164 Punishment Quotes for You to Enjoy

Zero-tolerance on drinking and driving - meaning no drinking at all before driving - is a collective punishment that, in essence, only affects responsible adults who follow the law. David Harsanyi

Law Collective Drinking Before Punishment Responsible Follow Only Adult Driving Affects Essence Meaning Who

I wanted to have no ribs. I wore what was called a waist-nipper in those days. My mother made it. It's a piece of rubber band I wore around to hold my rib cage in. I don't know why I always loved that. I guess I was a glutton for punishment. I think I was born one of those people who loved swords and fought in armor. Debbie Reynolds

People Mother Made Band Think Guess Those Punishment Born Cage Days Know Piece Armor Around Always Wanted Hold Loved Ribs Wore Who Fought Why Swords Rubber

All persons harboring or secreting the conspirators or aiding their concealment or escape, will be treated as accomplices in the murder of the President and shall be subject to trial before a military commission, and the punishment of death. Edwin M. Stanton

Death Will Before Military President Trial Punishment Shall Concealment Subject Escape Commission Persons Treated

Healthy eating isn't supposed to be about self-denial; it's not a punishment. Ella Woodward

Healthy Punishment Eating About Self-Denial Supposed

Corporal punishment is as humiliating for him who gives it as for him who receives it; it is ineffective besides. Neither shame nor physical pain have any other effect than a hardening one. Ellen Key

Everyone has a point of view about corporal punishment. Essie Davis

Corporal Everyone Punishment About Point Point Of View View

If one is going to plagiarize, it pays to be in politics, where the expectation for remorse and the likelihood of punishment are minimal. Evan Osnos

Politics Expectation Punishment Minimal Remorse Likelihood Going Where Pays

Wickedness is its own punishment. Francis Quarles

Own Punishment Wickedness

Punishment is lame, but it comes. George Herbert

Punishment Lame

Nothing will deter crime but the certainty of punishment. Grace Poe

Crime Will Nothing Punishment Deter Certainty

And then ESPN fired me. I did not think that was a fitting punishment. Gregg Easterbrook

Me Think Punishment Fired Fitting Did ESPN Then

Judges have a hard job. It's not just putting someone in jail or slapping someone on the wrist and giving them a punishment, but it's protecting society as a whole. Ha Ha Clinton-Dix

Job Giving Society Punishment Someone Wrist Putting Protecting Judges Jail Just Them Hard Hard Job Whole Slapping

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

World Punishment Out Ability Both Absolutely Writer He Part Almost Talent Himself Equipment Up Hands Stand Stand Up Necessary

I tend to listen to music more than I read. I need to get into reading a bit more. The stuff I tend to read is usually non-fiction books more than fiction, but I've been trying to power my way through Dostoevsky's 'Crime and Punishment,' and I do enjoy it. Isaac Hempstead Wright

At the school I attended, the clergyman who ran the cathedral school in Shanghai would give lines to the boys as a punishment. They expected you to copy out, say, 20 or 30 pages from one of the school texts. But I found that rather than laboriously copying out something from a novel by Charles Dickens, it was easier if I made it up myself. J. G. Ballard

Myself You School Made Ran Say Easier Punishment Out Would Charles Charles Dickens Give Something Rather Shanghai Attended Clergyman Cathedral Boy Lines Dickens Up Texts Than Expected Pages Who Novel Found Copy Copying

I wanted to get punished, and I took unnecessary punishment when I was fighting. Jake LaMotta

Fighting Took Punished Punishment Unnecessary Get Wanted

I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment. James Madison

Regret Trial Punishment Abolition Entire Fair Capital Capital Punishment Should Full

What has too often happened in the past is that people have threatened punishment but have failed to carry it out. It's imperative in any initiative that is undertaken that punishment be real and that there be truth in sentencing, and that the truly dangerous offenders - the recidivists and the career criminals - be put away and kept away. Janet Reno

Truth People Dangerous Past Too Criminals Punishment Out Carry Threatened Be Real Imperative Put Failed Real Undertaken Truly Offenders Any Often Happened In The Past Sentencing Initiative Away Career Kept

One of the problems in America is that everybody focuses on their own narrow little bit of the problem without connecting punishment and prevention together, without connecting the schools and the police together, without connecting the pediatricians and the social workers together. Janet Reno

We've got to understand that the ages of zero to three are the most formative years of a person's life, the time they learn the concept of reward and punishment and develop a conscience, and that 50 percent of all learned human response is learned in the first year of life. Janet Reno

Life Time Reward Three First Year Punishment Response Percent Develop Most Concept Learn Learned Understand Got Years Person Human Formative Ages Zero Conscience

I can do a backflip on the spot. I learned how from watching 'Ninja Turtles' movies as a kid. Whenever the Turtles got in trouble with their teacher, Master Splinter, he'd make them practice backflips as punishment - and I was so focused on becoming one of the Turtles that I taught myself how to do one, too. Jason Mitchell

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