Quotes About Sentence

but Rabbi Simeon was condemned to death, a sentence which he evaded and escaped by immediate and timely flight, accompanied by his son Eliezar.

Fate's sentence written on the brow no hand can e'er efface.

...mastery of the art and spirit of the Germanic language enables a man to travel all day in one sentence without changing cars.

The whole page 199 about the apostle Paul, but especially this: All of his words could be reduced to one sentence. We preach Christ crucified (1Cor. 1:23 NIV). It wasn't that he lacked other sermon outlines; it was just than he could not't exhaust the first one.

The Code of the Vampires decreed that anyone who violated the Sacred Law was condemned to death, the blood burning. Charles had refused to subject Allegra to the sentence. But Mimi was a different matter. Mimi walked out of the church, knowing that if she ever saw Jack again, she would have to kill him.

I want to convict Samuel Pepys in a court of law,' Cressida said, 'and I want that court to impose an appropriate, if theoretical, prison sentence on him.

Questions that require answers are what keep readers going - and the place to start raising those questions is with your very first sentence.

Los cambios del mundo moderno también tenían que llegar, por fin, a la justicia. ¿Qué es eso de que una, dos o tres personas interpreten una ley y redacten una sentencia? Palabras y más palabras. Yo no siento que se me haya hecho justicia. Solo yo sé qué castigo me puede satisfacer.

I'll talk to my mother," she promised. "If I'm sufficiently annoying, I'm sure I can get the engagement period cut in half." "It makes me wonder," he said. "As your future husband, should I be concerned by your use of the phrase if I'm sufficiently annoying?" "Not if you accede to all of my wishes." "A sentence that concerns me even more," he murmured. She did nothing but smile.

No more coming home as to a death sentence. No more leaving after this leaving.

He was prodding her. Let him. They were on safe ground. "Well, in trying to satisfy one amendment, it looks like they rubbed out another one. The Tenth. It's only a small amendment, only one sentence long, but it seemed to be the one that meant the most, somehow.

And each time he finished a sentence, there was a tiny but meaningful lump of silence left behind. This lump floated there, enclosed in the car's restricted space like an imaginary miniature cloud, giving Aomame a strangely unsettled feeling.

It made me sick to my stomach thinking about why I'd been slapped. Slapping is never a good thing, but there should at least be some sort of legitimate reason behind it, like an exclamation mark needs to follow an exclamatory sentence. I remembered the teacher who'd made fun of me for doing that. You can't just put an exclamatory sentence anywhere!

I like to edit my sentences as I write them. I rearrange a sentence many times before moving on to the next one. For me, that editing process feels like a form of play, like a puzzle that needs solving, and it's one of the most satisfying parts of writing.

I like all things grammatical, and I had already written several books about parts of speech, and even the alphabet, so everything that makes up a sentence and even a word was covered except for punctuation.

So I went in front of the judge, and I had my St. Jude prayer book in my pocket and my St. Jude medal. And I'm standing there and that judge said I was found guilty, so he sentenced me to what the law prescribed: one to 14 years.

I think, in terms of looking at the trajectory and being around some of the same people, it's certainly flattering words, but I definitely have not done enough to be mentioned in the same sentence as Coach Payton.

The Scripture vouches Solomon for the wisest of men; and his proverbs prove him so, The seven wise men of Greece, so famous for their wisdom all the world over, acquired all that fame each of them by a single sentence, consisting of two or three words.

For a sentence is not complete unless each word, once its syllables have been pronounced, gives way to make room for the next.

One day the Nouns were clustered in the street. An Adjective walked by, with her dark beauty The Nouns were struck, moved, changed. The next day a Verb drove up, and created the Sentence.

You have had indeed a fair trial. It is a shocking thing when a judge of your high office is shown to have betrayed the truth and his honor, and I sentence you to the penitentiary.

One truth is the swing of the sentence, the beat and poise, but down deeper it's the integrity of the writer as he matches with the language.

Writing is about music...finding the music of a sentence....

One idea to a sentence is still the best advice that anyone has ever given on writing.