Elizabeth Fry Quotes

Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal.

Elizabeth Fry

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• The best revenge is to live on and prove yourself.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Live
  • Best
  • Yourself

• Evil is always devising more corrosive misery through man's restless need to exact revenge out of his hate.

  

  Ralph Steadman
  • Man
  • Hate
  • Evil

• To be honest, accents are one of those things for me, personally, that usually come quite naturally by just listening to the people.

  

  Laura Donnelly
  • People
  • Things
  • Honest

• I try to steal from the best. Suck it all in. 'Taxi Driver' is really a bible for film actors, a master class. A lot of emotional power, a lot of emotional depth but it's contained and you just see the tip of the iceberg.

  

  Sam Rockwell
  • Power
  • Best
  • Emotional

• There wasn't anyone in my family who was involved in the theatre. I saw a few amateur plays when I was growing up, but I can't think of anything that happened or anybody in particular who inspired me; it all came from within.

  

  Garry Hynes
  • Up
  • Family
  • Growing

• My biggest advice for girls – and this is something that I wish I could have known when I was younger – is to have thick skin. It's something that you definitely develop when you get older, but when I first started, I was so obsessed with pleasing everybody. I wanted everybody to like me and to like my songs.

  

  Kate Voegele
  • Advice
  • Songs
  • Girls

• I normally work out six days a week. I'll do Pilates on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays, and I'll do cardio on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Work
  • Week
  • Six

• Chavez, who came out of the ranks of the Venezuelan Army, is methodical and tireless. I have observed him over the course of 17 years, since his first visit to Cuba. He is an extremely humanitarian and law-abiding person; he has never taken revenge on anybody.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Law
  • Taken
  • Army

• Revenge is a way of life and definitely some thing that we identify with. We all feel cheated in some way about some thing and how nice it would be to do something about it. I mean ultimately it's not the most Christian of sentiments.

  

  Radha Mitchell
  • Life
  • Nice
  • Christian

• It would be flattering to call it a modern Dirty Harry, but I think this film deals more with the loss of his wife than the traditional revenge vigilante films.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Wife
  • Dirty
  • Loss

• And at the time the Republican Congress and a Senate candidate by the name of Mitt Romney - crowd boos No, no, no - Don't boo, vote. Vote! Voting's the best revenge.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Time
  • Revenge

• All his life he had lived by the law. Often his job had been to stop acts of revenge....And now revenge was all that life had left for him.

  

  Vernor Vinge
  • Life
  • Job
  • Law

• What does labor want? We want more school houses and less jails. More books and less guns. More learning and less vice. More leisure and less greed. More justice and less revenge. We want more … opportunities to cultivate our better natures.

  

  Samuel Gompers
  • School
  • Learning
  • Justice

• The sin of pride may be a small or a great thing in someone's life, and hurt vanity a passing pinprick or a self-destroying or even murderous obsession. Possibly, more people kill themselves and others out of hurt vanity than out of envy, jealousy, malice or desire for revenge.

  

  Iris Murdoch
  • People
  • Life
  • Great

• I ain't a killer, but don't push me Revenge is like the sweetest joy next to gettin' pussy.

  

  Tupac Shakur
  • Joy
  • Revenge
  • Killer

• Human history is not the product of the wise direction of human reason, but is shaped by the forces of emotion-our dreams, our pride, our greed, our fears, and our desire for revenge.

  

  Lin Yutang
  • History
  • Desire
  • Wise

• The evening sings in a voice of amber, the dawn is surely coming.

  

  Al Stewart

• Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust.

  

  Marquis de Sade
  • Life
  • Ambition
  • Revenge

• My guilty pleasure is 'Revenge.' I've watched it from the very first episode.

  

  Jane Elliot
  • Pleasure
  • Guilty
  • Revenge

• You see bands putting ads in the paper: 'drummer wanted'. I could never be in a set-up like that.

  

  Oliver Sim The xx
  • Up
  • Never
  • See

• The documentary photographer aims his camera at the real world to record truthfulness. At the same time, he must strive for form, to devise effective ways of organizing and using the material. For content and form are interrelated. The problems presented by content and form must be so developed that the result is fundimentally [sic] true to the realities of life as we know it. The chief problem is to find a form that adequately represents the reality.

  

  Paul Strand
  • Life
  • Time
  • World

• Thanks to everyone who's encouraged and supported my work over the years.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Work
  • Thanks
  • Everyone

• I was a crown attorney in my home town in Nova Scotia, and I learned that victims of crime needed better laws to better protect them. I saw politics as a means to improve this protection for them.

  

  Peter MacKay
  • Home

• Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal.

  

  Elizabeth Fry
  • Revenge