A con-man convicted of fraud was sentenced to twenty-five years. He said, 'Judge, I can't serve twenty-five years.' 'Why can't you' 'Because I'm seventy years old now.' Then the judge gave him a very significant reply, 'Well, do the best you can.' Now, are you doing the best you can With all the tools at hand, and all the opportunities and privileges which are yours, are you doing your best Many of us fall down, but we have an opportunity to get up again. Don't be a quitter.
Quotes about sentenced (16 Quotes)
A man sentenced to death obtained a reprieve by assuring the king he would teach his majestys horse to fly within the year on the condition that if he didnt succeed, he would be put to death at the end of the year. 'Within a year,' the man explained later, 'the king may die, or I may die, or the horse may die. Furthermore, in a year, who knows Maybe the horse will learn to fly.' My philosophy is like that mans. I take the long-range view.
So I went in front of the judge, and I had my St. Jude prayer book in my pocket and my St. Jude medal. And I'm standing there and that judge said I was found guilty, so he sentenced me to what the law prescribed: one to 14 years.
The author of the Satanic Verses book, which is against Islam, the Prophet and the Koran, and all those involved in its publication who were aware of its content, are sentenced to death. I ask all Moslems to execute them wherever they find them.
Life is short to prove it, criminals sentenced to life get out in ten years.
I am here wrongfully convicted and wrongfully sentenced.
Homelessness is a part of our American system. There should be nothing wrong with this condition as long as the individual is not sentenced to unnecessary suffering and punishment.
It was his Fourth Concerto, the last work he had written. The crash of its opening chords swept the sights of the streets away from her mind. The Concerto was a great cry of rebellion. It was a 'NO' flung at some vast process of torture, a denial of suffering, a denial that held the agony of the struggle to break free. The sounds were like a voice saying There is no necessity for pain why, then, is the worst pain reserved for those who will not accept its necessity we who hold the love and the secret of joy, to what punishment have we been sentenced for it, and by whom ... The sounds of torture became defiance, the statement of agony became a hymn to a distant vision for whose sake anything was worth enduring, even this. It was the song of rebellion and of a desperate quest.
Germany, at that time, made the decision to assert jurisdiction over the case, and he was tried and convicted and sentenced in Germany.
I was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
I was court-martial in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
To have the truth in your possession you can be found guilty, sentenced to death.
Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.
There were some tragic cases of women whose love was abused, who for a certain time procured important documents or information, not knowing who for, what service they worked for, and for a variety reasons got jailed, were tried and sentenced.
RESPITE, n. A suspension of hostilities against a sentenced assassin, to enable the Executive to determine whether the murder may not have been done by the prosecuting attorney. Any break in the continuity of a disagreeable expectation.