Famous Quotes & Sayings

B. F. Skinner

Death does not trouble me. I have no fear of supernatural punishments, of course, nor could I enjoy an eternal life in which there would be nothing left for me to do, the task of living having been accomplished.

B. F. Skinner

Except when physically restrained, a person is least free or dignified when he is under threat of punishment, and unfortunately most people often are.

C. S. Lewis

...this new idea of cure instead of punishment, so humane in seeming, had in fact deprived the criminal of all rights and by taking away the name Punishment made the thing infinite.

Omar Suleiman

I think it (suspending aid) will be a punishment for the people, which we don't want.

Paul Asfour

It doesn't surprise me the punishment is so lenient.

Brandon Johnson

He's a tough guy. He had to be with all the punishment he was taking.

Chris Davis

I accept my punishment and will begin serving my suspension immediately.

Bertrand Russell

Prison is a severe and terrible punishment; but for me, thanks to Arthur Balfour, this was not so. I was much cheered on my arrival by the warder at the gate, who had to take particulars about me. He asked my religion, and I replied 'agnostic.' He asked how to spell it, and remarked with a sigh: 'Well, there are many religions, but I suppose they all worship the same God.' This remark kept me cheerful for about a week.

Benigno Aquino III

The message has to be sent that if you commit a crime there has to be punishment.

Becca Fitzpatrick

You’re impinging on my private space,” I said, inching backward. Patch gave a barely-there smile. "Impinging? This isn’t the SAT, Nora.

Barry McGuire

You may leave here for four days in space, but when you return it's the same old place.

Cecil Taylor

Rhythm is the life of space of time danced through.

Carrie Fisher

As we all know, there is no underwear in space.

Carl Sagan

By looking far out into space we are also looking far back into time, back toward the horizon of the universe, back toward the epoch of the Big Bang.

Bernard Berenson

In figure painting, the type of all painting, I have endeavoured to set forth that the principal if not sole source of life enchantments are Tactile Values, Movement and Space Composition.

Antoni Tapies

A cross could be a shape for expressing something spacious, such as the coordinators of space. That could be called its first significance or its first relevance.

Geoffrey Canada

It is important to have permanent safe spaces in Harlem.

Josh Smith

I'd like to see how space is. I'd like to float.

Bharati Mukherjee

My life has gotten a little more complicated than my ability to describe it. That used to be the definition of madness, now it's just continuous overload.

Bill Hybels

Great leadership is by definition relentlessly developmental.

Benito Mussolini

The definition of fascism is The marriage of corporation and state

Ben Okri

We have not yet arrived, but every point at which we stop requires a re-definition of our destination.

Art Spiegelman

Well, I am not 100 percent sure of the definition of polemic, but it wasn't meant to convince anybody of anything.

Aristotle

If 'bounded by a surface' is the definition of body there cannot be an infinite body either intelligible or sensible.

Aristotle

1 is not prime, by definition. 2 is an unnatural prime, 4 is an unnatural prime, and 6 is an unnatural prime. All other natural primes cannot be unnatural primes.

Albert Einstein

The true definition of madness is repeating the same action, over and over, hoping for a different result.

Adam Carolla

The very definition of 'beauty' is outside.