#arrest

Bats have no bankers and they do not drink and cannot be arrested and pay no tax and, in general, bats have it made. ↗

— John Berryman

#bankers #bats #cannot #drink #general

A friend in the War Office warned me that I was in Kitchener's black books, and that orders had been given for my arrest next time I appeared in France. ↗

— Philip Gibbs

#arrest #been #black #books #france

Don't carry a gun. It's nice to have them close by, but don't carry them. You might get arrested. ↗

— John Gotti

#carry #close #get #gun #might

I have seized the light. I have arrested its flight. ↗

— Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre

#flight #i #light #seized

The story of Americans is the story of arrested metamorphoses. Those who achieve success come to a halt and accept themselves as they are. Those who fail become resigned and accept themselves as they are. ↗

— Harold Rosenberg

#achieve #arrested #become #come #fail

A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#arrested #been #chance #child-like #cocoon

People like me who were engaging in brinkmanship with the party economic bosses and the open dissidents who were being arrested were pursuing a common goal in different ways. ↗

— Vaclav Klaus

#being #bosses #common #common goal #different

In my Gau, as far as I know, only Communists who had actually worked against the State were arrested. ↗

— Fritz Sauckel

#against #arrested #as far as #communists #far

They made a shrewd guess that I could give them some useful information, and they were the first to meet me. Some one said they came to arrest me, and - well, let it go at that. ↗

— Joshua Slocum

#came #could #first #give #go

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

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