Top 100 Quotes About Arrest
#1. The Supreme Court has ruled that anybody can be strip-searched for any kind of arrest. That's something to think about the next time you bring 12 items into a 10-item-or-less lane.
Jay Leno
#2. Prostitution is really the only crime in the penal law where two people are doing a thing mutually agreed upon and yet only one, the female partner, is subject to arrest.
Kate Millett
#3. Arrest me for sitting on a bus? You may do that.
Rosa Parks
#4. Fresh wounds," said Angua. "But one of them did shoot one of the other in the leg by accident."
"I think you'd better put in your report as -self inflicted- wounds while resisting arrest," said Vimes.
Terry Pratchett
#5. Did you know that jewelry shop is a Cross Industries property? Gideon Cross has offered a quarter-million dollar reward for information leading to the arrest of the thieves.
Sylvia Day
#6. When you stepped on Jared's toes, you'd get punched in the gut. If you stepped on Jax's toes, he'd hack into the county database and issue a warrant for your arrest.
Penelope Douglas
#7. seemed like that moment of pause and arrest when the warm fluidity of youth is chilled into its final shape. He
Edith Wharton
#9. The power to arrest - to deprive a citizen of liberty - must be used fairly, responsibly, and without bias.
Loretta Lynch
#10. You are under arrest for murder, attempted murder and general conspiracy to be an asshole. - Harry Bosch
Michael Connelly
#11. Mr. Lincoln's maxim and philosophy were: 'What is to be, will be, and no prayers of ours can arrest the decree.' He never joined any Church. He was a religious man always, I think, but was not a technical Christian.
Mary Todd Lincoln
#12. As far as co-operation with The Hague is concerned it's impossible (to arrest Milosevic) by March 31 without an agreement on the federal level despite the consequences such a move could have.
Zoran Djindjic
#13. Life is its own journey, presupposes its own change and movement, and one tries to arrest them at one's eternal peril.
Laurens Van Der Post
#14. Your General Patton, he refused to arrest the SS because he said it would be silly to get rid of the most intelligent people in Germany. Instead, he packed the Bavarian Provincial Administration full of Nazis.
Ayelet Waldman
#15. He'd already chosen his mate. It was too bad she was trying to arrest him for f***ing murder.
Annie Nicholas
#16. A report by ArchCity Defenders, a non-profit group, found that the municipal court in Ferguson - a city of 21,135 people - issued 32,975 arrest warrants last year, mostly for traffic violations. These fines and fees were the second-biggest source of the city's $20m income.
Anonymous
#17. Depression is like being under house arrest, only there is no house.
Lisa Eley
#18. She had a crooked nose and a pointy chin with a huge mole that had wiry black hairs growing out of it. Heck, if the New Order was really looking to arrest witches ...
James Patterson
#19. Initially charged with assaulting a police officer and resisting arrest I was held for 36 hours, was beaten by cops and made to stand spread eagled against the cell wall for 12 hours with no food or water, until I collapsed. Everyone was strip searched on the way in.
John Blair
#20. Close your eyes and let the mind expand. Let no fear of death or darkness arrest its course. Allow the mind to merge with Mind. Let it flow out upon the great curve of consciousness. Let it soar on the wings of the great bird of duration, up to the very Circle of Eternity.
Hermes Trismegistus
#21. Great. So if a dragon and a fairy show up at the castle, what the hell am I supposed to do with that information? Put out a warrant for their arrest?" "No,
Daniel Suarez
#22. You don't need any indictment in order to arrest someone; probable cause is sufficient to arrest civilians, so it must be enough to arrest police.
Al Sharpton
#23. 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 gray eyes, so what? The tone of a voice was something that died with a word.
Vera Caspary
#25. Crawling out of the flophouse
I saw the mayor stealing my junk
I doth protest, citizen's arrest
Now my body's in his trunk
Where's the shadow government when you need it?
Where's the shadow government?
It's a bad, bad world!
They Might Be Giants
#26. Young shoots contain enough cyanide to kill a horse. Death is mercifully swift, usually caused by cardiac arrest or respiratory failure and preceded by only a few hours of anxiety, convulsions, and staggering about.
Amy Stewart
#27. Was it love or cardiac arrest? Fucking hell, did people actually like this feeling? It was horrible!
Melanie Harlow
#28. 1780, as Thomas-Alexandre turned eighteen, the king issued a new law prohibiting people of color from using the titles Sieur or Dame ("Sir" or "Madame"). Saint-Georges remained a chevalier - and Thomas-Alexandre was a count - but neither could use "Sir" before his name without risking arrest.
Tom Reiss
#29. Martha Stewart is now under house arrest. So she'll go to her $40 million 153-acre estate. So she's going from the big house to an even bigger house.
Jay Leno
#30. My bed isn't made, I'm tired, I haven't slept well for two weeks. I haven't been laid in a month. I don't have a girlfriend. I have a warrant for my arrest.
Layne Staley
#31. We are fast approaching a situation in which nobody will believe anything we [physicists] say in any matter that touches upon our self-interest. Nothing we do is likely to arrest our decline in numbers, support or social value.
Leo Kadanoff
#32. The government of Sudan, employing a back channel direct from its president to the Central Intelligence Agency, offered in the early spring of 1996 to arrest Osama bin Laden and place him in Saudi custody, according to officials and former officials in all three countries.
Barton Gellman
#33. As I got warmed up, and felt perfectly at home in talk, I heard myself boasting, lying, exaggerating. Oh, not deliberately, far from it. It would be unconvivial and dull to stop and arrest the flow of talk, and speak only after carefully considering whether I was telling the truth.
Bernard Berenson
#34. To be haunted by past failures or satisfied with past successes is to arrest forward motion.
Conrad Hilton
#35. Whenever we use our religion, as individuals, or as groups within the church, to act in tandem with political and economic groups that arrest the voice of truth or destroy others, then we are Judas.
Megan McKenna
#36. If I should object to force I will be arrested. If I object to arrest I will be clubbed. If I defend myself against clubbing I will be shot. These procedures are known as The Rule of Law.
Edward Abbey
#37. We can't arrest and incarcerate addiction out of people. Not only do I think it's really inhumane, but it's ineffective and it cost us billions upon billions of dollars to keep doing this.
Michael Botticelli
#38. I particularly approve of and welcome the arrest of millionaire saboteurs in the first and second-class railway carriage.
Vladimir Lenin
#39. 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 going to pull me over and arrest me.
Leelee Sobieski
#40. It is so good that you can love someone for how long you want and no one can arrest you for that crime.
M.F. Moonzajer
#41. You took my Lotus!"
Sissy choked on her champagne, and Ronnie started looking for the exits or law enforcement with arrest warrants.
Lord, what is the statute of limitations again?
Shelly Laurenston
#42. Gender segregated shelters are inaccessible to many trans people, and trans women in particular are often forced to choose between going into a men's shelter where they face enormous danger, or remaining street homeless and facing the violence, harassment, arrest, and exposure risks of that.
Dean Spade
#43. Freedom of speech is a two way street, man. You have the right to say whatever you want and the Boss has a right to tell the police to arrest you.
Lenny Bruce
#44. One night, Tess finds me sobbing during the health segment of the evening news. Scientists have discovered scarred cells from cardiac arrest fall away over time, and she can't understand how sadly hopeful that is. To me, it means that the human heart has the capacity to heal itself.
Koren Zailckas
#45. If an educational act is to be efficacious, it will be only that one which tends to help toward the complete unfolding of life. To be thus helpful it is necessary rigorously to avoid the arrest of spontaneous movements and the imposition of arbitrary tasks.
Maria Montessori
#46. When I was under house arrest, it was the BBC that spoke to me - I listened.
Aung San Suu Kyi
#47. Every time you open the paper now, there seems to be another celebrity getting arrest for masturbation. First, it was Peewee Herman and then George Michael. If masturbation's a crime, I should be on death row.
Gilbert Gottfried
#48. Pornography is supposed to arouse sexual desires. If pornography is a crime, when will they arrest makers of perfume?
Richard Fleischer
#49. Arrest is an instantaneous, shattering thrust, expulsion, somersault from one state into another.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
#50. Now I would almost arrest Glenn Greenwald, who's the journalist who seems to want to help him get to Ecuador.
Glenn Greenwald
#51. The choke?" I exclaim, perplexed.
Next to me, Cal tries his best to be civil. His best isn't very good.
"Idiocy," he snaps. "The Choke has more Silvers than you know, each one instructed to arrest or kill you on sight. If you're lucky, they'll take you back to prison.
Victoria Aveyard
#52. My kingdom is not of this world. If it were, my servants would fight to prevent my arrest by the Jews. But now my kingdom is from another place.
Jesus Christ
#53. During the period of house arrest, I had an electronic manacle around my leg for 24 hours a day, and for someone who has tried to give others liberty all their adult life, that is absolutely intolerable.
Julian Assange
#55. I think even though the court is moving toward trying to translate the Constitution into a digital age, there was that wonderful unanimous decision that Chief Justice Roberts wrote saying you can't search a cellphone on arrest without a warrant.
Jeffrey Rosen
#56. You want to arrest the clocks, stop everything for half a second, give yourself a chance to do it over again, rewind the life, uncrash the car, run it backward, have her lifted miraculously back into the windshield, unshatter the glass, go about your day umtouched, some old, lost sweet tasting time.
Colum McCann
#57. Every beggar shall be arrested. But to arrest a beggar merely in order to put him in jail would be barbarous and absurd. He should be arrested for the sole purpose of teaching him how to earn a living by his work.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#58. I longed to arrest all beauty that came before me, and at length the longing has been satisfied.
Julia Margaret Cameron
#60. It is impossible for a Westerner to imagine the deadening torpor of a protected life under house arrest. Eventually, one is grateful for the smallest outing outdoors
a lovely picnic in a burqa, being allowed to watch the men and boys fly kites or swim.
Phyllis Chesler
#61. 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
#62. That image or rather that Person, so human, yet so entirely Divine, has a power to fill the imagination, to arrest the affections, to deepen and purify the conscience, which nothing else in the world has.
John Campbell Shairp
#63. It was an urge ... A strong urge, and the longer I let it go the stronger it got, to where I was taking risks to go out and kill people-risks that normally, according to my little rules of operation, I wouldn't take because they could lead to arrest.
Edmund Kemper
#64. She had been privileged to live outside of Time, to enter and leave at will, looting and manipulating, weightless, invisible. Now Time had claimed her again, put her under house arrest, taken her passport away. Only an animal with a full set of pain receptors after all.
Thomas Pynchon
#65. The way to stop financial joyriding is to arrest the chauffeur, not the automobile.
Woodrow Wilson
#66. I feel very sorry for the one or two North Korean defectors who were caught by Chinese police while entering South Korean or foreign embassies in Beijing, but their arrest drew the whole attention of the world.
Kim Young-sam
#67. Many times, when you go to arrest somebody, they pull their gun, and here I am, a federal agent, telling them to drop their gun. But the gun is like that. I give them a split second to drop it, and they drop it. I could have shot them - who is going to complain?
Joe Arpaio
#68. My first civil disobedience arrest for social justice was in 1986 for protesting the SDI.
Martin Sheen
#69. I always hope, in fact, that my interlocutor will be a policeman and that he will arrest me for the theft of 'The Just Judges'".
Albert Camus
#70. I would have liked to see where we would have the authority to arrest illegal aliens just by being here illegally and book them into our jails, but that's not going to happen.
Joe Arpaio
#71. I feel that art has something to do with the achievement of stillness in the midst of chaos. A stillness which characterizes prayer, too, and the eye of the storm. I think that art has something to do with an arrest of attention in the midst of distraction.
Saul Bellow
#72. 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 to arrest, imprisonment, seizure of property, and so on.
Gore Vidal
#73. What the hell?!" Vee shrieked. "Why did you shoot him Rixon?"
"Citizen's arrest," he said. "Well, that, and Patch told me too."
"You can't shoot people just because Patch says to!" Vee said, her eyes wild.
Becca Fitzpatrick
#74. Europe was best described, to his mind, as an elaborate engine for dissociating the confined American from that indispensable knowledge, and was accordingly only rendered bearable by these occasional stations of relief, traps for the arrest of wandering western airs.
Henry James
#75. They'll claim they wanted a legal arrest and a Miranda
Anonymous
#76. 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 it like a river reeds.
Philip James Bailey
#77. If you ask someone whether our Constitutional rights are being flushed down the porcelain oubliette, and their response is, "If I answer that honestly they'll arrest me," then you already have your answer.
Robert X. Cringely
#78. When I hired him I told him two things: no man has any sense till age thirty-five and damn few afterwards . . ." "Amen to that, and the other?" "Never go after a man to arrest him unless you are certain you are legally right, but then arrest him or die.
Craig Johnson
#79. Though the sleepy, myopic, and rather bald-pated figure reflected in the mirror was precisely of such insignificant quality as to arrest decidedly no one's exclusive attention at first sight, its owner evidently remained perfectly pleased with all he saw in the mirror.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#80. 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 you don't arrest people and keep them hidden for a year and a half without charging them.
Carol Moseley Braun
#81. Unrequited love sucks. It should be against the law."
She brightened.
"If it was, then I could have Rick arrest me. I'd love to be handcuffed to him.
Carla Cassidy
#82. I forced myself to comply. When the media reports that a suspect in custody was killed after resisting arrest, they never tell you how hard it is to assist passively with your own kidnapping. They never talk about the discipline it takes to submit.
Molly Crabapple
#83. He [Christ] even restored the severed ear of the soldier who came to arrest Him - a fact that allows us to hope the resurrection will reflect a considerable attention to detail.
Marilynne Robinson
#84. By the time Brand Appleton reached the castle grounds, he had acquired a significant crowd. Never in the history of Toll had one man needed so many people to arrest him.
Frances Hardinge
#85. Dr Caldwell stares at her dispassionately. "Now go and get a security detail," she says to Dr Selkirk. "I want this woman under military arrest. The charge will be attempted sabotage." Melanie
M.R. Carey
#86. There's one in every family. When the police calls in the middle of the night and says We've got a family members of yours under arrest and you know directly who it is. In my family we have seven of those ... And they are all my Mom!
Christopher Titus
#87. Story is honorable and trustworthy; plot is shifty, and best kept under house arrest.
Stephen King
#88. North and south must also adopt measures to arrest the growing phenomenon of illegal capital flight and the repatriation of illicit wealth siphoned abroad by corrupt political leaders and their collaborators back to their countries of origin,
Olusegun Obasanjo
#89. He clears his throat. 'Do you want to go to a movie or something?' The wings stop flapping. 'I can't. I'm sort of under house arrest.'
'Till when?'
'Till pigs fly and hell freezes over.'
'Soon, then.'
'Any minute.
Laura Ruby
#90. The quality of the information used in background checks is another cause for concern. One of the most common problems is that databases may include arrest records without any indication of whether a person was convicted.
Anonymous
#91. Torture a single chicken and you risk arrest. Abuse hundreds of thousands of chickens for their entire lives? That's agribusiness.
Anonymous
#92. Diagnostic ECG: Progressive changes include tall, thin T waves; prolonged PR interval; ST depression; widened QRS; and loss of P wave. Eventually, QRS widens further (sine wave) and cardiac arrest occurs (see
Ursula Eaterday Heitz
#93. David Irving is under arrest in Austria for Holocaust denial. Perhaps there is a case for making climate change denial an offence - it is a crime against humanity after all.
Margo Kingston
#94. He was a man more concerned with the truth than his arrest quota, a philosophy that would often have him skate on thin ice with the higher ups.
Bruce Crown
#95. 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 bed I have Roget's Thesaurus, a dictionary, a Bible, and a deck of playing cards.
Toni Morrison
#96. The Egyptian revolution will remain indebted to everyone who tossed a stone into the still waters at a time when doing so risked beating, and arrest, or worse.
Wael Ghonim
#97. Did y'all arrest Uncle Bob's turkey? It was just criminal what he did to that bird, wasn't it? You
Kwame Alexander
#98. If the doctors cure
then the sun sees it.
If the doctors kill
then the earth hides it.
The doctors should fear arrogance
more than cardiac arrest.
Anne Sexton
#99. Dance like you're stamping on a human face forever, love like you've been in a serious car crash that minced the front of your brain, stab like no one can arrest you, and live like there's no such thing as God.
Warren Ellis
#100. You have to be able to catch someone to arrest them.
Carrie Jones
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