Quotes About Punishing

Actually, it's not the impertinence I'm punishing him for, it's that he let other people know what he wanted.

Nature is a miserly accountant, grudging the pennies, watching the clock, punishing the smallest extravagance.

You know you're in trouble when your own imagination starts punishing you.

where does this new personality come in?" The psychiatrist turned back to her. "Well, again, it's just a guess," he said, "but assuming that it is conversion hysteria stemming from guilt, then the second personality is simply the agent who handles the punishing. If Regan herself were to do it, that would mean she would recognize her guilt. But she wants to escape that recognition. Therefore, a second personality.

What about what other people deserve?" I asked vehemently. "Did my mother deserve to die without you there? Did she deserve to spend my entire life in love with a ghost?" "Hannah deserved the world." "So why didn't you give it to her?" I asked. "Why was punishing yourself more important than what she wanted?

Jesus said that we should render to the state what properly belongs to the state, and though he had taxes in mind, we might reasonably infer that giving the state the job of punishing wrongdoers is one way of giving the state its due.

The discrimination of others may be among the most important of abilities because it allows one to handle interactions with many individuals without having to treat them all the same, thus making possible the rewarding of cooperation from one individual and the punishing of defection from another.

In the 1990s, Elinor Ostrom, the American political scientist most responsible for reviving serious thought about commons, studies what specifically makes a commons successful. She concluded that a commons must have an evolving set of rules about access and usage and that it must have a way of punishing transgressions. It must also respect the particular character of the resource being managed and the people who have worked with that resource the longest.

Don Juan: I feel like God is punishing me and I don't know what for. Nurse 2: God's not punishing you. Life is Hell for all of us. You're not special.

Each day, it seemed, another law was passed to impoverish and diminish them, punishing them for whatever success they achieved and rewarding their less competent and industrious neighbors.

And one of the most serious things for me has been the understanding that the Universe is not that interested in punishing us. Every move we make is simply part of its reflection.

You're much better off creating positive rewards, complimenting people for acting correctly, rather than punishing them when they act incorrectly.

We all know showbiz isn't easy, but being a comic - especially being a female comic - can be quite punishing.

When I first started writing comics, in the way-back days, Typhoid Mary was my explosive response to women characters in comics - I made her an innocent virginal type, a clever, dark, liberated woman, and as Bloody Mary, a feminist bent of punishing men - all in one character. She was an instinctual rather than a calculated creation.

Peace cannot come from punishing the Palestinian people.

Customers are enormously punishing when companies don't meet their expectations.

We need a tax code that propels businesses to success rather than punishing them for their success.

Flirting means you are punishing and hurting yourself with your inner negative feelings and desires.

I recall that day on the beach - the sand so brilliant, the clouds so massive, and the wind punishing your hair...

As, therefore, nature knows nothing of good intentions, rewarding and punishing not motives but actions; as things are what they are, describe them as we may, and their consequences will be what they will be.

When you get your powers, you learn a lot about yourself. My professors called me mad. It was time for me to stop punishing myself, and start punishing everybody else.

You know you're in trouble when your own imagination starts punishing you.

It was a punishing whim on my part, a nasty, selfish twist of the knife.

The most common motives for homicide are moralistic: retaliation after an insult, escalation of a domestic quarrel, punishing an unfaithful or deserting romantic partner, and other acts of jealousy, revenge, and self-defense.