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  • I feel at various times in my life that I've been at a point where I had to choose between a death sentence and a life sentence. And I want to live. What do I do to live? What do I do to be vital? And the answer is always creativity.

    Source: film.avclub.com
  • It’s funny, though, speaking of fathers and sons, because me and John Goodman played father and son, like, five or six years ago in the film Death Sentence [2007], and I got back with him again in Inside Llewyn Davis.

    Father   Son   Years  
    Interview with Jeff Bridges, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 27, 2012.
  • There is no basis in text, tradition, or even in contemporary practice (if that were enough), for finding in the Constitution a right to demand judicial consideration of newly discovered evidence of innocence brought forward after conviction. My concern is that in making life easier for ourselves we not appear to make it harder for the lower federal courts, imposing upon them the burden of regularly analyzing newly-discovered-evidence-of-innocence claims in capital cases (in which event such federal claims, it can confidently be predicted, will become routine and even repetitive).

  • The death sentence is a necessary and efficacious means for the Church to attain its end when rebels act against it and disturbers of the ecclesiastical unity, especially obstinate heretics and heresiarchs, cannot be restrained by any other penalty from continuing to derange the ecclesiastical order and impelling others to all sorts of crime ... When the perversity of one or several is calculated to bring about the ruin of many of its children it is bound effectively to remove it, in such wise that if there be no other remedy for saving its people it can and must put these wicked men to death.

    Wise   Children   Mean  
  • The death sentence is a barbaric act.

  • Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.

    Life   Death   Believe  
    Jean Baudrillard (1990). “Cool Memories”, p.67, Verso
  • The people I have no feeling for are professional killers. But I count that man no worse than a governor who won't commute a death sentence because it's unpolitical.

    Men   People   Feelings  
  • Many men would take the death-sentence without a whimper, to escape the life-sentence which fate carries in her other hand.

    Fate   Men   Hands  
    The Mint (1955) pt. 1, ch. 4
  • The risk of racial prejudice infecting a capital sentencing proceeding is especially serious in light of the complete finality of the death sentence.

    Light   Risk   Prejudice  
  • I have the death sentence in seven genres.

    Jasper Fforde (2004). “The Well of Lost Plots: A Thursday Next Novel”, p.57, Penguin
  • ...Poverty in America today leads not only to anxiety, unhappiness, discomfort and a lack of material goods. It leads to death. Poverty in America today is a death sentence for tens and tens of thousands of our people.

    "Is Poverty a Death Sentence?" by Sen. Bernie Sanders, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 13, 2011.
  • Life--a lifelong death sentence.

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

    Source: www.spiegel.de
  • Now in Utah if you get the death sentence, they have the firing squad. In Russia, they call that early retirement.

  • AIDS today is not a death sentence. It can be treated as a chronic illness, or a chronic disease.

    Disease   Today   Illness  
  • Keep in mind that this appears in the same book of the Bible that approves the death sentence for a child who curses his parents, owners of oxen who injure someone through the owner's negligence, anybody who works or kindles a fire on Sunday, and anyone who has sex with an animal.

    Sex   Children   Book  
    Jim Butcher (2008). “White Night: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.23, Penguin
  • HIV is not a death sentence. It doesn't mean life's over. It means that life's going to be different, but you still get to have those moments that people who don't have HIV experience.

    Mean   People   Different  
    Source: www.ebony.com
  • What happened to the Jews cannot be compared with all the other crimes. Every Jew had a death sentence without a date.

  • The age of 40 is not a death sentence.

  • There must be a punitive expedition against the Jews in Russia, a punitive expedition which will expect: death sentence and execution. Then the world will see the end of the Jews is also the end of Bolshevism.

    Travel   Russia   World  
    "The Trial of the Germans" by Eugene Davidson, (p. 50), 1997.
  • Breast Cancer is not necessarily a death sentence, stay strong and centered and be involved in all aspects of your treatment.

  • The American Dream has become a death sentence of drudgery, consumerism, and fatalism: a garage sale where the best of the human spirit is bartered away for comfort, obedience and trinkets. It's unequivocally absurd.

    Dream   Comfort   Spirit  
  • The anguished suspense of watching the lips you hunger for, framing the words, the death sentence, of sheer triteness!

    Suspense   Lips   Hunger  
  • Life as we know it is a death sentence.

  • AIDS is no longer a death sentence for those who can get the medicines. Now it's up to the politicians to create the "comprehensive strategies" to better treat the disease.

    Fighting   Medicine   Hiv  
  • Cancer patients are lied to, not just because the disease is (or is thought to be) a death sentence, but because it is felt to be obscene - in the original meaning of that word: ill-omened, abominable, repugnant to the senses.

    Susan Sontag (1979). “Illness as metaphor”, Vintage
  • There's a death sentence for your Robin of Locksley.

  • These death sentences are cruel and unusual in the same way that being struck by lightning is cruel and unusual.

    Lightning   Way   Unusual  
  • Definitely you don't become famous by doing something bad; that's a professional death sentence. You remember that whatever you do, someone will be watching, and you study all the time. It sounds terrible, but you get used to it. I'm 45, and I'm still at school, essentially.

    School   Study   Remember  
    Source: www.macleans.ca
  • My brother the vampire, whose kiss was a slow death sentence, had a stable and loving relationship with a girl who was crazy about him. By contrast, I could barely talk to a woman, at least about anything pertaining to a relationship. Given that my only long-term girlfriends had faked their own death, died, and broken free of enslaving enchantments to end the relationship, the empirical evidence seemed to indicate that he knew something I didn't. Keep your life tonight, Harry. Complicate it tomorrow.

    Girl   Brother   Crazy  
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