Parricide In A Sentence Quotes

The purpose of a sentence is to make you want to read the next sentence. ~ Unknown

Father and son had been on poor terms (even Cicero acknowledged this) and it was arranged for the young man to be accused of parricide. This was among the most serious offenses in the charge book and was one of the few crimes to attract the death penalty under Roman law. The method of execution was extremely unpleasant. An ancient legal authority described what took place: According to the custom of our ancestors it was established that the parricide should be beaten with blood-red rods, sewn in a leather sack together with a dog [an animal despised by Greeks and Romans], a cock [like the parricide devoid of all feelings of affection], a viper [whose mother was supposed to die when it was born], and an ape [a caricature of a man], and the sack thrown into the depths of the sea or a river. ~ Anthony Everitt

The prospect of his future life stretched before him like a sentence; not a prison sentence, but a long-winded sentence with a lot of unnecessary subordinate clauses, ~ Margaret Atwood

I'm a language-oriented writer who proceeds sentence by sentence. ~ Jayne Anne Phillips

Sentences are made wonderfully one at a time. Who makes them. Nobody can make them because nobody can what ever they do see.
All this makes sentences so clear I know how I like them.
What is a sentence mostly what is a sentence. With them a sentence is with us about us all about us we will be willing with what a sentence is. A sentence is that they cannot be carefully there is a doubt about it.
The great question is can you think a sentence. What is a sentence. He thought a sentence. Who calls him to come which he did.
... What is a sentence. A sentence is a duplicate. An exact duplicate is depreciated. Why is a duplicated sentence not depreciated. Because it is a witness. No witnesses are without value. ~ Gertrude Stein

This sentence is made of lead (and a sentence of lead gives a reader an entirely different sensation from one made of magnesium). This sentence is made of yak wool. This sentence is made of sunlight and plums. This sentence is made of ice. This sentence is made from the blood of the poet. This sentence was made in Japan. This sentence glows in the dark. This sentence was born with a caul. This sentence has a crush on Norman Mailer. This sentence is a wino and doesn't care who knows it. Like many italic sentences, this one has Mafia connections. This sentence is a double Cancer with a Pisces rising. This sentence lost its mind searching for the perfect paragraph. This sentence refuses to be diagrammed. This sentence ran off with an adverb clause. This sentence is 100 percent organic: it will not retain a facsimile of freshness like those sentences of Homer, Shakespeare, Goethe et al., which are loaded with preservatives. This sentence leaks. This sentence doesn't look Jewish... This sentence has accepted Jesus Christ as its personal savior. This sentence once spit in a book reviewer's eye. This sentence can do the funky chicken. This sentence has seen too much and forgotten too little. This sentence is called "Speedoo" but its real name is Mr. Earl. This sentence may be pregnant. This sentence suffered a split infinitive - and survived. If this sentence has been a snake you'd have bitten it. This sentence went to jail with Clifford Irving. This sentence went to Woodstock. And ~ Tom Robbins

I start with voice, maybe a sentence. That sentence might embody an image, and I go from there. One sentence to the next. Sound drives the work these days - sound before description. ~ Paul Lisicky

We are each, then, a sentence within the boundless book of humanity. The question is… What will our sentence read, how eloquently will it read, and who will read it? ~ Kayla Severson

One sentence can make a difference, and the writer of that sentence can be you. ~ Ogwo David Emenike

Read your paper backward, sentence by sentence, as a final proofreading step. This technique isolates each sentence and makes it easier to spot errors you may have overlooked in previous readings. ~ Claire B. May Gordon S. May

How long do you think the sentence for this crime should be? A year? Five? Ten?' Many of us torture ourselves over our mistakes for decades, even after we've genuinely attempted to make amends. How reasonable is that sentence? ~ Lori Gottlieb

As someone very sagely said during the parricide trials of the Menendez Brothers: anytime your kids kill you, you are at least partly to blame. ~ Elizabeth Wurtzel

There's a death sentence for your Robin of Locksley. ~ Claude Rains

I have a hard time revising sentences, because I spend an inordinate amount of time on each sentence, and the sentence before it, and the sentence after it. ~ Chang-rae Lee

Sentence-by-sentence basis - that it's okay if a person ~ David Foster Wallace

Definitely you don't become famous by doing something bad; that's a professional death sentence. ~ Julie Payette

I have not written a perfect sentence, in the literary sense. It's a lot easier to throw a perfect pass than to write a perfect sentence, if that sentence is meant to perform more than a mechanical function. ~ Greg Iles

This sentence contradicts itself - no actually it doesn't. ~ Douglas Hofstadter

The way you live your day is a sentence in the story of your life. Each day you make the choice whether the sentence ends with a period, question mark, or exclamation point. ~ Steve Maraboli

It is the speed, the hot, molten effect, the lava flow of sentence into sentence that I need. ~ Virginia Woolf

Some writers are only born to help another writer write one sentence. ~ Ernest Hemingway,

I don't want someone taking half a sentence or paraphrasing me ... Just too much risk. ~ Jason Calacanis

Secondly, love and relationships are complicated. No one could ever get it right in a four-line sentence. ~ Adrian Grenier

It's hard to write when you think every sentence is going to be read by a million kids. ~ Anthony Horowitz

It only takes one sentence to change someone's life. Make it count. ~ Ron Baratono

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

And the son bursting into his father's house, killing him, and at the same time not killing him, this is not even a novel, not a poem, it is a sphinx posing riddles, which it, of course, will not solve itself. If he killed him, he killed him; how can it be that he killed him and yet did not kill him--who can understand that? Then it is announced to us that our tribune is the tribune of truth and sensible ideas, and so from this tribune of 'sensible ideas' an axiom resounds, accompanied by an oath, that to call the murder of a father parricide is simply a prejudice! But if parricide is a prejudice, and if every child ought to ask his father, 'Father, why should I love you?'--what will become of us, what will become of the foundations of society, where will the family end up? Parricide--don't you see, it's just the 'brimstone' of some Moscow merchant's wife? The most precious, the most sacred precepts concerning the purpose and future of the Russian courts are presented perversely and frivolously, only to achieve a certain end, to achieve the acquittal of that which cannot be acquitted. 'Oh, overwhelm him with mercy,' the defense attorney exclaims, and that is just what the criminal wants, and tomorrow everyone will see how overwhelmed he is! And is the defense attorney not being too modest in asking only for the defendant's acquittal? Why does he not ask that a fund be established in the parricide's name, in order to immortalize his deed for posterity and the younger generatio ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The death sentence is a barbaric act. ~ Nelson Mandela

I liked that sentence then and I like that sentence now but then I had no way of making any sense of it, I could only keep it in my mind's eye, where it rested and grew in the embryo that would become my imagination ~ Jamaica Kincaid

Life as we know it is a death sentence. ~ Joseph Curiale

A one sentence definition of mythology? Mythology is what we call someone else's religion. ~ Joseph Campbell

A real friend is someone you say a sentence to and they know ten thousand words behind that sentence. ~ Jackson Pollock

Being in the dark from sentence to sentence is what convinces me to go on. ~ Philip Roth

To come up with one great sentence, one needs to serve a life sentence. ~ Lera Auerbach

A good magic effect should easily be described in one sentence. ~ Dai Vernon

Every word you add dilutes the sentence. ~ Miller Williams

The first sentence of a book is a promise. ~ Barbara Kingsolver

Each sentence should have proper meaning, details should not be needlessly repeated, and every sentence should add to the entertainment value in one way or another. ~ A.J. Flowers

There is nothing in discourse that is not to be found in a sentence. ~ Roland Barthes

Read every sentence you write out loud. If it sounds boring, kill it. ~ James Altucher

Nobody writes like Nabokov; nobody ever will. What I would give to write one sentence like Vladimir! ~ Amity Gaige

When young, the words are scattered all around us. As they are assembled by experience, sentence by sentence, until the story takes shape ... ~ Abdul'Rauf Hashmi

For Man's grim Justice goes its way, And will not swerve aside: It slays the weak, it slays the strong, It has a deadly stride: With iron heel it slays the strong, The monstrous parricide! ~ Oscar Wilde

The compensation for a death sentence is knowledge of the exact hour when one is to die. ~ Vladimir Nabokov

But sometimes things are said and they're not just words. They are everything that one person thinks of another in a sentence. Just one sentence. ~ Richard Flanagan

George Bush's political, intellectual and other shortcomings cannot be restricted to one sentence. ~ Emilio Botin

Two dots an inch apart, as small and tidy as punctuation marks at the end of a sentence none of us could read. The sentence would have started somewhere just above her heart. ~ Barbara Kingsolver

Volunteer sentences are the relics of your education And the desire to emulate the grown-up, workaday prose that surrounds you, Which is made overwhelmingly of sentences that are banal and structurally thoughtless. A volunteer sentence is almost always a perfunctory sentence. That can change. But only after years of questioning the shapes of sentences you read, And every sentence you write. Don't let the word "years" alarm you. Think of it as months and months and months and months. You may think a volunteer sentence is an inspired one Simply because it volunteers. This is one reason to abandon the idea of inspiration. All the idea of inspiration will do Is stop you from revising a volunteer sentence. Only revision will tell you whether a sentence that offers itself is worth keeping. ~ Verlyn Klinkenborg

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

Stop flirting. With you, every sentence is an offer."
"And with you, every sentence is a challenge. ~ Karen Hawkins

All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know. ~ Ernest Hemingway,

A sentence that clots in your mouth is unlikely to flow in your mind. ~ Mal Peet

The sentence is the very foundation of writing; a beautifully crafted sentence is a work of art. ~ Jeanne Voelker

The nails from a suicide's coffin, and the skull of the parricide, were of course no trouble; for Vesquit never traveled without these household requisites. ~ Aleister Crowley

There's U and I in universe! Uni = One, Verse = Spoken Sentence, so one spoken sentence created you and I! ~ Reed Abbitt Moore

If You can't tell it to me in one sentence, they can't put it in TV Guide. ~ David Mamet

I read a sentence or two, wait for him to come up with his usual barrage of questions, answer them, then read another sentence or two. Classics read well this way. ~ Robert M. Pirsig

I await your sentence with less fear than you pass it. The time will come when all will see what I see. ~ Giordano Bruno

The following sentence is false. The preceding sentence is true. ~ Douglas Hofstadter

MENTAL LAMENT
Anagram depicting life sentence for materialists
Kamil Ali ~ Kamil Ali

I would prove to you that being different isn't a death sentence but a call to arms. ~ Jodi Picoult

The book was long, and difficult to read, and Klaus became more and more tired as the night wore on. Occasionally his eyes would close. He found himself reading the same sentence over and over. He found himself reading the same sentence over and over. He found himself reading the same sentence over and over. ~ Lemony Snicket

Constructing a strong and beautiful sentence is the highest form of architecture. Because whereupon seeing a beautiful building one may think, but to read a sentence one has to think. ~ Garry Fitchett

I like to think of the individual words, then you put the word in the sentence, then you have to think about what that word means in the sentence, then you have to read the sentence in the paragraph - you're sort of building up like that; that's my philosophy. ~ Ann Goldstein

I'm very bad at ending sentences. A lot times I just want to say, 'That's the end of my sentence. I have nothing more to say.' ~ Nathan Fielder

Alone, dying alone. Sentence after apparently unremarkable sentence pass until suddenly I feel myself hit in the solar plexus by the accumulated tension. I look back and ask, How did you do that? I return in memory ~ Linda Grant

If I can write one sentence, simple and true every day, I'll be satisfied. ~ Paula McLain

The next-to-last sentence that the Buddha is reported to have spoken as he was dying, before his final sentence of encouragement to his community, was Transient are all conditioned things. ~ Sylvia Boorstein

It's kind of like sentencing. A lot of people say that we have a heavy sentence for this crime and a light sentence for another crime, and what we ought to do is reduce the heavy sentence so it's more in line with the other. Wrong. In most cases we ought to increase the light sentence and make it compatible with the heavy sentence, and be serious about punishment because we are becoming too tolerant as a society, folks, especially of crime, in too many parts of the country. ~ Rush Limbaugh

Most people write the same sentence over and over again. The same number of words-say, 8-10, or 10-12. The same sentence structure. Try to become stretchy-if you generally write 8 words, throw a 20 word sentence in there, and a few three-word shorties. If you're generally a 20 word writer, make sure you throw in some threes, fivers and sevens, just to keep the reader from going crosseyed. ~ Janet Fitch

And when you love a book, commit one glorious sentence of it-perhaps your favorite sentence-to memory. That way you won't forget the language of the story that moved you to tears. ~ John Irving

Prof. Emi Ito said "Lailah, if you can't explain the scientific observations in a simple sentence, it means you do not know enough. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

If I were asked for a one-sentence sound
bite on religion, I would say I was against it. ~ Salman Rushdie

I finish the book so I can see how it's going to end. I write that first sentence, and if it's the right first sentence, it leads to the right second sentence and three years later you have a 500-page manuscript, but it really is like going on a trip, going on a journey. It's a voyage. ~ Tom Robbins

If you want to know who your friends are, get yourself a jail sentence. ~ Charles Bukowski

A novel, basically, is writing one sentence - then, without violating the scope of the first one, writing the next sentence. ~ Young-Ha Kim

I'm the final clause in a periodic sentence, and that sentence begins a long time ago, in another language, and you to read it from the beginning to get to the end, which is my arrival. ~ Jeffrey Eugenides

Sentence structure is innate, but whining is acquired. ~ Woody Allen

I hope to be granted asylum. Deportation [ from Germany] that would be a death sentence for me. ~ Irakli Okruashvili

The real joy of writing lies in the opportunity of being able to sacrifice a whole chapter for a single sentence, a complete sentence for a single word... ~ Jean Baudrillard

The writing in Mission to Paris, sentence after sentence, page after page, is dazzling. If you are a John le Carr fan, this is definitely a novel for you. ~ James Patterson

Mastery of the art and spirit of the Germanic language enables a man to travel all day in one sentence without changing cars. ~ Mark Twain

I think a single sentence by Van Gogh is better than the whole work of all the art critics and art historians put together. ~ John Olsen

Maximum sentence length: seventeen words. Minimum:one No semicolons. Semicolons indicate relationships that only idiots need defined by punctuation. Besides, they are ugly. Make sure each sentence is at least four words longer or shorter than the one before it. ~ Richard Hugo

Sometimes, when you're writing sentence by sentence, you're not really sure what footprints you're going to fall into, or what ghosts might appear. ~ Karen Russell

Every writer must acknowledge and be able to handle the unalterable fact that he has, in effect, given himself a life sentence in solitary confinement. ~ Peter Straub

It takes me six months to do a story. I think it out and write it sentence by sentence - no first draft. I can't write five words but that I can change seven. ~ Dorothy Parker

In the Book of Poetry there are three hundred poems, but the meaning of all of them may be put in a single sentence: Have no debasing thoughts. ~ Confucius

If weakness may excuse, What murderer, what traitor, parricide, Incestuous, sacrilegious, but may plead it? All wickedness is weakness; that plea, therefore, With God or man will gain thee no remission. ~ John Milton

I'm going to give you a sentence, a full sentence with a noun and a verb and a possible agitate. I don't like all these judges running around with their half baked sentences, thats how you get salmonella poisoning. ~ Michael Buckley

They were like English teachers who took the fun out of a perfectly good book by breaking it down into themes and sentence structures ~ Tawni O'Dell

I kept working and...reading The Theory of The Heavens a sentence at a time, savoring each sentence like a cough drop and brimming with a sense of the immensity, grandeur, and infinite beauty streaming at me from all sides ~ Bohumil Hrabal

Congress passed legislation requiring a five-year mandatory sentence for selling just five grams of crack; you would have to sell 500 grams of powder cocaine to get an equivalent sentence. This disparity has often been called racist, since it disproportionately imprisons blacks. ~ Steven D. Levitt

Every sentence has a truth waiting at the end of it and the writer learns how to know it when he finally gets there. On one level this truth is the swing of the sentence, the beat and poise, but down deeper it's the integrity of the writer as he matches with the language. I've always seen myself in sentences. I begin to recognize myself, word by word, as I work through a sentence. The language of my books has shaped me as a man. There's a moral force in a sentence when it comes out right. It speaks the writer's will to live. ~ Don DeLillo

Sometimes you will need to leap from one end of this paradoxical spectrum to the other in a matter of minutes, and then back again. As I write this book, for instance, I approach each sentence as if the future of humanity depends upon my getting that sentence just right. I care, because I want it to be lovely. Therefore, anything less than a full commitment to that sentence is lazy and dishonorable. But as I edit my sentence - sometimes immediately after writing it - I have to be willing to throw it to the dogs and never look back. (Unless, of course, I decide that I need that sentence again after all, in which case I must dig up its bones, bring it back to life, and once again regard it as sacred.) It matters./It doesn't matter. ~ Elizabeth Gilbert

Like all great theologies, Bill [O'Reilly]'s can be boiled down to one sentence: There must be a god, because I don't know how things work. ~ Stephen Colbert

You call my Wall Street words "cuss words" ... I call them "sentence enhancers". ~ Ziad K. Abdelnour

A very long sentence, anchored in solid nouns, with countless subordinate clauses, scores of adjectives and adverbs, and bold conjunctions that launched the sentence in a new direction
besides unexpected interludes
has finally, with a surprisingly quiet full stop, come to an end. ~ Yann Martel

It was easy enough to write a sentence, but if you were going to create a work of art, the way Melville had, each sentence needed to fit perfectly with the one that preceded it, and the unwritten one that would follow. And each of these sentences needed to square with the ones on either side, so that three became five and five became seven, seven became nine, and whichever sentence he was writing became the slender fulcrum on which the the whole precarious edifice depended. That sentence could contain anything, anything, and so it promised the kind of absolute freedom that, to Affenlight's mind, belonged to the artist and the artist alone. ~ Chad Harbach

Many of us are destined to be alone, while most of us sentence ourselves to it. ~ M.F. Moonzajer