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.

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.

Francis Quarles

Wickedness is its own punishment.

Mahatma Gandhi

I must not refrain from saying that India can gain more by waiving the right of punishment.

Laird Barron

Enlightenment is its own reward, its own punishment. You begin to see so much more. And so much more sees you.

Oliver Goldsmith

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

Brian Tracy

The future belongs to the risk-takers, not the comfort-seekers .

Alicia Silverstone

All the things I've loved the most in life were my biggest risks.

Anne Lamott

Toni Morrison said, "The function of freedom is to free someone else," and if you are no longer wracked or in bondage to a person or a way of life, tell your story. Risk freeing someone else. Not everyone will be glad that you did. Members of your family and other critics may wish you had kept your secrets. Oh, well, what are you going to do?

Andy Stanley

You won't take risk without courage.

Steve Burns

The ones who make it, are the ones who manage risk.

Sam Keen

There has always been a part of me that saw wilderness and risk-taking as the path to freedom.

Sally Hawkins

You only do good work when you're taking risks and pushing yourself.

Susan Egan

If you're not getting any bad reviews, you're not taking enough risks

Shakti Gawain

Your intuition will most likely push you gently toward taking some appropriate risks and trying new things.

Boris Johnson

I cant remember what my line on drugs is. Whats my line on drugs?

Dave Obey

If you want quality service, you have to pay for it. You don't buy into waste. I have great misgivings about the amount of advertising that we see in the health care field, some by hospitals, a lot by drug companies.

Anna Sui

We have a lot of great vintage stores. I like shopping, in general, so I can simply go to a drugstore and shop.

Daniel Radcliffe

If you spent a proper amount of time with me, you would probably wonder if I was on drugs - I'm not. I'm just incredibly hyperactive and manic. I can be quiet and serious at the same time.

Doug Ose

Drug abuse is a medical disease that requires medical professionals.

Doug Stanhope

If you have a good product. You don't need to advertise. You've done drugs? Did you ever see them advertised?

Tilda Swinton

The work is different in the sense that I haven't had to travel round the world raising money, or work from the genesis of the project. But the collaboration feels clear always, it's sort of my drug, I'm in it for the conversation. The conversation's the most important part of it.

Stephen Colbert

I suppose fear is like a drug. A little bit isn't that bad, but you can get addicted to the consumption and distribution of it.

Hillary Clinton

When I took on the drug companies and the insurance companies for universal health care coverage, they went after me with a vengeance.