Quotes of: Sentencing Keyword

If the techs are on it we're fine, but Briamiv and his buddy could fuck up a full stop at the end of a sentence.

The City & the City

Employment is slavery. Workers merely have a choice over where to serve their daily eight-hour sentence.

The Confessions of a Misfit

I'm not stupid!" In Bean's experience, that was a sentence never uttered except to prove its own inaccuracy.

Ender's Shadow

If pimps and thieves were invariably sentenced, all decent people would get to thinking they themselves were constantly innocent.

The Fall

I would prove to you that being different isn't a death sentence but a call to arms.

Handle with Care

Sweet, crazy conversations full of half sentences, daydreams and misunderstandings more thrilling than understanding could ever be.

Beloved

They lay together like a word and a comma, asleep within an unfinished sentence.

The Book of Heaven: A Novel

It's strange how a word, a phrase, a sentence, can feel like a blow to the head.

Allegiant

Under every friendship there is a difficult sentence that must be said, in order that the friendship can be survived.

The Autograph Man

He walked, groping for a sentence that hung in his mind as an empty shape. He could neither fill it or dismiss it.

Atlas Shrugged

The unteachable man is sentenced to being taught only by experience. The tragedy is he reaches nothing further than his own pain.

Killosophy

There are words and words and none mean anything. And then one sentence means everything.

The Narrow Road to the Deep North

Any sentence that combined "I love you" and "but" could not be good.

Let It Snow

A good sentence in prose should be like a good line in poetry, unchangeable, as rhythmic, as sonorous.

Selected Letters

Oliver Cromwell banned kissing on Sundays---even for married couples---on pain of a prison sentence.

That Book: ...of Perfectly Useless Information

Hard work is only a prison sentence when you lack motivation

Outliers: The Story of Success

let me live, love, and say it well in good sentences

The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

I'm very polite by nature, even the voices in my head let each other finish their sentences.

Unspent Time

Another deserted sentence. Another side effect of death. Words go AWOL.

When You Were Here

Simplicities are enormously complex. Consider the sentence "I love you".

Writing the Silences

Your first written sentence is the foundation of all of your dreams.

Writing Affirmations: A Collection of Positive Messages to Inspire Writers