Meted Quotes

#1. Surely tis by faith we are upheld thro such trials-justice will be meted in time to those who fill soft places and malign men who perform heroic duties

Elizabeth Blair Lee

#2. I was thinking, that when my time comes, I should be sorry if the only plea I had to offer was that of justice. Because it might mean that only justice would be meted out to me.

Agatha Christie

#3. Even Australians who take a very, very hard line about asylum seekers - and unfortunately there are more than I would like to think - are probably a bit uncomfortable with the kind of treatment that has been meted out to children in detention by the Australian Government, in their name.

Malcolm Fraser

#4. The bizarre world of cards is a world of pure power politics where rewards and punishments are meted out immediately.

Ely Culbertson

#5. How could Belle, a lonely little bookworm of a country girl, ever come from someone so great that she meted out curses and blessings like candy and then took over an entire castle with her presence?

Liz Braswell

#6. Everyday we have to go to classroom 107A, where portions of English, math and social studies are meted out like different nutrients of a hospital diet.

Emma Rathbone

#7. From the Twitter responses we got with 'Best Friends Forever' and the small feedback we are getting as the show is meted out, I think people are seeing themselves in the show and enjoying seeing female friendship portrayed in the way it really is.

Lennon Parham

#8. After the adrenaline had worn off and medals had been awarded and the glory meted out, only the suffering remained after a battle.

Brian McClellan

#9. Why do you persist in this belief that punishment must be meted out from either God or Satan when the most relentless, merciless punisher is that within? For we can never escape its scourges and lashes.

John F.D. Taff

#10. excoriated and burned, mapped and measured and meted

M.L. Stedman

#11. Every painful consequence of sin is a part of the punishment meted out for sin.

Martyn Lloyd-Jones

#12. Could doing brave things make you brave, as push-ups made you stronger? Was courage bone or muscle? Somtehing that was meted out at birth or something that was up to you?

Fischer

#13. They know that tragedy is not glamorous. They know it doesn't play out in life as it does on a stage or between the pages of a book. It is neither a punishment meted out nor a lesson conferred. Its horrors are not attributable to one single person. Tragedy is ugly and tangled, stupid and confusing.

E. Lockhart

#14. The opinions held by most people about the gods are not true conceptions of them but fallacious notions, according to which awful penalties are meted out to the evil and the greatest of blessings to the good.

Epicurus

#15. When a wife wouldn't testify, little punishment was meted out. Alex came to understand that only those who pressed charges ever became truly free, because the life they were leading was a prison, even if most of them wouldn't admit it.

Nicholas Sparks

#16. Economic medicine that was previously meted out by the cupful has recently been dispensed by the barrel. These once unthinkable dosages will almost certainly bring on unwelcome after-effects. Their precise nature is anyone's guess, though one likely consequence is an onslaught of inflation.

Warren Buffett

#17. We will mete out to the Germans the measure and more than the measure that they have meted out to us. We will have no truce or parley with you, or the grisly gang who work your wicked will. You do your worst and we will do our best.

Winston Churchill

#18. Live television is always stressful and the more you do it, the more you realise what can go wrong.

Alan Hansen

#19. I'm certainly not a trained singer. The only place I could probably carry a tune is my shower.

Lucas Neff

#20. I think good radio often uses the techniques of fiction: characters, scenes, a big urgent emotional question. And as in the best fiction, tone counts for a lot.

Ira Glass

#21. The American people are tired. They're tired of the bickering in Washington, D.C., and the lack of action.

Chris Christie

#22. He wondered fleetingly how many people who sat alone for hours as they scribbled their stories practiced talking about their work during their coffee breaks ...

Robert Galbraith

#23. Pink ribbon scars
That never forget
I've tried so hard
To cleanse these regrets
My angel wings
Were bruised and restrained
My belly stings

Billy Corgan

#24. Listen to your patient; he is telling you the diagnosis.

William Osler

#25. I get on stage and talk about different stuff in my life and what I've been through and what I think about the world. It's picking out highlights of things and how I became who I am and how my daddy raised me.

Chris Tucker

#26. The day I notice a cyclist obey a stop sign is the day I'll stop enjoying watching them bounce off my hood.

Daniel Tosh

#27. Know something?" Brandon said. "I think the most interesting people I'll meet these days will be criminals - or people about to become criminals.

Jim Lynch

#28. If I could rest anywhere, it would be in Arkansas, where the men are of the real half-horse, half-alligator breed such as grows nowhere else on the face of the universal earth.

Davy Crockett

#29. Make me a captive, Lord,
And then I shall be free;
Force me to render up my sword,
And I shall conqueror be.
I sink in life's alarms
When by myself I stand;
Imprison me within Thine arms,
And strong shall be my hand

George Matheson

#30. This is what I mean by becoming religious: no guilt, no ego, no trip of any kind ... just being herenow ... being with the trees and the birds and the rivers and the mountains and the stars.

Rajneesh

#31. We expect to keep our writing sessions going until late spring, then to play some new material in a few secret club dates. The record will likely take a long time and may not surface until 1999!

Adrian Belew

#32. The Flutie Bowl is a great event that brings together people who really care about the autism community. We always have a great time bowling and playing music.

Doug Flutie