#sentence

These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder. ↗

— Jeff Greenfield

#longer #murder #people #sentence #served

I don't have an e-reader. One reason is that I like to dog-ear the page when I find a particularly good sentence or passage. ↗

— Carl Hiaasen

#good #i #like #page #particularly

In a newspaper, you only have so much room. It teaches you the value of getting to the point, of not pampering yourself with your glorious writing. I've always been much more interested in one powerful sentence that stays with you. That's my style. ↗

— Mitch Albom

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From a sequence of these individual patterns, whole buildings with the character of nature will form themselves within your thoughts, as easily as sentences. ↗

— Christopher Alexander

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Our spirit is not dependent on the brain or body. It is eternal, and no one has one sentence worth of hard evidence that it isn't. ↗

— Eben Alexander

#brain #dependent #eternal #evidence #hard

I've got problems and if you sentence me to additional time, I'm going to compound them. ↗

— Gary Gilmore

#compound #going #got #i #me

If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide, you would think that man's intelligence and his comprehension... would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

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I can't really put it in one sentence because although on one hand Preacher is about faith and yes it is also about, I suppose, the search for God, the search for faith and the manipulation and the abuse committed by figures in whom I suppose people have faith. ↗

— Garth Ennis

#abuse #also #although #because #committed

I keep going over a sentence. I nag it, gnaw it, pat and flatter it. ↗

— Janet Flanner

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What makes literature interesting is that it does not survive its translation. The characters in a novel are made out of the sentences. That's what their substance is. ↗

— Jonathan Miller

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