Smiley was soaked to the skin and God as a punishment had removed all taxis from the face of London. — John le Carre Copy Share Image
This game is repeated again and again, and in it the role of the so-called 'German princes' is just as miserable as… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
In a thousand years, archeologists will dig up tanning beds and think we fried people as punishment. — Olivia Wilde Copy Share Image
That is the bitterest of all,--to wear the yoke of our own wrong-doing. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Many of us do not believe in capital punishment, because thus society takes from a man what society cannot give. — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Copy Share Image
I do what I do without hope of reward or fear of punishment. I do not require Heaven or Hell to bribe… — Mary Doria Russell Copy Share Image
I knew quite well, when I gave the names of our agents in the Soviet Union, that I was exposing them to… — Aldrich Ames Copy Share Image
Enlightenment is its own reward, its own punishment. You begin to see so much more. And so much more sees you. — Laird Barron Copy Share Image
“Sloane wasn't interested. As a police officer he was concerned with crime, not punishment.” — Catherine Aird Copy Share Image
Innovation is a big risk. It can also be a big reward - but a big punishment if you fail. — David Cage Copy Share Image
Should any American soldier be so base and infamous as to injure any Canadian or Indian in his person or property, I… — George Washington Copy Share Image
I have yet to see a death case among the dozen coming to the Supreme Court on eve-of-execution stay applications in which… — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
Four things does a reckless man gain who covets his neighbor's wife - demerit, an uncomfortable bed, thirdly, punishment, and lastly, hell. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Because this is Upper Canada, after all, and 'caning' sounds more English than 'having ass whipped to death with hickory stick.” — Allan Dare Pearce Copy Share Image
A literary creation can appeal to us in all sorts of ways-by its theme, subject, situations, characters. But above all it appeals… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
Retribution is tricky. . . . The insult isn't usually worth the risk of punishment. And eventually one learns that karma has… — Candace Bushnell Copy Share Image
Often a man endures for several years, submits and suffers the cruellest punishments, and then suddenly breaks out over some minute trifle,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Don't punish the one in front of you, for the mistakes made by the one behind you. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Marijuana is self-punishing. It makes you acutely sensitive, and in this world, what worse punishment could there be? — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
I think there's rehabilitation that is necessary for everyone, and I'm less interested in violence and punishment and much more interested in… — Eva Victor Copy Share Image
The alternative to forgiveness, but by no means its opposite, is punishment, and both have in common that they attempt to put… — Hannah Copy Share Image
“The child is brought up to know its social duties by means of a system of love-rewards and punishments, and in this… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
When we do align with it, we thrive. And when we do not, we suffer. This is not "punishment." It is merely… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
