| Barack Obama |  A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence; or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, 'Huh. It works. It makes sense.'
Barack Obama |
| Byron White | The risk of racial prejudice infecting a capital sentencing proceeding is especially serious in light of the complete finality of the death sentence.
Byron White |
| Cat Stevens | Salman Rushdie, indeed any writer who abuses the prophet or indeed any prophet under Islamic law, the sentence for that is actually death.
Cat Stevens |
| Chaim Potok | What I have in advance are people I want to write about and a problem or problems that I see those people encountering and that I want to explore - it all proceeds sentence by sentence, paragraph by paragraph, and scene by scene.
Chaim Potok |
| Charles Bukowski | If you want to know who your friends are, get yourself a jail sentence.
Charles Bukowski |
| Claude Simon | For me, the big chore is always the same: how to begin a sentence, how to continue it, how to complete it.
Claude Simon |
| Clifford Geertz | I never leave a sentence or a paragraph until I'm satisfied with it.
Clifford Geertz |
| confusion | She had already heard her sentence three of the players to be executed for having missed their turns, and she did not like the look of things at all, as the game was in such confusion that she never knew whether it was her turn or not. |
| conviction | A US appeals court upholds the conviction and life sentence of 9/11 conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui. |
| countries | And in the last sentence I would like also to mention that Poland is one of the countries with which the United States has run strategic dialogues since last year.
Marek Belka
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| danger | Blind after the manner of men, since we can look back we see what we might have seen looking forward if we had been able to see what we might have seen! Alas, but that sentence is a puddle, is it not? We can know now what was in the Count's mind, when he seize that money, though Jonathan's so fierce knife put him in the danger that even he dread. |
| Don DeLillo | Every sentence has a truth waiting at the end of it and the writer learns how to know it when he finally gets there.
Don DeLillo |
| Don DeLillo | I've always seen myself in sentences. I begin to recognize myself, word by word, as I work through a sentence.
Don DeLillo |
| Don DeLillo | 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.
Don DeLillo |
| Don DeLillo | There's a moral force in a sentence when it comes out right. It speaks the writer's will to live.
Don DeLillo |
| Douglas Hofstadter | This sentence contradicts itself - no actually it doesn't.
Douglas Hofstadter |
| Douglas Horton | We are all serving a life sentence, and good behavior is our only hope for a pardon.
Douglas Horton |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower | If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide, you would think that man's intelligence and his comprehension... would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution.
Dwight D. Eisenhower |
| F. L. Lucas | The most emphatic place in a clause or sentence is the end. This is the climax; and, during the momentary pause that follows, that last word continues, as it were, to reverberate in the reader's mind. It has, in fact, the last word.
F. L. Lucas |
| Florence E. Allen | 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.
Florence E. Allen |
