Ask A Policeman Quotes & Sayings

It's a rare day indeed when someone thanks you for bringing them to their death. — Sarah J. Maas

My wife, Rohini, visits a lot of government schools as part of her NGO reach-out. One of the questions she most likes to ask the kids is what they would like to be when they grow up. The answers are varied--'engineer,' 'teacher,' 'policeman' and, increasingly, 'computer' [sic]. But even in the rural schools, one aspiration that they never express is 'farmer — Nandan Nilekani

The true meaning of America, you ask? It's in a Texas rodeo, in a policeman's badge, in the sound of laughing children, in a political rally, in a newspaper ... In all these things, and many more, you'll find America. In all these things, you'll find freedom. And freedom is what America means to the world. And to me. — Audie Murphy

Plenty and peace breed cowards; hardness ever of hardiness is mother. — William Shakespeare

If a boy, if a man, asks you if you're all right and you say yes, he'll always believe you and get on with what he wants to do. It's just the way they're made. — Aidan Chambers

The suspect had experienced a ballistic interlude earlier in the evening," Miss Pao said, "regrettably not filmed, and relieved himself of excess velocity by means of an ablative technique." (describing a young man who flew off a bicycle at high speed) — Neal Stephenson

He is so full of manure, that man, we could lay him in the dirt and grow another one just like him." Ruby about her dad in "Cold Mountain — Charles Frazier

To ask the mind to kill itself is like making the thief the policeman. He will go with you and pretend to catch the thief, but nothing will be gained. So you must turn inward and see where the mind rises from, and then it will cease to exist. — Ramana Maharshi

If you want to find Cherry-Tree Lane all you have to do is ask the Policeman at the cross-roads. — P.L. Travers

A Jewish man pulls up to the curb and asks the policeman, "Can I park here?" "No" says the cop. "What about all these other cars?" "They didn't ask!" — Henny Youngman

Suddenly a feeling swam over her with a mighty strength. The feeling was both overwhelming and peaceful, linking her to some cosmic and eternal force as the earth around her became more vibrant and alive. It was as if heaven and earth, past and present, were all one in an instant. — Mike Ericksen

People disappear all the time. Ask any policeman. Better yet, ask a journalist. Disappearances are bread-and-butter to journalists. — Diana Gabaldon

Life has a way of answering questions you didn't even ask. — Steve Maraboli

It's not polite to ask " he said with a slight smile. "One must never ask a policeman his secrets."
"Why not "
"For the same reason I don't ask you yours."
How I adored this man! Here we were the two of us engaged in a mental game of chess in which both of us knew that one of us was cheating.
At the risk of repetition, how I adored this man! — Alan Bradley

When I see an actual flesh-and-blood worker in conflict with his natural enemy, the policeman, I do not have to ask myself which side I am on. — George Orwell

Men conscious of inferiority are always trying to impose themselves on others, because they know that underneath they are cowards or cretins. — Helen Simpson

When I see a policeman with a club beating a man on the ground, I don't have to ask whose side I'm on. — George Orwell

Oh God, I'm old and I've never been young. — Rafael Yglesias

Don't let anybody tell you that it's corporations and businesses that create jobs. — Hillary Clinton