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Quotes About Penalty

La scarcerazione non è liberazione. Si esce dal bagno penale ma non dalla condanna.
~ Victor Hugo
The prison makes the convict.
~ Victor Hugo
If you lose, there's the devil to pay.
~ L.J. Smith
Il peccato, inventato dagli uomini per meritare la pena di vivere, per non essere castigati senza perché.
~ Gesualdo Bufalino
Even someone as lowly as an assistant U.S. attorney has to undergo a background check, and you're asked a series of very invasive questions, and you're expected to tell the truth and they're under penalty of perjury. And you're asked those questions so you can't be blackmailed or extorted.
~ Trey Gowdy
Penalty kicks are so much about confidence and your mentality going into them. If you go walk up to a kick and you're not sure where you're gonna place it, or you're feeling a little uneasy, that's when you often miss it.
~ Julie Foudy
When I step up to that penalty spot, I know the consequences. They're the same whether I miss the first, second, third - or the 10th - it will be the same.
~ Nikita Parris
In the long run, every man will pay the penalty for this own misdeeds.
~ Epictetus
Reply to Objection 3: It is not erroneous to say that men are transferred to the penalty of demons; but some erroneously stated that the demons are nothing but souls of the dead; and it is this that Chrysostom rejects.
~ Thomas Aquinas
So maybe I'll spend some years in prison, but you'll have a big head start on me in hell!
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Beauty was not everything. Beauty had this penalty — it came too readily, came too completely. It stilled life — froze it.
~ Virginia Woolf
But beauty was not everything. Beauty had this penalty - it came too readily, came too completely. It stilled life - froze it. One forgot the little agitations; the flush, the pallor, some queer distortion, some light or shadow, which made the face unrecognisable for a moment and yet added quality one saw for ever after. It was simpler to smooth that all out under the cover of beauty.
~ Virginia Woolf
It is curious how, at every crisis, some phrase which does not fit insists upon coming to the rescue--the penalty of living in an old civilisation with a notebook.
~ Virginia Woolf
Beauty had this penalty—it came too readily, came too completely. It stilled life—froze it. One forgot the little agitations; the flush, the pallor, some queer distortion, some light or shadow, which made the face unrecognisable for a moment and yet added a quality one saw for ever after. It was simpler to smooth that all out under the cover of beauty.
~ Virginia Woolf
Le han dictado pena máxima: sesenta años. Suena infinito y sin embargo es poco, no hay vida que alcance para pagar lo que hizo.
~ Laura Restrepo
Perché ogni pena non sia una violenza di uno o di molti contro un privato cittadino, dev'essere essenzialmente pubblica, pronta, necessaria, la minima delle possibili nelle date circostanze, proporzionata a' delitti, dettata dalle leggi.
~ Cesare Beccaria
It is difficult to estimate the misery inflicted upon thousands of persons, and the absolute pecuniary penalty imposed upon multitudes of intellectual workers by the loss of their time, destroyed by organ-grinders and other similar nuisances.
~ Charles Babbage
The lover steals a kiss, He is under penalty of perpetuity.
~ Charles de Leusse
The lover steals a kiss. He is under penalty of perpetuity. (L'amoureux vole un baiser. Il encourt perpétuité)
~ Charles de Leusse
I have broken where I should have bent; and have mused and brooded, when my spirit should have mixed with all God's great creation. The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brother. I have turned from the world, and I pay the penalty.
~ Charles Dickens
we have done wrong, and are reaping the fruits of wrong.
~ Charles Dickens
hanging a housebreaker on Saturday who had been taken on Tuesday; now, burning people in the hand at Newgate
~ Charles Dickens
Do not make the mistake of counting on your moral record as a way of coming to God. It is your record that gets you into trouble in the first place. Your record will condemn you, no matter how good you think you are or how good you appear in other people's eyes. Count on the fact that Jesus paid the penalty for your sin, and accept the fact that He is the way for simple, sinful people like you and me to enter heaven.
~ James Montgomery Boice
Most states in the union where the death penalty is theoretically on the books don't have executions.
~ Ruth Bader Ginsburg