Justifications For Punishment Quotes & Sayings

It was an hour before the first shark hit him. — Ernest Hemingway,

How does it happen, Maecenas, that no one is content with that lot in life which he has chosen, or which chance has thrown in his way, but praises those who follow a different course?
[Lat., Qui fit, Maecenas, ut nemo quam sibi sortem,
Seu ratio dederit, seu fors objecerit, illa
Contentus vivat? laudet diversa sequentes.] — Horace

If you really, really want me to stop touching you, I will. I swear it ... But if you want me to keep touching you, all you have to do is say please, and it'll be done. I'll touch you all night. All you have to do is ask. — Elle Casey

I would like to sleep, in order to surrender myself to the dreamers, the way I surrender myself to those who read me with eyes wide open; in order to stop imposing, in this realm, the conscious rhythm of my thought. — Andre Breton

Even after Independence, we have had to face the poison of casteism and communalism. How long these evils will continue? Whom does it benefit? — Narendra Modi

Most people know nothing about freedom; only the facsimile of freedom into which they were inculcated. — Bryant McGill

Loveliest of trees, the cherry now
Is hung with bloom along the bough. — A.E. Housman

German? I don't know what that means ... we don't say that in America — Justin Bieber

You may be able to read Bernard Shaw's plays, you may be able to quote Shakespeare or Voltaire or some new philosopher; but if you in yourself are not intelligent, if you are not creative, what is the point of this education? — Jiddu Krishnamurti

But she never knew what it was like to walk away from the thing she had most wanted. Years later she would say, Photography allowed me to make the world and be in the world. — Whitney Otto

The longer you pause to process surprising or negative feedback, the more likely you are to learn from it. — Susan Cain

Writing for theatre is certainly different to writing an essay or any other kind of fiction or prose: it's physical. You're also telling a story, but sometimes the story isn't exactly what you intend; maybe you uncover something you had no idea you were going to uncover. — Sam Shepard

It's ridiculous for a country to get all worked up about a game - except the Super Bowl, of course. Now that's important. — Andy Rooney

She realises that if she is to save the show she is going to have to improvise a rousing speech, one of the many Henry V moments that make up her working life. — David Nicholls

There is a popular superstition that "realism" asserts itself in the cataloguing of a great number of material objects, in explaining mechanical processes, the methods of operating manufactories and trades, and in minutely and unsparingly describing physical sensations. But is not realism, more than it is anything else, an attitude of mind on the part of the writer toward his material, a vague indication of the sympathy and candour with which he accepts, rather than chooses, his theme? — Willa Cather