#penal

Other states are trying to abolish the death penalty... mine's putting in an express lane. ↗

— Ron White

#death #death penalty #express #lane #mine

No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic motives, and idealism in our time has been shoved aside, and we are paying the penalty for it. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

#aside #been #does #ever #great

Legislation to create a new 10 percent tax bracket, reduce the marriage penalty, cut the tax rate on dividends and capital gains, and increase the child tax credit have been essential elements in this economic expansion. ↗

— Roger Wicker

#bracket #capital #capital gains #child #create

I saw my parents as gods whose every wish must be obeyed or I would suffer the penalty of anguish and guilt. ↗

— Natalie Wood

#every #gods #guilt #i #must

Everything worthwhile, everything of any value, has its price. Everything anyone has ever wanted has come neatly wrapped up in its penalties. ↗

— Loretta Young

#anyone #come #ever #everything #neatly

There are no opportune times for a penalty, and this is not one of those times. ↗

— Jack Youngblood

#penalty #those #times

In traditional schools, you're penalized for making a mistake. But that won't work in the new information culture, in the digital world we live in today. ↗

— Daniel Greenberg

#digital #digital world #information #live #making

I always try to tell a good story, one with a compelling plot that will keep the pages turning. That is my first and primary goal. Sometimes I can tackle an issue-homelessness, tobacco litigation, insurance fraud, the death penalty-and wrap a good story around it. ↗

— John Grisham

#around #compelling #death #death penalty #first

I'm not in favor of the death penalty. But I'm in favor of locking these people away in maximum security units where they can never get out. They can never escape. They can never be paroled. Lock the bad ones away. But you gotta rethink everybody else. ↗

— John Grisham

#bad #death #death penalty #else #escape

The pressures are intense, because the rewards for success and the penalty for failure are more and more. ↗

— Alan Hansen

#failure #intense #more #more and more #penalty