Famous quotes containing the words points, penalty and/or meant:
“If I were in the unenviable position of having to study my work my points of departure would be the Naught is more real ... and the Ubi nihil vales ... both already in Murphy and neither very rational.”
—Samuel Beckett (19061989)
“So the people will pay the penalty for their kings presumption, who, by devising evil, turn justice from her path with tortuous speech.”
—Hesiod (c. 8th century B.C.)
“Like a canoe route across the great lake on whose shore
One is left trapped, grumbling not so much at bad luck as
Because only this one side of experience is ever revealed.
And that meant something.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)
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