Fail Not Under Penalty Quotes & Sayings

In Gethsemane the holiest of all petitioners prayed three times that a certain cup might pass from Him. It did not. — C.S. Lewis

If we execute murderers and there is in fact no deterrent effect, we have killed a bunch of murderers. If we fail to execute murderers, and doing so would in fact have deterred other murders, we have allowed the killing of a bunch of innocent victims. I would much rather risk the former. This, to me, is not a tough call. — John C. McAdams

The freedom which we enjoy in our government extends also to our ordinary life. There, far from exercising a jealous surveillance over each other, we do not feel called upon to be angry with our neighbor for doing what he likes, or even to indulge in those injurious looks which cannot fail to be offensive, although they inflict no positive penalty. — Pericles

No man in public position can, under penalty of forfeiting the right to the respect of those whose regard he most values, fail as the opportunity comes to do all that in him lies for peace. — Theodore Roosevelt

All bosses are interchangeable. The only difference is how they like their tea. — Jodi Taylor

States kill when they apply the death penalty, when they send their people to war, or when they carry out extra-judicial or summary executions. They can also kill by omission, when they fail to guarantee to their people access to the bare essentials for life. — Pope Francis

Verdiana was the child of poor though well-born parents, and her knowledge of the sufferings of the poor from her own experience in early years made her ever full of pity for those in need. — Sabine Baring-Gould

If poems very different from my own bring pleasure to a group of readers, who am I to say that the poems should have been written differently? — James Arthur

With reading, I was very lucky. I had a mother who read to me, not because she had time - she was a busy woman - but she found 10 minutes to come and sit on my bed with a book. — Michael Morpurgo

In all the broad Universe there is no other hope for Man than ourselves. — L. Ron Hubbard

But not me, baby, I've got you to save me. — Tom Petty

Every time he slept over, I took a minute to gaze upon him still sleeping. It gave me a heat in my stomach that I couldn't readily identify and that I wasn't ready to analyze yet. — Anonymous

Subject: Sundown
Date: June 14 2011 09:35
To: Christian Grey
Dear Completely & Utterly Smitten
I love waking up with you, too. But I love being in bed with you and in elevators and on pianos and billiard tables and boats and desks and showers and bathtubs and strange wooden crosses with shackles and four poster beds with red satin sheets and boathouses and childhood bedrooms.
Yours
Sex Mad and Insatiable xx — E.L. James

As a businessman, I know President Obama understands what it takes to spark economic growth, because I have seen him in action. — Austin Ligon

I am with you heart and soul in the great cause to which you are devoting all your energy and your life. — Frank Leslie

We are all visitors in the world and we are crowned guests invited to feast. We depart from the world and leave the world the way we found it. We could own the world yet the world is our master. — David Ssembajjo

God tested Abraham. Temptation is not meant to make us fail; it is meant to confront us with a situation out of which we emerge stronger than we were. Temptation is not the penalty of manhood; it is the glory of manhood. — William Barclay