Quotes with caught

  • Many of the vicious criminals held there have been caught on the battlefield fighting against American troops and shutting down Guantanamo Bay would just require the military to move them elsewhere.
  • William Andrews Clark was caught in a bribery scandal during a campaign for the U.S. Senate - he was said to describe the Montana legislators this way: 'I never bought a man who wasn't for sale.'
  • We are caught up in a paradox, one which might be called the paradox of conceptualization. The proper concepts are needed to formulate a good theory, but we need a good theory to arrive at the proper concepts.
  • The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught.
  • Like all my family and class, I considered it a sign of weakness to show affection; to have been caught kissing my mother would have been a disgrace, and to have shown affection for my father would have been a disaster.
  • Anybody caught selling macrame in public should be dyed a natural color and hung out to dry.
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche Has a woman who knew she was well-dressed ever caught a cold?
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Bob Rae History has only ended for those caught inside the Marxist hothouse. For the rest of us the argument is just getting interesting.
    The Three Questions - Prosperity and the Public Good (1998) Ch. Three, The End of Government?, p. 54
    Bob Rae
    Canadian diplomat, lawyer and negotiator (1948 - )
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  • Stephen King Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.
    The Gunslinger (1982) 145
    Stephen King
    American author of horror and supernatural fiction (1947 - )
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  • Calista Flockhart A lot of the tabloid stories are written so well, they're very clever and very funny. But you have to focus on what's really important and not read them - don't dive into it and don't get caught up in it.
    Calista Flockhart
    American actress (1964 - )
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  • Calvin Trillin Anybody caught selling macrame in public should be dyed a natural color and hung out to dry.
    Calvin Trillin
    American journalist, humorist, food writer and poet (1935 - )
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  • James Baldwin At bottom, to be colored means that one has been caught in some utterly unbelievable cosmic joke, a joke so hideous and in such bad taste that it defeats all categories and definitions.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Florence King During the feminist seventies men were caught between a rock and a hard-on; in the fathering eighties they are caught between good hugs and bad hugs.
    Florence King
    American Author, Critic (1936 - 2016)
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  • Robert Frost Education is hanging around until you've caught on.
    Robert Frost
    American poet (1874 - 1963)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes Every event that a man would master must be mounted on the run, and no man ever caught the reins of a thought except as it galloped past him.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Kin Hubbard Every once in a while someone without a single bad habit gets caught.
    Kin Hubbard
    American cartoonist, humorist, and journalist (1868 - 1930)
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  • Earl Warren Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile I caught hell for it.
    Earl Warren
    American jurist and politician (1891 - 1974)
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  • Bill Simmons Five days after the Tsarnaev brothers blew up Boston's most sacred event, and just 24 hours after one brother was killed and the other was caught, everyone decided that it was OK to play baseball at Fenway again. The game happened on a Saturday afternoon, preceded by an emotional ceremony and many prayers.
    Bill Simmons
    American sports analyst and author (1969 - )
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  • Robert Byrne Getting caught is the mother of invention.
    Robert Byrne
    American author (1928 - 2013)
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  • Johann Kaspar Lavater He submits to be seen through a microscope, who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion.
    Johann Kaspar Lavater
    Swiss theologist and mysticist (1741 - 1801)
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  • Marcelene Cox Housekeeping is like being caught in a revolving door.
    Marcelene Cox
    American author
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  • Woody Allen How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter?
    Woody Allen
    American movie director and actor (1935 - )
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  • Angela Merkel I felt really sorry for Oliver Kahn. Up to that point he had made lots of saves for the German team. Of course he could have caught the ball but it just happened. It was bad luck. In that situation, you need to be very strong psychologically to carry on.
    Angela Merkel
    German politician and chancellor (1954 - )
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  • Benigno Aquino III If my father Ninoy Aquino were alive today, he would say that he is not superman or superboy. In effect, heroes are really just ordinary people caught up in extraordinary times and respond properly.
    Benigno Aquino III
    Filipino politician (1960 - )
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  • Brendan I. Koerner In the early years of America's skyjacking epidemic, the airlines were reluctant to let the FBI attempt to end hijackings by force; they feared that innocents would get caught in the crossfire, thereby sparking a wave of negative publicity.
    Brendan I. Koerner
    American author (1974 - )
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  • Agnes Smedley Like all my family and class, I considered it a sign of weakness to show affection; to have been caught kissing my mother would have been a disgrace, and to have shown affection for my father would have been a disaster.
    Agnes Smedley
    American journalist and writer (1892 - 1950)
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