#punishment

The school was prone to dishing out punishments for anything creative that didn't fit with expectation - I just followed the logic and figured the folk club was probably much the same. ↗

— David Knopfler

#club #creative #expectation #figured #fit

Capital punishment is the source of many an argument, both good and bad. ↗

— Marilyn vos Savant

#bad #both #capital #capital punishment #good

An absolutely necessary part of a writer's equipment, almost as necessary as talent, is the ability to stand up under punishment, both the punishment the world hands out and the punishment he inflicts upon himself. ↗

— Irwin Shaw

#absolutely #almost #both #equipment #hands

Let's not talk punishment. ↗

— George Steinbrenner

#talk

AMNESTY, n. The state's magnanimity to those offenders whom it would be too expensive to punish. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#crime #humor #immigration #politics #punishment

Is it not true that in ancient times the worst punishment of all was not death, but banishment? ↗

— Jean Said Makdisi

#community #punishment #death

I forgive you, but only because you said 'please.'" Smartass, I thought. Then I groaned at the instant chorus of "Please!" mixed with cries for release from Vlad's prisoners. No wonder he got so sick of the word. "I'm only merciful to one person a day," he threw over his shoulder. "As the saying goes, today isn't your day and tomorrow doesn't look good, either. ↗

— Jeaniene Frost

#humor #leila #vlad-tepesh #forgiveness

Disgrace does not consist in the punishment, but in the crime. ↗

— Vittorio Alfieri

#crime #disgrace #does #punishment

I am such a bad girl," she thought. Yet... ↗

— Anne Rice

#bad #bdsm #beauty #girl #punishment

I learned early about the misery and dangers of life, and about the afterlife, about the external punishment which awaited the children of sin in Hell. ↗

— Edvard Munch

#afterlife #children #dangers #early #external