I do think they have to have more than a slap on the wrist.


Sheriff Wayne Gay

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You can BE, DO, and HAVE ...absolutely ANYTHING you really, really want to BE, DO, and HAVE.
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You don't give the perpetrators a slap on the wrist.
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Reasons... questions... what they have in common?

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DEYTH BANGER
We submit that a six-year prison term cannot be called a slap on the wrist.
LEE BLALACK
I have learned more from my mistakes than from my successes.
HUMPHRY DAVY
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DO what you LOVE. BE with those you LOVE. HAVE the things you LOVE.
LORRIN L. LEE
You have enough time to do everything God wants you to do.
CRAIG GROESCHEL
As for the family members of victims, slap-on-the-wrist sentences compound the grief process.
JUNE RENFROW
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We...
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.
Why slap them on the wrist with feather when you can belt them over the head with a sledgehammer.
KATHARINE HEPBURN
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Destiny consist in the moments that we experienced, and not in the choices we have to do.
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To be happy: BE Yourself. DO what you love to DO. Have what you love to HAVE.
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BE Memorable. Do Memorable Projects. HAVE Memorable Experiences.
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Not everyone has the time to be normal.
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What you do, say, and have reveal who you are.
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I have put a bet on Wayne to be top scorer in the tournament.
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I have learned to hate all traitors, and there is no disease that I spit on more than treachery.
AESCHYLUS
The answer isn't more time but a greater awareness of the time we have.
CRAIG GROESCHEL
Don't do it, because you have to do it. Do it, because you love to do it.
PRITISH PATTANAIK
To learn, sometimes you have to feel the fool.
JEFFREY FRY
I'm not gay, a lot of people think I'm gay. I have a girlfriend, she thinks I'm gay.
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Is he following? Can you have a flaming gay moment or something and check?"
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I have learned to delegate.
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Sometimes life gets a little boring so you have to do something crazy to remember your alive!
NEIL OLSSON
Why is it that we want what we don't have, yet we can't see what we do have?
ANTHONY T. HINCKS
I would prefer that you think I'm gay, rather than trying to hit on you.
HUGH PIERCE
I think girls have more active imaginations than boys do when it comes to play,
DAVID RILEY
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CHRIS MACK
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ANDY KAHAN
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Slap some keys on her and we'll have a piano.
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AL MACINNIS
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CHARLOTTE BRONTë
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STEPHANIE MILLS
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GREG WARD
My father used to always say to me that, you know, if a guy goes out to steal a loaf of bread to fee...
JESSE VENTURA
I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.
WILLA CATHER
I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.
WILLA SIBERT CATHER
I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.
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The game turns. They throw a barrage at you. They have guys who can slap the ball and guys who can p...
RON GARDENHIRE
Most of us can do more than we think but usually do less than we think we have.
VIKRANT PARSAI
You don't have to move on to let go.
ANGEL ORTIZ
We are more than paying our own way toward sheriff services.
RICK SAVAGE
The governor and lieutenant governor have agreed on a lot more than they have disagreed on.
PETE SMITH
A professor who teaches what I do for a living, which is insurance law, they don't know more about t...
DAVID GOODWIN
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ANTHONY BOURDAIN
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DAVE BAUTISTA
They're telling me I will have more gay fans.
DOMINIK HRBATY
When you have guys on ATVs it's very difficult. The Sheriff doesn't have four-wheel drive.
JEFF POWERS
I don't think there's any basis whatsoever to have dragged Wayne Gretzky's name into it. Have you ev...
KEVIN MARINO
There's nothing to hang our hat on as to what they're going to do. But they are pretty decent on off...
PETE NOBLE
I could have stopped it after they paid me the $50,000. I wouldn't even have had to go on to do more...
ALDRICH AMES
I don't think I'll have to kill her. Just slap that pretty face into hamburger meat, that's all.
STERLING HAYDEN
Him having been former sheriff is not going to have any bearing on the investigation.
KRISTEN PEREZLUHA
I have learned that there is more power in a good strong hug than in a thousand meaningful words.
ANN HOOD
Just because you haven't got a home, doesn't make you homeless.
and
Just because you don't...
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You have far more courage than you think you do.
ALISON GOODMAN
I think their gene pool is pretty good. They have that cardiovascular strength. They have running bo...
ERNIE CHATMAN
I think during the last surgery, they put something special in his wrist,
JOSE THEODORE
There will always be someone better looking; better off; smarter; richer; thinner; taller; shorter; ...
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Who friendship with a knave hath made, Is judg'd a partner in the trade.
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In every age and clime we see, Two of a trade can ne'er agree.
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The real problem is what to do with the problem-solvers after the problems are solved.
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O Polly, you might have toyed and kissed, by keeping men off, you keep them on.
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Sure men were born to lie, and women to believe them!
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I must have women -- there is nothing unbends the mind like them.
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The beauty of the human mind is that any decision that is made can be unmade.
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A fox may steal your hens, Sir, a whore your health and pence, Sir, your daughter rob your chest, Si...
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Fill it up. I take as large draughts of liquor as I did of love. I hate a flincher in either.
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There is no dependence that can be sure but a dependence upon one's self.
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Shadow owes its birth to light.
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We only part to meet again.
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Those who in quarrels interpose, must often wipe a bloody nose.
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With thee conversing I forget the way.
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The brave Love mercy, and delight to save.
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Reproachful speech from either side The want of argument supplied; They rail, reviled; as ofte...
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Excuse me, then! you know my heart; But dearest friends, alas! must part.
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A justice with grave justices shall sit; He praise their wisdom, they admire his wit.
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A lost good name is ne'er retriev'd.
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What boots it on the lineal tree to trace Through many a branch the founders of our race.
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For he as studious--of his ease.
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Studious of elegance and ease.
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Brother, brother; we are both in the wrong.
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Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow thee.
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All in the Downs are fleet was moor'd.
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Lash'd into Latin by the tingling rod.
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Over the hills and far away.
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No retreat. No retreat. They must conquer or die who've no retreat.
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From wine what sudden friendship springs?
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Good housewives all the winter's rage despise, Defended by the riding-hood's disguise; Or, und...
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Adieu! she cries; and waved her lily hand.
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Give me, kind Heaven, a private station, A mind serene for contemplation: Title and profit I r...
JOHN GAY
Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
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In every rank, or great or small, 'Tis industry supports us all.
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I hate the man who builds his name on the ruins of another's fame.
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Life is a jest; and all things show it. I thought so once; but now I know it.
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Every historian has informally an anthropology, without ever using the word.
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A few words of gratitude and encouragement do bring out the best in other people.
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We have to believe that we can hold different points of view without labeling each other bad feminis...
ROXANE GAY
We have cellphones and smartphones and iDevices and laptops and the ability to be perpetually connec...
ROXANE GAY
We are looking into it. There was something that did transpire out there.
DOUG GAY
We came in and wanted to pound the ball at em. They (Colt players) talked a lot all week. I just let...
FRANK GAY
You'd have an instant decade-long waiting line.
JOHN GAY
Feminism is just an idea. It's a philosophy. It's about the equality of women in all realms....
ROXANE GAY
It's so hard to write about countries like Haiti because there's truths behind the mispercep...
ROXANE GAY
What interests me, and has always interested me, has been modernism.
PETER GAY
My definition of modernism took a while to develop.
PETER GAY
I was a shy girl, but when I read, I was adventurous. Books made me bolder.
ROXANE GAY
Internet outrage can seem mindless, but it rarely is. To make that assumption is dismissive. There&#...
ROXANE GAY
Do like other widows - buy yourself weeds, and be cheerful.
JOHN GAY
Fools may our scorn, not envy raise, for envy is a kind of praise
JOHN GAY
The charge is prepared; the lawyers are met, / The judges all ranged (a terrible show!).
JOHN GAY
By ignorance is pride increased; Those most assume who know the least
JOHN GAY
(The bill) doesn't fix the system, it just focuses on enforcement.
JOHN GAY
Praising all alike, is praising none
JOHN GAY
I felt good if they ran the 1-3-1 against the offense we're using. Then we went out there and didn't...
JOHN GAY
No one likes employer sanctions,
JOHN GAY
What will not luxury taste? Earth, sea, and air, Are daily ransack'd for the bill of fare. Bl...
JOHN GAY
When if or chance or hunger's powerful sway Directs the roving trout this fatal way, He greedi...
JOHN GAY
By outward show let's not be cheated; An ass should like an ass be treated.
JOHN GAY
Originality provokes originality.
JOHN GAY
A woman scorn'd is pitiless as fate, For then the dread of shame adds stings to hate.
JOHN GAY
'While there is life, there's hope,' he cried; 'Then why such haste?' so groaned and died
JOHN GAY
To cheat a man is nothing; but the woman must have fine parts, indeed, who cheats a woman
JOHN GAY
'Tis woman that seduces all mankind, / By her we first were taught the wheedling arts.
JOHN GAY
When we risk no contradiction, it prompts the tongue to deal in fiction
JOHN GAY
We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect...
JOHN GAY