Points Penalty Meant

Famous quotes containing the words points, penalty and/or meant:

“The men who carry their points do not need to inquire of their constituents what they should say, but are themselves the country which they represent: nowhere are its emotions or opinions so instant and so true as in them; nowhere so pure from a selfish infusion.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“That’s the penalty we have to pay for our acts of foolishness—someone else always suffers for them.”
—Alfred Sutro (1863–1933)

“... for twenty years ... to speak of culture has meant that one did not have it. The only people who have talked about it have been the people who have thought you could get it at Chautauquas.”
—Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1879–1944)