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Born on a mountain, raised in a cave. Arresting fugitives is all I crave. -- Duane Chapman
Arresting development, attacking science, and glorifying poverty is not the answer to the vices that attend prosperity. -- Abdolkarim Soroush
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. -- Otto Schily
Arresting a single drunk or a single vagrant who has harmed no identifiable person seems unjust, and in a sense it is. But failing to do anything about a score of drunks or a hundred vagrants may destroy an entire community -- James Q. Wilson
Arresting a single drunk or a single vagrant who has harmed no identifiable person seems unjust, and in a sense it is. But failing to do anything about a score of drunks or a hundred vagrants may destroy an entire community. -- James Q. Wilson
Marijuana is the finest anti-nausea medication known to science, and our leaders have lied about this consistently. [Arresting people for] medical marijuana is the most hideous example of government interference in the private lives of individuals. It's an outrage within an outrage within an outrage. -- Peter McWilliams
Novels often have leisurely openings; a TV drama needs an arresting opening. -- Andrew Davies
Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it. -- Stephen Leacock
Professional reviewers read so many bad books in the course of duty that they get an unhealthy craving for arresting phrases. -- Evelyn Waugh
A good picture book should have events that are visually arresting - the pictures should call attention to what is happening in the story. -- Chris Van Allsburg
A dramatist is one who believes that the pure event, an action involving human beings, is more arresting than any comment that can be made upon it. -- Thornton Wilder
Vengeance is the act of turning anger in on yourself. On the surface it may be directed at someone else, but it is a surefire recipe for arresting emotional recovery. -- Jane Goldman
I want every man on the force to try his best, his level best, to try to avoid arresting anyone. I know that this going to take great will power but try. -- Chill Wills
Well, I'm not saying that we're solving every problem or arresting every person that ought to be arrested and deported, but we're doing a better job than has been done in the past. -- Thad Cochran
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. -- Jim Parsons
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. -- Barry McGee
Why does an iPhone cost only a couple hundred dollars? Because, as the stage performer Mike Daisey depicted in an arresting one-man show called 'The Agony and Ecstasy of Steve Jobs,' Apple's shiniest products are made by a shadowy company in China called Foxconn. -- Eric Liu
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. -- Barbara Kruger
Singling out political opponents for working against the ruling party is precisely the tactic of every tyrannical government from Red China to Venezuela. The first step in the process is creating unfounded public suspicion of political opponents, followed by arresting and jailing any who continue speaking against the regime. -- John Carter
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. -- Anita Shreve
I was constantly amazed by how many people talked me into arresting them. -- Edward Conlon
Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it. -- David Honegger
Incarcerating people for their [drug] consumption choices has the consistency of arresting a survivor of suicide for attempted murder . -- Ilana Mercer
Some experiences are mis-educative. Any experience is mis-educative that has the effect of arresting or distorting the growth of further experience. -- John Dewey
[The] arresting of time is photography's unique capacity, and the decision of when to click the shutter is the photographer's chief responsibility. -- Janet Malcolm
Let's get the government stay out of our private lives, once and for all, and stop arresting smokers. Let's take a stand for personal freedom. -- Willie Nelson
We have to stop arresting prostitutes and not arresting traffickers and pimps. It's absurd. We're arresting the victim or the survivor and not the oppressor. -- Gloria Steinem
It is a stark and arresting fact that, since the middle of the 20th century, humankind has consumed more natural resources than in all previous human history -- Margaret Beckett
No! no arresting the vast wheel of time, That round and round still turns with onward might, Stern, dragging thousands to the dreaded night Of an unknown hereafter. -- Charles Cowden Clarke
If ideas are what feed serious literature and arresting language, who today is writing a novel of ideas (which can often mean comedy)? I think of Joshua Cohen. Who else? -- Cynthia Ozick
There's a lot of common ground between criminals and cops. Both savor power, thrills, control. The good cops know they're only a step or two away from the crooks they're arresting. -- Nanci Rathbun
An arresting testimony to the haunting power of friendships, THE AFTER GIRLS is a story that understands what it is to be passionate, confused, and on the brink. I loved every resonant word. -- Micol Ostow

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