Quotes About Officer

The house seems quite hopeful, and we are on the point of taking it for six months when it becomes known that Tim is an officer in His Majesty's Army. This immediately precludes any possibility of the house being let to us, and we are shown out of the door with all possible dispatch. I am too cold and wet to be really angry, but Tim is boiling with rage. Conversation too lurid to record.

McMaster, 54, is the smartest and most capable military officer of his generation, one who has not only led American victories on the battlefields of the 1991 Gulf War and of the Iraq War, but also holds a Ph.D. in history.

Bitch." My lips curve. "Damn, I like that name. Have a good day, Officer.

The campus police officer folded his hands and stared at me from across the table. "Coffee?" "What flavor is it?" I asked. He was in his forties, a big, solid man with bags under his calm, wary eyes, and his name tag read dean. "It's coffee-flavored coffee." "No mocha?" "Fuck mocha." "Thank God," I said. "Black.

They ambushed us." "But . . ." Bridget said. "Gwen . . . the fight started when you [shot] into that officer's face." "It is hardly my fault if they did not ambush us more effectively than they did

Unit Eight-Kilo-Six, what's your twenty?" the radio squawked. "Eight-Kilo-Six, we are proceeding up Amalfi.

Few things are more damaging to our democracy than a military officer who doesn't have the moral courage to stand up for what's right or the moral fiber to step aside when circumstances dictate.

In the Confederate Army, an officer was judged by stark courage alone, and this made it possible for the Confederacy to live four years.

The Continental army got more generals than they got private soldiers, these days. An officer lives through more 'n two battles, they make him some kind of general on the spot. Now, gettin' any pay for it, that's a different kettle of fish.

The English officer was coming back toward the cabin, passing within a few feet of me. I glanced up, and my hands froze. He was tall, slender but broad-shouldered, and I would have known that long stride, that unself-conscious grace, and that arrogant tilt of the head anywhere. He paused, frowning, and turned his head to survey the littered field. His nose was straight as a knife blade, just that tiny bit too long.

And what, Majesty, did you ask for?" "A noble and gallant sea officer. . . An honorable warrior." Her mouth tightened. "A hero." "Well then, allow me to pretend," he murmured, his fingers inches from those tempting breasts. "But you're a pirate!" "And a good one, too," he added, grinning wolfishly and letting his fingertips slide beneath her shirt.

Instead, he'd been so desperate to prove to her that he did indeed fulfill that final requirement of hers—that of being a heroic officer—that he'd been thoughtless. He'd been so eager to show her that he was indeed no deserter, no pirate, but an actual knight, indeed, that he'd sat here sweating in his finest dress uniform waiting for her to regain her senses. He had wanted to impress her. Surprise her. Instead, he had shocked her into oblivion.

And where are you going, Admiral? . . . Don't you ever sleep?" She sensed him kneeling down beside her, felt his breath on her cheek as he lovingly absorbed every detail of her face and smoothed the wispy hair that had come loose from the braid. "Sleep? Not when my lovely Queen is under my protection. I am an officer, Majesty, and I have my sworn duty." An officer. Guarding the lives of those he loved. "I love you, Maeve," he said softly, and kissed her.

It's a violation of federal law for an officer or an employee of the United States government to make or authorize an expenditure or obligation exceeding the amount we've appropriated.

'American Psycho' is violent. 'Apocalypse Now' is violent. 'Officer Downe' is a comic and not violent to me.

All images generated by imaging technology are viewed in a walled-off location not visible to the public. The officer assisting the passenger never sees the image, and the officer viewing the image never interacts with the passenger. The imaging technology that we use cannot store, export, print or transmit images.

The forensics officer bagged both brushes. For DNA testing.

And as far as being a leader, you do have a certain potential. But it would be along the lines of a teacher or a minister; you would have to lead from empathy, compassion. You have the desire to impose your ideas on other people, but not your will. Which means, you're right, you'll make one hell of a bad officer unless you shape up.

Reece smiled, remembering an old commanding officer who preached that luck was the residue of preparation.

retiring with the officer's equivalent of a general

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; Go is the sun.

The plan was typical of the way the German officer corps had come to see strategic problems in a vacuum, entirely from their narrow viewpoint, and without recourse to the nuances of diplomacy or the needs of politics.

Blue still did not organize a response to the emergency. Instead, the senior Public Health Service officer in charge of the city of Washington reiterated to the press that there was no cause for alarm.

Boredom had not been among the dangers that the SOE had prepared him for. No pompous little officer had stood in front of his class and said, "Right, chaps, today we're going to learn how to deal with a particularly nasty little situation that secret agents tend to find themselves in: being bored abso-bloody-lutely rigid".