Quotes About Officer

There is nothing on earth so stupid as a gallant officer.

IN trying to recall my impressions during my short war duty as an officer in the Austrian Army, I find that my recollections of this period are very uneven and confused

He knew this would be easier if he wasn't such an exceptional person. The best and the brightest humanity had to offer. The youngest to pass the officer candidate test.

This was a report from a single source. It was an established and reliable line of reporting. It was quoted from a senior Iraqi military officer in a position to know this information.

We're all screwed, says our morale officer

We're all screwed," says our morale officer.

She sighed. "I'm your intake officer. You'll meet your probation officer after we're done with intake." "Will I have to take a number again?" "Yes." "Then please change my annoyance level to nine.

All right." Panin sips at his wine. "Excuse me, but—there is a personal connection?" "What?" "You appear unduly upset ..." "Yes." She looks at her hands. "The missing officer is my husband." Panin puts his glass down and leans back, very slowly, with the extreme self-control of a man who has just realized he is sharing a table with a large, ticking bomb. "Is there anything I can do to help?" "Yes.

My children are puppies. The police officer quickly figured out that I was trying to say that my children were lost. He was kind but not overly concerned.

Pellaeon was a good officer, but he'd never had quite the degree of personal loyalty that Savit liked in his subordinates. Sending him off to the station, away from what was about to happen out here, was simply a prudent thing to do.

The mark of a good officer, Wegener repeatedly told his youngsters, was willingness to admit he had something yet to learn.

I flew into a rage and berated them for barging into a woman's bedroom and using physical violence. The English-speaking officer who appeared to be in charge told me that I was not permitted to visit the neighborhood of Pashtunabad (as we had), and that it was forbidden to interview members of the Taliban (as we had tried

Remember that it is the actions, and not the commission, that make the officer, and that there is more expected from him, than the title

I have a hundred times wished that one could resign life as an officer resigns a commission.

Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind; The thief doth fear each bush an officer.

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 hand for another squeeze. "A sick, sad world.

Assaulting an officer will earn you one to five, Roarke. That's in a cage, not cushy home detention. You're not wearing your badge. Or anything else, for that matter. He gave her a friendly nip on the chin. Be sure to put that in your report.

At least this time, with this murder, she knew he had an alibi. At the time Cicely Towers was having her throat slashed, Roarke had been fucking the hell out of the investigating officer.

Eve leaned in again. "I am a ranking officer. If you call me a bitch, you'd better damn well put Lieutenant in front of it.

Fine." Desjani sighed. "Admiral, I recommend we get our intelligence officer up here to see if he can craft lovely poems for the singing spider wolves.

My father was a government officer and for him, the ultimate dream was to see me become an IAS officer.

Well, it was war - I could not have carried on as an administrative officer if I had let myself be swayed emotionally by my feelings.

I spent much of my life - almost 40 years - as a military officer. My specialty was in the part of the Navy that operates ocean-going ships, and as a result, I was at sea for many months at a time.

In 2010, I was an executive officer in the Navy, splitting my time between U.S. headquarters and being deployed to an international location.