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Quotes About Forfeit

If you will take her, you may take her, but if you go from aboard, you shall never come aboard again.
~ William Kidd
Those who cling to worthless idols forfeit the grace that could be theirs" (Jonah 2:8).
~ Randy Alcorn
As soon as a predetermined quantity had been consumed, the final loser would have to perform a forfeit, which was usually obscenely biological. Ford Prefect usually played to lose.
~ Douglas Adams
Women seldom forfeit their claims to respect to men whom they respect.
~ Christian Nestell Bovee
The rights of neutrality will only be respected when they are defended by an adequate power. A nation, despicable by its weakness, forfeits even the privilege of being neutral.
~ Alexander Hamilton
Free men do not forfeit their security, contrary to Bush's claim that we hate freedom. If so, then let him explain to us why we don't strike Sweden, for example.
~ Osama bin Laden
The rights of neutrality will only be respected when they are defended by an adequate power. A nation, despicable by its weakness, forfeits even the privilege of being neutral.
~ Alexander Hamilton
The only way to win a power struggle is to give it up.
~ Robert Mandel
The price we pay is the path not taken, that which we give up.
~ Jean Shinoda Bolen
I can't believe you're going to sacrifice your archery mojo for MacReive. Lucia would forfeit her fantastical skill with a bow if she was unchaste. Who am I going to hang out with when your a talentless nobody?
~ Kresley Cole
Without order, there is chaos. Without order, there is pain. The wheel turns. Lives are forfeit. Seven masters. Seven ways of killing.
~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Now it was as if, at a basketball game, one side would argue about whether the court or the ball was exactly the right size until the other team got pissed off and left, giving them the win on a forfeit.
~ Robert K. Tanenbaum
Attainder was medieval England's great disincentive to treason. It was seen by many as a punishment equally dire as execution. As well as condemning the individual to a traitor's death, it condemned his bloodline to ruin by declaring all titles, property and estate held at the time of the treason forfeit to the crown. The
~ Don Jordan
Many people do not want to forfeit their fears. Fear is the only tool they know.
~ Donald L. Hicks
Most of us continue to believe that those who show utter contempt for human life by committing remorseless, premeditated murder justly forfeit the right to their own life.
~ Alex Kozinski
don't feel like by purchasing a ticket or riding a bus [and having] to forfeit my constitutional rights and my protections and be subject to search or seizure.
~ Jim Marrs
There are some people whose opinion I value and respect and it would be very bothersome if I forfeited their respect. But the general public? I'm not preoccupied with the opinions of others.
~ Conrad Black
In the stands, the audience was divided between booing and cheering. Half of them were upset that the read team had forfeited the race, but the other half were impressed to see a manticore punched.
~ Lou Anders
What does it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his soul?
~ Joel C. Rosenberg
Not many of us are willing to give up everything we have.
~ Roger Moore
To ABDICATE  (A'BDICATE)   v.a.[Lat. abdico.]To give up right; to resign; to lay down an office. Old Saturn, here, with upcast eyes,Beheld his abdicated skies.Addison.
~ Samuel Johnson
A man could find himself in court on trivial or trumped-up charges, his fortune, home or life forfeit.
~ Armand Marie Leroi
These Scriptures, therefore, are infinitely far from justifying the slavery under consideration; for it cannot be made to appear that one in a thousand of these slaves has done any thing to forfeit his own liberty.
~ Samuel Hopkins
Huntly was also taken, but died of a stroke while still mounted on his horse. His corpse was embalmed and sent to Edinburgh, where it was kept until the following May, when it was put on trial in Parliament. As the clerk's report put it, "The coffin was set upright, as if the earl stood on his feet." He was then found guilty of treason, and the family estates were declared forfeit.
~ John Guy