Arrest Quotes

173 quotes by 161 authors

When you see a fish you don't think of its scales, do you? You think of its speed, its floating, flashing body seen through the… — Constantin Brancusi
Government: If you refuse to pay unjust taxes, your property will be confiscated. If you attempt to defend your property, you will be arrested. If… — Edward Abbey
The E.U. has moved to combat global terrorism by instituting common European arrest and evidence warrants and creating a joint situation center to pool and… — John Bruton
Our youth can not understand why society chooses to criminalize a behavior with so little visible ill effect or adverse social impact... These young people… — Richard M. Nixon
When afflictions arrest us, we shall murmur and grumble and struggle until we see that it is God that strikes. — Thomas Brooks
At the still point of the turning world. Neither flesh nor fleshless; Neither from nor towards; at the still point, there the dance is, But… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
It is better, so the Fourth Amendment teaches us, that the guilty sometimes go free than the citizens be subject to easy arrest. — William O. Douglas
Usually I try to be there by six. Everything has been taken off the walls so that there's nothing to arrest my sight. On the… — Toni Morrison
In the Middle East, where populations are growing fast, the world is seeing the first collision between population growth and water supply at the regional… — Lester R. Brown
The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later,… — William Faulkner
If we imagine an observer to approach our planet from outer space, and, pushing aside the belts of red-brown clouds which obscure our atmosphere, to… — Eduard Suess
I always get scared of traffic cops when I'm driving, like I freak out even when I'm not doing anything wrong. I still think they're… — Leelee Sobieski
We come together only to go apart again. The law of life can't be avoided. The law comes into operation the moment we detach ourselves… — R.K. Narayan
Only some radical change can divert the downward course of my spirit, some startling new place or people to arrest the drift, the drag. — Tennessee Williams
Pornography is supposed to arouse sexual desires. If pornography is a crime, when will they arrest makers of perfume? — Richard Fleischer
Football is based on desperation. All clubs are desperate in one form or another - desperate to succeed, desperate to survive, desperate to stay where… — Simon Barnes
The future turns out to be something that you make instead of find. It isn't waiting for your arrival, either with an arrest warrant or… — Lewis H. Lapham
Who can mistake great thoughts? They seize upon the mind; arrest and search, And shake it; bow the tall soul as by wind; Rush over… — Philip James Bailey
Let me arrest thy thoughts; wonder with me, why plowing, building, ruling and the rest, or most of those arts, whence our lives are blest,… — John Donne
What matters to us is the revelation of the swindle, fraud, or defalcation. This makes known to the world that things have not been as… — Charles P. Kindleberger

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