

Eduard Limonov

He has joined us without any conditions. Yegor stands for red, Soviet-style nationalism.

Sebastian Coe

I joined the local athletics club when I was 12, that's what I did. I did it of my own volition.

Deirdre O'Kane

I was 25 before I joined the world, in my opinion. I was a very late developer, and everything came late.

Bob Shaw

They wanted me for short relief, ... I joined them in St. Louis and they promptly lost seven in a row. I never pitched because they were never ahead.

Vint Cerf

When I first joined Google in October of 2005, I was warned that I shouldn't be offended if people were doing their e-mails while a meeting was going on.

Kate Thompson

I came to writing because I joined the North Clare Writers' Workshop, which met every week at Ennistymon Library.

Corin Tucker

Twenty years later, twenty years after I joined the women's movement, we're still talking about the same issues. We're still talking about reproductive rights for women, and we're still talking about getting equal pay for women. And that's just frustrating.

Jane Leavy

By the time I joined the 'Washington Post' sports staff in 1979, Red's Runyonesque notion of sports writing was obsolete.

David Barron

he said. ''He significantly narrowed the scope of constitutional protection. It's an unfortunate turn in constitutional law.

Travis Xiong

It is a lot more complicated than it seems. Back in Laos, there is no law on when one can marry. Only reasonable ages.

Tom Angell

We've been trying to repeal this law ever since it was passed in 1998.

Carolyn Brown

I think the ACLU may be able to support the law here in Kansas. It is being written in a way that does not take away the right to assemble.

Mark Almond

Law and order is now a big issue,

Cindy Sheehan

Lawyers in Washington (D.C.) are working on that right now. It should be filed next week.

Peter Andersen

Lawyers can't just get off a plane and walk with their briefcases into the courtroom.

Proverb Proverb

Lawyers and painters can soon make what's black, white.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

LAWYER, n. One skilled in circumvention of the law.

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.