I have sinned terribly, and I do not know what punishment awaits me.
The rules of the Hunger Games are simple. In punishment for the uprising, each of the twelve districts must provide one girl and one boy, called tributes, to participate. The twenty-four tributes will be imprisoned in a vast outdoor arena that could hold anything from a burning desert to a frozen wasteland. Over a period of several weeks, the competitors must fight to the death. The last tribute standing wins.
The thing about discipline is that people misunderstand the word discipline. People think discipline in the dog world is punishment. Discipline is how you achieve what you want to achieve in life. You have to be very focused, very disciplined, very consistent, very diligent. All of those things.
Love is the source of every virtue in you and of every deed which deserves punishment.
Too frequent rewards indicate that the general is at the end of his resources; too frequent punishments that he is in acute distress.
I think capital punishment's day is done in this country. I don't think it's fairly applied.
One does not marry to become a judge of the spouse's behavior. If a marriage license is mistaken for a hunting license and disapproval, punishment, and threat of withdrawal of love are employed as weapons, all one bags is one's own unhappiness.
O sir, we should have fine times, indeed, if, to punish tyrants, it were only sufficient to assemble the people! Your arms, wherewith you could defend yourselves, are gone; and you have no longer an aristocratical, no longer a democratical spirit. Did you ever read of any revolution in a nation, brought about by the punishment of those in power, inflicted by those who had no power at all?
I've always taken my hangovers as consequence, not as a punishment.
Plato says that the punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is, to live under the government of worse men; and the like regret is suggested to all the auditors, as the penalty of abstaining to speak,--that they shall hear worse orators than themselves.
Leo Valdez deserved a special punishment," she [Khione] said. "I have sent him to a place from which he can never return.
Young people don't always do what they're told, but if they can pull it off and do something wonderful, sometimes they escape punishment.
Here an attempt is made to explain suffering: the outcaste of traditional Hinduism is held to deserve his fetched fate; it is a punishment for the wrongs he did in a previous life.
Revenge is more wild, less calculated. . . deeply personal. Retribution is a punishment that is morally right and fully deserved. (Mitch Rapp)
Well I certainly have learned and I hope I'm moving on and certainly two years of prison was a terrible punishment.
I think it backfired. It wasn't what I expected, it was difficult. I didn't expect them to throw somany mind games into it. I didn't expect to be so emotional, but I asked for it really. I'ma glutton for punishment.
PRISON, n. A place of punishments and rewards. The poet assures us that - stone walls do not a prison make.
The incarnation was not initially imposed on the spirits as a punishment. It is rather necessary for the spirits' improvement and for the fulfillment of God's works. Everyone has to submit to it, no matter if one takes the evil or the good path. Only those who take the good path will improve quickly, they do not delay to arrive at the end in less painful conditions.
Penalty is different than punishment, because it offers something with which to regain honor.
The public has more interest in the punishment of an injury than he who receives it.