Famous Quotes & Sayings

Barbara Kruger

One thing I learned working at magazines was that if you couldn't get people to look at a page or a cover, then you were fired. It was all about how you create arresting works, and by arresting I mean stop people, even for a nano-second.

Al Sharpton

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.

But nobody will oppose that because there is already an unanimous decision by community members that offenders must be whipped. If a person tries to oppose the whip system, that person too would be arrested and whipped immediately for his or her opposition.

Billy Graham

One of the things I miss most is that I can no longer read, due to age-related macular degeneration. I get regular injections for this, and thankfully these seem to have arrested its progress, but it's still very difficult for me to read. That means it is hard for me to pick up my Bible and read it like I used to, and I miss that very much.

Jesse Jackson

To call her a seamstress is irrelevant, ... She was not arrested for sewing. She was a freedom fighter.

There are indications that at least one of the people involved in this that was arrested was yesterday expressing support for what happened in Israel and was gratified that it had occurred,

Let's stop pretending we can arrest our way to safety and security. Despite all the fine work that policemen and women do, we have got to find other solutions to deter crime.

The government has cracked down on us to foil our planned protest. Police have so far arrested up to 1,000 opposition members who have been mobilizing supporters to come to join the rally in Dhaka.

Well, I can't really discuss the case so much. Last week, I was arrested for that. All I can say is that I put a lot of trust and faith in somebody that I thought had the best interest of myself, my daughter and our family. Unfortunately I was betrayed. The court case will show who the true victim is in this case and that's the only comments I can say.

We already arrested five of them, ... They aren't evacuees. They're local idiots.

This seems like organized attacks to me. They have real mobile tactics, coming on a scooter, throwing a flaming bottle and then riding away, so it is very hard to get there fast enough to arrest them.

The operation was launched on 2 December 2005 and targeted drunk drivers. We managed to arrest more than 240 drivers from the launch date to 31 December for driving under the influence.

There could be a lot of things. It could be they're continuing to investigate. Typically, it means they're trying to get locations, so they can get everybody arrested at the same time. As you know, there's two indictments connected to the defendants. I think all together, it's going to end up 10 or 12 persons, so it's a lot of people to at one time.

We have a feeling since we arrested these two people the other two know that the police are interested in talking to them, and making an arrest here. So hopefully they use good judgment and cooperate with the authorities and make their life easier as well.

We are working to calm the tension. We think this is a conflict that began outside of school since it happened on a Monday. The two students who were arrested were found with brass knuckles in their backpacks, they weren't used, but that is a prohibited weapon.

We have been informed by police of the arrest of these two players and we will now await the conclusions of their investigations.

The reinstatement is only a partial victory, we are now fighting to get our comrades who were arrested released from jail.

There has been a fairly marked recovery in retail demand that has created a slightly greater lift in trade prices than we saw during the first quarter of last year. This means that, for the time being, at least the market has arrested the slide in residual values.

Nothing but a miracle of sovereign mercy could have arrested and saved me from eternal perdition. How I could have so long resisted the entreaties, the prayers, and the tears of my dear parents, and the influences of the Holy Spirit, is, to me, a wonder entirely incomprehensible.

We called William Grice to the stand because he said he was with Cannon the day they tried to arrest him in Montgomery to pick up his cousin. We did some research and found out that Grice was stabbed that day and he was in the hospital.

James Fox

We have made significant increases in providing shelters, hot lines and restraining orders to protect battered spouses and mandatory arrest for domestic violence incidents, ... And the largest beneficiaries have been men. The biggest drop is in women killing husbands.

Jose Antonio Vargas

Undocumented people get arrested all the time. I get arrested, and it's front-page news. I feel guilt.

We are ready in the Eastern Cape to make arrests within a week. We have conducted our investigation to a point where we are ready to effect arrests, it is just a question of logistics, like obtaining arrest warrants.

The police have been arresting gang members left and right.

Nick Swardson

When you live the life of a comedian, it's such a state of arrested development. I can't deal with anything very maturely. I'm still really bad at paying bills or doing anything that would be considered semi-adult. I'm really bad at it. It's weird I can create and run a TV show, but I can't pay my phone bill.

Dick Thornburgh

Yet, Puerto Rico's economic convergence and political integration with the rest of the nation is in a state of arrest - even though the island has been within the national borders, political system and customs territory of the U.S. for a century.

When deputies attempted to arrest Mr. Larson, he refused to exit his house, despite the fact that they had a valid warrant for his arrest.

We are concerned that false police statements may have tainted hundreds of cases of people arrested at the two largest mass arrests during the convention.

Tommy is a moving object, so when we do find him we'll arrest him. We will also arrest those who try to get in the way of his arrest.

Hamid Karzai

We are glad and happy for what Pakistan is now doing on their territory to chase terrorists and to arrest them,

Anita Shreve

I can think of no other experience quite like that of being 20 or so pages into a book and realizing that this is the real thing: a book that is going to offer the delicious promise of a riveting story, arresting language and characters that will haunt me for days.

Otto Schily

Arresting and detaining these dangerous people can make sense, at least until a final decision is reached on their deportation. However, such detention must always be subject to time limits and court review.

We never got there. ... One of us was arrested in Shreveport ... and the car finally dropped dead in Houston, ... I was stuck in Houston for about a week. I finally called my parents and asked them for money to go back to New York.