Punitive Quotes
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Punitive Quotes & Sayings
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Anger is a signal that you're distracted by judgmental or punitive thinking, and that some precious need of yours is being ignored.
— Marshall B. Rosenberg
The punitive measures against murder underscore the gravity of the crime precisely because of the value of the victim.
— R.C. Sproul
THE BEST PLACES I HAVE BEEN TO ARE IN BOOKS.
— Ebimoboere Boleigha
Things never seem as bad as they are.
— Craig L. Rice
One question hovers over all of us who choose to spend our lives writing: why keep doing this in a world where so many forces are aligned against us?
— Bruce Feiler
Those jobs flee other states because of factors like excessive taxation, punitive regulation and frivolous lawsuits.
— Rick Perry
God was treated like this powerful, erratic, rather punitive father who has to be pacified and praised. You know, flattered.
— John Cleese
Nothing is more punitive than to give a disease a meaning - that meaning being invariably a moralistic one.
— Susan Sontag
I think God is everything. Human beings created the punitive, vengeful deity who considers us to be innate sinners.
— Alanis Morissette
I had left the tribe, and I was being punished for that.
— Sherman Alexie
America is a nation fundamentally ambivalent about its children, often afraid of its children, and frequently punitive toward its children.
— Letty Cottin Pogrebin
No one sleeps in Hell except as a possible defensive posture in retaliation during yet another punitive presentation of The English Patient.
— Chuck Palahniuk
He was so handsome I felt like filing a civil lawsuit against his parents, claiming punitive damages, pain and suffering to my psyche.
— Penny Reid
I did a show called 'What A Country,' with Yakov Smirnoff and Don Knotts. I used to write jokes for Yakov's stand-up act.
— Mike Scully
Not to derail the conversation from butts, which we all agree is incredibly important
— Rainbow Rowell
The punitive use of force tends to generate hostility and to reinforce resistance to the very behavior we are seeking.
— Marshall B. Rosenberg
God initiates the salvation of man to express the Father's love, not a punitive deflecting of the Father's anger.
— Garry Wills
The giants of the faith all had one thing in common: neither victory nor success, but passion.
— Philip Yancey
We want people to go to the movies. But the reality is that this is a digital world and we have to adapt to that reality.
— Todd Wagner
She would always be careful around people like Parley Burns, tricky people who are thin skinned and punitive and intelligent and surprisingly honest.
— Elizabeth Hay
The researchers concluded that during intercourse in the missionary position, the penis has the shape of a boomerang.
— Mary Roach
In general, any incoming administration must carefully examine ('vet') its nominees for high public office.
— Richard V. Allen
When I was asked to join this club and I saw the quality and ambitions of the manager it was an easy choice for me to make.
— Ricardo Carvalho