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Quotes About Arrest

I've spent a fair amount of time down at the worlder. I've been down there and helped arrest people that are smuggling drugs in.
~ Steve King
The only time I've been arrested was in opposing the Marble Hill nuclear power plant in Indiana. That was in 1979.
~ Wendell Berry
she turned just in time to seize a small boy by the slack of his roundabout and arrest his flight.
~ Mark Twain
We sent a sheik to arrest him if he had the authority, or to warn him, if he had not, that by the laws of Egypt the crime he was attempting to commit was punishable with imprisonment or the bastinado.
~ Mark Twain
Twenty-two poems covered the period from Lev's first serious efforts to his arrest in 1948 at the age of nineteen. Very Mandelstamian, I adjudged: well-made, and studiously conversational, and coming close, here and there, to the images that really hurt and connect.
~ Martin Amis
You don't mind breaking the law?" "Not in the least." "Nor running a chance of arrest?" "Not in a good cause.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
By the way, Doctor, I shall want your co-operation. I shall be delighted. You don't mind breaking the law? Not in the least. Nor running a chance of arrest? Not in a good cause. Oh, the cause is excellent! Then I am your man. I was sure that I might rely on you.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
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
If you wouldn't mind coming with us, sir? I am arresting you now and will shortly make a formal charge at the station.' I was so happy, so blissfully, radiantly, wildly happy that if I could have sung I would have sung. If I could have danced I would have danced. I was free. At last I was free. I was going on a journey now where every decision would be taken for me, every thought would be thought for me and every day planned for me. I was going back to school.
~ Stephen Fry
Story is honorable and trustworthy; plot is shifty, and best kept under house arrest.
~ Stephen King
The highway cop said, "Walk a straight line." I said, "Well, Officer Pythagoras, the closest you could ever come to achieving a straight line would be making an electroencephalogram of your own brain waves." He said, "You're under arrest. You have the right to remain silent. Do you wish to retain that right?" I thought, "Oooh, a paradox!"
~ Emo Philips
my cousin hid out at a friend's place. They already knew that it was dangerous for them, because the SA had been marching around grabbing up people from their homes and hauling them off. So my cousin went into hiding, and then the Nazis took his mother into custody, the so-called Sippenhaft [a kind of special arrest for family members].
~ Eric A. Johnson
And as was Gandhi's wont, he would not only insist on hygienic and social restraints but would preach to this group the basic ethical rules for the forthcoming march: None was to touch any one's property on the way. They were to bear it patiently if any official or non-official European met them and abused or even flogged them. They were to allow themselves to be arrested if the police offered to arrest them.
~ Erik H. Erikson
The bouncer scrutinized my face. "Do I know you?" he asked. No, I thought, but you might remember me from such Saturday-night hits as "Would you please put that punter down I'd like to arrest him," "You can stop kicking him now, the ambulance has arrived," and the classic "If you don't back off right now I'm going to nick you as well.
~ Ben Aaronovitch
When faced with complex and inexplicable circumstances, a modern police officer will fall back onto one of two basic policing approaches. Option one; call for backup, arrest everyone in the vicinity and sort it out down the nick. Or option two; locate the nearest source of tea, sit everyone down and hope nobody's carrying a concealed weapon
~ Ben Aaronovitch
Well, the biggest Norwegian newspaper regarded this as an arrest, since they hadn't told us that they were coming and they brought me in. So the biggest Norwegian newspaper looked upon that as an arrest.
~ Jon Johansen
The American Justice Department has left us with no choice. Our lawyers say that if we don't register as a foreign agent, the director of our company in America could be arrested, and the accounts of the company could be seized.
~ Margarita Simonyan
Authorities arrest me, release me, and then invite me back to host public events. I think it's interesting.
~ Alain Robert
I think one of the things that happens with, especially in the criminal justice system, is that the prosecutor is able to control the narrative from the very, very beginning. The moment an arrest is made, they put out a press release to the media and the media follows that narrative.
~ Isaac Wright Jr.
The day of Amma's arrest, the day it finally, completely unraveled, Curry and Eileen parked themselves on my couch, like concerned salt and pepper shakers.
~ Gillian Flynn
the most notorious crime organization in the country, and the only person under arrest is me.
~ Gordon Korman
That day, Cooper becomes the first Romeo ever to be arrested after a performance of Romeo and Juliet. Within thirty seconds of the gym lights coming back on, he's flanked by the two cops and marched off the stage.
~ Gordon Korman
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
In other words, if public opinion is not unduly aroused one may safely set aside the Constitution and illegally arrest one's enemies. Had this letter been published at the time, an excellent case might have been made for the impeachment and removal of a president who had broken that oath he had taken to defend and to protect the Constitution by conspiring to obstruct and pervert the course of justice.
~ Gore Vidal