(225 quotes found)
“Any revolutionary agitation exacts enormous sacrifices, not so much in terms of prison sentences and years of incarceration which have been raining down by the hundreds of years annually, as in terms of the manifold personal sacrifices sustained by”
Peter Kropotkin
“Most Australians would ask why is it that Schapelle Corby gets sentenced to 20 years for importing marijuana, Abu Bakar Bashir gets 30 months for participating in the murder of nearly 100 Australians,”
Kevin Rudd
“ANYWAY, by the time you read this sentence, the song I am referring to will be ten thousand years old.”
Chuck Klosterman
“When I die, if the word 'thong' appears in the first or second sentence of my obituary, I've screwed up.”
Albert Brooks
“It can be a simple sentence that makes one single point, and you build for that. You zero in on one moment that gets that character, you go for it, that's it, man, and if you fail the whole thing is down the drain, but if you make it you hit the moon.”
Jack Lemmon
“We are all serving a life-sentence in the dungeon of self”
Cyril Connolly
“Statesman all over, in plots famous grown,/ He mouths a sentence, as curs mouth a bone.”
Charles Churchill
“The risk of racial prejudice infecting a capital sentencing proceeding is especially serious in light of the complete finality of the death sentence.”
Byron R. White
“Salman Rushdie, indeed any writer who abuses the prophet or indeed any prophet under Islamic law, the sentence for that is actually death.”
Yusuf Islam
“Every sentence he manages to utter scatters its component parts like pond water from a verb chasing its own tail”
Clive James
