Famous Quotes & Sayings

Malachy McCourt

That's my punishment in hell, shoveling horseshit.

Mahatma Gandhi

Non -violence is infinitely superior to violence , forgiveness is more manly than punishment. Forgiveness is the ornament.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If we could do away with death, we wouldn't object; to do away with capital punishment will be more difficult. Were that to happen, we would reinstate it from time to time.

Edward Bond

The English sent all their bores abroad, and acquired the Empire as a punishment.

John Locke

If punishment reaches not the mind and makes not the will supple, it hardens the offender.

John le Carre

Smiley was soaked to the skin and God as a punishment had removed all taxis from the face of London.

They figuratively punched him around until he said something.

We wanted to throw the first punch and come out like we did.

Charlotte Bronte

But I feel this, Helen: I must dislike those who, whatever I do to please them, persist in disliking me; I must resist those who punish me unjustly. It is as natural as that I should love those who show me affection, or submit to punishment when I feel it is deserved.

Catherine the Great

All punishments by which the human body might be maimed are barbarbarism.

We didn't do nothing. How can you punish somebody for doing nothing?

David Cameron

You will feel the full force of the law and if you are old enough to commit these crimes you are old enough to face the punishments. And to these people I would say this: you are not only wrecking the lives of others, you are potentially wrecking your own life too.

David Jeremiah

Peter was filled with the Holy Spirit and spoke the Word with boldness. Even when threatened with punishment, he said that he could not help but share the things he had seen and heard.

Gabe Norwood

With a shooter like that, he's going to punish you.

We knew. We didn't want that knockout punch to come.

It was so quiet, you could hear a pun drop.

Olympia Snowe

There is only one reason for that change, and it is to punish people.

Kurt Vonnegut

Humanists try to behave decently and honorably without any expectation of rewards or punishments in an afterlife. The creator of the universe has been unknown to us so far. We serve as well as we can to the highest abstraction of which we have some understanding, which is our community.