Best Officer Sayings
280 Officer quotes by 237 unique authors
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I had always wanted to go to the Navy. As a young kid, I was intrigued by a Naval Officer with the beautiful brown shoes…
— Wally Schirra
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Where the suspect poses no immediate threat to the officer and no threat to others, the harm resulting from the failing to apprehend him does…
— Byron White
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I have never paid a policeman myself. I have never sanctioned, knowingly sanctioned, a payment to a police officer.
— Rebekah Brooks
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I was commanding officer of a supersonic fighter squadron, F-8 Crusaders.
— James Stockdale
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It seems proper, at all events, that by an early enactment similar to that of other countries the application of public money by an officer…
— Martin Van Buren
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In our town there was a Gestapo officer who loved to play chess. After the occupation began, he found out that my father was the…
— Bruno Schulz
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I don't care if they're licensed legal firearms, people who are not highly trained putting guns in their hands is a recipe for disaster. So…
— Garry McCarthy
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I was an intelligence officer, not a policy-maker.
— Cofer Black
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Over the last 40 years, I have built MW into a multi-billion dollar company with amazing employees and loyal customers who value the products and…
— George Zimmer
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A chief petty officer taught me shorthand, which got me promoted to yeoman first class.
— Jack Adams
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If, for instance, you put in a Malay officer who's very religious and who has family ties in Malaysia in charge of a machine gun…
— Lee Kuan Yew
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There are only four types of officer. First, there are the lazy, stupid ones. Leave them alone, they do no harm…Second, there are the hard-…
— Unknown Author
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My dad sacrificed many things in life for me. He abandoned a very promising and lucrative career of an army officer just so that he…
— Alexandra Kosteniuk
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In my proper character, I am an officer of the United States Army.
— Zebulon Pike
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A German officer visited Picasso in his Paris studio during the Second World War. There he saw Guernica and, shocked at the modernist «chaos» of…
— Slavoj Žižek
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Not every loss was confirmed by an officer at the door. Nor a telegram with the power to sink a fleet. Loss, often the worst…
— Kristina McMorris
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My father was a police officer with the New York Police Department; I've always had a high respect for officers. I want to give back…
— Lou Ferrigno
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With all the weird surroundings of outer space the basic underlying theme of the show is a philosophical approach to man's relationship to woman. There…
— Jeffrey Hunter
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One mark of a good officer, he remembered, was the ability to make quick decisions. If they happen to be right, so much the better.
— Larry Niven
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One hundred and twenty Marines were detailed to officer a force of twenty-six hundred Haitians.
— Smedley Butler
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Any officer can get by on his sergeants. To be a sergeant you have to know your stuff. I'd rather be an outstanding sergeant than…
— Unknown Author
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Reason is like an officer when the king appears. The officer then loses his power and hides himself. Reason is the shadow cast by God;…
— Rumi
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There's an old saying that victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan.... I'm the responsible officer of the Government.
— John F. Kennedy
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EXECUTIVE, n. An officer of the Government, whose duty it is to enforce the wishes of the legislative power until such time as the judicial…
— Ambrose Bierce
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I was a Navy officer writing about Navy problems and I simply stole this lovely Army nurse and popped her into a Navy uniform, where…
— James A. Michener
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