Famous Quotes & Sayings

August Strindberg

Religion must be a punishment, because nobody gets religion who does not have a bad conscience.

Chris Davis

I accept my punishment and will begin serving my suspension immediately.

Bertrand Russell

Prison is a severe and terrible punishment; but for me, thanks to Arthur Balfour, this was not so. I was much cheered on my arrival by the warder at the gate, who had to take particulars about me. He asked my religion, and I replied 'agnostic.' He asked how to spell it, and remarked with a sigh: 'Well, there are many religions, but I suppose they all worship the same God.' This remark kept me cheerful for about a week.

Benigno Aquino III

The message has to be sent that if you commit a crime there has to be punishment.

Richard G. Scott

Repentance is not punishment, it is the hope filled path to a more glorious future.

Bram Fischer

I wish you to inform the Court that my absence, though deliberate, is not intended in any way to be disrespectful. Nor is it prompted by any fear of the punishment which might be inflicted on me.

David Shore

The saying within the writer's room, which were my words of wisdom, if you will, was, "The punishment doesn't have to fit the crime, but there has to be a crime."

Kurt Vonnegut

I had taught myself that a human being might as well look for diamond tiaras in the gutter as for rewards and punishments that were fair.

Bertrand Russell

The twin conceptions of sin and vindictive punishment seem to be at the root of much that is most vigorous, both in religion and politics.

Terry Jones

I'm cheerfully optimistic about life. Optimism is very important!

Tullian Tchividjian

The required cheerfulness that characterizes many of our churches produces a suffocating environment of pat, religious answers to the painful, complex questions that riddle the lives of hurting people.

john bejo

Love should make us smile, jest and laugh. A stiff relationship is a symptom of a demented affair. God loves a cheerful lover.

Stephen Bayley

We have a relationship of cheerful antagonism. I enjoy twisting his tail and he enjoys wagging his finger at me.

William Shakespeare

And all this day an unaccustomed spirit lifts me above the ground with cheerful thoughts.

Kurt Vonnegut

Having a yacht is a reason for being more cheerful than most.

Beverly Sills

I can't be happy every day but I can be cheerful.

Dean Koontz

In the belly of Leviathan ... one can either despair and perish, or be cheerful and persevere.

Charlie Munger

Is there such thing as a cheerful pessimist? That's what I am.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I love Thanksgiving turkey... It's the only time in Los Angeles that you see natural breasts.

Al Green

I'm thankful for every moment.

Charles Kelley

One of my most memorable Thanksgiving memories was probably the first year that me and my two brothers decided to start our annual eating contest. We ate throughout the whole day. We started that morning and weighed ourselves, and at the very end of the night, we weighed ourselves out. And all three of us equally gained five pounds.

Charles Kingsley

Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know.

Ayn Rand

Thanksgiving is a typically American holiday...The lavish meal is a symbol of the fact that abundant consumption is the result and reward of production.

Cathy Poole

She was a true sportsman. She was courteous. If she lost, she would say, 'Good game. Thanks for playing.' If she won, she was ecstatic.

Charles Dickens

Reflect upon your present blessings

Arthur Guiterman

So once in every year we throng Upon a day apart, to praise the Lord with feast and song in thankfulness of heart.

Bernie Siegel

Be grateful simply for being alive. When you are grateful for life, pure and simple, your life becomes one you can be grateful for. That may strike you as circular or even backward logic, but your attitude really does have an effect on how things work out. When you can't change your life any other way, you can still change your attitude. When you do, your life changes. You find more chances to love, and you will be surprised to see how much more love is returned to you.