"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."

-- Bram Fischer

#Punishment Quotes #Wish Quotes #Might Quotes

“It was as though, in one moment, he had become a stranger. And I a stranger to myself.”

Source : Kenneth Oppel (2011). “This Dark Endeavor: The Apprenticeship of Victor Frankenstein”, p.132, Simon and Schuster
“You know, when I'm with my friends, I'm still 17.”
“Where evil may be done, it is right to ponder; where only suffered, know the shortest pause is much too long.”
“No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.”
“I'm not opposed to letting people work and labor in our country, but we shouldn't provide an easy route to citizenship. We're the only country I know of where a person can come in illegally and that baby becomes a citizen and I think that should stop also.”
“If you really want it, you need to really work for it.”
“Concentration comes out of a combination of confidence and hunger.”

Source : FaceBook post by Arnold Palmer from Oct 04, 2016
“Besides, we had a large debt, contracted at home and abroad in our War of Independence; therefore the great power of taxation was conferred upon this Government.”

Source : Robert Augustus Toombs (1860). “Speech of Hon. Robert Toombs: On the Crisis. Delivered Before the Georgia Legislature, December 7, 1860”, p.4

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