Quotes About Resisting Arrest

#1. There will be a ten percent surcharge for resisting arrest,

Lois McMaster Bujold

#2. Mr. Dowd," Miller said. "What I am about to do to you is literally the only bright spot in my day. If you could see your way clear to resisting arrest, I'd really appreciate it." "Harry?

James S.A. Corey

#3. How can one freeze and put their hands above their head at the same time? Do they teach cops to shout contradictory instructions at suspects at the academy for some sinister purpose? If I obeyed one cop, did the other cop get to shoot me for resisting arrest?

Kevin Hearne

#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. 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

#6. I was once arrested for resisting arrest.

Steven Wright

#7. 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

#8. Every day, IRS agents levy liens on homes, bank accounts, and businesses; they confiscate cars, furniture, boats, and other personal property without the constitutional protections of due notice, hearing, and due process. If a person forcibly resists, government agents kill him for resisting arrest.

Jacob G. Hornberger

#9. The park was a scruffy patch of grass, muddy in winter and dusty in summer, set about with a few dozen trees, a bandstand, and a pond on which swam a family of depraved and malevolent ducks.

Philip Pullman

#10. Just because I've walked into this crazy fantasy doesn't mean I can just abandon my other plans, much as I might want to.

Alexandra Adornetto

#11. What kills leadership growth isn't ignorance, but rather the illusion of knowledge.

Orrin Woodward

#12. Friend," replied Michael Strogoff, "Heaven reward thee for all thou hast done for me!"
"Only fools expect reward on earth," replied the mujik.

Jules Verne

#13. The kings of terrors, the last enemy, will never be able to breach the pearly gates and disturb the bliss of heaven! No more deathbed vigils or funerals. The hearse will have made its last journey.

J. Oswald Sanders

#14. He didn't seem conventionally insane in any way that I could understand. But there was no way of comprehending him. In some eerie and fundamental way, he didn't appear to belong to our world. But that didn't seem the same as being mad.

Marcel Theroux

#15. His more cynical side suspected that humans had never really needed an excuse to pick on other humans.

Christopher G. Nuttall

#16. My resisting being mistreated on the bus did not begin with that particular arrest ... I did a lot of walking in Montgomery.

Rosa Parks

#17. I can't stand films where parents are portrayed as old and doddery, and ignore their kids.

Gurinder Chadha

#18. In his haste to devour her body, Charlie noticed that Callum hadn't even bothered to remove his jacket and tie.

Beth Ashworth

#19. I've gone from, you know, being too close to politicians, to being too close to entertainers, and people's father that I'm not.

Al Sharpton