Top 30 Quotes About Death Sentences
#1. These death sentences are cruel and unusual in the same way that being struck by lightning is cruel and unusual.
Potter Stewart
#2. Death sentences are short and very, very manly. Life sentences aren't. They go on and on, all full of syntax and qualifying clauses and confusing references and getting old.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#3. Spending our tax dollars on actually preventing crimes, instead of pursuing death sentences after they've already been committed, will assure us we will have fewer victims.
Gil Garcetti
#4. Two death sentences? Really? I mean, you look very well, considering.
K.J. Charles
#5. Worry wasn't an emotion to which he was particularly accustomed - and it worried him.
Sol Luckman
#6. There is a great deal of busywork to a writer's life, as to a professor's life, a great deal of work that matters only in that, if you don't do it, your desk becomes very full of papers. So, there is a lot of letter answering and a certain amount of speaking, though I try to keep that at a minimum.
John Updike
#7. I wait for him to announce my presence, holding his gaze, refusing to look away, determined that this beautiful boy see the face he sentences to death with this next words.
Sophie Jordan
#8. The issue is not whether I agree with someone but rather how I treat someone with whom I profoundly disagree. We Christians are called to use the "weapons of grace," which means treating even our opponents with love and respect.
Philip Yancey
#9. 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
#10. This is how I want you: larger and smaller stronger and weaker taller and trembling more, more out of breath that I more burning more penetrating bolder bossier more yielding more frightened narrower and more relentless than you are more than I.
Helene Cixous
#12. It was the single forgiving phrase in the syntax of weaponry I had strapped about me. The rest were unequivocal sentences of death.
Richard K. Morgan
#13. God's Word must be the guide of your desires and the ground of your expectations in prayer.
Matthew Henry
#14. The people who truly care about you won't have to tell you they care; they'll show you.
Steve Maraboli
#15. He nodded again and I was tempted to tell him the rule of silence: sometimes an awkward silence is actually far less awkward than forced conversation.
Christina Lauren
#16. Eliminating the death penalty ... will not hinder the prosecutorial capacity to seek, or the court's ability to impose, 'life without parole' sentences for serious, heinous crimes and criminals.
Scott Harshbarger
#17. Disgust is the appropriate response to most situations
Jenny Holzer
#18. There's a death sentence for your Robin of Locksley.
Claude Rains
#19. (John Cheever thought that you couldn't even type a business letter without revealing something of your inner self - isn't that the truth?)
Mason Currey
#20. We are all under sentence of death, but with a sort of indefinite reprieve.
Victor Hugo
#21. Definitely you don't become famous by doing something bad; that's a professional death sentence.
Julie Payette
#22. I never really wanted to die. But I followed through anyway. The pain in my heart was excruciating, and death was beautiful.
Rae Hachton
#23. All trials are trials for one's life, just as all sentences are sentences of death.
Oscar Wilde
#24. There are no bad books any more than there are ugly women.
Anatole France
#27. At 9:15 on Thursday morning, June 4, while Jordan Delreese was bludgeoning his two young children to death, I was sitting in Dr. Hamburger's consulting room at the Sunny Isles Geriatric Clinic with my father, who was just then at a loss for words.
John Dufresne
#29. Part of teaching is helping people create themselves.
Maxine Greene
#30. You're convinced that there was nothing important here - nothing that would point to any motive. SHERIFF: Nothing here but kitchen things.
Susan Glaspell
Famous Authors
Popular Topics
Scroll to Top
