Officers Quotes · Page 9

In my proper character, an officer of the United States army.

— Zebulon Pike

“Oh, I thought that this day and age you maybe would be known as bovine custodial officers.”

— Tom Robbins

I regularly interact with officers over tea; it is part of my working style.

— Narendra Modi

Officer, I know I was going faster than 55MPH, but I wasn't going to be on the road an hour.

— Steven Wright

Without self-discipline, a noncommissioned officer can never develop or maintain personal integrity.

— Silas L. Copeland

I hate people who think it's clever to take drugs... like custom officers.

— Jack Dee

It is a lot harder now to be a police officer than what it used to be.

— Steven Seagal

Officers conditioned to conformity in peacetime cannot be expected to behave boldly and flexibly in combat.

— Paul Yingling

Even President Bush has cited the need to outlaw the practice of corporations making loans to their officers. Strangely enough, when the…

— Bennie Thompson

“It's All Officers, sir." They broke into a run. You always did for an All Officers. The people in trouble might well…

— Terry Pratchett

Security is a component of everyday life that one spending time in Washington, D.C., gets accustomed to. Metal detectors, police vehicle barriers…

— Mike Crapo

The Navy runs their process. The House of Representatives doesn't do anything about their process. We do not select. Navy officers select.

— Patricia Schroeder

I was a Navy officer writing about Navy problems and I simply stole this lovely Army nurse and popped her into a…

— James A. Michener

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

— Sun Tzu

We're not being invaded by undocumented immigrants who are coming to kill police officers and commit crimes. And I don't think most…

— Mark Shields

The press today is an army with carefully organized weapons, the journalists its officers, the readers its soldiers. The reader neither knows…

— Oswald Spengler

For in this modern world, the instruments of warfare are not solely for waging war. Far more importantly, they are the means…

— Arleigh Burke

Last evening attended Croghan Lodge International Order of Odd Fellows. Election of officers. Chosen Noble Grand. These social organizations have a number…

— Rutherford B. Hayes

I collect church collapses, recreationally. Did you see the recent one in Sicily? Marvelous! The facade fell on sixty-five grandmothers at a…

— Thomas Harris

... the precedents for feminine self-expression run back through all the ages since the art of writing was invented. ... The era…

— Mary Ritter Beard

I hope that if I ever disappear, people don't look for me based on the last websites I visited. Kind of an…

— Christian Finnegan

Officers in the Church of Jesus Christ are called for two distinct purposes: First and foremost, to serve the people; and, secondly,…

— John Andreas Widtsoe

JESTER, n. An officer attached to the king's household to amuse the court by ludicrous actions and utterances . . . the…

— Ambrose Bierce

That henceforth the absurd game of chemical noughts and crosses be tabu within the Society's precincts and that, following the practice of…

— Henry Edward Armstrong

I know there are officers who do good. There are a whole lot.

— Brandon Marshall

The Three Armies can be deprived of their commanding officer, but even a common man cannot be deprived of his purpose.

— Confucius

My father was a diplomatic officer. As a diplomat's daughter, you have to learn to present yourself very early on.

— Kathleen Turner

Discuss unto me: art thou officer, Or art thou base, common, and popular?

— William Shakespeare

I think every school needs a protection plan with a either police officer or certified armed security.

— Wayne LaPierre

The difference between a good and great officer is about ten seconds.

— Arleigh Burke

We can make mayors and officers every year, but not scholars.

— Robert Burton

“Twenty-five elite law enforcement officers against six racist assholes. Four to one; pretty good odds.”

— Mark M. Bello

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

— Jess Walter

Before you get married you should meet your fiance's parents. It is not enough that you like his parole officer.

— Phyllis Diller

The Christian in me says it's wrong, but the corrections officer in me says, 'I love to make a grown man piss…

— Charles Graner

If your CFO is more important than your CHRO (Chief Human Resource Officer) you're nuts!

— Jack Welch

One hundred and twenty Marines were detailed to officer a force of twenty-six hundred Haitians.

— Smedley Butler

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

— Jack Bauer

I have quite a few good friends in Philadelphia who were police officers.

— Bobby Seale

“There is an undercurrent of intentional meanness in the police.”

— Steven Magee