“It is quiet here and restful and the air is delicious. There are gardens everywhere and police spies lie in the bushes. There are nightingales in every garden, but police spies only in mine, I think. They sit under my windows in the darkness of the night and try to get a glimpse of how I spread sedition in Russia.” ThinkingTryingLyingNightDarknessAirMinesQuietGardenWindowPoliceSpreadRussiaDeliciousGlimpseSpyNightingalesRestful Author:Maxim Gorky
“At a time when the respectable bourgeois youngsters of my generation were college freshmen, oppressed by simian sophomores and affronted with balderdash daily and hourly by chalky pedagogues, I was at large in a wicked seaport of half a million people, with a front seat at every public show, as free of the night as of day, and getting earfuls of instruction in a hundred giddy arcana, none of them taught in schools.... [But] if I neglected the humanities, I was meanwhile laying in all the worldly wisdom of a police lieutenant, a bartender, a shyster lawyer, or a midwife.” PeopleIfsShowsSchoolNightHumanityEducationHalfMillionsGenerationsFrontsTaughtCollegeHundredPoliceLawyerSeatsWickedInstructionOppressedWorldlyNeglectedRespectableBourgeoisMy GenerationYoungstersFreshmanBartenderGiddyMidwifeLieutenantsSophomoreWorldly WisdomCollege Freshmen Author:H. L. Mencken
“No doubt hard work is a great police agent. If everybody were worked from morning till night, and then carefully locked up, the register of crime might be greatly diminished. But what would become of human nature? Where would be the room for growth in such a system of things? It is through sorrow and mirth, plenty and need, a variety of passions, circumstances, and temptations, even through sin and misery, that men's natures are developed.” IfsMenNeedsHumansHardMightWould BeNightPassionGrowthSinRoomsMorningDoubtHuman NatureCrimeHard WorkCircumstancesSorrowPoliceMiseryTemptationAgentsPlentyVarietyNo DoubtLockedRegisterMirthLocked Up Book:Friends in Council: A Series of Readings and Discourse Thereon Source: Friends in Council: A Series of Readings and Discourse Thereon
“Well, Kevin Downes is the producer of Mom's Night Out. He was a fellow actor with me in the movie Courageous. He plays my police partner and we have been friends for several years. He came and helped me on Courageous and said 'Would you come help me on Mom's Night Out?'” YearsWellsHas BeensSaidPlayHelpingNightActorsMomPoliceFellowsPartnersProducersHelp MeCourageousKevin Author:Alex Kendrick
“I think the first time I really felt that I was Palestinian was a time when I was trying to go back to school with my father at night and there was a curfew for Palestinians. My father said, "I will walk first, but you have to understand, the police will not let me go... So keep moving and don't look at me and don't look back."” ThinkingTryingFirstsLooksSaidSchoolMovingNightFatherFeltWalksFirst TimeLet MePolicePalestinianLook At MeKeep MovingLet Me GoCurfew Author:Rula Jebreal
“On Broadway, only the fire doors separate you from the sidewalk and you're lucky if the sound of a police car doesn't rip the envelope twice a night.” IfsNightSoundFireDoorsCarLuckyPoliceBroadwayRipEnvelopesSidewalkPolice Cars Book:Tom Stoppard in Conversation Source: Tom Stoppard in Conversation
“There's one in every family. When the police calls in the middle of the night and says "We've got a family members of yours under arrest" and you know directly who it is. In my family we have seven of those... And they are all my *Mom*!” KnowsNightMiddleMomMembersMy FamilyPoliceSevenMy MomFamily MembersMiddle Of The Night Author:Christopher Titus
“Where I grew up - I grew up on the north side of Akron, lived in the projects. So those scared and lonely nights - that's every night. You hear a lot of police sirens, you hear a lot of gunfire. Things that you don't want your kids to hear growing up.” WantKidsNightSidesGrowing UpGrowingGrewProjectsGrew UpLonelyPoliceScaredEvery NightSirensLonely Nights Author:LeBron James
“My personal beliefs were shaped more by experience and by watching the news when I was young: images of angelic-looking college students in Mississippi crying like the world was ending because black people were being allowed on their campus; the slow mounting horror of Vietnam on the evening news every night; sitting with my parents in front of the TV and being appalled at the way the Chicago police were treating the protesters during the '68 Democratic convention. Being eyed with suspicion because of my age and the way I wore my hair.” PeopleWorldWayAgeYoungNightBeliefParentBlackFrontsCryStudentsCollegeTvsHairHorrorNewsSittingPoliceDemocraticEveningChicagoBlack PeopleVietnamConventionsEvery NightSuspicionMississippiCampusAngelicCollege StudentsPersonal Beliefs Author:James Vance
“American cops are the ones who are in the emergency rooms. They're the ones who go to the morgues. They're the ones who have to go tell the families that their son is not coming back, their husband, their wife, is not coming home that night. So when we talk about guns and gun violence and police, let's understand that as well. No one wants guns off the streets more than cops because cops are killed by those guns.” HomeNightWifeViolenceSonHusbandGunPoliceComing HomeCopEmergency Room Author:Don Winslow
“Beautiful night, isn't it, Police Girl? It's especially beautiful, of course, if you're a bloodsucker.” IfsBeautifulNightGirlPoliceBloodsuckers Author:Kohta Hirano
“Soon it began to drizzle for the second time that night. The drops grew heavier and became visible in the headlights of the cars. It was said by some of the police on the scene that God was crying for the girl in the garden. To others, it was only rain.” SaidNightGirlLinesCarCryGrewSceneRainGardenPoliceFinalsVisibleHeadlightsDrizzle Author:George Pelecanos
“Dark City Blue is a freight train of a thriller crashing through some madhouse city night while a bomb's ticking down to zero. It's the cage fighting equivalent of a police procedural: violent, gaudy, and packing heat.” NightFightingDarkCitiesPoliceBlueTrainViolentHeatBombsZeroCagesThrillersPackingGaudyMadhousesDark City Author:Trent Jamieson
“I love 'Last Friday Night' by Katy Perry almost as much as 'Karma Police', and if you want to straddle that line, you have to take the slings and arrows.” IfsWantLastsNightLinesPoliceKarmaFridayArrowsFriday NightSlings And Arrows Author:Chris Martin
“The thing that bugs me is that the people think the FDA is protecting them - it isn’t. What the FDA is doing and what the public thinks it’s doing are as different as night and day.” PeopleThinkingDifferentBigsGovernmentNightCompanyDrugProtectPoliceMedicalFdaCancer TreatmentDrug CompaniesPolice Power Author:Herbert L. Ley, Jr.
“Well, I don't throw things. This particular night I brought one from the floor so to speak, and he ended up getting a cut over his head, and the police came, took him to another side of the hotel, and that was like September 6, 1981.” WellsNightSpeakSidesCuttingParticularPoliceHotelSeptember Author:Tanya Tucker
“...America didn't have to fight scarcity and we all felt guilty before people who still had to struggle for bread and freedom in the old way ... We weren't starving, we weren't bugged by the police, locked up in madhouses for our ideas, arrested, deported, slave laborers sent to die in concentration camps. We were spared the holocausts and nights of terror. With our advantages we should be formulating the new basic questions for mankind. But instead we sleep. Just sleep and sleep, and eat and play and fuss and sleep again.” PeopleWayShouldStillsIdeasPlayAmericaNightDiesFightingFeltSleepStruggleMankindAdvantagePoliceSlaveTerrorBreadGuiltyConcentrationCampsHolocaustLockedStarvingArrestedScarcityLocked UpLaborersConcentration CampOld WaysMadhouses Author:Saul Bellow
“I don't mind payin' for the police and for streets and sanitation, or road work, bridges, trains, food subsidies and welfare. But I don't wanna pay for bombs to fight proxy wars in the middle of nowhere against enemies in the night.” MindWarNightFightingPayEnemyStreetsMiddlePoliceTrainBridgesWelfareBombsSubsidiesFiascoProxySanitationMiddle Of Nowhere Author:Lupe Fiasco
“The relationship between My Chemical Romance and Michael Pedicone is over. He was caught red-handed stealing from the band and confessed to police after our show last night in Auburn, Washington. We are heartbroken and sick to our stomachs over this entire situation.” ShowsLastsRomanceNightSituationBandRedSickPoliceCaughtStealingChemicalsHeartbrokenLast NightAuburn Author:Frank Iero