Best Officer Wisdom
280 Officer quotes by 237 unique authors
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The Metropolitan Police Service is still, despite what people think, a working-class organisation and as such rejects totally the notion of an officer class. That…
— Ben Aaronovitch
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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…
— Hilari Bell
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Colin stared at the officer. “Thorne, you scare me. I’m not ashamed to say it.
— Tessa Dare
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Officer, I know I was going faster than 55MPH, but I wasn't going to be on the road an hour.
— Steven Wright
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The security officer smiled and said, ‘Good afternoon, ma’am,’ to me before I gave him ID.” “It’s a sick world, Eve.” He resisted taking her…
— Nora Roberts
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Pulling out his daggers, he kept them in his sleeves, just in case he happened upon someone who wouldn’t understand why a tall, dark-haired man…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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No, officer, I have no idea why I'm wearing this possum costume. I called you what? OH. My bad." -Nastasya
— Cate Tiernan
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In the time between the two wars, a British colonial officer said that with the invention of the airplane the world has no secrets left.…
— Heinrich Harrer
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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
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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…
— George MacDonald Fraser
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If you ask any police officer what the worst part of the job is, they will always say breaking bad news to relatives, but this…
— Ben Aaronovitch
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In Palestine, the Israelis claim they found a land without people,' a Syrian officer explained to us. 'Now they will take southern Lebanon and claim…
— Robert Fisk
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I start to wonder if I’m being creepy. I mean, I am creeping. Does creep-ing automatically make one creep-y? Or are there dispensations for…romance? I…
— Laini Taylor
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The Three Armies can be deprived of their commanding officer, but even a common man cannot be deprived of his purpose.
— Confucius
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Spirituality is not a function of occupation or calling. A scientist may be more spiritual than a theologian; a teacher may be more spiritual than…
— Dallin H. Oaks
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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…
— Chad Lindberg
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Instead of fostering the kind of dialogue in the boardroom that has in part contributed to our success, the board has inappropriately chosen to silence…
— George Zimmer
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As a practising lawyer, I was mediocre, but I worked hard as a law officer of the state government and on the private side. After…
— Unknown Author
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As a Marine officer in combat, I was responsible for the lives and safety of all the Marines who served with me.
— Oliver North
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In my first company, Seer Technologies, where I was chief technology officer, we shied away from the media. We watched every word and were guarded…
— Vivek Wadhwa
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Though I thoroughly enjoyed playing crime branch officer Gautam Savant, it drained a lot out of me, too. It shook my faith in myself, as…
— Randeep Hooda
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There is not one single police officer in America that I am not afraid of and not one that I would trust to tell the…
— Henry Rollins
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My dad was a Navy munitions officer, and by the end of his career, he was a specialist in nuclear weapons.
— James Mercer
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I was initially assigned to the American Consulate in Aden, not as Principal Officer but as a supernumerary officer to handle Yemen affairs. We had…
— Hermann Eilts
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It was the view of the people in the Department of State that the handling of Yemen affairs from Aden was too much of a…
— Hermann Eilts
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