Quotes about Sentences

I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real sentences. But our innocence goes awfully deep, and our discreditable secret is that we don't know anything at all, and our horrid inner secret is that we don't care that we don't.

Dylan Thomas

He is a benefactor of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences, that may be easily impressed on the memory, and so recur habitually to the mind.

Samuel Johnson

I'm so uncomfortable, especially in emotional situations, having to say sentences that don't feel right. As an actor - or really, as any kind of person sensitive to it.

Franka Potente

Look at all the sentences which seem true and question them.

David Reisman

The ones who are serving life sentences are victims.

Linda Foley

Don't forget that the only two things people read in a story are the first and last sentences. Give them blood in the eye on the first one.

Herbert Bayard Swope

Generally speaking, when you have minority males killing minority males involved in the drug trade ? while convictions result and life sentences result ? juries do not generally impose the death penalty.

Kevin Mcnally

I look at it this way. He (Payton) is going to have to sit there for however long he lives, and think about what he did every day. To me, that's a good punishment. Three life sentences. He's never going to get a chance to hurt or kill an old woman, a little girl, a young woman again.

Lucy Stewart

Good communication does not mean that you have to speak in perfectly formed sentences and paragraphs. It isn't about slickness. Simple and clear go a long way.

John Kotter

It's going to help jurors reach a just verdict, ... These are sentences you could talk to somebody about, and they probably will understand what it means.

Mark Chambers

I know Ray's style. I've known it since we were little. I give him a lick on the guitar and he knows what's coming. There is that sibling harmony. That same-heartbeat kind of thing. He knows what I want to say. It is like finishing each other's sentences.

Robert Vega

A written agreement will guarantee that the prosecutor will ask the court to give credit, give a discount, reduce the sentence because of the cooperation. For the first time that will be enforceable in this sense: that if the person promises to cooperate and the court sentences on that basis and they don't cooperate, you can go back to court and get the sentence reviewed.

Lord Goldsmith

If that was true, we wouldn't see any death sentences coming out of Texas — unanimous jury required. We wouldn't see any death sentences coming out of California, out of Virginia, out of Georgia, where unanimous juries are required.

Larry Spalding

During rehearsals, to keep things lively, I'd sometimes make up something a little dirty - or very dirty. A lot of us have improv backgrounds, and everyone would crack up. People would say, 'I wish we had taped this.' I think the sentences are the kind of thing that lends itself to the dark side of humor.

Jay Reiss

Certain brief sentences are peerless in their ability to give one the feeling that nothing remains to be said.

Jean Rostand

Only 5 percent of the death sentences were actually implemented, and I think that would be difficult to accept if you were a victim or believe in the system because there is supposed to be some finality.

Beth Wilkinson

The severity of the sentences serves as an ominous reminder of the consequences of misconduct. Executives engage in cost-benefit analysis every day. It's not surprising that they would be more responsive to deterrence.

Christopher Wray

They should get life sentences for every one of them.

Aaron Lewis

Should not have rounded this number off to below $10 million, which reduced the length of the defendants' sentences.

Richard Posner

For example, a text consists of paragraphs; a paragraph consists of sentences, a sentence consists of clauses, etc.. They are at different levels of hierarchy, or layers.

Ryuji Suzuki

I'm trying to learn a little bit but I must admit I have a horrible accent. I mess up the tones. I don't always get the meaning across. My sentences sound like questions.

Tara Kirk

This imprisonment is shameful for a country like Poland, which has just joined the European Union and which is the sole member state to impose prison sentences on journalists for offences of opinion.

Reporters Without Borders

You take it in, and it goes right out, ... If you put a lot of pressure on yourself, you're not going to be able to perform as well as you like. It's an honor to have your name in the same sentences as those guys, but you got to put it behind you and remember what got you here.

Ryan Zimmerman

If we can rightfully say that we cannot execute children because of their mental capacity and age, then we should arrive at the same logic that we cannot give children life sentences without parole.

Thomas Masters

We don't communicate in full sentences anyway. We don't need all those words.

Shepard Smith

If you look at some of my stuff, the syntax is almost nonexistent. You don't have normal sentences, and there's a reason for that because normal sentences can't do what I would like to do.

Judy Roitman

Everyone says two sentences and that's it! We can be home in twenty minutes!

Star Trek

The initiative is a severe limitation of the number of crimes that can be considered for a life sentence. It involves the release of thousands of felons that juries, judges and prosecutors ... have decided ... should serve their sentences. We would hope that the people would pay attention to our vote.

David Labahn

These sentences frankly are out of control. You get a sentence that's akin to what you would get for a homicide or for rape. In a white collar case, it doesn't seem to make a lot of sense.

David Gourevitch

Just get rid of judges altogether. Just let the Legislature set the sentences.

Don Samuel

Babies are talking full sentences with a larger vocabulary than babies that don't sign. It really stimulates something in the brain to them learning faster.

Susan Peed

In early to mid-20th century plays, characters speak in complete sentences and develop thought through complex clauses. It's complete idea.

Aled Davies

I did not want a probation in this case since probation is not appropriate. Lots of people down here get prison sentences for this sort of conduct and I didn't want somebody who's got a lot of money who can hire a good defense lawyer to get probation. I wanted him to go to prison.

Warren Diepraam

I've been lucky. I've met a lot of baseball people, and I've learned to value people who talk - people who talk well and in long sentences and even long paragraphs.

Roger Angell

[The ESA called the sentencing] a clarion warning for others contemplating computer and video game piracy, ... sentences of this magnitude send a clear message to game retailers that selling pirate products has serious consequences, including prosecution to the fullest extent of the law.

Douglas Lowenstein

We really want to do what a number of provinces have looked at, to make the provisions of the Criminal Code that deal with conditional sentences more than a slap on the wrist. They need to be real sentences where people live up to the terms of those orders.

Michael Baker

What we've got going on is an unfair characterization that we can't defend against. I mean, they're pulling out three sentences of thousands of pages of cross-examination.

Stacy Uliana

Senescent judges show how patriotic they are by passing out hard sentences for tearing up a draft card or following one's conscience according to the principles established by our country at the Nuremburg trials.

Albert Szent Gyorgyi

The boy faced consecutive life sentences if he had gone to trial and had been found guilty. The proof was overwhelming. I've had this case since December and I've gone over everything. This was the only professional and ethical thing to do.

Ellis Rubin