#sentences

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #sentences




For my own part, I was much occupied in learning to ride the bicycle, and busy upon a series of papers discussing the probable developments of moral ideas as civilization progressed.


H.G. Wells


#the-war-of-the-worlds #business

All about us were people. Perhaps a hundred. Men. Experience had taught me that humans were cruelest when segregated by sex, and the cold feeling in the pit of my stomach became led. What had I let myself in for?


C.S. Friedman


#dark #fear #short-sentences #experience

David was catnip and kryptonite to me


Elizabeth Gilbert


#love

There was no possibility of taking a walk that day.


Charlotte Brontë


#opening-lines #opening-sentences #walks #first-sentence

Als Gregor Samsa eines Morgens aus unruhigen Träumen erwachte, fand er sich in seinem Bett zu einem ungeheueren Ungeziefer verwandelt.


Franz Kafka


#first-sentence

It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn't know what I was doing in New York.


Sylvia Plath


#first-sentence

Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, “and what is the use of a book,” thought Alice, “without pictures or conversation?


Lewis Carroll


#first-sentence

I am living at the Villa Borghese. There is not a crumb of dirt anywhere, nor a chair misplaced. We are all alone here and we are dead.


Henry Miller


#henry-miller #first-sentence

All the lessons of history in four sentences: Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power. The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly small. The bee fertilizes the flower it robs. When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.


Charles A. Beard


#dark #destroy #enough #exceedingly #fertilizes

Something's going to happen that's going to make us all pay attention at the type of sentences some people are serving and the conditions in which they are served.


Christopher Darden


#conditions #going #happen #make #pay