Sentences Quotes - Page 40

• If you find yourself imitating another writer, that doesn't have to be a bad thing, especially if you are a young or a new writer. However, you should be conscious of exactly how you are imitating him - word choice, sentence structure, motifs? - and think about why you're doing it.

  Poppy Z. Brite

  Writing, Thinking, Choices

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• Who killed Chivalry? They need to get their sentencing Meanwhile we arguing and I can't get a sentence in

  Drake

  Relationship, Breakup, Needs

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• Credibility in immigration policy can be summed up in one sentence: Those who should get in, get in; those who should be kept out, are kept out; and those who should not be here will be required to leave.

  Barbara Jordan

  Immigration, Should, Credibility

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• I have devoted my whole life to the study of Nature, and yet a single sentence may express all that I have done. I have shown that there is a correspondence between the succession of Fishes in geological times and the different stages of their growth in the egg,-this is all. It chanced to be a result that was found to apply to other groups and has led to other conclusions of a like nature.

  Louis Agassiz

  Nature, Science, Eggs

  Louis Agassiz (2003). “Agassiz on Evolution: Methods of study in natural history”

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• “Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.” This sentence alone would save mankind, if all books and prophets were lost. This purity of heart will bring the vision of God. It is the theme of the whole music of this universe. In purity is no bondage. Remove the veils of ignorance by purity; then we manifest ourselves as we really are and know that we were never in bondage. The seeing of 'many' is the great sin of all the world. See all as Self and love all; let all idea of separateness go.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Jesus, Book, Blessed

  "Inspired Talks by Swami Vivekananda".

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• He who expects much will be often disappointed; yet disappointment seldom cures us of expectation, or has any other effect than that of producing a moral sentence or peevish exclamation.

  Samuel Johnson

  Disappointment, Expectations, Moral

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy, Francis Pearson Walesby (1825). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D..: The Adventurer and Idler”, p.154

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• My father can not finish a sentence. When we were kids he would go, 'Girls the most important thing in life to remember is...' 'Daddy, what is it?' 'What's what, honey?' 'The most important thing in life to remember.' 'Oh, what's that?'

  Caroline Rhea

  Girl, Fathers Day, Kids

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• The gist of the matter is this: Every impression that comes in from without, be it a sentence which we hear, an object of vision, or an effluvium which assails our nose, no sooner enters our consciousness than it is drafted off in some determinate direction or other, making connection with the other materials already there, and finally producing what we call our reaction. The particular connections it strikes into are determined by our past experiences and the 'associations' of the present sort of impression with them.

  William James

  Philosophy, Educational, Past

  William James (2008). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology: And to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”, p.123, Nuvision Pubns

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• I still understand a few words in life, but I no longer think they make a sentence.

  Jean Rostand

  Thinking, Understanding, Few Words

  Jean Rostand (1962). “The substance of man”

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• Some people tell me that we professional players are soccer slaves. Well, if this is slavery, give me a life sentence.

  Bobby Charlton

  Soccer, Sports, Football

  1960 Quoted in Peter Ball and Phil Shaw The Book of Football Quotations (1989).

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• It was the law that if a white man was caught trying to educate a Negro slave, he was liable to prosecution entailing a fine of fifty dollars and a jail sentence. . . Our ignorance was the greatest hold the South had on us. We knew we could run away, but what then?

  John W. Campbell

  Running, Ignorance, Men

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• For if it is not lawful to take the law into our own hands and slay even a guilty person, whose death no public sentence has warranted. Then certainly he who kills himself is a homicide, and so much the guiltier of his own death as he was more innocent of that offence for which he doomed himself to die.

  Saint Augustine

  Suicide, Suicidal, Hands

  Saint Augustine of Hippo (2016). “Saint Augustine of Hippo Collection [50 Books]”, p.9332, Aeterna Press

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• It is altogether unlawful to kill oneself... Wherefore suicide is contrary to the inclination of nature, and to charity whereby every man should love himself... Life is God's gift to man, and is subject to His power, Who kills and makes to live. Hence whoever takes his own life, sins against God... for it belongs to God alone to pronounce sentence of death and life.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Suicide, Suicidal, Men

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• An aged Burgundy runs with a beardless Port. I cherish the fancy that Port speaks sentences of wisdom, Burgundy sings the inspired Ode.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Running, Wine, Alcohol

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• I wrote to Mr. McEnroe, Senior. I said: "Here is the sentence once written by the immortal Bobby Jones. I thought you might like to have it done in needlepoint and mounted in a suitable frame to hang over Little John's bed. It says, The rewards of golf - and of life, too, I expect - are worth very little if you don't play the game by the etiquette as well as by the rules." I never heard from Mr. McEnroe, Senior. I can only conclude that the letter went astray.

  Alistair Cooke

  Senior, Golf, Games

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• We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred pages.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Funny, Book, Reading

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1959). “Emerson: A Modern Anthology”

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• An original sentence, a step forward, is worth more than all the censures.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Progress, Steps, Evolution

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Joseph Slater, Jean Ferguson Carr (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: English traits”, p.4, Harvard University Press

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• A five-word sentence that could change the world tomorrow is What would love do now?

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Love, Dream, World

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• Cancer is a word, not a sentence.

  John Diamond

  Inspirational, Encouraging, Cancer

  C by John Diamond p. 75. Vermilion, London (1998)

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• The strength behind communication is in its quality, not in its quantity. Your talk should be that of quality, not of quantity. You should use small sentences which say a lot. Or you should say a lot in small sentences.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Communication, Quality, Use

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• Know thyself! This is the source of all wisdom, said the great thinkers of the past, and the sentence was written in golden letters on the temple of the gods. To know himself, Linnæus declared to be the essential indisputable distinction of man above all other creatures. I know, indeed, in study nothing more worthy of free and thoughtful man than the study of himself. For if we look for the purpose of our existence, we cannot possibly find it outside ourselves. We are here for our own sake.

  Karl Ernst von Baer

  Science, Thoughtful, Past

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• The words are strung together, with their own special grammar-the laws of quantum theory-to form sentences, which are molecules. Soon we have books, entire libraries, made out of molecular "sentences." The universe is like a library in which the words are atoms. Just look at what has been written with these hundred words! Our own bodies are books in that library, specified by the organization of molecules-but the universe and literature are organizations of identical, interchangeable objects; they are information systems.

  Heinz Pagels

  Book, Science, Law

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• Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it. Many will read the book before one thinks of quoting a passage. As soon as he has done this, that line will be quoted east and west.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Thinking, East

  Journal (1867)

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• How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! How glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.

  John Milton

  Death, Mother, Sleep

  John Milton, “Paradise Lost: Book 10”

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• Had I been brighter, the ladies been gentler, the Scotch been weaker, had the gods been kinder, had the dice been hotter, this could have been a one-sentence story: Once upon a time I lived happily ever after.

  Mickey Rooney

  Scotch, Once Upon A Time, Stories

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