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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
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 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
Justice is never advanced in the taking of human life.
— Coretta Scott King
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
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
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
Standing alone among great democratic nations in imposing the death penalty is another moral decision that Americansare being forced to confront.
— Jimmy Carter
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
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
Hellbound — David McCaffrey
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
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
The death penalty symbolizes whom we fear and don't fear, whom we care about and whose lives are not valid.
— Bryan Stevenson
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
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
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
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
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
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