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Tag Name "Detain" (8)

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On recovering my senses, I hastened to quit a place where I hoped there was nothing further to detain me. I first filled my pockets with gold, then fastened the strings of the purse round my neck, and concealed it in my bosom.
Adelbert von Chamisso
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How little do the most wonderful inventions of modern times detain us. They insult nature. Every machine, or particular application, seems a slight outrage against universal laws.
Henry David Thoreau
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Divine Wisdom, intending to detain us some time on earth, has done well to cover with a veil the prospect of the life to come for if our sight could clearly distinguish the opposite bank, who would remain on this tempestuous coast of time?
Madame de Stael
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My policy will be to detain and deport every illegal alien who is apprehended in this country. And we'll do it with an expedited hearing process so that millions of illegal aliens are not released into the general population with some hearing date down the road.
Rick Perry
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A house may draw visitors, but it is the possessor alone that can detain them.
Charles Caleb Colton
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It is equally offensive to speed a guest who would like to stay and to detain one who is anxious to leave.
Homer
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Now, the past has plenty to teach us, but I don't think it should be allowed to detain us against our will.
Pat Condell
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My thoughts are my company I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them.
Walter Savage Landor