Detain Quotes
15 quotes by 15 authors
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My policy will be to detain and deport every illegal alien who is apprehended in this country. And we'll do it with an expedited hearing…
— Rick Perry
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'IT IS IMPOSSIBLE FOR YOU TO DO IT,' WAS THE TERRIBLE VERDICT. 'IN THE FIRST PLACE YOU ARE A WOMAN AND WOULD NEED A PROTECTOR,…
— Nellie Bly
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Cross out as many adjectives and adverbs as you can. ... It is comprehensible when I write: "The man sat on the grass," because it…
— Anton Chekhov
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People who reach the top of the tree are only those who haven't got the qualifications to detain them at the bottom
— Peter Ustinov
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If it is not totalitarian to arrest a man and detain him, when you cannot charge him with any offence against any written law –…
— Lee Kuan Yew
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On recovering my senses, I hastened to quit a place where I hoped there was nothing further to detain me. I first filled my pockets…
— Adelbert von Chamisso
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A house may draw visitors, but it is the possessor alone that can detain them.
— Charles Caleb Colton
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Divine Wisdom, intending to detain us some time on earth, has done well to cover with a veil the prospect of the life to come;…
— Madame de Stael
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It is equally offensive to speed a guest who would like to stay and to detain one who is anxious to leave.
— Homer
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My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them.
— Walter Savage Landor
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On a day of burial there is no perspective--for space itself is annihilated. Your dead friend is still a fragmentary being. The day you bury…
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Remember that you ought to behave in life as you would at a banquet. As something is being passed around it comes to you; stretch…
— Epictetus
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Britain has a Terrorism Act, which has within it a portion called Schedule 7, which is quite unique. What it is is it gives officials…
— Sarah Harrison
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Are we going to go out and arrest and detain and deport 11 million people? Nobody would argue that that is what we are going…
— Luis Gutierrez
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There are those who leave without our needing to detain them; we have said all there is to say.
— Richard Eyre
Who Wrote These Detain Quotes
15 authors contributed a total of 15 Detain Quotes as follows: