Sentence Quotes - page 22

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)
There are times when the only access I have to the truest person that I am is when I'm alone and trying to solve a sentence. It's exciting, even when it's frustrating, even when I can't do it right. View quote
Elizabeth Gilbert
We are all serving a life sentence in the dungeon of the self. View quote
Cyril Connolly
You have always written before and you will write now. All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
When I'm sitting at the desk not being able to write line one, it's silence and despair! It's not so easy to put the pen to the legal pad or type the first sentence on the computer screen. View quote
Erica Jong
Because when I read, I don't really read; I pop a beautiful sentence into my mouth and suck it like a fruit drop, or I sip it like a liqeur until the thought dissolves in me like alcohol, infusing brain and heart and coursing on through the veins to the root of each blood vessel. View quote
Bohumil Hrabal
The judge said he disliked to sentence the lad; it seemed the wrong thing to do; but the law left him no option. I was struck by this. The judge, then, was doing something as an official that he would not dream of doing as a man; and he could do it without any sense of responsibility, or discomfort, simply because he was acting as an official and not as a man. View quote
Albert Jay Nock
A sentence is made up of words, a statement is made in words.... Statements are made, words or sentences are used. View quote
J. L. Austin
I usually start writing a novel that I then abandon. When I say abandon, I don't think any writer ever abandons anything that they regard as even a half-good sentence. So you recycle. I mean, I can hang on to a sentence for several years and then put it into a book that's completely different from the one it started in. View quote
Kate Atkinson
What force, precisely, is operating when a prisoner is advised, requested, ordered, intimidated, or forced, to confess to a crime he has not committed, and promised a lighter sentence for so perjuring and debasing himself? Does the law exist for the purpose of furthering the ambitions of those who have sworn to uphold the law, or is it seriously to be considered as a moral, unifying force, the health and strength of a nation? View quote
James Baldwin
The bill of grievances contained in the immortal Declaration of Independence could be extended by our own citizens in modern times, had they the stomach for it. ... So important is the right and duty of the people to dispense with despotism, this great Declaration contains the sentence not once, but twice. In its final utterance, the choice of words does not call for the formation of a government. Rather, it calls for "new guards" which may or may not entail such a unit as an artificial agency. (Robert LeFevre)
The label of liberalism is hardly a sentence to public ignominy otherwise Bruce Springsteen would still be rehabilitating used Cadillacs in Asbury Park and Jane Fonda, for all we know, would be just another overweight housewife. View quote
Barbara Ehrenreich
I'm drawn to almost any piece of writing with the words 'divine love' and 'impeachment' in the first sentence. But I know the word 'divine' makes many progressive people run screaming for their cute little lives, and so one hesitates to use it. View quote
Anne Lamott
The Bible ... does not contain a single sentence that could not have been written by a man or woman living in the first century. View quote
Sam Harris
Let animals live like animals; let humans live like humans. That's my whole philosophy in a sentence. View quote
Aravind Adiga
The only man, woman, or child who wrote a simple declarative sentence with seven grammatical errors "is dead." View quote
E. E. Cummings
They are their own monuments, as is this quietly thrilling sentence. View quote
Stanley Fish
Beautifully written... the webs of imagery that Harris has so carefully woven... contains writing of which our best writers would be proud... there is not a singly ugly or dead sentence... View quote
Martin Amis
As writers we must, from our very opening sentence, speak with authority to our readers. View quote
Michael Cunningham
I revise constantly, as I go along and then again after I've finished a first draft. Few of my novels contain a single sentence that closely resembles the sentence I first set down. I just find that I have to keep zapping and zapping the English language until it starts to behave in some way that vaguely matches my intentions. View quote
Michael Cunningham
If I have any advantage, maybe, as a writer, it is that I don't think I'm very interesting. I mean, beginning a novel with the last sentence is a pretty plodding way to spend your life. (John Irving)
And I don't want to begin something, I don't want to write that first sentence until all the important connections in the novel are known to me. As if the story has already taken place, and it's my responsibility to put it in the right order to tell it to you. View quote
John Irving
The whole book is my own, and every sentiment and sentence in it. View quote
Davy Crockett
"To be born,” they say, "is a felony--it is a capital crime, for which sentence may be executed at any moment after the commission of the offence. You may perhaps happen to live for some seventy or eighty years, but what is that, compared with the eternity you now enjoy? And even though the sentence were commuted, and you were allowed to live on for ever, you would in time become so terribly weary of life that execution would be the greatest mercy to you. View quote
Samuel Butler (novelist)
If I was asked to say what was the greatest invention of human beings, I would say the sentence. View quote
John Banville