Imprisonment And Fines Quotes

#1. Usually, I'll just sit down at a piano or with a guitar, and I'll just be relaxed and playing music. Because that's what relaxes your subconscious. That's why everyone from animals to humans love music.

Cat Power

#2. I am one man with a laptop. When I give the world my characters, it's because I don't want to keep them for myself. You don't like what I made them do? Fucking tell me I'm wrong! Rewrite the story. Throw in a new plot twist. Make up your own ending.

J.C. Lillis

#3. He has depths of silence - which he breaks only at the longest intervals by a remark. And when the remark comes it's always something he has seen or felt for himself - never a bit banal. That would be what one might have feared and what would kill me. But never. She

Henry James

#4. 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

#5. And in declaring true every theory that does not contravene the evidence of the senses, Epicurus does not blink the fact that the philosopher may arrive at more than one explanation for a given phenomenon - in some cases, even at explanations that are mutually exclusive or contradictory.

Titus Lucretius Carus

#6. An anarchist society, far from being a remote ideal, has become a precondition for the practice of ecological principles.

Murray Bookchin

#7. Clear water sped over rocky clusters whose colors ran from ivories to mossy greens, blues and grays. Though clouds covered the sun, the sway of dappling evergreens gave the water sparkle.

Barbara Delinsky

#8. What are you waiting for? What are you saving for? Now is all there is.

George Balanchine

#9. Strict justice would demand total confiscation of your property, personal imprisonment and fines.

Zebulon Pike

#10. We now know that inflation results from all that deficit spending.

Ronald Reagan

#11. The fact that somebody does good doesn't make their beliefs true.

Richard Dawkins

#12. Every radish I ever pulled up seemed to have a mortgage attached to it.

Ed Wynn

#13. Both in individuals and in masses violent excitement is always followed by remission, and often by reaction. We are all inclined to depreciate whatever we have overpraised, and, on the other hand, to show undue indulgence where we have shown undue rigor.

Thomas B. Macaulay

#14. Sometimes their oppression of emotion and the weird way it comes out is more interesting than painting it in bold primary colors.

Edward Norton

#15. I don't listen to the refs. I don't listen to anyone who makes less money than I do.

Charles Barkley

#16. After Elner Shimfissle accidentally poked that wasps' nest up in her fig tree, the last thing she remembered was thinking "Uh-oh.

Fannie Flagg

#17. Never had Parliament or the crown, or both together, operated in actuality as theory indicated sovereign powers should.

Bernard Bailyn