Top 100 Quotes About Death Sentence
#1. A death sentence was a death sentence, no matter how carefully it was worded.
Robert Ferrigno
#2. Recognize him as such, too. Yes, he had disobeyed his queen. So had many others, who'd never been punished so harshly. Had the crime he'd committed merited a death sentence? There were other Seelie who felt as he did, who wanted a return to
Karen Marie Moning
#4. Having a soft major is nowhere near the career death sentence that so many make it out to be. The world is changing, and the U.S. economy with it. Our economy is shifting to a service- and information-based economy, and soft majors are already becoming more and more valuable.
Tucker Max
#5. I want people who have received a diagnosis of Hepatitis C to know that they didn't just receive a death sentence. They do have options, even if the person who gave them their diagnosis isn't aware of all of them. The path they choose doesn't have to be one of desperation.
Melody Beattie
#6. No more coming home as to a death sentence.
No more leaving after this leaving.
Boey Kim Cheng
#7. As mortal humans we are born with a death sentence anyway, so what difference does a little poison make? Why not take a chance you will survive the ordeal and make something significant of your life? ... p330
Brian Herbert
#8. Liz wrenched her hand from his grasp, and this time, she stepped boldly forward. "I will stay and Michael can go." Her voice did not waiver as she pronounced her own death sentence. No matter what happened to her, she knew she couldn't let him die.
Willow Cross
#9. I think the way we talk about cancer has really evolved. I remember the way my grandmother used to talk about it, like a death sentence, no-one would even mention the word.
Laura Linney
#11. The thing about living with a death sentence for so long is you tend to miss the moment life starts to get better because you're so ready for it to get much, much worse.
John Goode
#12. After years spent in Washington, I have become more aware than ever of the government's ineptness and the likelihood of its making mistakes. I no longer trust the U.S. government to invoke and carry out a death sentence under any conditions.
Ron Paul
#13. Any chance of an appointment? I know it's a bit unusual and nervy, but I have been given a death sentence and have to get my affairs in quick order.
Virginia Aird
#15. My grandmother has kept all of his stuff in a drawer. This one notebook was particularly chilling. He's [howard Brookner] writing to his parents knowing he has a death sentence; his movies are how he'll live on.
Aaron Brookner
#16. Mere factual innocence is no reason not to carry
out a death sentence properly reached.
Antonin Scalia
#17. Autism is not a death sentence but a rich fulfilled life sentence so to speak.
Janet Walmsley
#18. I hope to be granted asylum. Deportation [ from Germany] that would be a death sentence for me.
Irakli Okruashvili
#19. It's not like they exactly agreed. They're just kinda silent about the whole thing," I say. "Group silence can be a death sentence. It was in Salem," he says.
Adriana Mather
#20. After 15 years of work I have achieved, as a common German soldier and merely with my fanatical willpower, the unity of the German nation, and have freed it from the death sentence of Versailles.
Adolf Hitler
#21. Rick to Herschel: My wife is pregnant. That is either a gift here, or a death sentence out there.
The Walking Dead
#22. It's funny, though, speaking of fathers and sons, because me and John Goodman played father and son, like, five or six years ago in the film 'Death Sentence,' and I got back with him again in 'Inside Llewyn Davis.'
Garrett Hedlund
#23. AIDS today is not a death sentence. It can be treated as a chronic illness, or a chronic disease.
Yusuf Hamied
#24. 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 be obscene - in the original meaning of that word: ill-omened, abominable, repugnant to the senses.
Susan Sontag
#25. Now, you might think of flu as just a really bad cold, but it can be a death sentence. Every year, 36,000 people in the United States die of seasonal flu. In the developing world, the data is much sketchier, but the death toll is almost certainly higher.
Seth Berkley
#26. Poverty in America today leads not only to anxiety, unhappiness, discomfort and a lack of material goods. It leads to death. Poverty in America today is a death sentence for tens and tens of thousands of our people.
Bernie Sanders
#27. So something that never should have happened did, all because of my thoughts and actions. A clear-cut cause-and-effect relationship. I was the one who caused it, and I should probably get the death penalty. Or maybe what I should say is I'm the one who pronounced the death sentence on myself
Natsuo Kirino
#29. Breast Cancer is not necessarily a death sentence, stay strong and centered and be involved in all aspects of your treatment.
Olivia Newton-John
#30. In accordance with the law the death sentence was announced to Cincinnatus C. in a whisper.
Vladimir Nabokov
#31. Having a me-too brand is a death sentence.
David Brier
#32. You think it amusing to have a death sentence imposed on us, sire?
Darren Shan
#34. Take a soldier and put him right in front of a cannon in a battle and fire it at him, and he'll go on hoping, but read out a certain death sentence to that same soldier, and he'll go mad, or start to weep.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#35. Definitely you don't become famous by doing something bad; that's a professional death sentence.
Julie Payette
#36. Pessimism is a luxury of good times. In difficult times, pessimism is a self- fulfilling, self-inflicted death sentence.
Evelin Lindner
#37. There's a death sentence for your Robin of Locksley.
Claude Rains
#38. Keep in mind that this appears in the same book of the Bible that approves the death sentence for a child who curses his parents, owners of oxen who injure someone through the owner's negligence, anybody who works or kindles a fire on Sunday, and anyone who has sex with an animal.
Jim Butcher
#39. My mother thought me being gay was a death sentence.
Jai Rodriguez
#40. All over the world great writers were dying young: Italo Calvino, Raymond Carver, and now here was Angela wrestling with the Reaper. A fatwa was not the only way to die. There were older types of death sentence that still worked very well.
Salman Rushdie
#41. 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" to better treat the disease.
William J. Clinton
#42. The anguished suspense of watching the lips you hunger for, framing the words, the death sentence, of sheer triteness!
Evelyn Waugh
#43. Now in Utah if you get the death sentence, they have the firing squad. In Russia, they call that early retirement.
David Letterman
#44. Immortality was overrated, as far as he was concerned. Hardy had enough problems as it was; living forever sounded like a death sentence for someone with his practical sensibilities.
David S.E. Zapanta
#45. Challenging orthodoxy is a death sentence in Washington.
Stephen Kinzer
#46. A death sentence will be issued, a death sentence will be implemented. A life sentence will be issued, a life sentence will be implemented.
Mohammed Morsi
#47. We're all vanishing organisms and disappearing creatures in space and time - that death sentence in space in time that Kafka talked about with such profundity.
Cornel West
#48. The promise feels like a death sentence, a cell door slamming shut, a stone around my neck that's destined to carry me down
Rick Yancey
#50. Sometimes I test myself saying, 'If I get a death sentence if I don't make this movie, would I still make this movie?'
Hayao Miyazaki
#51. PTSD in its rawest form is a death sentence which causes many veterans and others to execute themselves in hope to be free.
Stanley Victor Paskavich
#52. The risk of racial prejudice infecting a capital sentencing proceeding is especially serious in light of the complete finality of the death sentence.
Byron White
#53. One would think that [persecution] would be an obstacle to church growth when joining the church meant a death sentence. And yet, the age of persecution was the greatest period of church growth in history.
Gene Veith
#54. I feel at various times in my life that I've been at a point where I had to choose between a death sentence and a life sentence. And I want to live. What do I do to live? What do I do to be vital? And the answer is always creativity. The answer is always art.
Jodie Foster
#55. Valek: You know a death sentence hasn't kept us apart before.
Yelena: Is that an order Valek?
Valek: No, it's a promise!
Maria V. Snyder
#56. Many men would take the death-sentence without a whimper, to escape the life-sentence which fate carries in her other hand.
T.E. Lawrence
#57. I would prove to you that being different isn't a death sentence but a call to arms.
Jodi Picoult
#58. I cherished you inconstant; what would I have done,
faithful? Now, even now, when your cruel mouth
so calmly speaks my death sentence, I wonder,
cold wretch, I wonder still, if I do not love you.
Jean Racine
#59. God knew that creating mankind was a death sentence for Jesus, but He created us anyway.
Vance C. Kessler
#60. The compensation for a death sentence is knowledge of the exact hour when one is to die.
Vladimir Nabokov
#62. Baylon wasn't sure he could conceal his craving for her, the need that clawed and ripped through him to declare Jordyn as his. It would be a death sentence, but to live without her ... that was also a death sentence.
Donna Grant
#63. The American Dream has become a death sentence of drudgery, consumerism, and fatalism: a garage sale where the best of the human spirit is bartered away for comfort, obedience and trinkets. It's unequivocally absurd.
Zoltan Istvan
#64. We don't have any real justice in the legal system, you never see a headline that reads, Millionaire Gets Death Sentence.
Garrison Wynn
#65. There must be a punitive expedition against the Jews in Russia, a punitive expedition which will expect: death sentence and execution. Then the world will see the end of the Jews is also the end of Bolshevism.
Julius Streicher
#66. You hear the word 'cancer,' and you think it is a death sentence. In fact, the shock is the biggest thing about a diagnosis of cancer.
Clare Balding
#67. Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays cosily tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.
Jean Baudrillard
#68. No, brother-in-law, you have passed a death sentence on your people and on your Queen, your wife, the woman you have vowed to protect. And do not think your child will escape me. I will search all eternity - I will never cease until the child of my sister dies.
Darren Simon
#70. The verdict of this court is that the accused are guilty of witchcraft. The maximum penalty the law allows is to be burned to death.However, in view of your previous good background I am disposed to be lenient. I therefore sentence you to be burned alive.
Richard Curtis
#71. Capitalism stands its trial before judges who have the sentence of death in their pockets. They are going to pass it, whatever the defense they may hear; the only success victorious defense can possibly produce is a change in the indictment.
Joseph A. Schumpeter
#72. If words had weight, a single sentence from Death would have anchored a ship.
Terry Pratchett
#73. To slay the sinner is then the first use of the Law, to destroy the life and strength wherein he trusts and convince him that he is dead while he lives; not only under the sentence of death, but actually dead to God, void of all spiritual life, dead in trespasses and sins.
John Wesley
#74. For the murder of Jest, the court joker of Hearts, I sentence this man to death.'
She spoke without feeling, unburdened by love or dreams or the pain of a broken heart. It was a new day in Hearts, and she was the Queen.
'Off with his head
Marissa Meyer
#76. I saw how the forms of love might be maintained with a condemned person but with the love in fact measured and disciplined, because you have to survive. It could be done so discreetly that the object of such care would not suspect, any more than she would suspect the sentence of death itself.
Alice Munro
#77. It is cold at six-forty in the morning on a March day in Paris, and seems even colder when a man is about to be executed by firing squad.
Frederick Forsyth
#78. Desperate, lonely, cut off from the human community which in many cases has ceased to exist, under the sentence of violent death, wracked by desires for intimacy they do not know how to fulfil, at the same time tormented by the presence of women, men turn to logic.
Andrea Nye
#79. Stupidity cannot be cured. Stupidity is the only universal capital crime; the sentence is death. There is no appeal, and execution is carried out automatically and without pity.
Robert A. Heinlein
#80. The death penalty can be imposed fairly only after carefully considering all the reasons why death might not be the appropriate sentence
Bryan Stevenson
#81. I am in favour of capital punishment if the execution of the sentence is immediate. The purpose of the death penalty is to send out a message to society.
Ujjwal Nikam
#82. If I am part of a group of 100 people, do 99 people have the right to sentence me to death, just because they are majority?
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#83. Trying to provoke him into a terrifying sentence, I said: The only definitive thing is death. Yes, he said, but it isn't easy to get there when one's condition is as good as yours.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#84. She nailed it to the wall with her well-aimed dart, like a butterfly with no will whose sentence has always been written.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#85. 9Indeed, we felt that we had received the sentence of death. But that was to make us n rely not on ourselves o but on God p who raises the dead. 10 q He delivered us from such a deadly peril, and he will deliver us. r On him we have set our hope that he will deliver us again.
Anonymous
#86. Glenn used to say the reason you can't really imagine yourself being dead was that as soon as you say, 'I'll be dead,' you've said the word I, and so you're still alive inside the sentence. And that's how people got the idea of the immortality of the soul - it was a consequence of grammar.
Margaret Atwood
#87. Death is a huge cliff and when you are about to be thrown off it, like an Aztec sacrifice, other problems on the valley floor look very small, but once on the ground with the rest of the world they become again of dominating proportions.
Elizabeth Ironside
#88. We are all under sentence of death, but with a sort of indefinite reprieve.
Victor Hugo
#89. As soon as I knew that I would be all right, I was sure that I was dead and didn't know it. I moved through the days like a severed head that finishes a sentence. I waited for the moment that would snap me out of my seeming life.
Amy Hempel
#90. Everyone suffers; life is pain; and death is the final punctuation at the end of that sentence, so deal with it. I really think you can manage pain and suffering by living in fullness and being true to yourself and all those seemingly vapid platitudes.
Sufjan Stevens
#91. Imagine a number of men in chains, all under sentence of death, some of whom are each day butchered in the sight of others those remaining see their own condition in that of their fellows, and looking at each other with grief and despair await their turn. This is an image of the human condition.
Blaise Pascal
#92. We are like a people under [a] sentence of death, waiting for the date to be set. We sense that something is about to happen.
We know that things cannot go on as they are. History has reached an impasse. We are now on a collision course. Something is about to give.
Billy Graham
#93. I don't think anybody's necessarily ready for death. You can only hope that when it approaches, you feel like you've said what you wanted to say. Nobody wants to go out in mid-sentence.
Johnny Depp
#94. The most profound sentence ever written, Temple said with enthusiasm, is the sentence at the end of the zoology. Reproduction is the beginning of death.
James Joyce
#95. Dying was misery. Death was that period at the end of the sentence.
Holly Hood
#96. That's part of what I like about the book in some ways. It portrays death truthfully. You die in the middle of your life, in the middle of a sentence
John Green
#98. I'm sorry. I shouldn't be asking such things ... ' She let the sentence die its own death
Markus Zusak
#99. The prisoner of doubt ends his stint [through suicide], released to the custody of that final question mark which punctuates every life sentence.
Dan Garfat-Pratt
#100. A sentence of death and infamy was often founded on the slight and suspicious evidence of a child or a servant: the guilt [of the defendant] was presumed by the judges [due to the nature of the charge], and paederasty became the crime of those to whom no crime could be imputed.
Edward Gibbon
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