Police Captain Prior

Famous quotes containing the words police, captain and/or prior:

    “Now, honestly: if a large group of ... demonstrators blocked the entrances to St. Patrick’s Cathedral every Sunday for years, making it impossible for worshipers to get inside the church without someone escorting them through screaming crowds, wouldn’t some judge rule that those protesters could keep protesting, but behind police lines and out of the doorways?”
    —Anna Quindlen (b. 1953)

    “If something isn’t saved, then what’s it all for?”
    —Sydney Pollack. Captain Beckman (Patrick O’Neal)

    “And ‘tis remarkable that they
    Talk most who have the least to say.”
    —Matthew Prior (1664–1721)