Quotes About Lawmen

#1. Goodness is not the absence of evil - it's the light that pushes back the darkness ...

John Geddes

#2. The use of literature is to afford us a platform whence we may command a view of our present life, a purchase by which we may move it ... we see literature best from the midst of wild nature, or from the din of affairs, or from a high religion. The field cannot be well seen from within the field.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#3. The instant Isabella Cortez left the safety of the FBI building, goose bumps skittered across her skin and her senses went on high alert.

Elizabeth Heiter

#4. He also had deep brown eyes, light brown skin and an infectious grin, even in the middle of a grueling SWAT workout. In short, exactly her type. If only he wasn't a teammate, making him off-limits. And if only she didn't have baggage from her past that weighed more than he did.

Elizabeth Heiter

#5. Brave people are the firemen who run into the burning building. That's brave.

Elizabeth Edwards

#6. The lower classes of men, though they do not think it worthwhile to record what they perceive, nevertheless perceive everything that is worth noting; the difference between them and a man of learning often consists in nothing more than the latter's facility for expression.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

#7. The soul is never perfectly secure from the influence of passion; the occasional tranquility she seems to enjoy, is rather relaxation than imperturbable triumph.

Norm MacDonald

#8. He had always pitched in his conversational ante, and if he had contributed infrequently thereafter, it was because he was only interested when the stakes reached a certain minimum level. Small talk was usually a waste of time.

Kim Stanley Robinson

#9. Nine people had died today. And it didn't matter what the FBI had thought of her actions. Her career as a negotiator had ended before it had even begun.

Elizabeth Heiter

#10. I put more lawmen in the ground than Alabama put cottonseed,

Mike Cooley

#11. Painting, not that lifeless husk

James Patterson

#12. Carver was truculent: "What's a good part of it?

John Sandford

#13. If you were only to listen, it becomes meditation. Without meditation you cannot hear. What is the meaning of meditation? Meditation exists only where mind is not; where the internal dialogue is gone.

Rajneesh

#14. There's racism and sexism and ageism and all sorts of idiocies. But bad news is not news. We've had bad news as a species for a long time. We've had slavery and human sacrifice and the holocaust and brutalities of such measure.

Maya Angelou

#15. Better by far to live in the truth and know it, however bad it may be, than hide yourself away behind ignorance and habit.

Owen Sheers