Daily Quotes VIII
14 years ago
“One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every game and con there's always an opponent, and there's always a victim. The trick is to know when you're the latter, so you can become the former.” -Mr. Green, Revolver
"Dying is easy, it takes a strong man to face the world"
"The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary. Men alone are quite capable of every wickedness." - Joseph Conrad
"Nothing is so common as the wish to be remarkable." - (attributed to) William Shakespeare
"With foxes, we must play the fox." - Thomas Fuller
"The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body. After all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up, still there will be a scar left behind." - Francois de la Roche Foucauld
"Better to write for yourself and have no public than to write for the public and have no self." -Writer Cyril Connolly
Videre Videnda
"Dying is easy, it takes a strong man to face the world"
"The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary. Men alone are quite capable of every wickedness." - Joseph Conrad
"Nothing is so common as the wish to be remarkable." - (attributed to) William Shakespeare
"With foxes, we must play the fox." - Thomas Fuller
"The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body. After all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up, still there will be a scar left behind." - Francois de la Roche Foucauld
"Better to write for yourself and have no public than to write for the public and have no self." -Writer Cyril Connolly
Videre Videnda
Murphy's Law: Law Enforcement II
You can never drive slow enough to please the citizens who don't need a cop, and you can never drive fast enough to please the ones who do.
Any suspect with a rifle is a better shot than any cop with a pistol.
When a civilian sees a red light approaching at a high rate of speed, he will always pull into the lane the cop needs to use.
On any call, there will always be more `bad guys' than there are good guys, and the farther away your back-up, the more there will be.
And finally
The better you do your job, the more likely you are to be shot, injured, complained on, sued, investigated, or subpoenaed on your day off.