#penalty

I always try to tell a good story, one with a compelling plot that will keep the pages turning. That is my first and primary goal. Sometimes I can tackle an issue-homelessness, tobacco litigation, insurance fraud, the death penalty-and wrap a good story around it. ↗

— John Grisham

#around #compelling #death #death penalty #first

I'm not in favor of the death penalty. But I'm in favor of locking these people away in maximum security units where they can never get out. They can never escape. They can never be paroled. Lock the bad ones away. But you gotta rethink everybody else. ↗

— John Grisham

#bad #death #death penalty #else #escape

Always keep your composure. You can't score from the penalty box; and to win, you have to score. ↗

— Horace

#box #composure #keep #penalty #score

The penalty for getting mugged in an American city and losing your ID is that you can't fly home. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#city #fly #getting #home #id

The campaign against the death penalty has been - while a powerful campaign, its participants have been those who attend all of the vigils, a relatively small number of people. ↗

— Angela Davis

#attend #been #campaign #death #death penalty

My penalty for rocking the boat was being traded. ↗

— Ted Lindsay

#boat #penalty #rocking #traded

The penalty of success is to be bored by the attentions of people who formerly snubbed you. ↗

— Mary Wilson Little

#bored #formerly #penalty #people #success

I'm actually really opposed to the death penalty. ↗

— Bill Paxton

#death #death penalty #i #opposed #penalty

In our period, they say there is free speech. They say there is no penalty for poets, There is no penalty for writing poems. They say this. This is the penalty. ↗

— Muriel Rukeyser

#free speech #our #penalty #period #poems

More prisons, more enforcement, effective death penalty. ↗

— Jerry Weller

#death penalty #effective #enforcement #more #penalty