The federal sentencing guidelines should be revised downward. By contrast to the guidelines, I can accept neither the necessity nor the wisdom of federal mandatory minimum sentences. In too many cases, mandatory minimum sentences are unwise and unjust.
Broadly speaking, Keynesianism means that the government has a specific responsibility for the behavior of the economy, that it doesn't work on its own autonomous course, but the government, when there's a recession, compensates by employment, by expansion of purchasing power, and in boom times corrects by being a restraining force. But it controls the great flow of demand into the economy, what since Keynesian times has been the flow of aggregate demand. That was the basic idea of Keynes so far as one can put it in a couple of sentences.
Except in expert hands, stats can get in the way of story; an array of data that might better be presented in a table instead clogs up sentences.
Every sentence, every phrase, every word has to fight for its life.
Definitely you don't become famous by doing something bad; that's a professional death sentence.
I am a bad reporter because everything seems to me worth reporting; and a bad reviewer because every sentence in every book suggests a separate essay.
You are told that you have to eliminate un-useful sentences, but as a writer you know how important details are.
I've always seen myself in sentences. I begin to recognize myself, word by word, as I work through a sentence.
I write lyrics really fast. When it's time to write, I usually put them off until the very end and then when it's time to write I can just sit down: I sing the melody, whatever the melody is, because that's the first thing that's already been there for a long time; I start singing it and I start creating consonants and vowels; then they turn into words; then all of the sudden one sentence will happen; then that sentence will dictate how the rest of the sentences happen.
A preposition is a word You mustn't end a sentence with!
My sentence is for open war.
I too love everything that flows: rivers, sewers, lava, semen, blood, bile, words, sentences. I love the amniotic fluid when it spills out of the bag. I love the kidney with it's painful gall-stones, it's gravel and what-not; I love the urine that pours out scalding and the clap that runs endlessly; I love the words of hysterics and the sentences that flow on like dysentery and mirror all the sick images of the soul.
I'm liking that I can throw any kind of sentence at her without worrying it's too out there.
Sentence first, verdict afterwards.
When I finish a sentence, after much labor, it's finished. A certain point comes at which you can't do any more work on it because you know it will kill the sentence.
A sentence is made up of words, a statement is made in words. . . . Statements are made, words or sentences are used.
Hemingway was really early. I probably started reading him when I was just eleven or twelve. There was just something magnetic to me in the arrangement of those sentences. Because they were so simple - or rather they appeared to be so simple, but they weren't.
Truth is simply a compliment paid to sentences seen to be paying their way.
There was alliteration happening all over the place in that sentence.
Do not give sentence in another tribunal till you have been yourself judged in the tribunal of Justice.