Quotes About Sentence

There would be a trial and there would be a judge. The only problem was, there could only be one sentence.

Why do I feel as if I'm about to hear a sentence passed?' 'Why do you feel as if you should?

The terrible shock of his sentence had in some way broken that wall which separates us from the mystery of things beyond and which we call life.

Que lo pongan a uno en libertad no quiere decir que lo liberen de la condena. Del presidio se sale; de la condena, no.

Liberation is not deliverance. A convict may leave prison behind but not his sentence.

Miss Amesbury is especially happy in the use of quotations—and an apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the whole sentence.

Salman Rushdie, indeed any writer who abuses the prophet or indeed any prophet under Islamic law, the sentence for that is actually death.

Therefore, in accordance with our laws, I sentence you, Jenna of Saura, to death." Her

A period is just the beginning of a lifelong sentence.

What the extremists were doing was entirely contrary to the Koran, which excoriates anyone who impugns a woman's reputation and sentences them to eighty lashes.

The opening sentence alone contained thirty-six words—monstrous

Reading a Baldwin sentence can feel like recreating thought itself. One has to take hands off the rudder and trust the river of thought as it flows.

There's never been a time in my life where you had the names the United States and political uncertainty in the same sentence.

An understanding of Sor Juana's work must include an understanding of the prohibitions her work confronts. Her speech leads us to what cannot be said, what cannot be said to an orthodoxy, the orthodoxy to a tribunal, and the tribunal to a sentence.

If Judge Steven T. O'Neill sent Mr. Cosby away for the rest of his life, that sentence couldn't undo what he's convicted of having done to Andrea Constand, his accuser in two trials. It also can't undo what he once did for me, which was to make me believe in myself.

Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted.

In order to remain undead, I must steal the life force of someone whose fate matters less to me than my own.' I've always supposed that Wall Street traders utter essentially the same sentence.

No, what I felt was the torment of waiting, stuck between the end of one sentence and the beginning of the next which might or might not bring a hail storm, plane crash, poetic justice, or a miraculous reversal.

It was the first selection, the first verdict made on our existence or non-existence. For the great majority of our transport, about 90 percent, it meant death. Their sentence was carried out within the next few hours.

It is the speed, the hot, molten effect, the lava flow of sentence into sentence that I need.

Virginia Woolf had to ask herself "How can one weigh and shape dialogue till each sentence tears the shingles in the bottom of the reader's soul?

Charlotte Brontë, with all her splendid gift for prose, stumbled and fell with that clumsy weapon in her hands. George Eliot committed atrocities with it that beggar description. Jane Austen looked at it and laughed at it and devised a perfectly natural, shapely sentence proper for her own use and never departed from it. Thus, with less genius for writing than Charlotte Brontë, she got infinitely more said.

Occasionally, in the middle of a conversation her name would be mentioned, and she would run down the steps of a chance sentence, without turning her head.

In accordance with the law the death sentence was announced to Cincinnatus C. in a whisper.