#arrested

The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in man's moral nature. ↗

— Thorstein Veblen

#arrested #arrested development #degree #development #man

There were 15 people in the village, including five of us. If my father arrested somebody in the winter, he'd have to wait until the thaw to turn him in. ↗

— Leslie Nielsen

#father #five #him #including #people

In West Virginia yesterday, a man was arrested for stealing several blow-up dolls. Reportedly, police didn't have any trouble catching the man because he was completely out of breath. ↗

— Conan O'Brien

#arrested #because #breath #catching #completely

I was never jailed. The fact is that I was arrested, but I went into a diversion programme, and by that time I'd already begun working in what was called anger management. It was a painful and awful moment. ↗

— David Soul

#anger #arrested #awful #begun #called

You know, back in the 1950s and '60s, when J. Edgar Hoover was making the FBI the respected organization it used to be, oftentimes they would find a fugitive and basically have his house surrounded, and then put out a press release saying he was on the top 10 most wanted list. And 10 minutes later, he'd be arrested. ↗

— Howie Carr

#back #basically #edgar #fbi #find

I was arrested three times and tortured once. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#i #once #three #times #tortured

If a conservative is a liberal who's been mugged, a liberal is a conservative who's been arrested. ↗

— Tom Wolfe

#been #conservative #liberal #mugged #who

You can be arrested and not charged. You can be arrested and have no right to counsel. ↗

— Harry Belafonte

#charged #counsel #right #you

I was falsely arrested twice, slandered and defamed. ↗

— Foxy Brown

#falsely #i #twice

I did not destroy the 43 volumes of my diary, which report on all these events and the share I had in them; but of my own accord I handed them voluntarily to the officers of the American Army who arrested me. ↗

— Hans Frank

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