Coppers Quotes

#1. But, on the other hand, the occasional and precarious dripping of coppers has by no means a genial effect.

James Payn

#2. You can't trust the 'specials' like the old time 'coppers' When you can't find your way home.

Marie Lloyd

#3. Coppers were always outnumbered, so being a copper only worked when people let it work. If they refocused and realized you were just another standard idiot with a pennyworth of metal for a badge, you could end up as a smear on the pavement.

Terry Pratchett

#4. The rush I got from crime was better than that of glue, drink or hash. I loved playing cat and mouse with the local coppers. He Who Dares Wins, the SAS motto, was very applicable to my life then.

Stephen Richards

#5. We used to trust in God. I think it was in 1863 that some genius suggested that it be put upon the gold and silver coins which circulated among the rich. They didn't put it on the nickels and coppers because they didn't think the poor folks had any trust in God.

Mark Twain

#6. You need me," Pen explained. "I'm your lookout. If I see the coppers coming, I'll make a sound like an owl.

Frances Hardinge

#7. It is not simply to show power...that a man...throws coppers into the sea...In doing this he is also sacrificing to the gods and spirits...

Marcel Mauss

#8. NIGHTINGALE AND I did what all good coppers do when faced with a spare moment in the middle of the day - we went looking for a pub.

Ben Aaronovitch

#9. I know loads of coppers and dealt with them a lot when I was a journalist - coppers are easy to write for; they tend to run on rails.

Terry Pratchett

#10. Stay back, old man. It isn't your business. This is the Prince of Vere.'
'But
I only paid three coppers for him,' said Volo, sounding confused.

C.S. Pacat

#11. When a man comes to me and tries to convince me that he is not a thief, then I take care of my coppers.

Ernestine Rose

#12. It's like this with us baby. We're coppers and everybody hates our guts ... nothing we do is right, not ever. If we get a confession we beat it out of a guy, they say, and some shyster lawyer calls us Gestapo.

Raymond Chandler

#13. Honey," Bessie's mamma used to say, "politicians and judges and coppers are money-grubbing thieves. They'll screw you, and rob you, and win elections for doing it, but there's no way around them. Smile and pay the sonsabitches off." The

Mary Doria Russell

#14. Behind the cool mask of bravado, past the one-way mirror of his mind, underneath the rock-solid layers of self-control, in the Zen garden that was Master Sewer's soul, a high-pitched anxiety fart rustled through the still leaves. If farts could talk, this one would have said, Damn coppers!

Sorin Suciu

#15. Coppers and purples, and reds and golds, browns and blacks streaked across the earth violently, and sweeping up and over, a kaleidoscope of dirt and rock that challenges even the most jaded of hearts to not fall under her spell.

Danielle Rohr

#16. Waifs and bloody strays, because normal people wouldn't be coppers.

Terry Pratchett

#17. I've got a feeling that with the best coppers - and in fact the best people in any field of work - what sets them apart is a maverick quality. People who are not afraid to bend the rules in order to achieve the universally desired end.

Ken Stott

#18. Daisy, Daisy, the coppers are after you,
If they catch you they'll give you a month or two,
They'll tie you up with wi-er
Behind the Black Mari-er,
So ring your bell
And pedal like hell
On a bicycle made for two.

Iona Opie

#19. Vimes had believed all his life that the Watch were called coppers because they carried copper badges, but no, said Carrot, it comes from the old word cappere, to capture.

Terry Pratchett

#20. People say I think too much about women, yet, after all what is there more important to think about?

Auguste Rodin

#21. My job is to try to figure out how to fix things, and I'm going to fix things as best as I can. I'm going to get a team together to fix things. And I can't sit around and worrying what the heck the chairman of the Republican Party thinks about what I'm doing.

John Kasich

#22. The streets were empty and shiny black with fresh rain. I listened to the water rush under the tires and tried to not lose it completely.

Becca Fitzpatrick

#23. Information was control.

Joan Didion

#24. In Systems Thinking, the true wisdom often comes from a willingness to let go of past learning.

Pearl Zhu

#25. You cannot hide; your growth as an artist is not separate from your growth as a human being: it is all visible.

Anne Bogart

#26. It is perilously easy to have amazing sympathy with God's truth and remain in sin.

Oswald Chambers

#27. A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life.

Saul Bellow

#28. I like to think of my work as creating a private conversation with each person, no matter how public each work is and no matter how many people are present

Maya Lin

#29. New technology also creates new occupations and requires new expertise, which further undermines the value of long experience and seasoned judgment.

Atul Gawande

#30. How long can I listen to the lies of prejudice? How long can I stay drunk on fear out in the wilderness? Can I cast it aside, all this loyalty and this pride? Will I ever learn that there'll be no peace, that the war won't cease, until He returns?

Bob Dylan

#31. What this means is that people are seeing a stable business, which is good, and a business that is in control, which is also good.

Steve Jobs

#32. Her grief grieved her. His devastated her.

Arundhati Roy

#33. Be good & you will be lonesome. Be lonesome & you will be free.

Jimmy Buffett

#34. It is no more possible for God than for the weakest of His creatures to carry out both of two mutually exclusive alternatives; not because His power meets an obstacle, but because nonsense remains nonsense even when we talk it about God.
- The Problem of Pain, p. 18

C.S. Lewis