Sentences Quotes

The last sentence of a book is, of course, where you have to stop.

Too many Americans are going to too many prisons for far too long.

Never start a sentence with the words 'No offense.

Americans like to humiliate wrongdoers...We like, in short, to punish. It makes us feel good. By every conceivable metric - arrests, prosecutions, duration of sentences, conditions of imprisonment - the United States is by far the most punitive rich democracy.

Love words, agonize over sentences. And pay attention to the world.

They killed one nigger, one Jew, and a white man. I gave them all what I thought they deserved.

Anyone should be very suspicious of a sentence he's written that can't be read aloud easily.

Let other people finish their sentences when they’re talking.

Equations are the devil's sentences.

My sentence is for open war.

The best sentence? The shortest.

This is the end of our sentence

If it takes more than a sentence to explain what you are doing, it's almost always a sign that what you are doing is too complicated.

Everything is illusion. Even that last sentence.

'Getting smart on crime' does not mean reducing sentences or punishments for crimes.

Matrimony is not a word, it's a sentence.

To me, the most telling thing is we have a man [Donald Trump] who cannot complete a sentence.

Rabo Karabekian: I'm in the middle of a sentence. Circe Berman: Who isn't?.

Say what you have to say and the first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending - sit down.

Do not give sentence in another tribunal till you have been yourself judged in the tribunal of Justice.

I pluck up the good lissome herbs of sentences by pruning, eat them by reading, digest them by musing, and lay them up at length in the high seat of memory.

I think Yelena Akhtiorskaya is a genius. What she manages to do, linguistically and emotionally, in the span of a single sentence, is astonishing.

Using legally approved tricks and lies, the detective coerces a false confession. Hiding facts that support innocence, the prosecutor forces a dubious plea of guilt. The judge sentences for acquitted conduct, as she is allowed to do. The defense attorney for the poor, overworked because of underfunding by the state, fails to summon sufficient resources to investigate and rebut. The legal immigrant is deported with no meaningful access to constitutional rights. These intrusions are woven into the statutes and enabled by courts

Words are useless, especially sentences.

For all laws are general judgments, or sentences of the legislator; as also every particular judgment is a law to him whose case is judged.