When you see a condemned man on his way to the gallows, it moves you to pity. If you could do something… — Anthony Mary Claret Copy Share Image
Guess what it is that turns plants to coal. Pressure. Guess what it is that turns limestone to marble. Pressure. Guess what… — Franny Billingsley Copy Share Image
Hemans gallows ought to be the fate of all such ambitious men who would involve their country in civil wars, and all… — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
I saw Pastor Bonhoeffer, before taking off his prison garb, kneeling on the floor praying fervently to his God. I was most… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
A member of Parliament to Disraeli: 'Sir, you will either die on the gallows or of some unspeakable disease.' That depends, Sir,'… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Funny stories on set - there are thousands of them, but they are only funny to the people who were on the… — Bruce Campbell Copy Share Image
And now that Thou has restored to me the knowledge of Thyself, O Lord, let thy pardon fall on me, since Thy… — Dominicus Corea Copy Share Image
Heaven knows insanity was disreputable enough, long ago; but now that the lawyers have got to cutting every gallows rope and picking… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If you get hung up on everybody else's hang-ups, then the whole world's going to be nothing more than one huge gallows. — Richard Brautigan Copy Share Image
Swaraj is not meant for cowards, but for those who would mount smilingly to the gallows and refuse even to allow their… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I say that Roger Casement Did what he had to do, He died upon the gallows But that is nothing new. — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
It took time for the church to come to terms with the ignominy of the cross. Church fathers forbade its depiction in… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
In the groves of their academy, at the end of every vista, you see nothing but the gallows. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
I cannot in all conscience agree to anyone being sent to the gallows. God alone can take life because He alone gives… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
When she looked at herself in her wedding photographs, Ammu felt the woman that looked back at her was someone else. A… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“Ay, that I had not done a thousand more. Even now I curse the day—and yet, I think, Few come within the… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I don't think you're dying," I said. "I think you've just got a touch of cancer. He smiled. Gallows humor. — John Green Copy Share Image
The dirty alliance between religious preachers and possessors of power brought the boon of prisons, gallows, knouts and above all such theories… — Bhagat Singh Copy Share Image
Marriage is a call to die [to self]... Christian marriage vows are the inception of a lifelong practice of death, of giving… — R. Kent Hughes Copy Share Image