Officers Quotes - Page 17

• If a police officer arrests a mime, does he need to tell him he has the right to remain silent.

  Jess Walter

  Police, Doe, Needs

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• Knowing more about the public effects his work will have, the engineer ought to consider himself an "officer of the court" and keep the general interest always in mind.

  Hyman Rickover

  Knowing, Mind, Court

  Hyman George Rickover (1959). “Education and Freedom”

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• When people discuss his plays, he says that he feels like he's standing at customs watching an official ransack his luggage. He cheerfully declares responsibility for a play about two people, and suddenly the officer is finding all manner of exotic contraband like the nature of God and identity, and while he can't deny that they're there, he can't for the life of him remember putting them there. In the end, a play is not the product of an idea; an idea is the product of a play.

  Tom Stoppard

  Responsibility, Play, Ideas

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• If you stand with the Customs and Border Protection officers who staff the passport booths at Dulles airport near the nation's capital, their task seems daunting.

  David K. Shipler

  Airports, Tasks, Borders

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• Officers are taught to use all the tricks and lies that courts permit within the scope of the Fifth Amendment's shield against self-incrimination.

  David K. Shipler

  Lying, Self, Use

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• Commanders and senior officers should die with troops. The honour of the British Empire and the British Army is at stake.

  Lord Randolph Churchill

  Senior, Army, Troops

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• He picked up the letter Q and hurled it into a distant privet bush where it hit a young rabbit. The rabbit hurtled off in terror and didn’t stop till it was set upon and eaten by a fox which choked on one of its bones and died on the bank of a stream which subsequently washed it away. During the following weeks Ford Perfect swallowed his pride and struck up a relationship with a girl who had been a personnel officer on Golgafrincham, and he was terribly upset when she suddenly passed away as a result of drinking water from a pool that had been polluted by the body of a dead fox.

  Douglas Adams

  Girl, Drinking, Pride

  Douglas Adams (2009). “The Restaurant at the End of the Universe”, p.149, Pan Macmillan

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• In order to ensure our criminal justice system is fair and equitable, my office is conducting an immediate assessment of every prosecution within the past 10 years where these officers were involved. This is a shameful incident that the public deserves to have addressed in a meaningful and expeditious manner.

  George Gascon

  Meaningful, Past, Order

  "San Francisco prosecutor to probe old cases over racist texts by police". www.reuters.com. March 17, 2015.

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• The reason is still difficult to explain, but it is not complicated. That inner voice that will not be denied, once we learn to listen to it, had whispered since the beginning, "Business is not what your life is about. Founding VISA and being its chief executive officer is something you must do, but it's only preparatory."

  Dee Hock

  Business, Voice, Life Is

  Dee Hock, VISA International (1999). “Birth of the Chaordic Age”, p.16, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• The border means more than a customs house, a passport officer, a man with a gun. Over there everything is going to be different; life is never going to be quite the same again after your passport has been stamped.

  Graham Greene

  Travel, Mean, Gun

  Graham Greene (1982). “Another Mexico”, Viking Adult

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• If words of command are not clear and distinct, if orders are not thoroughly understood, the general is to blame. But if his orders are clear, and the soldiers nevertheless disobey, then it is the fault of their officers.

  Sun Tzu

  War, Army, Order

  Sun Tzu (2002). “The Art of War”, p.10, Courier Corporation

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• The most effective way to find ourselves enslaved will not be done openly. If weakened we will sink gradually. I ask, who are the militia? They consist of the whole people, .... except a few public officers.

  Thomas Jefferson

  People, Done, Way

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• I've been a Danish prince, a Texas slave-dealer, an Arab sheik, a Cheyenne Dog Soldier, and a Yankee navy lieutenant in my time, among other things, and none of 'em was as hard to sustain as my lifetime's impersonation of a British officer and gentleman.

  George MacDonald Fraser

  Dog, Yankees, Texas

  George MacDonald Fraser (2013). “Flashman in the Great Game: A Novel”, p.82, Penguin

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• AHA!" interrupted Officer Shrift, making another note in his little book. "Just as I thought: boys are the cause of everything.

  Norton Juster

  Book, Boys, Littles

  Norton Juster (2011). “The Phantom Tollbooth”, p.61, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• I'm delighted that our high school kids are developing these positives relationships with our police officers and getting such terrific hands-on experience. This will provide great benefits to our community now and in the future.

  Deb Matthews

  School, Kids, Hands

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• Colin stared at the officer. “Thorne, you scare me. I’m not ashamed to say it.

  Tessa Dare

  Scare, Ashamed

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• Shouts of dismay rose as the red flesh splattered against the table. It was only a tomato, but one would think I was pulping a decaying heart by the noise the big, strong FIB officers were making.

  Kim Harrison

  Strong, Heart, Thinking

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• Fasal liked to fight; Jiaan was good at planning. Together, Jiaan thought sourly, they almost made a whole officer. And if you added Jiaan's eighteen years to Fasal's seventeen, you had someone old enough to command an army as well.

  Hilari Bell

  Fighting, Army, Years

  Hilari Bell (2008). “Forging the Sword”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

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• I actually wanted to be a police officer like my dad for the longest time, up until my sophomore year in high school when I started doing plays. I did plays when I was little, but in high school, I started getting into acting.

  Chad Lindberg

  Dad, School, Years

  "Chad Lindberg Exclusive Interview THE CAPE and I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 7, 2011.

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• Officers must be made to care for their men. That is the sole duty of all officers.

  George S. Patton

  Men, Care, Made

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• Officer, this guy is not waiting around for me... so you better shoot me or help me but decide now!

  Jack Bauer

  Waiting Around, Guy, Helping

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• When the general is weak and without authority; when his orders are not clear and distinct; when there are no fixed duties assigned to officers and men, and the ranks are formed in a slovenly haphazard manner, the result is utter disorganization.

  Sun Tzu

  Art, War, Men

  Sun Tzu, Niccolo Machiavelli (2013). “The Complete Art of War”, p.59, Simon and Schuster

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• When the common soldiers are too strong and their officers too weak, the result is insubordination. When the officers are too strong and the common soldiers too weak, the result is collapse.

  Sun Tzu

  Art, Strong, War

  Sun Tzu (2012). “The Art of War”, p.55, Courier Corporation

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• The pitifulest thing out is a mob; that's what an army is--a mob; they don't fight with courage that's born in them, but with courage that's borrowed from their mass, and from their officers. But a mob without any MAN at the head of it is BENEATH pitifulness.

  Mark Twain

  Fighting, Army, Men

  Mark Twain (2015). “Annotated Huckleberry Finn with English Grammar Exercises: by Mark Twain (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, p.160, Powell Publications, LLC

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• In France cooking is a serious art form and a national sport. I think the French enjoy the complication of the art form and the cooking for cooking's sake. You can talk with a concierge or police officer about food in France as a general rule. It is not the general rule here. Classical cuisine, which I hope we are going back to, means certain ways of doing things and certain ways of not doing things. If you know classical French cooking you can do anything. If you don't know the basics, you turn out slop.

  Julia Child

  Sports, Art, Mean

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