#detention

I used to trip over my legs and get detention for my too-short shorts because none fit. I still trip, but now I like to show them off. ↗

— Maggie Grace

#detention #fit #get #i #legs

I’ll make Goyle do lines, it’ll kill him, he hates writing,” said Ron happily. He lowered his voice to Goyle’s low grunt and, screwing up his face in a look of pained concentration, mimed writing in midair. “I . . .must . . . not . . . look . . . like . . . a . . . baboon’s . . . backside. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#detention #gregory-goyle #humor #punishment #ron-weasley

Police in China can do whatever they want; after 81 days in arbitrary detention you clearly realise that they don't have to obey their own laws. In a society like this there is no negotiation, no discussion, except to tell you that power can crush you any time they want - not only you, your whole family and all people like you. ↗

— Ai Weiwei

#any #arbitrary #china #clearly #crush

I used to spend every morning in detention at my old school. ↗

— Jake Lloyd

#every #i #morning #old #old school

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 #court #dangerous #decision #deportation

It is good that these terrorists are now facing justice, but in the reporting of the case, it would be helpful if the media didn't help them with their propaganda mission by unquestioningly repeating false information about their detention. ↗

— Jose A. Rodriguez, Jr.

#case #detention #facing #false #good

There is nothing more foreign to a civilised and democratic system than preventive detention. ↗

— Robert Bourassa

#democratic #democratic system #detention #foreign #more

Without territory, it does not even have the resources to provide detention facilities for prisoners, even if it were interested in holding captured POWs. ↗

— John Yoo

#detention #does #even #facilities #holding

I was a prefect at school, I never had a tattoo, got a detention or pierced my ears more than once. ↗

— Amanda Holden

#ears #got #had #i #more

I was in detention a lot. ↗

— Jake Lloyd

#i #lot