Thorn Bearer Quotes & Sayings

It has been said that nearly all of our worries and unhappiness come from our imagination and not from reality. — Dale Carnegie

So, before leading my troops into battle, we would get drunk and drugged up, sacrifice a local teenager, drink their blood, then strip down to our shoes and go into battle wearing colourful wigs and carrying dainty purses we'd looted from civilians. We'd slaughter anyone we saw, chop their heads off and use them as soccer balls. We were nude, fearless, drunk and homicidal. We killed hundreds of people - so many I lost count. — General Butt Naked

there can be no reason to believe these officers of an established news organization serving newspapers all over the country failed to realize their responsibilities at a moment of supreme significance to the people of this country. — John Dos Passos

Sports are basically our way of feeling sorry for ourselves. Most men can't become athletes. We're watching guys who actually made it. We see them dunking and making touchdowns. Then we think about ourselves when we were younger. — Kevin Hart

You have a choice. Take hold of your future or the past will take it for you. — Pepper D. Basham

Each time you allow the past to hold your future, [he] steals more and more from you. — Pepper D. Basham

Aw, git reconciled!.. You can't git her wid no fish sandwich. — Zora Neale Hurston

The countryside stretched green and alive from her perch on the hill....She breathed in the air of a free woman and marveled at how her clarity of spirit even seemed to affect her vision. Brighter colors. Fresher air. — Pepper D. Basham