Top 50 Great Cop Sayings
#1. Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is the belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.
Richard Dawkins
#2. Genius does not seem to derive any great support from syllogisms. Its carriage is free; its manner has a touch of inspiration. We see it come, but we never see it walk.
Joseph De Maistre
#3. Allow the way to your great work to be guided by your service to others.
Mollie Marti
#4. Like any great art, the culture of hip-hop has changed with the times. With the state of technology, music is more accessible and freely exchanged. For hip-hop to grow while keeping a sense of integrity, the essence of the culture has to be handed down and respected like any high form of art.
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#5. So long as we mayhavean independent Judiciary, the great interests of the people will be safe.
John Rutledge
#6. His eyes sparkled, and he sent up a great blue triumphant cloud from his cigarette.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#7. There are some great teachers who have had great students, but they themselves can't play a note. I don't understand it, because the most I learned from my teacher was just hearing him play.
Joshua Bell
#8. Ambition is the incentive that makes purpose GREAT and ACHIEVEMENT greater!
Orison Swett Marden
#9. When a man comes out of great danger, he is apt to be a little deaf to the call of duty.
John Buchan
#10. British actors are renowned for being great villains in movies, like Bond films, all the rest of it.
Luke Evans
#11. My two great treats in life are baked beans and vanilla ice-cream.
Jonathan Dimbleby
#13. A great leader must serve the best interests of the people first, not those of multinational corporations. Human life should never be sacrificed for monetary profit. There are no exceptions.
Suzy Kassem
#14. This isn't a good idea," I whispered, watching his lips come toward me.
"This is a fucking great idea," he muttered. Then he kissed me.
Kristen Ashley
#15. Boy, it's a tough planet if you want it to be. But a great planet if you let it.
Gary Busey
#16. Antony said to Poemen, 'Our great work is to lay the blame for our sins upon ourselves before God, and to expect to be tempted to our last breath.
Benedicta Ward
#17. My mother was a Bloomsbury figure: a great friend of TS Eliot, Duncan Grant, Vanessa Bell. My grandmother, Mary Hutchinson, gave her life to works of art, being an admirer of Matisse and Giaometti, whom I collected as a young man because of her.
Jacob Rothschild
#18. When I did 'Bird,' it was a surprise to some people, first because I wasn't in it and second because most of the films I'd been doing were cop movies or westerns or adventure films, so to be doing one about Charlie Parker, who was a great influence on American music, was a great thrill for me.
Clint Eastwood
#19. Great. First the anonymous call. Now letters. Body parts all over town. It was like a scavenger hunt for psychos. Running after clues with a half-deranged, serial-killer-obsessed, recovering-addict cop was not a good idea. Then again ...
Chelsea Cain
#20. New Rule: If we want to find a place to cut government waste, we must start with the DEA rubber duck. Yes, on the DEA's website you can buy a rubber ducky with a DEA badge and a cop's hat. Which I recommend doing, because they're a great place to hide your weed.
Bill Maher
#21. Arnold Schwarzenegger announced he's running for governor. He's got a great slogan - 'Vote for me, or I'll make 'Kindergarten Cop II
Craig Kilborn
#22. I'd never played a cop before, and this particular role with what she is going thru, especially during the first season, covering her alcoholism to her on the job performance, was a great opportunity for me as an actress.
Nancy McKeon
#23. It's really nice to be able to do something that you've never done. I think that's the gift of being an actor because I get to play a cop, a racist cop and I've never done that before. It's nice to inhabit these other worlds especially when you get to work with great actors.
Matt Dillon
#25. With all these great (guitar teachers) around here, don't cop their licks, COP THEIR ATTITUDE.
Leo Kottke
#26. Mrs. Bevins smiled. "Okay. I'll cop. I think every teacher sees this sometimes. It's not simply intelligence or talent. It's a nobility of spirit. A quality which could make him great at whatever he wanted to do." We
Lucia Berlin
#27. The secret of great cathedrals is that their proportions conform to cosmic laws, 'shaping' people who spend time in them.
Theodor Schwenk
#28. Was I wrong? Was I imagining a problem where there wasn't one? Of course my great aunt Maureen always said even a broken clock is right twice a day.
Suzanne M. Trauth
#29. As I have encountered difficult moments in my own life, I have been privileged to learn from the great men I have come to know as a writer.
Candice Millard
#30. People like me, LB, the truly great ones ... we are always alone.
Eoin Colfer
#31. A great many problems could be solved by nothing more than a change in thinking.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#32. Evils in the journey of life are like the hills which alarm travelers upon their road; they both appear great at a distance, but when we approach them we find that they are far less insurmountable than we had conceived.
Charles Caleb Colton
#33. Billy Joel and Joe Jackson were both great, and they both play piano.
Ben Folds
#34. At forty-five degrees, the sky will burn. Fire to approach the great new city; in an instant, a great scattered flame will leap up, when one will want to get evidence from the Normans.
Nostradamus
#36. And remember it takes great courage and heart for a man who knows no kindness to show it to another. Even the wildest of beasts can be tamed by a patient and gentle hand.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#37. The whole system was based upon getting kids to a certain standard and packing their minds with information so they could go on to a good university ... The great failure in education, much of the time, is a lack of excitement and stimulus.
Bill Bryson
#38. I say that male and female are cast in the same mold; except for education and habits, the difference is not great.
Michel De Montaigne
#39. Janice rolled her eyes. First, the doctor had ogled her, and now Karr was leering at her and licking his lips lasciviously.
Oh this is great. I'm being mentally undressed by a space pirate.
William L. Lavell
#40. Mrs. Nixon and I share the sorrow of millions of Americans at the death of Louis Armstrong. One of the architects of an American art form, a free and individual spirit, and an artist of worldwide fame, his great talents and magnificent spirit added richness and pleasure to all our lives.
Richard M. Nixon
#41. There's no way that I could do a 9 to 5 job. There's no way. I was not cut out for that. You come in and you work for three months on the one job. They say, 'Great,' you know, and you're on to the next one - and you never even got fired. It's wonderful.
Dennis Quaid
#42. Try not to worry, for time is a great healer.' Such words were futile.
Catherine Cookson
#43. Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.
George Eliot
#44. Catholic schools carry out a great mission, to serve God by building knowledge and character ... By teaching the word of God, you prepare your students to follow a path of virtue.
George W. Bush
#45. Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so.
After all, the sky flashes, the great sea yearns,
we ourselves flash and yearn
John Berryman
#46. You don't want to continue to do one thing and only one thing. You want to keep challenging yourself and if you do well at it, great, if you fall on your face, you tried. Like, she's really terrible at comedy! Who knew? But if you didn't try and put yourself out there you'd never know.
Lucy Liu
#47. The United States, obviously, has a great interest in helping to maintain peace and security in Europe, and we have a formal alliance, NATO, to do so.
Hillary Clinton
#48. If you know how to read, you have a complete education about life, then you know how to vote within a democracy. But if you don't know how to read, you don't know how to decide. That's the great thing about our country - we're a democracy of readers, and we should keep it that way.
Ray Bradbury
#49. There was a precarious balance during those crucial months between composition and decomposition - what the world gained and what a great city lost. Even then, some part of Detroit was dying, and that is where the story begins.
David Maraniss
#50. My mother was really my partner in every project that I had. She was just the great enabler of my dreams.
Diane Keaton
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