Quotes About Officer

Federal Officer: The arms piled on the ground were not worth 10 cents a ton.

The officer of the court was a good old boy with a meaty backwoods beard and a hungover wobble to his step. He'd outgrown his shirt and the pressure against the buttons made him look upholstered.

From the moment that Watanabe locked eyes with Louie Zamperini, an officer, a famous Olympian, and a man for whom defiance was second nature, no man obsessed him more.

The Navy's paid for you to go through school, and then they need doctors to go out and take care of people who are in various different parts of the world. I decided to pay back my time first as an undersea medical officer. I was stationed in Scotland.

On April 6, 1519, the king sent orders to another officer, Juan de Cartagena

Spain's top naval officer, the Marquis of Santa Cruz commenced a steep decline

In the immediate aftermath of the crash, a young police officer named Pat McCann, who happened to be training at the airport that day, saw a man who had managed to get the upper half of his body through his window before the lower half was incinerated inside the plane.

Acting Captain Warms was still unaware that at least one lifeboat had been launched without his authority and that passengers were jumping into the sea. The calmness which a few hours before had impressed the purser and First Officer Freeman was gone.

At 5:15 P.M. he shut the valves in the cabinet tubes. At about that moment Chief Radio Officer George Rogers lumbered ashore. No one would ever know exactly where he went or whom he met, but when he returned he carried two small bottles. One contained sulphuric acid; the other nitric acid.

Les anges les anges dans le ciel L'un est vêtu en officier L'un est vêtu en cuisinier Et les autres chantent Bel officier couleur du ciel Le doux printemps longtemps après Noël Te médaillera d'un beau soleil D'un beau soleil Le cuisinier plume les oies Ah! tombe neige Tombe et que n'ai-je Ma bien-aimée entre mes bras

As the brother of a retired law enforcement officer, I know firsthand that our men and women in uniform perform their duties in the face of tremendous threats and significant personal risk. They put their lives on the line every day, and they often have to make split-second decisions.

Some Marine units actually use 'An Officer and a Gentleman' in their training programs.

As a Naval officer, I've been all over the world, and one of the foundational lessons I learned was that parents everywhere would like to raise their children to a higher standard of living in a peaceful environment. That's a universal goal for families.

After the United States entered the war, I joined the Naval Reserve and spent ninety days in a Columbia University dormitory learning to be a naval officer.

But in that novel he would memorialize this moment—Paris in 1898—where two cultures edged up against each other in darkness. He would set that novel in this époque, in the days when France was torn apart over the fate of a Jewish officer named Alfred Dreyfus and over the courage of an elderly writer to speak truth to power.

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

looking down at the Chinese officer who was trying to gather his entrails with his hands. Suriyawong had the irrational thought that the man ought really to wash his organs before jamming them back into his abdomen. It was so unsanitary.

He had led missions inside China before, but always for the purpose of sabotage or intelligence gathering, or "involuntary high officer force reduction," Peter's mostly-ironic euphemism for assassination.

But the officer stood up and stepped across the room to Ender. He held out his hand. "My name is Graff, Ender. Colonel Hyrum Graff. I'm director of primary training at Battle School in the Belt. I've come to invite you to enter the school.

The officer sat with his long, fine hands lying on the table, perfectly still, and all his blood seemed to be corroding. - The Prussian Officer

You should of got a medal." "You don't get medals for things like that. Unless you're a officer. They give 'em to each other.

The captain strikes me as a competent officer, and competent officers are never given enough information to work with.

The rapid elevation was the result of his proven flying ability and the recognition by the army of the prospective advantages of having a member of Congress in its officer corps. However, being both congressman and army officer, and getting paid twice from government coffers, were impermissible in federal law. Consequently, La Guardia's compensation from both jobs was cut off, leaving him without money.

But why would anyone—officer, seaman, or scientist—volunteer for such a risky and difficult mission in the Arctic?