#prose

He can develop sense and style, in the manner of distinguished modern prose, in which event he may be sure that the result will not fall into any objective form. ↗

— John C. Ransom

#develop #distinguished #event #fall #form

They've got him - credible witnesses, documents, heaven knows what else. In all my years as a prosecutor I have never seen such an open-and-shut case. ↗

— Elliot Richardson

#credible #documents #else #got #heaven

A breeze blew through the room, blew curtains in at one end and out the other like pale flags, twisting them up towards the frosted wedding-cake of the ceiling, and then rippled over the wine-coloured rug, making a shadow on it as wind does on the sea. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#everyday-objects #great-gatsby #great-prose #prose #beauty

The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#life #love #necessary #prosecution #undertaking

And there had to be a dagger thrust in the heart of the left to tell them that you are no longer gonna give five years for a Smith Act prosecution or one year for Contempt of Court, but we're gonna kill ya! ↗

— Julius Rosenberg

#contempt #court #dagger #five #give

In true prose everything must be underlined. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

#must #prose #true

In contrast to what most prosecutors do, we try to treat all individuals with complete fairness. We do not go out and hold press conferences and the like. ↗

— Kenneth Starr

#conferences #contrast #fairness #go #hold

Paper is the strongest material in the world. Things under which a mountain will crumble, you can place on paper and it will hold: beauty at its most intense; love at its fiercest; the greatest grief; the greatest rage. ↗

— Nadeem Aslam

#beauty

This is a very highly charged investigation. People are very interested in this, and we've got a prosecutor, a very well respected prosecutor who's been looking at this issue, this investigation for a long time. ↗

— Alberto Gonzales

#charged #got #highly #interested #investigation

I'm honestly perplexed about the distinction represented by the cervical wall. On one side, people should be prosecuted if they do anything to harm the fetus, but once on the outside, sorry kid, whatever happens happens. You're on your own. ↗

— Jennifer Granholm

#anything #distinction #fetus #happens #harm