Novels often have leisurely openings; a TV drama needs an…

[In the case of] dangerous exercise of other powers, not granted by the said compact, the states, who are parties thereto, have the right,…

— James Madison

Let's get the government stay out of our private lives, once and for all, and stop arresting smokers. Let's take a stand for personal…

— Willie Nelson

I should love to do a novel, about one abnormal character seeing present-day life, very ordinary life, yet arresting through it, abnormality, until at…

— Patricia Highsmith

In Fascism, if you were a Jew, you were simply killed. Nobody had the idea of arresting Jews and torturing them to confess the…

— Slavoj Žižek

An arresting testimony to the haunting power of friendships, THE AFTER GIRLS is a story that understands what it is to be passionate, confused,…

— Micol Ostow

Well, I'm not saying that we're solving every problem or arresting every person that ought to be arrested and deported, but we're doing a…

— Thad Cochran

I want every man on the force to try his best, his level best, to try to avoid arresting anyone. I know that this…

— Chill Wills

“And at that instant, I was six and half years old again, watching the two arresting officers - a man and a woman dressed…

— Sana Krasikov

If ideas are what feed serious literature and arresting language, who today is writing a novel of ideas (which can often mean comedy)? I…

— Cynthia Ozick

First they came for the Jews, but I did nothing because I'm not a Jew. Then they came for the socialists, but I did…

— Martin Niemoller

What, and that means arresting ordinary factory workers. In the street, in broad daylight. It's more like Guantanamo Bay out there. Donna, by the…

— Donna Noble

How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries. Besides the fanatical frenzy which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia…

— Winston Churchill

The evil eye is the fascinum, it is that which has the effect of arresting movement and, literally, of killing life. At the moment…

— Jacques Lacan

Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live.

— Winston Churchill

Contemporary scholars have little explored the preconditions of genocide. Still less have they asked whether a society's weapons policy might be one of the…

— Daniel D. Polsby