Famous Quotes & Sayings

Steve Johnson

If you don't shut up and listen, we're going to start arresting people.

The Chinese government hopes the two sides will make substantial progress in their cooperation of arresting and repatriating criminal suspects, anti-terrorism, and drug prohibition in a bid to promote constructive and cooperative relationship in the 21st century.

Jim Parsons

It's made it easier to communicate important issues, but I wonder if connecting with millions of people online is ever as arresting to someone's attention as one man standing and screaming in front of City Hall.

Its kind of hard to say right now; we will need make and find out what exactly happened. What we would find out by arresting the guy is to find out his intent.

A combination of the gratitude of the people you help and the lack of caring from the ones we are arresting and bringing in. You see both ends of the spectrum,

There was no point arresting us, we were simply trying to make a statement.

There was no intention to target the children. We were arresting their parents. The parents were concerned about the kids coming home to an empty house. We didn't want to separate a family.

Michael Graves

It would be nice if the cities knew who would be prosecuting before they passed the ordinance and started arresting people.

Todd Gitlin

You're in the news business and you're in the business of arresting the attention of people and prying them away from what they take for granted. They must read the next day's paper and so on. While the desire to gain attention is a dynamic in journalism, it's not the only one. The predominant dynamic since journalism's inception has been the desire to capture the attention of people. Another dynamic is the extension of democratic enlightenment.

Barry McGee

I see a really good tag on a building, a man passed out in the middle of the street, a couple hugging, a cop arresting a panhandler. I'm interested in how all these things are happening in one block.

We are still arresting people. This is a growing operation.

The transfer of Slobodan Milosevic will now lend renewed energy to the task of arresting those fugitives who are still at liberty.

Geoff Smith

He would have to get permission and we would be very reluctant to give it. It's very offensive to us that he chose to take on the arresting officer the way he did verbally. And then the fact there was alcohol, even in the smallest way, involved.

Bob Phillips

The abiding concern I have in the wake of all this is, how many other Clines are there out there who are pulling people over, arresting them for felony offenses and charging them with crimes they themselves have committed? ... It makes one wonder how much confidence the public can really have in their law enforcement officers.

Just imagine, ... UNH could stop arresting all of its students.

E. B. White

He automatically put handcuffs on me. I asked him why he was arresting me. The officer who was searching the car came back to the passenger side and told me he was impounding my car.

I ask you to enforce the law by seizing these illegal goods and arresting the offenders.

The police have been arresting gang members left and right.

Pat McCrory

Whether it's Charlotte, Raleigh or Winston-Salem or any other city represented, we're arresting the same people over and over and over again, and nothing is happening." ()

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.

Chris Van Allsburg

A good picture book should have events that are visually arresting - the pictures should call attention to what is happening in the story.

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.