The last thing I have to say is that ice is the past tense of water. I've always wanted to write that sentence and now I have.
Rita Mae Brown
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Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.
Horace Mann
I write the first sentence and trust in God for the next.
Laurence Sterne
I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning , or destroyed it altogether.
Alfred North Whitehead
You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we will sentence them to take the first step into a thousand years of darkness. If we fail, at least let our children and our children's children say of us we justified our brief moment here. We did all that could be done.
Ronald Reagan
A thousand cups of wine do not suffice when true friends meet, but half a sentence is too much when there is no meeting of minds.
Chinese Proverb
'I am' is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that 'I do' is the longest sentence?
George Carlin
One might define adulthood as the age at which a person learns he must die and accepts his sentence undismayed.
Robert A. Heinlein
There are kids who did things 100 times worse than to go joyriding in your grandmother's car; you don't get the death sentence for that in America.
Benjamin Crump
Both sides felt this was a reasonable sentence.
Bryan Feigenbaum
The only person right now who would be able to be in the same sentence with him is Maurice Greene. I think in a couple of years he may surpass that. Justin Gatlin is on his way to being the greatest ever.
John Capel
I knew he was going to get jail time on the back end in New York. The main reason for the bulk of his sentence being probation was to pay back the victims.
Caroline Shepherd
I keep going over a sentence. I nag it, gnaw it, pat and flatter it.
Janet Flanner
O'Neill can significantly move the yen in either direction with one small sentence.
Masayoshi Okamoto
The risk of racial prejudice infecting a capital sentencing proceeding is especially serious in light of the complete finality of the death sentence.
Byron R. White
If you can't write your message in a sentence, you can't say it in an hour.
Dianna Booher
Once you violate parole, you must serve the remainder of the sentence.
Deirdre Fedkenheuer
We're not going to appeal. She was willing to accept the sentence the judge handed down. This was the sentence.
Robert Axelrod
The combined effect of the number of counts that we were dealing with in this case, resulted in the sentence being longer than any others that have been previously been imposed.
Andrew Macdonald
We have appealed with the Supreme Court on the same grounds: we are asking for the sentence to be overturned as [it is] illegal and unsubstantiated.
Genrikh Padva
We believe Mr. Kushner should serve the entire sentence that he agreed to in his plea agreement.
Michael Drewniak
It is an exceptionally high sentence. The loss numbers were so incredibly large, and on top of that this case has gotten so much attention.
David Gourevitch
Most laws condemn the soul and pronounce sentence. The result of the law of my God is perfect. It condemns but forgives. It restores - more than abundantly - what it takes away.
Jim Elliot
We have tried to focus on offenders right after they enter the detention center. When people have a long sentence hanging over their head, it is the best carrot to entice them to sign up for the program.
Lee Kempert
If we've helped one victim, we've succeeded in our journey. However, our journey doesn't end here. We've been dealt a life sentence. Now we must choose how to live it.
Lorraine Reed
He was under the impression by his trial counsel that he would receive a probationary sentence. The cumulative error in this case is something this court should look at.
Dion Custis
These are all cases where we already have the right guy and the sentence is long overdue.
Kent Scheidegger
Whether anybody agrees with it or not, he has served his sentence.
Jack Mccann
I was devastated. It was like a death sentence. I didn't know what to do.
Amy Newman
I think it's a decent sentence. It gets their attention.
John Madigan
It?s pretty cool. I take a lot of pride in durability by eating well and staying strong. It?s an honor to say I?m in the top three and be mentioned in the same sentence as Jeff Hamilton.
Joe Zappala
I am going to accept the recommendation of both the government and the defense and impose a sentence on the low side of the range, ... But I will tell you that your offenses will no longer be tolerated. If you return (to court for a future offense), the sentence will be more severe.
William Sessions
Statesman all over, in plots famous grown,/ He mouths a sentence, as curs mouth a bone.
Charles Churchill
Like O'Reilly, we'll grab the most important word out of every sentence, ... `The,' for example. Also, I'll say, `I'm angry,' and the graphic will read, `Colbert angry.'
Stephen Colbert
That sentence was never raised from my lips.
Terry Bennett
A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes
Absent serious constitutional error, which we know from this order Sessions isn't going to find, I don't think Sessions has any choice but to sentence Fell to death.
Michael Mello
It rarely adds anything to say, ''In my opinion'' -not even modesty. Naturally a sentence is only your opinion; and you are not the Pope.
Paul Goodman
That childhood may indicate that the more appropriate sentence is life in prison without parole as opposed to the death penalty.
George Lepley
That's a death sentence when you get down early to those guys. But we didn't quit, I think we got it back to seven a few times.
Stote Reeder
The seven-year prison sentence is not that great, but it's not out of the ballpark for sentences in Mississippi.
Larry Knight
I felt blessed. That's a hard thing to say that having cancer is a blessing, but I was blessed and had God with me through the whole ordeal. Instead of a death sentence, I was given new life.
Larry Williamson
Don't use the word ?hurt' and ?haircut' in the same sentence.
Justin Hill
It is time. We need to carry out the sentence and justice needs to be served.
Roe Wilson
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
We've always been here and we'll always be here. We are a specific arrangement of particles and this instant is infinite. Did we luck out, or didn't we? The odds against this sentence having ever being typed, much less the odds against you reading it were inconceivable. Smile, because the fact that you're able to is almost impossible to comprehend.
Jeffrey Rowland
From what we've seen in Texas, it is so important that the door be open to meaningful federal habeas review. We're not talking about technicalities, but people whose sentence was seriously flawed, who now may lose the ability to appeal.
Jim Marcus
We have the right to appeal to the Supreme Court and we hope that when we appeal, the Supreme Court will temporarily stay the sentence until the appeal is heard.
Benazir Bhutto
It's telling that the person who got the most time was the one all over television. The less in the news, the lighter the sentence seems to be.
Jumana Musa
I don't think the market will push far before the Fed statement. If they remove the sentence implying some further measured tightening then the dollar is at risk.
Gavin Friend
If we were to treat everybody for the whole length of their sentence we would be facing a significant resource issue.
Georgia Cumming
I laughed at it, but the sentence kind of stuck in my head. It's a pretty crazy thought. People just don't pick up and move to Nepal.
Lance Trumbull
If he had gone to the board, they could have decided to continue his probation or reinstate the remaining two years on his original sentence for armed robbery.
Russ Marlan
Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it. I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Emilio, I am getting rusty and old, I cannot follow the highbrow theory developed by Oppenheimer's pupils any more. I went to their seminar and was depressed by my inability to understand them. Only the last sentence cheered me up. It was: 'And this is Fermi's theory of beta decay.
Enrico Fermi
No one can criticize the judge for meting out this sentence. The judge did about as much for the defense that she could do.
Michael Proctor
He was given the same sentence after a short proceeding.
Tom Carson
I would give a sentence much greater than this and this is conduct that is not acceptable in society, this conduct she keeps committing.
Thomas Sullivan
It makes a great difference in the force of a sentence, whether a man be behind it or no.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
She's served the most onerous part of her sentence. Home confinement isn't great, but at least she's out of prison.
Douglas Berman
[If you are a lover of the carefully crafted sentence, if] more isn't enough ... the worst writer of his generation.
Patrick Moody
We are not asking for a pardon but for a reduction in the sentence. He was really in the wrong place at the wrong time.
James Brosnahan
It's very nice to be mentioned in the same sentence as that team and to be recognized like that.
Dion Phaneuf
An apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the whole sentence.
Letitia Landon
The present charge is one for culpable homicide not amounting to murder. There is a possibility of a life sentence.
Shashi Nathan
War needs to be waged on this disease. Twenty years ago if a child was diagnosed with cancer it was a death sentence; now there's an 80 percent cure rate. I just think if there's enough awareness raised and we move research ahead, something can be done.
Linda Hastings
We will appeal to a higher court for a tougher conviction, at least for a life sentence. Not only because he was a cop, but also because of the brazen way he behaved after the rape.
Ujjwal Nikam
It's a death sentence once you're diagnosed with it.
Paula De Gear
At a minimum, ... would eliminate the possibility of the death sentence and could exculpate him from the specific conspiracies charged in this case.
Leonie Brinkema
This sentence should reflect the sacred character of public funds. These days there seems to be a blind spot in public culture, that fraud against the government isn't too important, that the public pockets are deep and inexhaustible.
Jacques Dagenais
For me, the big chore is always the same: how to begin a sentence, how to continue it, how to complete it.
Claude Simon
I recognise that any sentence I impose will not bring Triston back or give any real consolation to his family.
Anthony Morris
For example, Georgia rarely sentences children to life without parole, but it has youth crimes rates lower than Missouri, which imposes the sentence on child offenders far more frequently, ... the harshest prison sentence possible.
Alison Parker
The sentence reflects the death of two innocent children.
Beth Miller
He wants you to sentence him to death. He came to America to die in jihad and you are his last chance. He clearly sees that as his last way to martyrdom.
Gerald Zerkin
I have a couple of lists that I can refer to throughout the day, but I don't have the official 'FAT' book yet. Yes, it really is called the FAT (Federal Acronym and Terms) book. And no, you can't speak a sentence around here without using an acronym.
John Scales
We are faced with a reality in Iraq where people are murdering, and what we want is a sentence which punishes the hand that kills and the person who commits this crime.
Leith Kubba
We've had our lives impaired and (will) continue to be impaired for a number of years. I just hope that the sentence he gets reflects that.
Joanna Moore
This is a severe sentence. It really is, and with the [sex offender] registration requirement for the rest of his life and all the terms and conditions that he will have to comply with for the rest of his life because of probation, we'll get his attention we hope.
Kurt Mechals
They can leave out the sentence about accommodation and say that future actions will be based on incoming data.
Brian Stine
Women do not give up their reproductive rights when they are in prison. Her sentence does not include the loss of her reproductive rights.
Brenda Jones
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
This is a political action, a political sentence. Leaders of leading political parties are behind bars.
Aleksandr Milinkevich
You can kill somebody and get away with it -- you can kill two. He just gave out a great plan: flee the country, you get back, you get a reduced sentence.
Michael Durkin
She is doing as well as can be expected for someone who is serving a life sentence.
Tara Knight
If you put that much pressure on yourself, you are not going to be able to perform as well as you like, ... It's nice to have your name in the same sentence as those guys, but you have to put it behind you and play your game.
Ryan Zimmerman
Going 0-2 in this region is a death sentence. We've got to come out hard against A.F. We can be strong when we play together. We're a really good team, but we've got to be more consistent.
Sara Atuaia
It's a legacy of segregation. Racial covenants are just a sentence in a long list of documents. It's kind of a standard language.
Jim Draeger
If I were asked for a one-sentence sound bite on religion, I would say I was against it.
Salman Rushdie
I think for the system to have credibility, I think the sentence must be carried out.
Randall Mcgruther
The moment that I realized my name was going to be said in the same sentence as children and sex, that's really intense. That's something I knew from that very moment, whatever happens past that point, something's out there in the air that is really bad.
Paul Reubens
Allen deserves capital punishment because he was already serving a life sentence for murder when he masterminded the murders of three innocent young people and conspired to attack the heart of our criminal justice system.
Ward Campbell
The next sentence in my comment was, 'We are still investigating and we will hold people accountable,' and unfortunately, we are still looking at some of those issues so I can't really get into that.
Joseph Schmitz
To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward is in my actions and not from them.
Hugh Prather
We tried everything we could to try to get him liberated well before the end of the 12-year sentence which he had received.
Dan Mcteague
You expect far too much of a first sentence. Think of it as analogous to a good country breakfast: what we want is something simple, but nourishing to the imagination.
Larry McMurtry
What will my job description be as the general manager of the New York Jets? It's one sentence: My job is to get the head coach players. We will look under every rock, every day.
Mike Tannenbaum
This sentence is not being imposed because of the background of anyone involved. I see here a man who is sorry for what he did. I see a mother who is grieving for her son. It doesn't matter what their ethnic background is.
Judge Kenneth Biehn
This is the image from which he was born...... Characters are not born, like people, of woman; they are born of a situation, a sentence, a metaphor, containing in a nutshell a basic human possibility......the characters in my novels are my own unrealized possibilities. That is why I am equally fond of them and equally horrified by them......
Milan Kundera
He got off the bench and was sick after handing down that sentence. He always said it was the most difficult thing he did while on the bench.
Ted Ritter
I was surprised at the severity of the sentence.
Peyton Hyslop
The defendant has earned and deserves a very, very severe sentence that is designed to imprison him for the rest of his life.
Craig Parsons
You must nevertheless open yourselves to the possibility of a sentence other than death.
Gerald Zerkin
Whenever the literary German dives into a sentence, that is the last you are going to see of him until he emerges on the other side of his atlantic with his verb in his mouth.
Mark Twain
But jail's not the answer in a case of this sort, To balance the equities is the job of this court. So a week before Christmas, here in the court, I sentence defendant for interrupting a sport. Community service, and a fine you will pay. Happy holiday to all, and to all a good day.
Phyllis Orlikoff Flug
The idea is to come up with a sentence that makes the individuals coming into the program better drivers, safer drivers, improving the safety of everyone around, ... And it seems to work.
Brian Mackenzie
I was so afraid he was going to get out. We'd be living in fear again, like we were before (if he had received a life sentence).
Margaret Johnson
She didn't do it. She should be free, ... I was expecting the Australian government to do something. We're not happy in this sentence and we will appeal immediately.
Schapelle Corby
All this climate of terror give us a clear indication of the kind of sentence that Nur will receive.
Gamila Ismail
Nothing like a jail sentence to humble you.
Nicki Gondell
I would hope the state would see reason in this at some point and concede. I mean, you have the victim's family saying the sentence was excessive. ... What more does it take?
John Trevena
To answer your question as to how you get six years, that was the legislative determination that a felony of involuntary manslaughter conviction would call for that type of sentence.
Branny Vickory
I didn't do anything to warrant my sentence, and yet the sentence you gave me is life long.
Amy Wright
Taking two years out of a kid's high school athletic career is a life sentence for an adolescent.
Dorie Combs
We want to defend the right of the simple citizen since we believe that the sentence was completely unfair.
Vyacheslav Lysakov
I don't want to endanger anyone, ... Now I have a life sentence of MRSA.
Mark Stewart
The history of all the great characters of the Bible is summed up in this one sentence: They acquainted themselves with God, and acquiesced His will in all things.
Richard Cecil
I'm not surprised that was the sentence that came down.
Robert Christensen
It might as well be a death sentence considering my age.
Tommy Allain
I see it becoming a chronic problem as opposed to a death sentence. A patient goes to the doctor and he diagnoses it and says this is what we do, it will become like something that is not fatal. You do the treatments and it is beaten. I am going to live to see that.
Nancy Verderber
It was a political sentence, it was an unjust decision. My gesture has nothing to do with political ideologies.
Paolo Di Canio
Smith put this woman through a horrific and terrifying ordeal and, although his sentence will not erase what has happened, I am pleased that it reflects the seriousness of his crime.
Harry Harrison
This was an horrendous, totally irresponsible piece of dangerous driving. It has taken the lives of two young men and devastated the lives of family and friends. No sentence can bring back the young lives which have been lost.
Richard Brown
We can't change the fact that she has completed her sentence and that she's free, ... All we can do is to mitigate the danger that she represents to the public safety by maintaining these conditions on her.
Tim Danson
The charges carry a maximum sentence of 20 years in jail, ... This is an agreed-upon disposition where you could be sentenced to eight years or less.
John Pickard
The one thing that they dread is the death sentence. So, I guess that's kind of what they deserve.
Larry Bryant
We are very, very angry about the sentence that he got. He got 35 years, but he will not serve 35 years.
Cruz Carder
If you have three nonviolent crimes, you could still get the same sentence as someone who has committed three violent crimes.
Brian Corbett
Edgar Johnson, unlike Major Parker, has quite an extensive criminal history. The judge did what he thought was just taking into account all of the circumstances (with a lighter sentence).
Corey Smith
They're all cerebral quarterbacks, and that's what I want to be. To be mentioned in the same sentence as those guys would be a great honor.
Mark Sanchez
This liar, this thief, this man who has stolen dreams that people have worked for a long hard time to achieve. He deserves the maximum possible sentence.
John Regan
What this means is that corporations and those who run them cannot stop exploiting resources and amassing wealth until they have... .I cannot finish this sentence, because the truth is that can never stop; like cancer, they can only continue to expand until they kill the host.
Derrick Jensen
The action of a shepherd in keeping sheep, performed as I have said in his kind, is as good a work before God as is the action of a judge in giving sentence, or of a magistrate in ruling, or a minister in preaching.
William Perkins
The only thing that's keeping Father Jean-Juste is vindictiveness on the part of the Haitian authorities. If he gets an infection it can be a death sentence.
Jack Lieberman
Mr. Page has, I believe, some very compelling legal grounds to have his death sentence set aside. It may put me at odds with my client, but I'm not going to push him off a cliff because he asked me to do it.
Mike Butler
They cannot have a double interpretation in the same sentence. The interpretation, which we asked for two and a half months ago, came late and it came wrong.
Jose Aranaz
We're not going to let this happen.... Delete 'mobility-impaired' from last sentence above per the Interim Settlement agreement.
Julia Hollenbeck
She didn't do it. She should be free. I was expecting the Australian government to do something. We're not happy in this sentence and we will appeal immediately.
Mercedes Corby
ANYWAY, by the time you read this sentence, the song I am referring to will be ten thousand years old.
Chuck Klosterman
There is no way in the world we should be having a discussion about choosing between stadiums for high schools, Victory Stadium and libraries in the same sentence.
Carl Cooper
Certainly the first thing we need to do is to tell the court that a life sentence would not be fair in this case and we have to show the court through our own arguments and submissions that a sentence below 10 years would be appropriate.
Shashi Nathan
This was the appropriate sentence. This guy kidnapped two children. He lured two small girls away. It's every parent's nightmare that their kids go out to play and never come back. That's what happened here. I think Judge Doyle did the community a great service today by imposing the sentence he did. If not, this guy would get out and he would re-offend.
Michael Combs
We had obviously hoped the judge would accept our agreement with the government. Dr. Fisk is disappointed the judge didn't adopt that recommendation. On the other hand, he appreciates the fact that the court said a sentence within the guideline range was inappropriate.
Richard Hartley
The public prosecutor believes the ruling was too lenient in light of a possible sentence of up to 10 years and Irving's special importance to right-wing radicals.
Walter Geyer
In a way, by voting for the pay raise, he may very well have signed his own death sentence.
Jesse White
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
The government would have to give up the ghost on seeking the death penalty, the sentence being life in an institution instead of in jail [with the rest of the prison population] without the possibility of parole, ... That's the only guilty plea that would be acceptable.
Andrew Napolitano
Justice demands that the 168 deaths be reflected in the sentence.
Paul Cassell
It is the sentence of this court that you be taken from this court to a prison and then to a place of execution where you will be hanged.
Michael Scott
The only man, woman, or child who ever wrote a simple declarative sentence with seven grammatical errors is dead.
E e cummings
Had it not been for these factors, he would have received a much longer sentence.
Patrick Robinson
It's a substantial sentence.
Orin Snyder
We will measure it by the development of skills in the students. Are they able to do long division? Can they apply it to real-world problems? Can they form a sentence? These are things that we will watch for.
Bob Freehan
I do not ask for mercy for myself. The only thing I can see to give me a life sentence is for my family. I do not want to see them hurt any further.
Joseph P. Smith
If today or tomorrow the sentence had been pronounced there would simply have been international uproar.
Sergei Mitrokhin
We don't want him to go back to Saudi Arabia. We believe he is under a death sentence right now.
Francis Carter
We're not happy in this sentence and we will appeal immediately.
Mercedes Corby
As long as the regulations have not been revised, all prisoners will be given a sentence cut in line with their rights under prevailing laws and regulations.
Hamid Awaluddin
I think that dying is something that Napoleon has thought about from the very moment the sentence was pronounced in his case.
Walter Long
I do not ask for mercy for myself. The only reason I ask for you to give me a life sentence is for the sake of my family.
Joseph P. Smith
This sentence contradicts itself - no actually it doesn't.
Douglas Hofstadter
Allen received the justice he deserved for the murders he committed. Allen deserves capital punishment because he was already serving a life sentence for murder when he masterminded the murders of three innocent young people and conspired to attack the heart of our criminal justice system.
Ward Campbell
It's definitely an honor to be mentioned in the same sentence as Gary Suter. But you can't have individual success without the help of your teammates.
Dion Phaneuf
From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.
Sir Winston Churchill
If any of us had accepted $50,000 to keep him out of prison, why would we have, in open court, asked the judge to sentence him to prison?
Robert Herron
A life sentence was sufficient for them, it seems disproportionate to give our client the same sentence.
Joshua Dratel
It's not like Big Brother; it's a sentence that's trying to do the right thing, the appropriate thing to guarantee the community's safety, ... It's not going to be in their car forever, but it's going to be there to demonstrate that they've learned to drive appropriately so that there's one less person who is sitting two inches off your bumper at 80 mph.
Brian Mackenzie
As a result of his arrest he can expect a prison term. The head sentence for these offences is in the range of one to three years' of imprisonment.
Ross Barnett
A scrupulous writer, in every sentence that he writes, will ask himself at least four questions, thus: 1. What am I trying to say? 2. What words will express it? 3. What image or idiom will make it clearer? 4. Is this image fresh enough to have an effect?
George Orwell
Nothing that I can do by way of sentence can undo the consequences of what you did or ease the grief that you have caused those who loved him, nor is the sentence I pass intended to value Mr Trimmer's life.
John Saunders
When you reach out for help and it's just not there, it's like signing a death sentence. The more they cut beds, they are killing people on the streets.
Tom Griffin
Do you think I could justify to the newspaper-reading public why [Jones] gets a sentence seven to eight times higher?
Gerard Lynch
The government will dismiss the remaining counts of the Miami indictment at the time of sentencing and will also recommend that the sentence imposed in the Miami case run concurrently to any sentence imposed as a result of charges filed today in the District of Columbia.
Neal Sonnett
America should be ashamed of this sentence. This is the best evidence that Americans have double standards.
Akram Abdel Amir
I think probation would have been a more appropriate sentence. I don't think the facts of this case call out for a period of incarceration.
James Walker
The mistakes of the trial chamber justify the reduction of the sentence.
Fausto Pocar
There's no sentence that's too short in the eyes of God.
William Zinsser
Jurors are realizing the death penalty doesn't accomplish anything because the public is protected by a life sentence.
David Defazio
We're obviously disappointed with the court's ruling. It's a death sentence for some of the small, neighborhood border bars.
Patrick O'neill
This was the sentence that was allowable under the law.
Sandi Gibbons
He'll say one sentence and I'll say one sentence. It takes me forever to pop out that one sentence. It's horrible. I could kill him now.
Jennifer Rodriguez
We still have laws for this type of crime that allow offenders to be released before they complete all of their initial sentence.
Mark Plowden
Well, I think he did make progress and I'm very pleased with the sentence.
Rupa Goswami
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