Arresting Quotes:

The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property - either as a child, a wife, or a concubine - must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men.

- Winston Churchill

topic: Children, Men, Law, Muslim Faith, Frenzy

Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live.

- Winston Churchill

topic: Agriculture, Insecurity, Followers, Muslim Faith, Frenzy

Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities, but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step...

- Winston Churchill

topic: Warrior, Fearless, Quality, Social Development, Militant

The power to arrest - to deprive a citizen of liberty - must be used fairly, responsibly, and without bias.

- Loretta Lynch

topic: Liberty, Citizens, Used, Arresting

I don't want to blame it all on 9/11, but it certainly didn't help matters.

- Zach Braff

topic: Gob, Want, Matter, Arresting, Arrested

How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries. Besides the fanatical frenzy which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is a fateful fatalistic apathy.

- Winston Churchill

topic: Dog, Men, Islam, Muslim Faith, Frenzy

First they came for the Jews, but I did nothing because I'm not a Jew. Then they came for the socialists, but I did nothing because I'm not a socialist. Then they came for the Catholics, but I did nothing because I'm not a Catholic. Finally, they came for me, but by then there was no one left to help me.

- Martin Niemoller

source: Martin Niemöller (1986). “Exile in the Fatherland: Martin Niemöller's Letters from Moabit Prison”

topic: Catholic, Liberty, Firsts, Speaking Out, Democracy And Human Rights

Pornography is supposed to arouse sexual desires. If ***** is a crime, when will they arrest makers of perfume?

- Richard Fleischer

topic: Sex, Desire, Crime, Arresting, Sexual Desire

Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.

- Stephen Leacock

source: Stephen Leacock, Gerald Lynch (2002). “Leacock on Life”, p.29, University of Toronto Press

topic: Money, Fear, Long, Military Intelligence, Advertisement Negative

Some experiences are mis-educative. Any experience is mis-educative that has the effect of arresting or distorting the growth of further experience.

- John Dewey

source: John Dewey (1998). “Experience and Education, 60th Anniversary Edition”, p.13, Kappa Delta Pi

topic: Philosophy, Educational, Growth, Arresting

Why does an iPhone cost only a couple hundred dollars? Because, as the stage performer Mike Daisey depicted in an arresting one-man show called 'The Agony and Ecstasy of Steve Jobs,' Apple's shiniest products are made by a shadowy company in China called Foxconn.

- Eric Liu

topic: Jobs, Couple, Men, Arresting

Professional reviewers read so many bad books in the course of duty that they get an unhealthy craving for arresting phrases.

- Evelyn Waugh

source: Evelyn Waugh (1983). “The Essays, Articles and Reviews of Evelyn Waugh”, Methuen

topic: Book, Phrases, Literature, Arresting

A dramatist is one who believes that the pure event, an action involving human beings, is more arresting than any comment that can be made upon it.

- Thornton Wilder

topic: Believe, Theatre, Events, Arresting

prepare a little hot tea or broth and it should be brought to them . . . without their being asked if they would care for it. Those who are in great distress want no food, but if it is handed to them, they will mechanically take it ' ... There was something arresting about the matter-of-fact wisdom here, the instinctive understanding of the physiological disruptions... I will not forget the instinctive wisdom of the friend who, every day for those first few weeks, brought me a quart container of scallion-and-ginger congee from Chinatown. Congee I could eat. Congee was all I could eat.

- Joan Didion

topic: Disruption, Chinatown, Ginger, Arresting, Hot Tea

I absolutely am a big Call of Duty fan. Every time a new Call of Duty comes out – I never play the games online, but I play the solo version super fast. My family knows not to interrupt me the day they come out, they know it's a sacred date for me. I think my favorite visually, of all of the Call of Duty games - even if it's not as sassy and high tech - is World at War because, that game has some really incredible episodes in Berlin and the Japanese fields. It's really quite arresting for me, visually, and it was very immersive. But I love Modern Warfare, too.

- Guillermo del Toro

topic: War, Sassy, Thinking, Modern Warfare, Arresting

I was constantly amazed by how many people talked me into arresting them.

- Edward Conlon

topic: People, Amazed, Arresting

Born on a mountain, raised in a cave. Arresting fugitives is all I crave.

- Duane Chapman

source: "Why I love ..." by Oliver Hurley, www.theguardian.com. April 11, 2005.

topic: Mountain, Caves, Born, Arresting

How would you judge an artist who mutilated animals in a gallery because it was visually arresting? How riveting would the sound of a tortured animal need to be to make you want to hear it that badly? Try to imagine any end other than taste for which it would be justifiable to do what we do to farmed animals.

- Jonathan Safran Foer

topic: Artist, Animal, Judging, Arresting

It is a slightly arresting notion that if you were to pick yourself apart with tweezers, one atom at a time, you would produce a mound of fine atomic dust, none of which had ever been alive but all of which had once been you.

- Bill Bryson

topic: Life, Science, Dust, Arresting

Marijuana is the finest anti-nausea medication known to science, and our leaders have lied about this consistently. [Arresting people for] medical marijuana is the most hideous example of government interference in the private lives of individuals. It's an outrage within an outrage within an outrage.

- Peter McWilliams

topic: Marijuana, Government, People, Medical Marijuana, Arresting

Though the parallel is not complete, it is safe to say that science will never touch them unaided by its practical applications. Its wonders may be catalogued for purposes of education, they may be illustrated by arresting experiments, by numbers and magnitudes which startle or fatigue the imagination but they will form no familiar portion of the intellectual furniture of ordinary men unless they be connected, however remotely, with the conduct of ordinary life.

- Arthur Balfour

topic: Science, Men, Numbers, Ordinary Man, Arresting

Imagine a survivor of a failed civilization with only a tattered book on aromatherapy for guidance in arresting a cholera epidemic. Yet, such a book would more likely be found amid the debris than a comprehensible medical text.

- James Lovelock

topic: Book, Science, Civilization, Aromatherapy, Arresting

Contemporary scholars have little explored the preconditions of genocide. Still less have they asked whether a society's weapons policy might be one of the institutional arrangements that contributes to the probability of its government engaging in some of the more extreme varieties of outrage. Though it is a long step between being disarmed and being murdered-one does not usually lead to the other-but it is nevertheless an arresting reality that not one of the principal genocides of the twentieth century, and there have been dozens, has been inflicted on a population that was armed.

- Daniel D. Polsby

source: "Armed against genocide" by Glenn Reynolds, www.theguardian.com. March 20, 2006.

topic: Gun, Reality, Government, Arresting

No! no arresting the vast wheel of time, That round and round still turns with onward might, Stern, dragging thousands to the dreaded night Of an unknown hereafter.

- Charles Cowden Clarke

topic: Time, Night, Might, Wheel Of Time, Arresting

It was the kind of pure, undiffused light that can only come from a really hot blue sky, the kind that makes even a concrete highway painful to behold and turns every distant reflective surface into a little glint of flame. Do you know how sometimes on very fine days the sun will shine with a particular intensity that makes the most mundane objects in the landscape glow with an unusual radiance, so that buildings and structures you normally pass without a glance suddenly become arresting, even beautiful? Well, they seem to have that light in Australia nearly all the time.

- Bill Bryson

topic: Beautiful, Australia, Light, Fine Day, Arresting

An arresting testimony to the haunting power of friendships, THE AFTER GIRLS is a story that understands what it is to be passionate, confused, and on the brink. I loved every resonant word.

- Micol Ostow

topic: Girl, Confused, Stories, Arresting

In Fascism, if you were a Jew, you were simply killed. Nobody had the idea of arresting Jews and torturing them to confess the Jewish plot. Because in Fascism, you are guilty for your whole being.

- Slavoj Žižek

source: Interview with Dianna Dilworth, www.believermag.com. July 2004.

topic: Ideas, Plot, Guilty, Arresting

Lizzie Harris's debut collection, Stop Wanting, crafts images and lines of such arresting splendor that I am very often driven to joy at the feats of beauty and healing that language is capable of bringing into being.

- Tracy K. Smith

topic: Healing, Joy, Crafts, Arresting

The most important domestic challenge facing the U.S. at the close of the twentieth century is the re-creation of fatherhood as avital social role for men. At stake is nothing less than the success of the American experiment. For unless we reverse the trend of fatherlessness, no other set of accomplishments--not economic growth or prison construction or welfare reform or better schools--will succeed in arresting the decline of child well-being and the spread of male violence. To tolerate the trend of fatherlessness is to accept the inevitability of continued social recession.

- David Blankenhorn

topic: Children, School, Men, Social Roles, Fatherlessness

My wife made me watch this documentary about the Iraq War, and there was a really powerful moment where they followed some civilian whose family had been killed. This was 5 or 10 minutes of this woman talking, and it was extremely arresting. You realize how you never hear from the person on the receiving end of a war without a reporter stepping in to compartmentalize the story. Usually they're just a few shots at the end of a news report, wailing and screaming at a funeral.

- Charlie Brooker

source: Source: www.motherjones.com

topic: Powerful, War, Talking, Arresting

[In the case of] dangerous exercise of other powers, not granted by the said compact, the states, who are parties thereto, have the right, and are duty bound, to interpose for arresting the progress of the evil.

- James Madison

source: James Madison (1836). “The Debates in the Several State Conventions on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution: As Recommended by the General Convention at Philadelphia in 1787. Together with the Journal of the Federal Convention, Luther Martin's Letter, Yates's Minutes, Congressional Opinions, Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions of '98-'99, and Other Illustrations of the Constitution”, p.497

topic: Party, Exercise, Evil, Federalist, Arresting

If ideas are what feed serious literature and arresting language, who today is writing a novel of ideas (which can often mean comedy)? I think of Joshua Cohen. Who else?

- Cynthia Ozick

source: Source: www.motherjones.com

topic: Writing, Mean, Thinking, Arresting

The evil eye is the fascinum, it is that which has the effect of arresting movement and, literally, of killing life. At the moment the subject stops, suspending his gesture, he is mortified. This anti-life, anti-movement function of the terminal point is the fascinum, and it is precisely one of the dimensions in which the power of the gaze is exercised directly.

- Jacques Lacan

source: Jacques Lacan (2004). “The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psycho-Analysis”, p.164, Karnac Books

topic: Eye, Evil, Movement, Terminal, Evil Eye

[The] arresting of time is photography's unique capacity, and the decision of when to click the shutter is the photographer's chief responsibility.

- Janet Malcolm

source: Janet Malcolm (1997). “Diana & Nikon: Essays on Photography”

topic: Photography, Responsibility, Unique, Arresting

Arresting a single drunk or a single vagrant who has harmed no identifiable person seems unjust, and in a sense it is. But failing to do anything about a score of drunks or a hundred vagrants may destroy an entire community.

- James Q. Wilson

source: James Q. Wilson (1995). “On Character: Essays”, p.132, American Enterprise Institute

topic: Drunk, Community, Unjust, Vagrants, Arresting

Let's get the government stay out of our private lives, once and for all, and stop arresting smokers. Let's take a stand for personal freedom.

- Willie Nelson

topic: Government, Personal Freedom, Private Life, Smokers, Arresting

The US ... cultivates no origin or mythical authenticity; it has no past and no founding truth ... it lives in a perpetual present. in the US everything human is artificial. The country is without hope. What is arresting here is ... both the absence of architecture in the cities and the dizzying absence of emotion and character in the faces and bodies.

- Jean Baudrillard

topic: Country, Character, Past, Arresting

Novels often have leisurely openings; a TV drama needs an arresting opening.

- Andrew Davies

topic: Drama, Needs, Tvs, Arresting

The arresting officer, who I had literally known, all my life. You know what I mean? This guy lived four doors down the street me, in a town of less than four hundred people. *We've met.* Now, he takes me to jail, and he asks me if I have any aliases. And I was just being a smartass, and I said, "Yeah. They call me, "Tater Salad!" Seventeen years later, I'm handcuffed on a bench in New York with blood coming out of my nose, and this cop goes, "Are you Ron 'Tater Salad' White?"

- Ron White

source: "Blue Collar Comedy Tour: The Movie", www.imdb.com. 2003.

topic: Funny, Mean, Doors, This Guy, Aliases

It is a stark and arresting fact that, since the middle of the 20th century, humankind has consumed more natural resources than in all previous human history

- Margaret Beckett

topic: Facts, Natural, Century, Arresting

I want every man on the force to try his best, his level best, to try to avoid arresting anyone. I know that this going to take great will power but try.

- Chill Wills

source: "Character: Police Captain". "Where the Boys Are", www.imdb.com. 1960.

topic: Power, Men, Trying, Arresting

I should love to do a novel, about one abnormal character seeing present-day life, very ordinary life, yet arresting through it, abnormality, until at the end the reader sees, and with little reluctance, that he is not abnormal at all, and that the main character might as well be himself.

- Patricia Highsmith

topic: Character, Abnormal, Littles, Abnormality, Arresting

Incarcerating people for their [drug] consumption choices has the consistency of arresting a survivor of suicide for attempted murder .

- Ilana Mercer

topic: Suicide, People, Choices, Arresting

We have to stop arresting prostitutes and not arresting traffickers and pimps. It's absurd. We're arresting the victim or the survivor and not the oppressor.

- Gloria Steinem

source: Interview with Max Miller, bigthink.com. October 28, 2010.

topic: Pimp, Survivor, Victim, Arresting

Studies indicate that vegetarians often have lower morbidity and mortality rates. . . . Not only is mortality from coronary artery disease lower in vegetarians than in non-vegetarians, but vegetarian diets have also been successful in arresting coronary artery disease. Scientific data suggest positive relationships between a vegetarian diet and reduced risk for obesity, coronary artery disease, hypertension, diabetes mellitus, and some types of cancer.

- John Robbins

source: John Robbins (2010). “The Food Revolution: How Your Diet Can Help Save Your Life and Our World”, p.15, Conari Press

topic: Cancer, Successful, Data, Hypertension, Morbidity