John Locke Quotes
Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature.John Locke Nazareth
Quotes to Explore
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Caretaking is different from care giving. Care giving has no second agendas or hidden motives. The care is given from love for the joy of giving without expectation, no strings attached. It cannot be manipulated or discouraged because love cannot be manipulated or discouraged.
Gary Zukav -
Well, there's no one at all, they do be saying, but is deserving of some punishment from the very minute of his birth.
Lady Gregory -
Fines are preferable to imprisonment and other types of punishment because they are more efficient. With a fine, the punishment to offenders is also revenue to the State.
Gary Becker -
Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.
Oscar Wilde -
I'm not a creature of Washington.
Jack Kingston -
I was obliged to stand there, holding the leash of this creature for their welcoming publicity shots, implying that this was some kind of image the decided to have of me.
Barbara Steele
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A fate is not a punishment.
Albert Camus -
The American woman is a charming creature. She is of a type most unusual and delightful... And their feet and ankles are the most perfect in the world.
Jean Patou -
It's only a hunting spider, it won't hurt you." -Myrnin "So not the point!" -Claire "Oh, pish. It's just another living creature. Nothing to be frightened of, if handled properly. I think I'll call him Bob. Bob the spider." -Myrnin "You're insane." -Claire
Rachel Caine -
A man whose desire is to be something separate from himself, to be a member of Parliament, or a successful grocer, or a prominent solicitor, or a judge, or something equally tedious, invariably succeeds in being what he wants to be. That is his punishment. Those who want a mask have to wear it.
Oscar Wilde -
Man is a being with myriad lives and myriad sensations, a complex, multiform creature that bears within itself strange legacies of thought and passion, and whose very flesh is tainted with the monstrous maladies of the dead.
Oscar Wilde -
There are few punishments too severe for a popular novel writer.
S. S. Van Dine
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Does capital punishment tend to the security of the people? By no means. It hardens the hearts of men, and makes the loss of life appear light to them; and it renders life insecure, inasmuch as the law holds out that property is of greater value than life.
Elizabeth Fry -
There is no remedy for time misspent; No healing for the waste of idleness, Whose very languor is a punishment Heavier than active souls can feel or guess.
Aubrey de Vere -
Let the punishment fit the crime.
W. S. Gilbert -
My object all sublime I shall achieve in time- To let the punishment fit the crime- The punishment fit the crime.
W. S. Gilbert -
Ready are we all to cry out and ascribe motives when our toes are pinched.
Abraham Lincoln -
I am the happiest creature in the world. Perhaps other people have said so before, but not one with such justice. I am happier even than Jane; she only smiles, I laugh.
Jane Austen
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I am an old man who will live until I die," Anselmo said.
Ernest Hemingway -
I always have been trying to work on the other side of Jackie, and that is, making sure that my appearance, that my image, is right; also, working in the job world, knowing how it is to wake up and go to a job.
Jackie Joyner-Kersee -
Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature.
John Locke Nazareth