Sentence Quotations | Page 3

The sentence reflects the death of two innocent children.

The seven-year prison sentence is not that great, but it's not out of the ballpark for sentences in Mississippi.

Nothing like a jail sentence to humble you.

Nothing that I can do by way of sentence can undo the consequences of what you did or ease the grief that you have caused those who loved him, nor is the sentence I pass intended to value Mr Trimmer's life.

Smith put this woman through a horrific and terrifying ordeal and, although his sentence will not erase what has happened, I am pleased that it reflects the seriousness of his crime.

That sentence was never raised from my lips,

That's a popular misconception. It's not the dollar amount spent, but the time spent in making sure every little detail relates to the message. Failure to connect the dots is a death sentence for meeting planners.

The judge has no choice but life in prison. He's 14 years old. I'm not sure he understands right now how profound that sentence really will be.

I'm not going to speculate about the sentence here at all. We gotta go to trial, and we're going to let a jury decide what the truth in this case is.

I'm delighted with it, ... The idea is to come up with a sentence that makes the individuals coming into the program better drivers, safer drivers, improving the safety of everyone around. And it seems to work.

I'm definitely flattered and humbled any time I can put my name in the same sentence with Arthur Ashe. That's something that is always an accomplishment to me. He's a role model for more than just tennis players, I think.

I laughed at it, but the sentence kind of stuck in my head. It's a pretty crazy thought. People just don't pick up and move to Nepal.

I'm a 'frotteur,' someone who likes to rub words in his hand, to turn them around and feel them, to wonder if that really is the best word possible. Does that word in this sentence have any electric potential? Does it do anything? Too much electricity will make your reader's hair frizzy. There's a question of pacing.

I knew he was going to get jail time on the back end in New York. The main reason for the bulk of his sentence being probation was to pay back the victims.

If not this case, then when is a death sentence appropriate? How many people have to die?

I'm not surprised that was the sentence that came down.

If you put that much pressure on yourself, you are not going to be able to perform as well as you like, ... It's nice to have your name in the same sentence as those guys, but you have to put it behind you and play your game.

If you have three nonviolent crimes, you could still get the same sentence as someone who has committed three violent crimes.

Instead of antonyms and analogies, which depend on vocabulary, we want to measure the ability to understand reading passages, so we would ask students to indicate the sentence in a passage where the author presents an argument contrary to his thesis, or find the two sentences that are equivalent,

Interviews make me so nervous - I can't get a sentence out of my mouth.

I tend to like the last sentence I just wrote, which is: 'It was late in the fall and the trees lining our driveway had turned red like a row of burning matches.'

Iraqis are beginning to feel frustrated, ... The court should be more active. Saddam was captured two years ago and we feel that the sentence he will get will be reduced ... The weakness of this court might affect the verdicts and this is worrying us.

I read the label underneath, That telleth me whereto I must; I see the sentence eke that saith 'Remember, man, that thou art dust!' But yet, alas, but seldom I Do think indeed that I must die - My ancestors are turned to clay, And many of my mates ar

Before coming down here, most of us didn't know the difference between coral and a sponge. I used to think of fish as wheat, something you harvest. I can't think the word 'supply' and 'fish' in the same sentence now.

He's on his way to being the best ever. The only person I think that would be able to be in the same sentence with him is Maurice Greene .

He's on his way to being the best ever, ... The only person I think that would be able to be in the same sentence with him is Maurice Greene.

By the age of 45, I knew I could no longer start a sentence with a mention of strudel. My fingers would want to do it but my mind just wouldn't react.

By bouncing a word, visually, you're putting in an inflection, you know, the way a sentence should be if somebody heard it spoken. And I think a lot of humor depends on inflection, how a person says something. Certain things you could say as a question, and as a statement.

Hopefully, some good will come of this. I thought the sentence was a little harsh, but maybe it was to embarrass me a little bit.

If he had gone to the board, they could have decided to continue his probation or reinstate the remaining two years on his original sentence for armed robbery.

I'd given up Catholicism in my teens but something of it stays with me. I try to create the perfect sentence - that's as close to godliness as I can get.

I avoided the phone this morning because this (the DGA nomination) was the one I knew I wouldn't get. When my friend called to tell me, I made him repeat the sentence three times.

I don't want to endanger anyone, ... Now I have a life sentence of MRSA.

I don't think the market will push far before the Fed statement. If they remove the sentence implying some further measured tightening then the dollar is at risk.

I call it a life sentence on the installment plan.

I don?t necessarily think it affects (his status). I think it just leaves the sentence open-ended, to a degree.

I don't look at emails, Internet or newspapers before 1 P.M. I wake at 7 A.M., eat fruit, drink tea or coffee, and read what I've achieved, or not achieved, the previous day. Then I take a shower and work on my next sentence until 1 P.M. After I've done emails and so on, I write again from 3 P.M. until 8 P.M.; then I socialise.

I do find it humorous to hear 'IRS' and 'CRM' in the same sentence together, ... I think it's important that the government is realizing that it may have a monopoly but that it can't get away with acting like one.

I do not ask for mercy for myself. The only thing I can see to give me a life sentence is for my family. I do not want to see them hurt any further.

I do not ask for mercy for myself. The only reason I ask for you to give me a life sentence is for the sake of my family.

I believe if a sentence is to retain its strength over time, it needs to be carefully made.

Graham had a secret deal with the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Louisiana that in exchange for his testimony in numerous cases the U.S. Attorney would not prosecute him for his crimes in Louisiana and would even seek a sentence reduction for his crimes in other states, ... With this motivation, Graham conveniently knew all sorts of information about nefarious dealings in other districts.

For that reason, this sentence should be welcomed.

The Iraqi judiciary will sentence Saddam with what it sees suitable. There is no political order.

The trial would proceed in the absence of the defendant because the defendant would refuse to cooperate. They might as well sentence them without a trial.

The idea is to come up with a sentence that makes the individuals coming into the program better drivers, safer drivers, improving the safety of everyone around, ... And it seems to work.

The charges carry a maximum sentence of 20 years in jail, ... This is an agreed-upon disposition where you could be sentenced to eight years or less.

The heaviest sentence imposed on anyone to date for a torture-related death while in US custody is five months -- the same sentence that you might receive in the US for stealing a bicycle. In this case, the five-month sentence was for assaulting a 22-year-old taxi-driver who was hooded and chained to a ceiling while being kicked and beaten until he died.

The district attorney wants to throw the book at them with a sentence that tops out at nine years. The defense is holding out for one to six.

The court's sentence contrasts with the principles of civil justice and is a worrying signal. It is a backward-looking ruling that strikes at ... the civil conscience of women and of the whole country.

The combined effect of the number of counts that we were dealing with in this case, resulted in the sentence being longer than any others that have been previously been imposed.

The main reason for the bulk of his sentence being probation is to get restitution for the victims.

Let us guess that whenever we read a sentence and like it, we unconsciously store it away in our model-chamber; and it goes, with the myriad of its fellows, to the building, brick by brick, of the eventual edifice which we call our style

From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put

Whatever the sentence Your Worship sees fit to impose upon me for the crime for which I have been convicted before this court may it rest assured that when my sentence has been completed, I will still be moved as men are always moved, by their consci

He reminds me of the man who murdered both his parents, and then when the sentence was about to be pronounced, pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was orphan.

He reminds me of the man who murdered both his parents, and then when sentence was about to be pronounced pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan

The pipe, with solemn interposing puff,Makes half a sentence at a time enough;The dozing sages drop the drowsy strain,Then pause, and puff -- and speak, and pause again.

I spend my days kneeling in the muck of language, feeling around for gooey verbs, nouns, and modifiers that I can squash together to make a blob of a sentence that bears some likeness to reason and sense.

I sometimes think of what future historians will say of us. A single sentence will suffice for modern man: he fornicated and read the papers.

The rule which forbids ending a sentence with a preposition is the kind of nonsense up with which I will not put.

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

I told the relatives that he would go to a country trusted by Britain and the United States to serve his full sentence, and the length of the sentence would be determined by the Scottish authorities,

It's quite simple, (public speaking) Say what you have to say and when you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending, sit down

By being so long in the lowest form I gained an immense advantage over the cleverest boys . . . I got into my bones the essential structure of the normal British sentence - which is a noble thing.