Say What? by Sandy Foster (best black authors txt) 📖

hurt. Dance like nobody’s watching.”
427. “Don’t look conspicuous. It draws fire.”
428. “Teamwork is essential; it gives the enemy someone else to shoot at.”
429. “When the pin is pulled. Mr. Grenade is not our friend.”
430. “A Purple Heart just proves that you were smart enough to think of a plan, stupid enough to try it, and lucky enough to survive.”
431. “If God had meant for us to be in the Army, we would have been born with green, baggy skin.”
432. “Never tell the Platoon Sergeant you have nothing to do.”
433. “Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons.”
434. “When you’re short of everything but the enemy, you’re in combat.”
435. “If you ain’t making waves, you ain’t kicking hard enough.”
436. “When everything’s coming your way, you’re in the wrong lane.”
437. “Running away won’t solve your problems, but it’ll buy you time until you can turn around.”
438. “It doesn’t matter what temperature the room is. It’s always room temperature.”
439. “No one is listening until you make a mistake.”
440. “Success always occurs in private, and failure in full view.”
441. “Always hold your head up high, but be careful to keep your nose at a friendly level.”
442. “Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.”
443. The trouble with like is, you’re halfway through it before you realize it’s a ‘do it yourself’ thing.”
444. “Sometimes you laugh until you cry and sometimes you cry until you laugh.”
445. “Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live, taking the form of readiness to die.”
446. “Everybody lies, but it doesn’t matter since nobody listens.”
447. “Today is the tomorrow you were so worried about yesterday.”
448. “When someone is having a bad day, be silent, be still, and nuzzle them gently.”
449. “When someone says, ‘Do you want my opinion?’, it’s usually a negative one.”
450. “You can listen to thunder after lightning and tell how close you came to getting hit. If you don’t hear it, you got hit, so never mind.”
451. “If you laugh a lot, when you get older, your wrinkles will be in all the right places.”
452. “I went to a fight and a hockey game broke out.” – Rodney Dangerfield
453. “I bought some batteries, but they weren’t included, so I had to buy them again.”
454. “I have an open mind. It’s just closed for repairs.”
455. “I’ve gotta be me. Everyone else was already taken.”
456. “I don’t suffer from insanity. I enjoy every minute of it.
457. “I used to have a handle on life. Then it broke.”
458. “I don’t do drugs anymore ‘cause I find I get the same effect just by standing up really fast.”
459. “It’s been lovely, but I must scream now.”
460. “Of all the things I’ve loved and lost, I miss my mind the most.”
461. “It’s not that I’m paranoid. It’s just that everyone is out to get me.”
462. “Tell your little voices to SHUT UP! I can’t hear mine…”
463. “I’ve always wanted to be somebody. Next time I’ll be more specific.”
464. “I’m not myself today. Maybe I’m you.”
465. “If love makes the world go ‘round, why can’t I save a few bucks and get it to run my car?”
466. “I went for a walk last night and my kids asked me how long I’d be gone. I said the whole time.”
467. “I stayed in a really old hotel last night. They sent me a wake up letter.”
468. “Into every life a little rain must fall, but I think someone’s mistaken me for Noah.”
469. “This morning I looked down at my unmade bed and decided that it was art in another medium and I shouldn’t destroy it.
470. “Transported to a surreal landscape, a young girl kills the first woman she meets, and then teams up with three complete strangers to kill again.” – Marion County Newspaper TV listing for The Wizard of Oz
471. “The loneliest point in your life is when you’ve just experienced what you thought was the ultimate and it has let you down.” – Rani Zacharias
472. “Don’t frown, because you never know who’s falling in love with your smile.”
473. “Things happen that you can’t stop, but that wasn’t a reason for shutting out the world.” – Demi Moore quoting Crazy Pete, Now and Then
474. “I am tired of being strong.” – Lucilla, Gladiator
475. “What we do in life, echoes in eternity.” – Maximus, Gladiator
476. “What’s up with that?” – Me
477. “In the course of life you have countless acquaintances, but it is an extraordinarily rare event when you are touched by someone who greatly enhances your quality of life.” – Bill Lilly, Akron Beacon Journal, Sports Section
478. “Maximus! Maximus! Maximus! They call for you. The general who became a slave, the slave who became a gladiator, the gladiator who defied and emperor – striking story. Now the people want to know who the story ends. Only a famous death will do and what could be more glorious than to challenge the emperor himself in the great arena?” – Commodus, Gladiator
479. “I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.” – Chinese proverb
480. “There is no such thing as a minor lapse in integrity.” – Tom Peters
481. “There is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.” – Booker T. Washington
482. “In soloing – as in other activities – it is far easier to start something than it is to finish it.” – Amelia Earhart
483. “Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.” – Albert Einstein
484. “The wisest mind has something yet to learn.” – George Santayana
485. “The mind ought sometimes to be diverted, that it may return to better thinking.” – Phaedrus
486. “Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.” – Hannah Arendt
487. “Age is something that doesn’t matter unless you are a cheese.” – Billie Burke
488. “Character is much easier kept than recovered.” – Anonymous
489. “It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day to day basis.” – Margaret Bonnano
490. “All things are difficult before they are easy.” – Italian proverb
491. “The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.” – Robert Green Ingersoll
492. “Ant it is this feeling… it starts deep inside you, it’s warm and exciting and it puts you out of your comfort zone, and as it grows bigger like nothing else ever before in your life, and when it feels like you are about to explode with feelings you can’t explain, it’s in that moment that true love is either experienced or denied.”
493. “He who does not hope to win has already lost.” – Jose Joaquin Olmedo
494. “One, who does not look ahead, remains behind.” – Brazilian proverb
495. “The final forming of a person’s character lies in their own hands.” – Anne Frank
496. “My greatest concern is not whether you have failed, but if you are content with your failure.” – Abraham Lincoln
497. “That which we obtain too easily, we esteem too lightly.” – Thomas Paine
498. “It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give happiness.” – Thomas Jefferson
499. “Victory belongs to the most persevering.” – Napoleon Bonaparte
500. “The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.” – Mark Twain
501. “When somebody loved me, everything was beautiful. Every hour we spent together, lives within my heart and when she was sad, I was there to dry her tears and when she was happy, so was I, when she loved me.” – Jessie, Toy Story 2
502. “The sky is falling.” – Chicken Little
503. “The line must be drawn here!” – Patrick Stewart
504. “Life is peachy.”
505. “He slides into second with a stand up double.” – Herb Score
506. ““Can’t rain all the time.” – Crow
507. “Dead dogs don’t bark.”
508. “If you cross your eyes, they’ll stay that way.”
509. “Life has no consequences, only reactions.”
510. “Lesson number one: Never attack in Anger.” – Zorro, Mask of Zorro
511. “I thought you were all tied up.” – Captor, Mask of Zorro
512. “That’s because you’re stupid.” – Alejandro’s brother, Mask of Zorro
513. “Did you miss me?” – Alejandro, Mask of Zorro
514. “I love you more than yesterday, less than tomorrow.”
515. “He hits from both sides of the plate. He’s amphibious.” – Yogi Berra
516. “I think Little League is wonderful. It keeps kids out of the house.” – Yogi Berra
517. “Always obey your parents, when they are present.” – Mark Twain
518. “Get a bicycle. You will not regret it, if you live.” – Mark Twain
519. “There was never yet an uninteresting life. Such a thing would be an impossibility. Inside of the dullest exterior, there is a drama, a comedy, and a tragedy.” – Mark Twain
520. “You embarrass me!” – Dom, The Fast and the Furious
521. “What the hell’s going on here?” – Pizza delivery guy, The Fast and the Furious
522. The road’s closed, pizza boy. Find another way home.” – A racer, The Fast and the Furious
523. “It doesn’t matter if you win by an inch or a mile. Winning’s winning.” – Dom, The Fast and the Furious
524. “Concordia provides you with a football free campus.” – Jonathan Rundman
525. “Right now we are in the season of Easter. I hope you’re having a good season.” – Jonathan Rundman
526. “I’m working my committee for the Lord. I go every second Tuesday working my committee for the Lord. Luther took his hammer working his committee for the Lord.” – Jonathan Rundman
527. “Buzz, I am your father.” – Zurg, Toy Story 2
528. “What are you? A man or an amoeba?” – Mr. Keating, Dead Poets’ Society
529. “Depend on the rabbit’s foot if you will, but remember it didn’t work for the rabbit.” – R.E. Shay
530. “People learn from a story.” – God Doesn’t Make Trash, pg. 179
531. “Of all nature’s gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?” – Marcus Tullius Cicero
532. “The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.” – Muhammad Ali
533. “What soap is to the body, laughter is to the soul.” – Yiddish proverb
534. “If you are going through hell, keep going.” – Winston Churchill
535. “Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is the marble and the sculptor.” – Alexis Carrel
536. “Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soul has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow there, form as weeds along rocks.” – Charles Bronte
537. “It’s never the end of the world. It’s already tomorrow in Australia.” – Charles M. Schulz
538. “Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in, forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
539. “He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.” – Epictetus
540. “The fire of anger burns only the angry.” – Chinese proverb
541. “Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.” – Henri Bergson
542. “So-called aging is not