Sentence Quotes
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The future turns out to be something that you make instead of find. It isn't waiting for your arrival, either with an arrest warrant or a band, nor is it any further away than the next sentence, the next best guess, the next sketch for the painting of a life portrait that might become a masterpiece. The future is an empty canvas or a blank sheet of paper, and if you have the courage of your own thought and your own observation, you can make of it what you will.
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I was condemned to be beheaded, or burnt, as the king pleased; and he was graciously pleased, from the great remains of his love, to choose the mildest sentence.
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Sentence first, verdict afterwards.
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It is natural and harmless in English to use a preposition to end a sentence with.
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From the outside, it looks like this amendment to the complaint was merely for manipulating the sentence.
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The most beautiful novel is the one that starts with a sentence wholly unexpected by the reader who has lived through our storms and norms, and who might once have been the cause of our changing moods.
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In the Book of Poetry there are three hundred poems, but the meaning of all of them may be put in a single sentence: Have no debasing thoughts.
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For one thing, she was fairly certain that any sentence that used more exclamation points than words was an abomination.
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A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.
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I am trying to say it all in one sentence, between one cap and one period.
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For me, the big chore is always the same: how to begin a sentence, how to continue it, how to complete it.
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Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
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If you don't hit a newspaper reader between the eyes with your first sentence, there is no need of writing a second one.
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I will call no being good who is not what I mean when I apply that epithet to my fellow creatures; and if such a creature can sentence me to hell for not so calling him, to hell I will go .
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That it is a solecism to begin a sentence with 'and' is a faintly lingering superstition. The OED gives examples ranging from the 10th to the 19th c.; the Bible is full of them.
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A preposition is a word You mustn't end a sentence with!
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His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine.
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In my writing, I try to combine all my favorite elements of journalism - accuracy, real characters that exist on this planet - with all my favorite elements of literature: a sense of flow, of propulsion, of wanting to read every sentence.
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Sometimes I dream a sentence and write it down. It’s usually nonsense, but sometimes it seems a key to another world.
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There was only one sentence in it. ‘Tell no one about the 99 steps. Monsieur Neuf’!”
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One would think that [persecution] would be an obstacle to church growth when joining the church meant a death sentence. And yet, the age of persecution was the greatest period of church growth in history.
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You call my Wall Street words "cuss words"... I call them "sentence enhancers".
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The way we learn to write is the way we learn to talk: We listen to others and start mimicking speech, and that's how we come to become speakers. Writers you admire, you admire the way they plot, you admire the way they create a character, you admire the way they put a sentence together, those are the writers you should be reading.
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During these first days, when, in the disarray of mind and senses which was the consequence of the iniquitous sentence passed on me, I had resolved to kill myself, my dear wife, with her undaunted devotion and courage, made me realize that it is because I am innocent that I have not the right to abandon her or wilfully to desert my post.
