Sentence Quotes
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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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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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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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Sentence first, verdict afterwards.
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I am trying to say it all in one sentence, between one cap and one period.
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It is natural and harmless in English to use a preposition to end a sentence with.
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A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.
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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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From the outside, it looks like this amendment to the complaint was merely for manipulating the sentence.
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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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Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
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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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For one thing, she was fairly certain that any sentence that used more exclamation points than words was an abomination.
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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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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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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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A preposition is a word You mustn't end a sentence with!
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There was only one sentence in it. ‘Tell no one about the 99 steps. Monsieur Neuf’!”
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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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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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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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During abusive conversations each remark after the first is only about the previous remark. -- Verbal abuse is less complex than other forms of conversation! "Aware of their stateless, knee-jerk character, I recognize that the terse remark I want to blurt has far more to do with some kind of "reflex" to the very last sentence of the conversation than it does with either the actual issue at hand or the person I'm talking to. . . . I steer myself toward a more "stateful" response.
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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.
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There are no seasons anymore. Fashion has become one long run-on sentence.
