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Soft living imposes on us the penalty of debility; we cease to be able to do the things we've long been grudging about doing. — Seneca.

Lukewarm people don't really want to be saved from their sin; they want only to be saved from the penalty of their sin. — Francis Chan

Judged by the law of England, I know this crime entails upon me the penalty of death; but the history of Ireland explains that crime and justifies it. — Thomas Francis Meagher

The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence. — H.L. Mencken

The penalty of success is to be bored by the attentions of people who formerly snubbed you. — Mary Wilson Little

A penalty is a cowardly way to score. — Pele

the Bank's proper role in a crisis as the 'lender of last resort', to lend freely, albeit at a penalty rate, to combat liquidity crises.42 — Niall Ferguson

The death penalty doesn't need your assent to continue ... it needs your indifference. — Ray Krone

The attorney general doesn't favor one method or the other, he favors the death penalty. — Bob Butterworth

I was badly mauled by people in New York State for being against the death penalty for 12 years. — Mario Cuomo

Beauty was not everything. Beauty had this penalty - it came too readily, came too completely. It stilled life - froze it. — Virginia Woolf

There are no opportune times for a penalty, and this is not one of those times. — Jack Youngblood

Justice is never advanced in the taking of human life. — Coretta Scott King

I'm very glad that [the death penalty] hasn't existed for many years in the U.K. — Hilary Swank

After Chernobyl, thousands and thousands of people, if not millions, were given a death penalty and had to pay the price, our father among them. — Wladimir Klitschko

The death penalty is reserved for people who do not — Paul Simon

I know the dark delight of being strange, The penalty of difference in the crowd, The loneliness of wisdom among fools ... — Claude McKay

Your best penalty killer is your goalie. — Dave Allison

Penalty is different than punishment, because it offers something with which to regain honor. — Vanna Bonta

I haven't committed all the crimes in my movies, I would have gotten the death penalty many years ago if I had. — John Waters

That was the perfect penalty - apart from he missed it. — Rob McCaffrey

No true love there can be without Its dread penalty
jealousy. — Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl Of Lytton

The death penalty can be imposed fairly only after carefully considering all the reasons why death might not be the appropriate sentence — Bryan Stevenson

It is well-nigh obvious that those who are in favor of the death penalty have more affinities with murderers than those who oppose it. — Remy De Gourmont

The hangman is a disgrace to any civilized country. — Arthur Koestler

PARDON, v. To remit a penalty and restore to the life of crime. To add to the lure of crime the temptation of ingratitude. — Ambrose Bierce

You don't want to be giving away free-kicks in the penalty area ... — Ron Atkinson

It's very rare that someone gets the death penalty for charges of conspiracy, for his influence, for his Svengali-Rasputin act. — Raymond Pettibon

I am sorry my life is so marred and maimed by extravagance. But I cannot live otherwise. I, at any rate, pay the penalty of suffering. — Oscar Wilde

Staying out of the penalty box will really help. — Bobby Orr

Law without penalty is only advise. — Adrian Rogers

The joy of seeing Yuri Gagarin flying in space is only superseded by the joy of a good penalty save. — Lev Yashin

Bob loses saving throw vs. shiny with a penalty of -5. Bob takes 2d8 damage to the credit card. — Charles Stross

The living have a simple choice. They can pay a high penalty for believing their lies - sheer stupidity! - or laugh at themselves and be happy. — Miguel Ruiz

My main area of activism is the death penalty, and it will continue to be once this crisis is over with. — Steve Earle

Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. — J.R.R. Tolkien

That is the creative artist - a penalty of the creative artist - wanting to make order out of chaos. — Ursula Nordstrom

He didn't give the penalty but I've seen them given for worse — Angus Loughran

Kids. They're not easy. But there has to be some penalty for sex. — Bill Maher

Standing alone among great democratic nations in imposing the death penalty is another moral decision that Americansare being forced to confront. — Jimmy Carter

If Kyle Korver blocks your shot there should be a penalty box you should go to! — Jeff Van Gundy

Only the man who has enough good in him to feel the justice of the penalty can be punished. — William Ernest Hocking

You do not cut a check in the state of Kansas to John Doe, executioner. The executioner is paid in cash so there's no trail to him — George Plimpton

do you believe
in the
death penalty?"
he asked her.

"you mean being
sober?"
she laughed. — Christopher Poindexter

The penalty for summoning the dead back to earth is death; if the summoned spirit does not kill its summoner, be assured the Church will. — Stacia Kane

The condemned man's voice is laced with dark promise as he continues. "Remember Father, evil is simply 'live' spelt backwards."

Hellbound — David McCaffrey

The penalty for planting the wrong thing in the wrong place is death. — Cassandra Danz

Other states are trying to abolish the death penalty ... mine's putting in an express lane. — Ron White

Everyone is calm and collected but I am telling you something - I am not calm and I am not collected. It's a sick world out there. — Clive Stafford Smith

Sometimes you just have the thin the herd. — Dennis Miller

Avoid the penalties of the blame game. You were born to be boss player, not a blame giver. Stop the blame! — Israelmore Ayivor

I play the game as honestly as I can. If the referee gives a penalty there is nothing you can do. — Wayne Rooney

Taxes are a penalty on progress. — James Cook

Are you the sum total of your worst acts? — Bryan Stevenson

The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat. — Albert Einstein

Capital punishment is the most premeditated of murders. — Albert Camus

The penalty for getting mugged in an American city and losing your ID is that you can't fly home. — Christopher Hitchens

Given the irreversibility of the death penalty, the possibility of a wrongful conviction can never be overstated — George Gascon

If failure had no penalty success would not be a prize. — Terry Pratchett

I will obey every law, or submit to the penalty. — Chief Joseph

I'm for a stronger death penalty. — George W. Bush

Do they deserve to die?" but "Do we deserve to kill them? — Helen Prejean

There's a second life involved. No matter what your position is on abortion or the death penalty, you shouldn't put a pregnant woman to death. — George H. W. Bush

Any penalty - I've told you a hundred times - can be eliminated by concentration or good judgment. — Bill Parcells

Fear comes from the imagination, it's a penalty, it's the price for imagination — Thomas Harris

That was never a penalty in a million planets. — Alan McInally

Corporeal punishment falls far more heavily than most weighty pecuniary penalty. — Seneca The Younger

I Don't Want To Live Long. I Would Rather Get The Death Penalty Than Spend The Rest Of My Life In Prison — Theodore Kaczynski

As a Christian, as an individual, as a doctor, I am absolutely opposed to the death penalty. — Joycelyn Elders

I am against the death penalty. — Andrew Cuomo

I believe that the death penalty is the ultimate deterrent to violent crime ... period. — Troy King

The death penalty symbolizes whom we fear and don't fear, whom we care about and whose lives are not valid. — Bryan Stevenson

McVeigh's lawyer got him the death penalty, which, quite frankly, I could have done. — Jon Stewart

We have a legal system, and we have a penal code. We have the death penalty in Saudi Arabia, and people should respect this. — Adel Al-Jubeir

I was personally opposed to the death penalty, and yet I think I have probably asked for the death penalty more than most people in the United States. — Janet Reno

You see,' [Armand] said, 'killing other vampires is very exciting; that is why it is forbidden under penalty of death. — Anne Rice

The words, 'penalty,' 'restrict' and 'violate' appeared more times in President Clinton's health care reform bill than in his crime bill. — Steve Forbes

I am haunted by the demon of error - error in determining guilt and error in determining who among the guilty deserves to die. — George Ryan

But Montague is bound as well as I,
In penalty alike; and 'tis not hard, I think,
For men so old as we to keep the peace. — William Shakespeare

Every instance of a man's suffering the penalty of the law is an instance of the failure of that penalty in effecting its purpose, which is to deter. — Richard Whately

I believe that more people would be alive today if there were a death penalty. — Nancy Reagan

Those whose conscience demands that they defy authority in some ways that involve great consequences must be willing to accept some penalty. — Joseph Wood Krutch

I am passionately opposed to the death penalty for anyone ... I think, myself, that it is an obscenity ... — Desmond Tutu

What you do to these men on California's Death Row, you do to God. — Mother Teresa

I support the death penalty and will continue to do that. — Rick Santorum

In Christ alone, and His payment of the penalty for our sins upon the Cross, we find reconciliation to God and ultimate meaning and purpose. — Dave Hunt

Penalty shooting is always an uncertain affair because there is a lot of luck involved. — Franz Beckenbauer

Indifference and inaction must always pay a penalty. — William Feather

The death penalty would be even more effective, as a deterrent, if we executed a few innocent people more often. — Edward Abbey

I want to accelerate, not slow down, the enforcement of the death penalty in Florida. — Jeb Bush

As the Palestinian leadership never seems to pay any penalty for its words, America's seriousness about the peace process is in doubt. — Elliott Abrams

The death sentence is a barbaric act. — Nelson Mandela

That led me to say that when push comes to shove, I'm against capital punishment. — Scott Turow

In Texas, we have the death penalty, and we use it. That's right. If you come to Texas and kill somebody, we will kill you back. — Ron White

It was a fair decision, the penalty, even though it was debatable whether it was inside or outside the box. — Bobby Charlton

Most conservatives also believe in the death penalty, but not abortion, which proves they like to procrastinate. — Margaret Cho

I'm actually really opposed to the death penalty. — Bill Paxton

When the SEC needs to be deterring corporate wrongdoing, the 'penalty pilot' program sends the wrong message. — Mary Schapiro

Attempted murder should carry the same penalty as first-degree murder. Otherwise, you're simply rewarding incompetence. — Burt Prelutsky

There is no worse penalty for vice than the fact that it is dissatisfied with itself and all its fellows. — Seneca.