Detentions Quotes

#1. If there's another 9/11 or a major war in the Middle-East involving a U.S. attack on Iran, I have no doubt that there will be, the day after or within days an equivalent of a Reichstag fire decree that will involve massive detentions in this country.

Daniel Ellsberg

#2. The United States has been ambiguous on the current situation in Nepal. They have not actually come out very strongly in terms of pushing the king to take measures on the detentions or abuses by the army. China continues to provide military equipment.

Irene Khan

#3. In due course, I came to classify writers into two categories: those who enabled you to arrive on time and those who caused you to be late. The Russian authors earned me a whole string of detentions.

Jean-Michel Guenassia

#4. If night raids and detentions are an unavoidable part of modern counterinsurgency warfare, then so is the resentment they breed.

Anand Gopal

#5. But we did it," said Alys. "We found Morgana and we helped her. How can you worry about detentions when life as we know it has just been saved?

L.J.Smith

#6. At 11, 12, I thought I was clumsy, ugly, a mess, an unappealing person, but I did have the gift of the gab. I had the school record at Haberdashers for consecutive detentions for simply speaking out of turn.

Simon Schama

#7. One day when I was studying with Schoenberg, he pointed out the eraser on his pencil and said, 'This end is more important than the other.' After twenty years I learned to write directly in ink.

John Cage

#8. Man's alienation from man must lead in time to man's alienation from God

Robert Nisbet

#9. One is never too young for fine literature . . .

Elin Hilderbrand

#10. You said that life's just like skating; I just need to kick forward and take a chance, push off the ground and follow through. And when everything works out, I'll coast.

Jay McLean

#11. I'd rather wear out than rust out, he'd once said years before, echoing the words of the evangelist George Whitefield.

Laura Frantz

#12. It was Russia, January 5, 1943, and just another icy day. Out among the city and snow, there were dead Russians and Germans everywhere. Those who remained were firing into the blank pages in front of them. Three languages interwove. The Russian, the bullets, the German.

Markus Zusak

#13. I brought you a snack," Takumi said, dropping an oatmeal cream pie onto my book.
"Very nutritious," I smiled.
"You've got your oats. You've got your meal. You've got your cream. It's a fuckin' food pyramid.

John Green

#14. Beauty is a mute deception.

Theophrastus

#15. It proved easier to buy the farm to get the mineral rights than to buy the coal rights alone.

Orville Redenbacher

#16. Saturday afternoon, although occurring at regular and well-foreseen intervals, always takes this railway by surprise.

W.S. Gilbert

#17. It is not the possession of truth, but the success which attends the seeking after it, that enriches the seeker and brings happiness to him.

Max Planck

#18. Resist nothing, allow everything, and surrender that which persists.

Maximus Freeman

#19. I have very little interest in the bottom line or signing artists to help make the label profit. That's a lucky, unique position to be in, but it all comes out in the wash.

Jack White