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I was constantly amazed by how many people talked me into arresting them. — Edward Conlon

When an officer finds themselves arresting pastors that are feeding people who have nothing, they should know they're on the wrong side. — Justin King

My hardest job has been to keep from being a millionaire. — Amadeo Giannini

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

My nephew has HDADHD. High Definition Attention Deficit Disorder. He can barely pay attention, but when he does it's unbelievably clear. — Steven Wright

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

Born on a mountain, raised in a cave. Arresting fugitives is all I crave. — Duane Chapman

There is a wound in the flesh of human life that scars when it heals and often enough seems never to heal at all. Avoid — Marilynne Robinson

Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it. — Stephen Leacock

For most people who write, writing is a compulsion. If I could be healed of it, I would, and I think a lot of people who write feel the same way. — T. R. Pearson

Professional reviewers read so many bad books in the course of duty that they get an unhealthy craving for arresting phrases. — Evelyn Waugh

You can become a Communist only when you enrich your mind with a knowledge of all the treasures created by mankind. — Vladimir Lenin

To the wingless a more arresting phenomenon is their dissimilarity in every particular except shape and size. — F Scott Fitzgerald

[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

To be is to do - Socrates To do is to be - Sartre Do Be Do Be Do - Sinatra — Kurt Vonnegut

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

You already know when I'm writing, so don't be surprised if it's short and dry, because I'm too hungry to write anything fat — Frederic Chopin

Some possessions are like old friends, and you never want to abandon an old friend. — Nina Campbell

The Bible may be an arresting and
poetic work of fiction, but it is not the sort of book you should give
your children to form their morals. — Richard Dawkins

The earth is not just for the clever and the strong. — Shusaku Endo

But we don't do things like that!" said Vimes. "You can't go around arresting the Thieves' Guild. I mean, we'd be at it all day! — Terry Pratchett

I raised my three teens with love, perseverance, tenacity, sweat, tears, prayers, lighting candles, and the list could go on. — Ana Monnar

To a literate reader, a crisp sentence, an arresting metaphor, a witty aside, an elegant turn of phrase are among life's greatest pleasures. And — Steven Pinker

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

Novels often have leisurely openings; a TV drama needs an arresting opening. — Andrew Davies

You want to defend citizenship? Don't persecute or isolate those without papers. Just live like a citizen. That'd be a first-class way to be American. — Eric Liu

Arresting development, attacking science, and glorifying poverty is not the answer to the vices that attend prosperity. — Abdolkarim Soroush

Incarcerating people for their [drug] consumption choices has the consistency of arresting a survivor of suicide for attempted murder . — Ilana Mercer

Secrets are an exalted state, almost a dream state. They're a way of arresting motion, stopping the world so we can see ourselves in it. — Don DeLillo

Sadness, it was such an arresting emotion. You could almost convince yourself of the rhyme and reason of heartbreak. — Anne Rice

It was wrong. It was like arresting the gun for murder. — Ellery Queen