Famous Quotes & Sayings

Irene Khan

You don't know what will make it your turn to be detained next and if you are in detention you don't know what it will take to get released.

Manish Agarwal

As a precautionary measure, we have detained 20 protestors who were aggravating the situation.

Moazzam Begg

I understood why the Americans felt they needed to question me. But I've never understood how they could have detained me for years.

Angel Acebes

Early this afternoon, the National Police have detained five people,

Made Pastika

So far the detained terrorists do not know them.

Jose Serrano

Nobody knows how many people are being detained now. Nobody knows if we are targeting an ethnic community,

Ricardo Lagos

I am sorry that the detectives detained me but were not on time to detain Jose Carrasco, ... Otherwise Carrasco would still be alive.

Amanda Vanstone

Fourteen were detained and will be escorted to Baxter Immigration Detention Facility while arrangements are made for their departure,

Donna Newman

A person is being detained on information -- the value of which, the credibility of which, and the reliability of which, we don't know.

Charley Pride

A woman went so far as to hire private detectives to contact me to help bring her out of what she called a hypnotic trance.

Wayne Anderson

Our detectives worked very hard on this, ... There was no smoking gun. It took a real team effort.

Joe Durkin

Once the offer was made for cash, detectives stepped in.

David Waltemeyer

Detectives interviewed multiple witnesses in this case. One told us that Matthew had spoke to the witness and told them that he was involved in the stabbing the victim.

David Lynch

You're right on the money with that, ... We're all like detectives in life. There's something at the end of the trail that we're all looking for.

Ed McBain

A detective sees death in all the various forms at least five times a week.

Douglas Adams

I am a private detective. I am paid to be inquisitive and presumptuous.

David Lynch

You're right on the money with that. We're all like detectives in life. There's something at the end of the trail that we're all looking for.

Decio Hopffer

We know now he was shot once and our gang unit detectives were called to this incident.

Heikki Kovalainen

Danger is part of my job. It's always there, but you can't think about it too much otherwise you start to be too slow.

John LaFontaine

There were times we weren't ready for the rebound. Otherwise we'd have had two or three more.

Robert E. Lee

It is well that war is so terrible, otherwise we should grow too fond of it.

Paul Kantner

We printed all the words out because otherwise nobody would be able to understand them.

Susan Minot

When I look through my sketchbooks, they bring back moments that I would otherwise have completely forgotten.

Pete Sepp

No spending reduction is easy, otherwise they would have been done a long time ago.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Telescopes and microscopes bring to our view the otherwise unseen and unknown.

Katie McGrath

No actor can play a villain if they don't sympathise with him or her - otherwise the character just becomes a two-dimensional caricature.

Ken King

We're activating relationships that otherwise wouldn't have been there.

Charles Dickens

Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. I was better after I had cried, than before--more sorry, more aware of my own ingratitude, more gentle.

Charles Dickens

Then I'm sorry to say, I've eat your pie.

Charles Stross

Unfortunately it's also true to say that good management is a bit like oxygen - it's invisible and you don't notice its presence until it's gone, and then you're sorry.

Alanis Morissette

I'm sorry to myself, for treating me worse than I would anybody else.

Alan Chambers

I am sorry we promoted sexual orientation change efforts and reparative theories about sexual orientation that stigmatized parents.

Chris Colfer

People still call me ma’am on the phone, and it’s just part of life now. I’m not even phased by it… Going through DriveThrus is always fun, because it’s always so shocking when they see me. It’d just be kind of like, ‘Thank you ma… woah!! Woah, sorry about that!’

Chris Colfer

There's nothing wrong with you. There's a lot wrong with the world you live in. And definitely get out of high school and make everyone sorry.

Chris Christie

When you're exonerated, then the people who wrongly accused you should have the guts to stand up and say, "I'm sorry."

Chris Bosh

There were hard days but I never felt sorry for myself.

Charles Caleb Colton

Tomorrow! It is a period nowhere to be found in all the registers of time, unless, perchance, in the fool's calendar.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the measurer of all things, but is itself immeasurable, and the grand discloser of all things, but is itself undisclosed.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time ... advances like the slowest tide, but retreats like the swiftest torrent.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time,- that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Charles Caleb Colton

To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the most subtle yet the most insatiable of depredators, and by appearing to take nothing is permitted to take all; nor can it be satisfied until it has stolen the world from us, and us from the world. It constantly flies, yet overcomes all things by flight; and although it is the present ally, it will be the future conqueror of death.

Charles Caleb Colton

Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time, the cradle of hope.... Wisdom walks before it, opportunity with it, and repentance behind it: he that has made it his friend will have little to fear from his enemies, but he that has made it his enemy will have little to hope from his friends.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the most undefinable yet paradoxical of things; the past is gone, the future is not come, and the present becomes the past, even while we attempt to define it.