Arrested Quotes - Page 15

• CAIR officials or former officials have been arrested on charges related to terrorism yet all it offers is silence and stonewalling in discussing what are its real motives.

  Paul Weyrich

  Real, Silence, Terrorism

  "Questions for CAIR" by Paul Weyrich, www.newsmax.com. January 21, 2004.

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• Madame Ratignolle hoped that Robert would exercise extreme caution in dealing with the Mexicans, who, she considered, were a treacherous people, unscrupulous and revengeful. She trusted she did them no injustice in thus condemning them as a race. She had known personally but one Mexican, who made and sold excellent tamales, and whom she would have trusted implicitly, so soft-spoken was he. One day he was arrested for stabbing his wife. She never knew whether he had been hanged or not.

  Kate Chopin

  Exercise, Race, People

  Kate Chopin (2011). “The Awakening and Other Writings”, p.94, Broadview Press

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• They arrested us after breakfast.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Breakfast

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• I would rather be arrested as a traitor than fight a war for Wall Street.

  Eugene V. Debs

  Wall, War, Fighting

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• the much-sought prize of eternal youth Is just arrested growth.

  Edgar Lee Masters

  Growth, Youth, Eternal

  Edgar Lee Masters (2012). “Spoon River Anthology”, p.175, The Floating Press

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• The writer who develops a beautiful style, but has nothing to say, represents a kind of arrested esthetic development; he is like a pianist who acquires a brilliant technique by playing finger-exercises, but never gives a concert.

  Ayn Rand

  Beautiful, Exercise, Giving

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• The BBC said I could stay on air until I was named. Well, I was named within the week. So I made no broadcasts after I'd been arrested, and the BBC stopped paying me at precisely the time when I needed the money most.

  Paul Gambaccini

  Air, Week, Made

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• On stage you're free. You can say and do things that if you said and did any place else, you'd be arrested.

  Robin Williams

  Stage, Said, Ifs

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• Someone must have slandered Josef K., for one morning, without having done anything truly wrong, he was arrested.

  Franz Kafka

  Morning, Done

  "The Trial". Book by Franz Kafka, 1925.

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• Women beg me for it, and not the other way around." "Then you should go to one of them." "Oh, I will. When we return to London, I'm going to embark on a spree of orgiastic debauchery that won't end until someone is arrested for it. But in the meanwhile...do you truly expect that the two of us are going to share a bed tonight-and tomorrow night-as chastely as a pair of nuns on holiday?

  Lisa Kleypas

  Holiday, Night, Two

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• Well, I believe she went in to rescue some Raggers from the pits,” Cuffs said. “She wasn’t all that specific.” “She went in to rescue — why would she do that?” Amon gripped the ironwork, studying the streetlord’s face. Was he lying? And if so, what was the purpose? “Guess she’s kind of taken with us,” Cuffs said. “You know, the glamor of the gang life and all. Getting beat up every other day, arrested for crimes you didn’t commit, long nights in gaol, sleeping in the cold and wet. It’s...seductive.” He raised an eyebrow.

  Cinda Williams Chima

  Lying, Believe, Taken

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• A sheriff arrested me. I could be mistaken, but I'm pretty sure my men-in-uniform fetish began that day. The sheriff was hot. And he handcuffed me. I've never been the same.

  Darynda Jones

  Men, Hot, Uniforms

  Darynda Jones (2011). “First Grave on the Right”, p.105, St. Martin's Press

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• I'm underrealized," Lula said. "I gotta lot of untapped potential. Yesterday my horoscope said I gotta expand my horizons." "You expand any more in that dress, and you'll get yourself arrested," Connie said. -- Twelve Sharp

  Janet Evanovich

  Yesterday, Twelve, Dresses

  Janet Evanovich (2007). “Twelve Sharp”, p.10, St. Martin's Press

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• [the downfall of our political system is the] buying and selling of politicians...bribery. In the private sector, you're arrested for it. In the public sector, it's the norm.

  Jesse Ventura

  Political, Buying, Politician

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• In the new world every position of power evacuated by an arrested and beheaded pedophile or bankster will be filled with a grandmother who has pledged to create heaven on earth for all children, animal and humans with the stolen money we have recovered.

  Roseanne Barr

  Children, Grandmother, Animal

  "12 Crazy Things Presidential Candidate Roseanne Barr Has Said About The United States" by Jordan Teicher, www.businessinsider.com. February 3, 2012.

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• The habit of going to your congressman's town hall and asking questions, that's powerful in a way that shouting slogans or getting arrested is not, that is completely counterproductive.

  David Frum

  Powerful, Asking Questions, Way

  Source: www.cbc.ca

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• There is no excuse, nor should there be any tolerance, for anyone who thinks or expresses any kind of anti-Semitic remark. I want to apologise specifically to everyone in the Jewish community for the vitriolic and harmful words that I said to a law enforcement officer the night I was arrested.

  Mel Gibson

  Apology, Night, Thinking

  "Gibson pleas for forgiveness as series is dropped" by Dan Glaister and Paul Lewis, www.theguardian.com. August 2, 2006.

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• All the suspects have been arrested. police are looking for them

  Joseph Ole Lenku

  Police, Suspects, Has Beens

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• I do think this is where television is going, and I think that it's awesome to be a part of a show like this because we are these pioneers into this new medium. And it's working. When you look at the success of House of Cards and Arrested Development, which I love, this is how people are watching television now. It's pretty cool to be a part of this whole thing.

  Laura Prepon

  Thinking, House Of Cards, People

  Source: collider.com

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• If you steal, do not steal too much at a time. You may be arrested. Steal cleverly, little by little.

  Mobutu Sese Seko

  May, Littles, Too Much

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• I don't know the traffic regulations of every city I get to either, but I manage to drive through without being arrested.

  Lloyd Mangrum

  Golf, Cities, Regulation

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