Sentence Imposed

Famous quotes containing the words sentence and/or imposed:

    “She had exactly the German way: whatever was in her mind to be delivered, whether a mere remark, or a sermon, or a cyclopedia, or the history of a war, she would get it into a single sentence or die. Whenever the literary German dives into a sentence, that is the last you are going to see of him till he emerges on the other side of the Atlantic with his verb in his mouth.”
    —Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)

    “The chief internal enemies of any state are those public officials who betray the trust imposed upon them by the people.”
    —Dalton Trumbo (1905–1976)