Arrest Quotes
173 quotes by 157 authors
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Large action arrest small action.
— Dai Vernon
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The vision preached by my father a half-century ago was that his four little children would no longer live in a nation where they would…
— Martin Luther King III
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When I said that I was king of forwards, you've got to understand that I don't come up with this stuff. I just forward it…
— Michael Scott
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A smile couldn't be brought into court as evidence. You couldn't arrest a man because he had trembled. Brown eyes had stolen a peep at…
— Vera Caspary
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Drugs. If they did not exist our governors would have invented them in order to prohibit them and so make much of the population vulnerable…
— Gore Vidal
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The recent upsurge of public concern over environmental questions reflects a belated recognition that man has been too cavalier in his relations with nature. Unless…
— Richard M. Nixon
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Now it is one thing to say I say it that people shouldn't consume psychoactive drugs. It is entirely something else to condone marijuana laws,…
— William F. Buckley, Jr.
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Art has to do with the arrest of attention in the midst of distraction.
— Saul Bellow
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To me, that means getting back to the point where our Constitution means that you don't tap people's phones and poke into their e-mail and…
— Carol Moseley Braun
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Let no man think we can deny civil liberty to others and retain it for ourselves. When zealous agents of the Government arrest suspected "radicals"…
— Robert M. La Follette, Sr.
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It was an urge. . . . . A strong urge, and the longer I let it go the stronger it got, to where I…
— Edmund Kemper
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My resisting being mistreated on the bus did not begin with that particular arrest…I did a lot of walking in Montgomery.
— Rosa Parks
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Let anyone try, I will not say to arrest, but to notice or to attend to, the present moment of time. One of the most…
— William James
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I have had much experience with the unclean and uncivilized in the recent past. Shall I tell you what I discovered? I am not the…
— G. Willow Wilson
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Yeah, arrest that man on the crime of having 8 Chicken McNuggets stuck up his arse.
— Dwayne Johnson
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I've always been paranoid about the police, because even when I'm not doing anything illegal, I'm thinking about doing something illegal. So, whenever I'm around…
— Marilyn Manson
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Indeed, the best practical reason to think that social media can help bring political change is that both dissidents and governments think they can. All…
— Clay Shirky
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I was in handcuffs. I was under arrest. I remember there was this old lady looking at me, and I could tell she felt real…
— Mike Tyson
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And if a diversion is needed, why not arrest a general? Arthur Dillon is a friend of eminent deputies, a contender for the post of…
— Hilary Mantel
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Great effort is required to arrest decay and restore vigor. One must exercise proper deliberation, plan carefully before making a move, and be alert in…
— Horace
Who Wrote These Arrest Quotes
157 authors contributed a total of 173 Arrest Quotes, led by these top contributors: