Quotes with arrested

  • The features of our face are hardly more than gestures which force of habit made permanent. Nature, like the destruction of Pompeii, like the metamorphosis of a nymph into a tree, has arrested us in an accustomed movement.
  • If a conservative is a liberal who's been mugged, a liberal is a conservative who's been arrested.

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  • Aldous Huxley 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
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Bill Cosby A father... knows exactly what those boys at the mall have in their depraved little minds because he once owned such a depraved little mind himself. In fact, if he thinks enough about the plans that he used to have for young girls, the father not only will support his wife in keeping their daughter home but he might even run over to the mall and have a few of those boys arrested.
    Bill Cosby
    American actor, comedian, producer (1937 - )
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  • Thomas Wolfe A liberal is a conservative who has been arrested.
    Thomas Wolfe
    American writer and journalist (1900 - 1938)
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  • John Berryman 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
    American poet and scholar (1914 - 1972)
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  • Alice Roosevelt Longworth I've always believed in the adage that the secret of eternal youth is arrested development.
    Alice Roosevelt Longworth
    American writer and prominent socialite (1884 - 1980)
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  • Tom Wolfe If a conservative is a liberal who's been mugged, a liberal is a conservative who's been arrested.
    Tom Wolfe
    American author and journalist (1930 - 2018)
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  • Brin-Jonathan Butler In the summer of 2007, two-time Olympic champion Guillermo Rigondeaux and his teammate, Erislandy Lara, had been arrested in Brazil after going AWOL from the Cuban team during the Pan Am Games. The defection attempt made international news and quickly became a national soap opera, regularly appearing on Cuban news and round table discussions.
    Brin-Jonathan Butler
    American journalist and filmmaker
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  • Augustus Baldwin Longstreet Ned made a tremendous rattling, at which Bullet took fright, broke his bridle, and dashed off in grand style; and would have stopped all farther negotiations by going home in disgust, had not a traveller arrested him and brought him back; but Kit did not move.
    Augustus Baldwin Longstreet
    American lawyer, minister, educator, and humorist (1790 - 1870)
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  • Marcel Proust The features of our face are hardly more than gestures which force of habit made permanent. Nature, like the destruction of Pompeii, like the metamorphosis of a nymph into a tree, has arrested us in an accustomed movement.
    Marcel Proust
    French writer and critic (1871 - 1922)
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  • Alice Roosevelt Longworth The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.
    Alice Roosevelt Longworth
    American writer and prominent socialite (1884 - 1980)
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  • Harold Rosenberg 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
    American art criticus, writer (1906 - 1978)
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  • Barbara Demick Walking down the street with a portrait of the Dalai Lama will get one immediately arrested in most parts of China. Tiny medallions are routinely confiscated and destroyed.
    Barbara Demick
    American journalist
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  • Ambrose Bierce Sabbath - a weekly festival having its origin in the fact that God made the world in six days and was arrested on the seventh.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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