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The Koran claims for itself that it is "mubeen," or clear. But if you look at it, you will notice that every fifth sentence or… — Gerd R. Puin
For a servant of God to have authority in every sentence he utters, he must first suffer for the message he is to deliver. Without… — John Sung
Being a philosophical naturalist does not mean that one thinks that science can provide all of the answers. That is scientism and that is wrong.… — Michael Ruse
The longest sentence you can form with two words is: I do. — H. L. Mencken
My Lord, it is a very hard sentence. For my part, I am the innocentest person of them all, only I have been sworn against… — William Kidd
Every writer is necessarily a critic - that is, each sentence is a skeleton accompanied by enormous activity of rejection; and each selection is governed… — Thornton Wilder
I once asked him what came at the end of the sentence... and he said "parole". — Bobby Heenan
How do people come up with a date and a time to take life from another man? . . . Twelve white men say a… — Ulysses S. Grant
I turn sentences around. That's my life. I write a sentence and then I turn it around. Then I look at it and I turn… — Philip Roth
You expect far too much of a first sentence. Think of it as analagous to a good country breakfast: what we want is something simple,… — Larry McMurtry
The sentence is the greatest human invention of civilization. — John Banville
That's my only defense against this world: to build a sentence out of it. — Jim Harrison
What is easy to read has been difficult to write. The labour of writing and rewriting, correcting and recorrecting, is the due exacted by every… — G. M. Trevelyan
The test of a round character is whether it is capable of surprising in a convincing way. If it never surprises it is flat. Flat… — E. M. Forster
If only she could put them together, she felt, write them out in some sentence, then she would have got at the truth of things. — Virginia Woolf
May I die like a dog rather than hasten the ripening of a sentence by a single second! — Gustave Flaubert
Our job is to make change. Our job is to connect to people, to interact with them in a way that leaves them better than… — Seth Godin
AIDS is no longer a death sentence for those who can get the medicines. Now it's up to the politicians to create the "comprehensive strategies"… — William J. Clinton
Cancer patients are lied to, not just because the disease is (or is thought to be) a death sentence, but because it is felt to… — Susan Sontag
A man is a writer if all his words are strung in definite sentence sounds. — Marianne Moore
Every writer must acknowledge and be able to handle the unalterable fact that he has, in effect, given himself a life sentence in solitary confinement.… — Peter Straub
I count it a high honor to belong to a profession in which the good men write every paragraph, every sentence, every line, as lovingly… — Alexander Woollcott
I get up every day and work in the morning. I have my coffee and get to work. On good days I look up and… — George R. R. Martin
Let us guess that whenever we read a sentence & like it, we unconsciously store it away in our model-chamber; & it goes, with the… — Mark Twain
The finest words in the world are only vain sounds if you can't understand them. The best sentence? The shortest. — Anatole France

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