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Arrest me for sitting on a bus? You may do that. -- Rosa Parks
An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I use Spam Arrest because of the amount of junk mail I get. Any legitimate person who wants to send me a message has to jump through hoops before they can be added to my opt-in list. -- Kevin Mitnick
An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so. Now the law of nonviolence says that violence should be resisted not by counter-violence but by nonviolence. This I do by breaking the law and by peacefully submitting to arrest and imprisonment. -- Mahatma Gandhi
You can't arrest me, I'm a rockstar. -- Sid Vicious
You can't put abandonment and alienation under arrest. -- Carrie P. Meek
They would almost throw the cops in jail when they tried to arrest me. -- Lawrence Taylor
I still believe that at any time the no-talent police will come and arrest me. -- Mike Myers
What I've learned to do is arrest my addiction - arrest it myself, so I don't get arrested. -- Rodney King
I longed to arrest all beauty that came before me, and at length the longing has been satisfied. -- Julia Margaret Cameron
Authorities arrest me, release me, and then invite me back to host public events. I think it's interesting. -- Alain Robert
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. -- Al Sharpton
My kingdom is not of this world. If it were, my servants would fight to prevent my arrest by the Jews. But now my kingdom is from another place. -- Jesus Christ
Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly. -- Andre Gide
Great effort is required to arrest decay and restore vigor. One must exercise proper deliberation, plan carefully before making a move, and be alert in guarding against relapse following a renaissance. -- Horace
My bed isn't made, I'm tired, I haven't slept well for two weeks. I haven't been laid in a month. I don't have a girlfriend. I have a warrant for my arrest. -- Layne Staley
I would have liked to see where we would have the authority to arrest illegal aliens just by being here illegally and book them into our jails, but that's not going to happen. -- Joe Arpaio
During the period of house arrest, I had an electronic manacle around my leg for 24 hours a day, and for someone who has tried to give others liberty all their adult life, that is absolutely intolerable. -- Julian Assange
I stand between two worlds. I am at home in neither, and I suffer in consequence. You artists call me a bourgeois, and the bourgeois try to arrest me...I don't know which makes me feel worse. -- Thomas Mann
Your commanders have ordered you to storm the White House and to arrest me. But I as the elected President of Russia give you the order to turn your tanks and not to fight against your own people. -- Boris Yeltsin
If you do things, whether it's acting or music or painting, do it without fear - that's my philosophy. Because nobody can arrest you and put you in jail if you paint badly, so there's nothing to lose. -- Anthony Hopkins
Several authoritarian regimes reportedly propose to ban anonymity from the web, making it easier to find and arrest dissidents. At Google, we see and feel the dangers of the government-led net crackdown. We operate in about 150 countries around the globe. -- Vint Cerf
When teachers try to teach, nurses try to nurse, small businesses try to serve their clients and the police try to arrest criminals, there is always a regulator or three breathing down their necks. Conservatives want to make people's lives easier. -- John Redwood
I think racial profiling is wrong. It cannot be defended. It's just flat wrong. And if a matter came before me, and it could be established that the arrest was made strictly on racial profiling, when I was on the bench, it would be gone. -- Judge Mills Lane
If an educational act is to be efficacious, it will be only that one which tends to help toward the complete unfolding of life. To be thus helpful it is necessary rigorously to avoid the arrest of spontaneous movements and the imposition of arbitrary tasks. -- Maria Montessori
Either we need to redefine what probable cause means and say that police are not subject to it, or we arrest officers right away just as we would with any other person accused of committing a crime. Either we write new laws or enforce existing ones; we cannot have it both ways. -- Al Sharpton
When you see a fish you don't think of its scales, do you? You think of its speed, its floating, flashing body seen through the water... If I made fins and eyes and scales, I would arrest its movement, give a pattern or shape of reality. I want just the flash of its spirit. -- Constantin Brancusi
Science is, rightly, searching for drugs to arrest ageing or to slow the advance of dementia. But the evidence suggests that many of the most powerful factors determining how you age come from what you do, and what you do with others: whether you work, whether you play music, whether you have regular visitors. -- Geoff Mulgan
The ability to send applications by post allows fraudsters to apply in false or stolen identities without fear of arrest and to make multiple applications in the hope of getting one through. It allows the possibility of passports being applied for with the photographs of people who are outside the U.K. and seeking to enter illegally. -- Des Browne
I would not have lasted a minute, literally a minute, on this Earth without God and angels by my side, because I was born. And right as I was born, I went into a respiratory arrest. So, big things that keep me going are friends and family, God. And another thing is looking forward to what's going to happen tomorrow. -- Mattie Stepanek
Large action arrest small action. -- Dai Vernon
One does not arrest Voltaire. -- Charles de Gaulle
You can't arrest me, I'm a rockstar. -- Sid Vicious
I was once arrested for resisting arrest. -- Steven Wright
You can't arrest me. I'm the Cake Boss, -- Buddy Valastro
People's arrest tapes, mug shots, everything is online. -- Jane Krakowski
I can't be under arrest now... I don't have time. -- Jim Butcher
You can arrest me, but you can't arrest my ideas. -- Julius Malema
Individual warrants every day are used to arrest dangerous people. -- Rand Paul
Citizen's arrest," he said. "Well, that, and Patch told me to. -- Becca Fitzpatrick
The purpose of my writing is to expose and arrest Nova Criminals. -- William S. Burroughs
At a cardiac arrest, the first procedure is to take your own pulse -- Samuel Shem
Thinking involves not only the flow of thoughts, but their arrest as well. -- Walter Benjamin
Story is honorable and trustworthy; plot is shifty, and best kept under house arrest. -- Stephen King
The way to stop financial joyriding is to arrest the chauffeur, not the automobile. -- Woodrow Wilson
We must treat arrest as the normal condition of the life of a non-co-operator. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Art has to do with the arrest of attention in the midst of distraction. -- Saul Bellow
My first civil disobedience arrest for social justice was in 1986 for protesting the SDI. -- Martin Sheen
Beauty, you're under arrest. I have a camera, and I'm not afraid to use it. -- Julia Margaret Cameron
The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means. -- William Faulkner
Art has something to do with the arrest of attention in the midst of distraction. -- George Plimpton
We have a terrific economy, it's like a great athlete that's had a cardiac arrest. -- Howard Warren Buffett
Yeah, arrest that man on the crime of having 8 Chicken McNuggets stuck up his arse. -- Dwayne Johnson
What is to be, will be, and no prayers of ours can arrest the decree. -- Abraham Lincoln
If people are being abused or even killed during an arrest, this is highly disturbing. -- Ai Weiwei
To be haunted by past failures or satisfied with past successes is to arrest forward motion. -- Conrad Hilton
CHILDHOOD: The rapidly shrinking interval between infancy and first arrest on a drug or weapons charge. -- Rick Bayan
No government, no head of state, made any attempt to avert or arrest the Boer War. -- Charles Albert Gobat
My arrest in Egypt happened in 2002, and I was convicted to five years as a political prisoner. -- Maajid Nawaz
I'm placing you under arrest for murder, conspiracy to commit murder and, I don't know, possibly littering. -- Derek Landy
When I was under house arrest, it was the BBC that spoke to me - I listened. -- Aung San Suu Kyi
You shouldn't be shot just because someone yells, "Halt" or resisting arrest or running away from being arrested. -- Jesse Ventura
The patient that's on the floor with the cardiac arrest is not Wall Street. It's the American economy. -- Warren Buffett
When Life knocks at the door no one can wait, When Death makes his arrest we have to go. -- John Masefield
I felt a strange fluttering sensation in my chest. Butterflies, cardiac arrest . . . it was hard to say what exactly. -- Richelle Mead
Pornography is supposed to arouse sexual desires. If pornography is a crime, when will they arrest makers of perfume? -- Richard Fleischer
And they all lived happily ever after (barring death, divorce, arrest for tax fraud, that incident with the pool boy...) -- Sarah Rees Brennan
The power to arrest - to deprive a citizen of liberty - must be used fairly, responsibly, and without bias. -- Loretta Lynch
The police are on the way to arrest you for stealing my heart, hijacking my feelings, and driving me crazy. -- Harriet Morgan
I swear so soon as age will permit ... I will use fire and steel to arrest the destiny of Rome. -- Hannibal
When afflictions arrest us, we shall murmur and grumble and struggle until we see that it is God that strikes. -- Thomas Brooks
My arrest was on every bloody TV set. The other prisoners all knew who I was and asked me to sing. -- Paul McCartney
If you want to plan a revolution, you never do it in public - the authorities show up and arrest everyone. -- Evgeny Morozov
I believe in nothing here, except a handful of people, a few ideas, and the fact that one cannot arrest movement. -- Alexander Herzen
Ever wonder what crime you committed that you are confined to a small enclosure above your sinuses, under permanent skull arrest? -- Robert Breault
Life is its own journey, presupposes its own change and movement, and one tries to arrest them at one's eternal peril. -- Laurens van der Post
I never would force the Justice Department to go to California and arrest people getting medical marijuana, when that's the law there. -- Ron Paul
My resisting being mistreated on the bus did not begin with that particular arrest"¦I did a lot of walking in Montgomery. -- Rosa Parks
I think I might have to place you under arrest for trespassing. But I always go easy on pretty girls who confess. -- Ellen Schreiber
It is better, so the Fourth Amendment teaches us, that the guilty sometimes go free than the citizens be subject to easy arrest. -- William O. Douglas
If you can't trust a Methodist with absolute power to arrest people and not have to say why, then whom can you trust? -- Garrison Keillor
Stories arrest us. Parents use stories to capture the attention of active children. Preachers use stories to capture the attention of sleepy adults. -- Tony Reinke
If the Internet is worth its salt, it has to help arrest the forces that promote inequality, monopoly, hypercommercialism, corruption, depoliticization and stagnation. -- Robert Waterman McChesney
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
Only some radical change can divert the downward course of my spirit, some startling new place or people to arrest the drift, the drag. -- Tennessee Williams
She wore a short skirt and a tight sweater and her figure described a set of parabolas that could cause cardiac arrest in a yak. -- Woody Allen
You're under arrest for multiple counts of murder. You have the right to not much at all, really. Do you have anything to say in your defense? -- Derek Landy
If the doctors cure then the sun sees it. If the doctors kill then the earth hides it. The doctors should fear arrogance more than cardiac arrest. -- Anne Sexton
Martha Stewart is now under house arrest. So she'll go to her $40 million 153-acre estate. So she's going from the big house to an even bigger house. -- Jay Leno
The E.U. has moved to combat global terrorism by instituting common European arrest and evidence warrants and creating a joint situation center to pool and analyze intelligence. -- John Bruton
The smallest sprout shows there is really no death. And if ever there was it led forward life, and does not wait at the end to arrest it. -- Walt Whitman
At the airport if you refuse to be patted down, they arrest you. And what's the first thing they do when they arrest you? They pat you down. -- Jay Leno
He was a man more concerned with the truth than his arrest quota, a philosophy that would often have him skate on thin ice with the higher ups. -- Bruce Crown
Take the decision in early March to arrest Muqtada al-Sadr. It was made apparently without knowledge or understanding of the nature of his movement or how widespread it is. -- Juan Cole
I just love family meetings. Very cozy, with the Christmas garlands round the fireplace and a nice pot of tea and a detective from Scotland Yard ready to arrest you. -- Rick Riordan
Who can mistake great thoughts? They seize upon the mind; arrest and search, And shake it; bow the tall soul as by wind; Rush over it like a river reeds. -- Philip James Bailey
The Supreme Court has ruled that anybody can be strip-searched for any kind of arrest. That's something to think about the next time you bring 12 items into a 10-item-or-less lane. -- Jay Leno
When you tell yourself that there is nothing you can do to arrest the global slave trade, you underestimate your own potential and abandon hope for those trapped in captivity. -- David Batstone
As far as co-operation with The Hague is concerned it's impossible (to arrest Milosevic) by March 31 without an agreement on the federal level despite the consequences such a move could have. -- Zoran ?in?ic
A far greater factor than abolishing poverty is the deterrent effect of swift and certain consequences: swift arrest, prompt trial, certain penalty and - at some point - finality of judgment. -- Warren E. Burger
It is, perhaps more than anything else, the arrest of time which has taken place in a completed work of art that gives certain plays their feeling of depth and significance. -- Tennessee Williams
The New World is rated PG-13 (Parents strongly cautioned). There is some intense, bloodless violence and the beautiful underage lead actress (15-year-old Q'orianka Kilcher) may cause cardiac arrest among some viewers. -- Manohla Dargis
I could manage my life so much better if an app could tell me exactly when my parcels will be delivered so I don't spend the day under virtual house arrest. -- Jen Lancaster
David Irving is under arrest in Austria for Holocaust denial. Perhaps there is a case for making climate change denial an offence - it is a crime against humanity after all. -- Margo Kingston
Prostitution is really the only crime in the penal law where two people are doing a thing mutually agreed upon and yet only one, the female partner, is subject to arrest. -- Kate Millett
There is a great inertia about all military operations of any size. But once this inertia has been overcome and underway they are almost as hard to arrest as to initiate. -- Ernest Hemingway
Freedom of speech is a two way street, man. You have the right to say whatever you want and the Boss has a right to tell the police to arrest you. -- Lenny Bruce
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. -- Carrie P. Meek
Journalists become candidates for cardiac arrest when they see or hear an African American disagreeing with an African American. We would become inauthentic if we did not have disagreements with this president. -- John Conyers
Enforcement priorities and arrest patterns must not lead to disparate treatment under the law, even if such treatment is unintended. And police forces should reflect the diversity of the communities they serve. -- Eric Holder
I love playing half squid/half crab guy because you can get away with a level of acting that if you tried it anywhere else they'd arrest you for crimes against acting. -- Bill Nighy
I know he [Julian Assange] is a man of fierce determination, and now living under the strain of house arrest in the Ecuadorean embassy as a "political exile," as he calls himself. -- Benedict Cumberbatch
He [Christ] even restored the severed ear of the soldier who came to arrest Him - a fact that allows us to hope the resurrection will reflect a considerable attention to detail. -- Marilynne Robinson
We can't arrest and incarcerate addiction out of people. Not only do I think it's really inhumane, but it's ineffective and it cost us billions upon billions of dollars to keep doing this. -- Michael Botticelli
Vans are the vehicles of murderers. Serial Killers. Rapists. Thieves. Nothing good ever happens in a van. Police should be allowed to arrest van drivers without cause. The van is the cause, asshole. -- Shalom Auslander
If you ask someone whether our Constitutional rights are being flushed down the porcelain oubliette, and their response is, "If I answer that honestly they'll arrest me," then you already have your answer. -- Robert X. Cringely
I always get scared of traffic cops when I'm driving, like I freak out even when I'm not doing anything wrong. I still think they're going to pull me over and arrest me. -- Leelee Sobieski
I would agree with [criminal suspects being subjected to a DNA test after arrest]...if that's one step closer to finding out who has (committed a crime), then I think we should do it. -- Erin Brady
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
Sarah Palin, suggesting her son`s arrest on domestic violence charges was a result of post-traumatic stress disorder and partially due to President Obama`s lack of respect for men and women in uniform. -- Chris Hayes

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