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Quotes About Probation

Significant cuts to funding for the police, for the Crown Prosecution Service, for probation etc, have put the long-term viability of our criminal justice system in doubt.
~ Keir Starmer
Anyhow, a philosophical turn of thought now was not amiss, else one's patience would have given out almost at the harbour entrance. The term of her probation was eight days.
~ Joshua Slocum
The purpose of the plan of salvation is not to weed us out, but to offer us every possible chance to succeed. Mortality is a time of probation, but also a time of preparation (see Alma 42:10). Heaven is not a prize for the perfect, but the future home of all who are willing to be perfected.
~ Brad Wilcox
I don't expect to win enough games to be put on NCAA probation. I just want to win enough to warrant an investigation.
~ Bob Devaney
To fill the full measure and purpose of our mortal probation, we must have patience. This mortal existence is the Lord's sifting sphere, the time when we are subject to trials, testing, and tribulations. Future rewards will be based on our patient endurance of all things.
~ Bruce R. McConkie
She sighed. "I'm your intake officer. You'll meet your probation officer after we're done with intake." "Will I have to take a number again?" "Yes." "Then please change my annoyance level to nine.
~ Neal Shusterman
How is a scythe disciplined?" Rowan had asked. "He was put to death twelvefold by a jury of scythes, then revived each time. After the twelfth revival, he was on probation for a year.
~ Neal Shusterman
Plea bargain resulted in probation with standard obligatory rehabilitation. Obligation satisfied at Keith Richard Memorial Rehabilitation Center, New Los Angeles.
~ J.D. Robb
Before holding elective office - 12 years in the Wyoming House of Representatives and 18 years in the U.S. Senate - I served a different type of time. I was on probation for a federal offense committed as a teenager.
~ Alan K. Simpson
Working in a juvenile detention center, being a probation officer for at-risk youths, I'll do something like that. Something nice and stable.
~ Justin Gaethje
The cock, that is the trumpet to the morn, Doth with his lofty and shrill-sounding throat Awake the god of day; and, at his warning, Whether in sea or fire, in earth or air, The extravagant and erring spirit hies To his confine: and of the truth herein This present object made probation.
~ Confucius
Any inhabitant with a negative attachment coefficient (in which case it is referred to as a coefficient of ironic detachment) will be placed on probation pending review of the individual's suitability for continued inclusion within the U31 diegetic space.
~ Charles Yu
My dear cousin, can you be satisfied with such a way of spending your probation?
~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
after several months of probation work, standing on my feet some ten to twelve hours a day, I decided that as a nurse I was a pretty good entertainer.
~ Kate Smith
And they all struggled and suffered and tormented one another and injured their souls, their eternal souls, for the attainment of benefits which endure but for an instant. Not only do we know this ourselves, but Christ, the Son of God, came down to earth and told us that this life is but for a moment and is a probation; yet we cling to it and think to find happiness in it.
~ Leo Tolstoy
He couldn't leave the area and couldn't knowingly go within a hundred feet of someone with a criminal record. He couldn't do drugs and he couldn't own or carry a weapon. The
~ David Baldacci
He couldn't leave the area and couldn't knowingly go within a hundred feet of someone with a criminal record. He couldn't do drugs and he couldn't own or carry a weapon. The hydraulic rams came to life and
~ David Baldacci
Ill take probation, I dont want that T.I. and Vick vacation.
~ Lil Wayne
At the end of a year the matter would be reconsidered. Mr. Whitney insisted on the year's probation—Ernest might want to marry, or he, himself, might die; anything might happen in a year— "Good," said Ernest at last, stretching his arms, "I'm free." "You are bound," thought Mr. Whitney but he was too wise to say so.
~ D.E. Stevenson
I didn't know that I could be an actor until I was 25 years old, and now I continue to go back to the prisons and probation camps and the inner city to say that you don't have to go through the violence, through the trauma like I did.
~ Richard Cabral
He put her on secret probation. She had seven days to become nice
~ John Grisham
Further, more African Americans today are under criminal justice supervision—either in prison, on parole or probation—than were enslaved 10 years before the Civil War (Alexander 2012
~ Unknown
All love is probationary, a fact which frightens women and exhilarates men.
~ Mignon McLaughlin