#pun

I'm not going to sit here now and say 'do this,' or 'do that.' But you must - must - expunge any vestige of racism. ↗

— A. Bartlett Giamatti

#expunge #going #here #i #must

My father who in this case was an obsessive life-long storyteller, and by a very peculiar trick of my father's. My father would tell a very, very long story, and the punch line would be in Yiddish. ↗

— Stephen Greenblatt

#father #life-long #line #long #long story

I kind of think I'm going to live a long life as a punishment. ↗

— Jessica Hahn

#i #kind #life #live #long

The Ketty Jay was staffed with drunkards and drifters, all of them running from something -- whether it be memories or enemies or the drudgery of land-bound life -- but since Yortland they'd been running in the same direction. United by that common purpose, they'd begun to turn into something resembling a crew. And Frey had begun to turn into something resembling a captain. ↗

— Chris Wooding

#retribution-fals #steampunk #life

It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll; I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul. ↗

— William Ernest Henley

#captain #charged #fate #gate #how

I should have titled it "Diet Like Your Life Depended On It!" because it's about so much more than just beating Diabetes. ↗

— Russell Stamets

#alternative #diabetes #diet #health #lada

Only the man who has enough good in him to feel the justice of the penalty can be punished. ↗

— William Ernest Hocking

#feel #good #him #justice #man

A state that suppresses all freedom of speech, and which by imposing the most terrible punishments, treats each and every attempt at criticism, however morally justified, and every suggestion for improvement as plotting to high treason, is a state that breaks an unwritten law. ↗

— Kurt Huber

#breaks #criticism #each #every #freedom

All these fifty-year-old guys wearing baseball caps and shorts and acting like children. It winds me up. Men don't have to take responsibility anymore. Most of the guys I know would punch me on the nose for saying this, but maybe we do have to bring back conscription. ↗

— Chrissie Hynde

#anymore #back #baseball #bring #caps

The truly powerful feed ideology to the masses like fast food while they dine on the most rarified delicacy of all: impunity. ↗

— Naomi Klein

#dine #fast #fast food #feed #food