Black Operations Quotes

#1. It is a great sign of mediocrity to praise always moderately.

Luc De Clapiers

#2. Dead pirates didn't get to spend their booty. Dead pirates didn't get to shake their booty, either. Bummer.

Nina Bangs

#3. But the important thing now is to enjoy yourself. A broken heart doesn't heal until you lose it to someone else. You need diversion. You should simply play, play, play - surround yourself with men until one of them makes you forget all about this poor, childish, confused Adam.

Emily Croy Barker

#4. HOW COULD anything originate out of its opposite? For example, truth out of error?

Friedrich Nietzsche

#5. I proudly served in the United States Army during the Korean War as an artillery operations specialist in the all-black 503rd Field Artillery Battalion in the Second Infantry Division.

Charles B. Rangel

#6. I'm serious about marrying you, Em. But I want to propose to you the right way- not half-naked and sporting wood.

Katie Ashley

#7. Al Qaeda is not the organization now that it was before. It is under stress organizationally. Its leadership spends more time trying to figure out how to keep from getting caught than they do trying to launch operations.

Cofer Black

#8. We worked to develop our own operations to advance U.S. counterterrorism objectives by penetrating terrorist safe havens and collecting intelligence that would inform policy and enable our own operations.

Cofer Black

#9. I'm sure anyone who likes a good crime, provided it is not the victim.

Alfred Hitchcock

#10. Nothing is ever quite right, is it, after a parent dies? No matter how well things go, something always feels slightly off ...

Jenna Blum

#11. My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose.

Ayn Rand

#12. Religion is a form of nourishment. It is difficult to appreciate the flavor and food-value of something one has never eaten.

Simone Weil

#13. My mom told me as a youngster I was always intellectual, like as far as being able to adapt fast and quick. But I had a fun childhood, went to regular school.

Chris Brown

#14. Let me play the lion too: I will roar that I will do any man's heart good to hear me. I will roar that I will make the duke say 'Let him roar again, let him roar again.

William Shakespeare

#15. GUILLOTINE, n. A machine which makes a Frenchman shrug his shoulders with good reason.

Ambrose Bierce

#16. The denials, if they need be given, could better be given with sincerity, and they could only be feigned if you didn't know them at all.

Kenneth Eade

#17. An alcoholic has a personality change after a drink or two, but a drunk can drink as much as he wants. I'm a drunk.

Oliver Sacks