Arresting Quotes

35 quotes by 33 authors

Some experiences are mis-educative. Any experience is mis-educative that has the effect of arresting or distorting the growth of further experience. — John Dewey
Marijuana is the finest anti-nausea medication known to science, and our leaders have lied about this consistently. [Arresting people for] medical marijuana is the most… — Peter McWilliams
Though the parallel is not complete, it is safe to say that science will never touch them unaided by its practical applications. Its wonders may… — Arthur Balfour
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 institutional… — Daniel D. Polsby
An arresting testimony to the haunting power of friendships, THE AFTER GIRLS is a story that understands what it is to be passionate, confused, and… — Micol Ostow
How would you judge an artist who mutilated animals in a gallery because it was visually arresting? How riveting would the sound of a tortured… — Jonathan Safran Foer
Born on a mountain, raised in a cave. Arresting fugitives is all I crave. — Duane Chapman
I was constantly amazed by how many people talked me into arresting them. — Edward Conlon
I absolutely am a big Call of Duty fan. Every time a new Call of Duty comes out â€“ I never play the games online,… — Guillermo del Toro
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 freedom. — Willie Nelson
It is a stark and arresting fact that, since the middle of the 20th century, humankind has consumed more natural resources than in all previous… — Margaret Beckett
I want every man on the force to try his best, his level best, to try to avoid arresting anyone. I know that this going… — Chill Wills
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 the… — Patricia Highsmith
[In the case of] dangerous exercise of other powers, not granted by the said compact, the states, who are parties thereto, have the right, and… — James Madison
We have to stop arresting prostitutes and not arresting traffickers and pimps. It's absurd. We're arresting the victim or the survivor and not the oppressor. — Gloria Steinem
Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it. — Stephen Leacock
Why does an iPhone cost only a couple hundred dollars? Because, as the stage performer Mike Daisey depicted in an arresting one-man show called 'The… — Eric Liu
Professional reviewers read so many bad books in the course of duty that they get an unhealthy craving for arresting phrases. — Evelyn Waugh
A dramatist is one who believes that the pure event, an action involving human beings, is more arresting than any comment that can be made… — Thornton Wilder
prepare a little hot tea or broth and it should be brought to them . . . without their being asked if they would care… — Joan Didion

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