Pillory Quotes

#1. A printer publishes a lie: for which he ought to stand in the pillory, for the people believe in and act upon it

George Clymer

#2. PILLORY, n. A mechanical device for inflicting personal distinction - prototype of the modern newspaper conducted by persons of austere virtues and blameless lives.

Ambrose Bierce

#3. So many books that have Christian characters but are written by atheists mercilessly pillory and mock and question the motives of people with faith. I'm past all that.

Michel Faber

#4. The pillory and stocks, the gibbet, and even the whipping-post, have seen many a noble victim, many a martyr. But I cannot think any save the most ignoble criminals ever sat in a ducking-stool.

Alice Morse Earle

#5. You can't just pillory the teachers unions and sound the free market trumpet. We must visit the failing schools. We must talk to the mother who desperately wants more for her child and offer a constructive way out. We can't simply lambaste ... food stamps or decry dependency.

Frank Wolf

#6. You should not be afraid of failures, and not get enamored by success.

Nirmala Srivastava

#7. Do what you say you're going to do! People can do nothing but respect that.

Steve Harvey

#8. I started doing community theatre as a way to make friends, and that was when I caught the acting bug.

Christina Hendricks

#9. I think there's a tendency for modern man to become dominated by gadgets and machines, taking us further and further away from the things I've been talking about.

Robin Day

#10. Fighting corruption is not a one-night affair.

Olusegun Obasanjo

#11. God's goodness is the root of all goodness; and our goodness, if we have any, springs out of His goodness.

William Tyndale

#12. A rat in its stealing behavior may manage to steal gold jewelry and to make a nest with it but that does not in anyway qualify the rat to be a millionaire though it's gold pieces be worth that much.

Newton Gatambia

#13. Go so deep into yourself, you speak for everyone.

Galway Kinnell

#14. Adieu to disappointment and spleen. What are men to rocks and mountains?

Jane Austen

#15. Ivy rose to rinse the carafe. She leaned close to me, running the water to blur her words as she muttered, "What's wrong with her? She's crying over her tea.

Kim Harrison

#16. Being on the same level as everybody is really important to me. I'm trying to do really basic stuff like communicate, convey, talk, see, and invite joining and intimacy. What I'm trying to do is attach. It's not about being separate.

Sue Tompkins