Sentence Quotes

The truly revolutionary promise of our nation's founding document is the freedom to pursue happiness-with-a-capital-H.

If the devil ever raised a garden, the Everglades was it.

A great man is one sentence.

Some writers are only born to help another writer write one sentence.

Life as we know it is a death sentence.

The death sentence is a barbaric act . . . It is a reflection of the animal instinct still in human beings.

One minute the teacher was talking about the Civil War. And the next minute he was gone. There. Gone. No 'poof.' No flash of light. No explosion.

Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again.

Dear Anyone Who Finds This, Do not blame the drugs.

Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much.

This is how it feels to die: It starts from outside and works its way in.

The greatest tragedy that can befall a man is never to know who he really is.

I should probably start with the blood.

I would prove to you that being different isn't a death sentence but a call to arms.

However, if a poem can be reduced to a prose sentence, there can't be much to it.

What is your one-sentence job description?

I would say in one sentence my goal is to at least be part of the journey to find the unified theory that Einstein himself was really the first to look for.

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

There's a death sentence for your Robin of Locksley.

Now in Utah if you get the death sentence, they have the firing squad. In Russia, they call that early retirement.

George Bush's political, intellectual and other shortcomings cannot be restricted to one sentence.

The anguished suspense of watching the lips you hunger for, framing the words, the death sentence, of sheer triteness!

Boiled down to one sentence, my message is the unboundedness of life and the unboundedness of human destiny.

We don't have any real justice in the legal system, you never see a headline that reads, Millionaire Gets Death Sentence.

The best movies have one sentence that they're exploring, a thesis, something that people can argue about over dinner afterward.

I hope to be granted asylum. Deportation [ from Germany] that would be a death sentence for me.

I have the death sentence in seven genres.

HIV is not a death sentence. It doesn't mean life's over. It means that life's going to be different, but you still get to have those moments that people who don't have HIV experience.

I have studied all the sciences and all the major religions and can sum it up in one sentence. We become, have and attract what we think about and act upon correctly the most.

A one sentence definition of mythology? Mythology is what we call someone else's religion.

A painter must compensate the natural deficiencies of his art. He has but one sentence to utter, but one moment to exhibit. He cannot, like the poet or historian, expatiate, and impress the mind.

I think the way we talk about cancer has really evolved. I remember the way my grandmother used to talk about it, like a death sentence, no-one would even mention the word.

Valek: You know a death sentence hasn't kept us apart before. Yelena: Is that an order Valek? Valek: No, it's a promise!

If you sincerely believed in God, how could you form one thought, speak one sentence, without mentioning Him?

Childhood is the one prison from which there's no escape, the one sentence from which there's no appeal. We all serve our time.

I start with voice, maybe a sentence. That sentence might embody an image, and I go from there. One sentence to the next. Sound drives the work these days - sound before description.

In Shakespeare one sentence begets the next naturally; the meaning is all inwoven. He goes on kindling like a meteor through the dark atmosphere.

What happened to the Jews cannot be compared with all the other crimes. Every Jew had a death sentence without a date.

What a labour writing is ... making one sentence do the work of a page; that's what I call hard work.

I am trying to say it all in one sentence, between one cap and one period.

The inmates made jokes about the chair, the way people always make jokes about things that frighten them but can't be gotten away from.

The wide corridor up the centre of E Block was floored with linoleum the colour of tired old limes, and so what was the Last Mile at other prisons was called the Green Mile at Cold Mountain.

But at least it made one realize that life still held infinite possibilities for change.

They say that just before you die your whole life flashes before your eyes, but that's not how it happened for me.

Some of the people who hate me love some of the sentences that I have written, until they get to the name of the person to whom the sentences are attributed.

The way you live your day is a sentence in the story of your life. Each day you make the choice whether the sentence ends with a period, question mark, or exclamation point.

Women have always been spies.

Looks sure can be deceiving: not every ‘ugly’ person is a ‘bad’ person (or is guilty of whatever it is that they are accused of).

Why then should money be blamed for all the dirt and crimes it causes? For is love less filthy - love which creates life?

You only spoke a single line, yet it felt like a life sentence.