Sentences Quotes
1223 Sentences quotes by 868 unique authors
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People who cannot put strings of sentences together in good order cannot think. An educational system that does not teach the technology of writing is…
— Richard Mitchell
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History resists an ending as surely as nature abhors a vacuum; the narrative of our days is a run-on sentence, every full stop a comma…
— Mark Slouka
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A preposition is a word You mustn't end a sentence with!
— Berton Braley
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And we are quotation marks, inverted and upside down, clinging to one another at the end of this life sentence. Trapped by lives we did…
— Tahereh Mafi
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Solely in the world of languages is the amateur of value. Well-intentioned sentences full of mistakes can still build bridges between people. Asking in broken…
— Kató Lomb
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If I had to cram all my tournament experience into one sentence, I would say, Don't give up and don't let up!
— Tony Lema
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If you don't hit a newspaper reader between the eyes with your first sentence, there is no need of writing a second one.
— Arthur Brisbane
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In the nineteenth century, which was a dark and inflationary age in typography, man compositors were encouraged to stuff extra space between sentences. Generations of…
— Robert Bringhurst
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I like all things grammatical, and I had already written several books about parts of speech, and even the alphabet, so everything that makes up…
— Brian P. Cleary
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Every rustic who delivers in the village alehouse his slow, infrequent sentences, may help to kill or keep alive the fatal superstitions which clog his…
— William Kingdon Clifford
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Let other people finish their sentences when they’re talking.
— Randy Pausch
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Be a good steward of your gifts. Protect your time. Feed your inner life. Avoid too much noise. Read good books, have good sentences in…
— Jane Kenyon
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School is a twelve-year jail sentence where bad habits are the only curriculum truly learned.
— John Taylor Gatto
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There is never finality in the display terminal's screen, but an irresponsible whimsicality, as words, sentences, and paragraphs are negated at the touch of a…
— Alexander Cockburn
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Soul ties. The thing that can make you hear an old-school slow jam and think of somebody you haven’t seen in years. Soul ties. The…
— Kirk Franklin
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I am interested in the shape of ideas even if I do not believe in them. There is a wonderful sentence in Augustine . .…
— Samuel Beckett
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You have had indeed a fair trial. It is a shocking thing when a judge of your high office is shown to have betrayed the…
— Florence Ellinwood Allen
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To anyone who has followed the practice of using profanity or vulgarity and would like to correct the habit, could I offer this suggestion? First,…
— L. Tom Perry
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.. that which renders morality an active principle and constitutes virtue our happiness, and vice our misery: it is probable, I say, that this final…
— David Hume
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In the history of life, no good news has followed that sentence ["We have to talk."].
— Paul Reiser
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There are men so incorrigibly lazy that no inducement that you can offer will tempt them to work; so eaten up by vice that virtue…
— William Booth
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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,…
— Garth Ennis
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Marijuana gives rise to insanity -- not in its users but in the policies directed against it. A nation that sentences the possessor of a…
— Eric Schlosser
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The proper education of the young does not consist in stuffing their heads with a mass of words, sentences, and ideas dragged together out of…
— John Amos Comenius
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Life as we know it is a death sentence.
— Joseph Curiale
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