Punitive measures whether administered by police, teachers, spouses or parents have well known standard effects: (1) escape-education has its own name for… — B. F. Skinner Copy Share Image
He raised his staff. There was a roll of thunder. The sunlight was blotted out from the eastern windows; the whole hall… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Rough wind, the moanest loud Grief too sad for song; Wild wind, when sullen cloud Knells all the night long; Sad storm,… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
The parent who loves his child dearly but asks for nothing in return might qualify as a saint, but he will not… — Selma Fraiberg Copy Share Image
They dream of men with gentle hands, eloquent with tenderness, fingers that brushed along a cheek, that outlined open lips in the… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
Philosophy is a proud, sullen detector of the poverty and misery of man. It may turn him from the world with a… — Richard Cecil Copy Share Image
Who did you pass on the road?" the King went on, holding out his hand to the Messenger for some more hay.… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
Strong mental agitation and disturbance was no novelty to him, even before his late sufferings. It never is, to obstinate and sullen… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
All that philosophy can teach is to be stubborn or sullen under misfortunes. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
'The Queen Is Dead' is not merely the Smiths' best album, but it is one of those timeless, perfect, inexhaustible artifacts that… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
If health and a fair day smile upon me, I am a very good fellow; if a corn trouble my toe, I… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
There are souls beneath that water. Fixed in slimethey speak their piece, end it, and start again:'Sullen were we in the air… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
Few and precious are the words which the lips of Wisdom utter: To what shall their rarity be likened? What prices shall… — Martin Farquhar Tupper Copy Share Image
The universe is based on sullen entropy; It falls apart as it goes on — Robyn Hitchcock Copy Share Image
Discussing the possibilities of extraterrestrial life: I would love it even if they were short, sullen, grumpy and sexually obsessed. But there… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Usually the modest person passes for someone reserved, the silent for a sullen person — Horace Copy Share Image
Plato is never sullen, Cervantes is never petulant, Demosthenes never comes unseasonably, Dante never stays too long. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Um," Doc said in a mild voice, "medically speaking, I'm not sure that was the most helpful thing for his condition." "But… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
No longer mourn for me when I am dead Than you shall hear the surly sullen bell Give warning to the world… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Oft, on a plat of rising ground, I hear the far-off curfew sound Over some wide-watered shore, Swinging low with sullen roar. — John Milton Copy Share Image
In my craft or sullen art Exercised in the still night When only the moon rages And the lovers lie abed With… — Dylan Thomas Copy Share Image
I do not know much about gods; but I think that the river Is a strong brown god-sullen, untamed and intractable. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“All things that we ordained festival, Turn from their office to black funeral; Our instruments to melancholy bells, Our wedding cheer to… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
What does it mean to love someone with all your heart? It means to love with all your emotional feelings and with… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
Let the winds blow! a fiercer gale Is wild within me! what may quell That sullen tempest? I must sail Whither, O… — Edmund Clarence Stedman Copy Share Image
