Best Punished Proverbs
292 Punished quotes by 243 unique authors
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I've always been bad. Probably I shall be bad again, punished again. But the worse I am, the more I need God. I can't shut…
— Evelyn Waugh
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All violence is the result of people tricking themselves into believing that their pain derives from other people and that consequently those people deserve to…
— Marshall B. Rosenberg
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But again and again there comes a time in history when the man who dares to say that two and two make four is punished…
— Albert Camus
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I can indeed hardly see how anyone ought to wish Christianity to be true for if so the plain language of the text seems to…
— Charles Darwin
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If the rest of them can survive only by destroying us, then why should we wish them to survive? . . . Nothing can make…
— Ayn Rand
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Finished, it's finished, nearly finished, it must be nearly finished. Grain upon grain, one by one, and one day, suddenly, there's a heap, a little…
— Samuel Beckett
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In this age, lies were the universal lubricant of the culture. A love of Truth and commitment to it were seldom rewarded and were often…
— Dean Koontz
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Could you please stop with the beating? (Kat) He’s being punished. Hello? This is Tartarus, remember the purpose of this part of the Underworld? We’re…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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Bunbury? Oh, he was quite exploded. Exploded! Was he the victim of a revolutionary outrage? I was not aware that Mr. Bunbury was interested in…
— Oscar Wilde
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Because I have nothing else to live for. You told me of your brother’s betrayal. Imagine your own father calling out his hounds to kill…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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We're not punished for our sins, lad. We're punished by them.
— Jennifer Donnelly
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No one so dislikes being punished unjustly as the person who might have been punished justly on scores of previous occasions, if he had only…
— P.G. Wodehouse
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God has punished the knave, and the devil has drowned the rest.
— Voltaire
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In school we learn that mistakes are bad, and we are punished for making them. Yet, if you look at the way humans are designed…
— Robert Kiyosaki
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Because in fantasy perhaps more than in any other genre, the character is rewarded for making the right choices and punished for making the bad.…
— R A Salvatore
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Lost are we, and are only so far punished, That without hope we live on in desire.
— Dante Alighieri
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What were good and evil, really, but stupid categories? Stupid categories that restricted people and punished or rewarded them based on how they responded to…
— Richelle Mead
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When you have made evil the means of survival, do not expect men to remain good. Do not expect them to stay moral and lose…
— Ayn Rand
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You come before the judgment seat of God full of rebellion and mistakes. Because of his justice he cannot dismiss your sin, but because of…
— Max Lucado
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No more is your master a god, Nobility, but he wants offerings from all. When Black God claims us, who will be punished for giving…
— Tamora Pierce
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The concept of portraying evil and then destroying it - I know this is considered mainstream, but I think it is rotten. This idea that…
— Hayao Miyazaki
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You can't be angry with me, because I am a hundred times more severely punished than you, if only by the fact that I shall…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Attempts to wake before our time are often punished, especially by those who love us most. Because they, bless them, are asleep. They think anyone…
— R. D. Laing
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Christmas was coming. One morning in mid-December, Hogwarts woke to find itself covered in several feet of snow. The lake froze solid and the Weasley…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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One of the worst things about breaking the law is that it puts one at odds with an indeterminate number of other people. This is…
— Sam Harris
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