Vietcong 2 Quotes & Sayings

Write him down, if he must write him down as something, as a disbeliever; he disbelieved in the Pope, in the Kremlin, in the Vietcong, in the American eagle, in astrology, Arthur Schlesinger, Eldridge Cleaver, Senator Eastland, and Eastman Kodak. Nor did he believe overmuch in his disbelief. He — John Updike

In 1975, the Americans suffered a spectacular military defeat at the hands of North Vietnam and the Vietcong, with U.S. helicopters seeking to rescue leading U.S. personnel from the tops of buildings as Vietnamese guerrillas closed in on the centre of Saigon. — Martin Jacques

I am the Vietcong. We are everywhere! We are all Vietcong. — Tom Hayden

We prefer that the leaders of the Iraqi armed forces do the honorable thing; stop fighting for a regime that does not deserve your loyalty. — Peter Pace

BRABANTIO Humbly I thank your grace. Here is the man, this Moor; whom now, it seems, Your special mandate for the state affairs Hath hither brought. DUKE and SENATORS We — William Shakespeare

The psychotic clown I sent for his birthday will feel like a feather falling on a pillow atop a cloud. The laxative in my lunch? Child's play. If you think it was bad when I sent that fake resume for his open assistant position and the stripper came for the interview? No. We're talking Defcon Five, Vietcong-level mind fucking, do you hear me, Chloe? — Christina Lauren

I'm fond of observing how obsession is the most durable form of intellectual capital. — Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

I want to be the kind of person who can do that. Move on and forgive people and be healthy and happy. It seems like an easy thing to do in my head. But it's not so easy when you try it in real life. — Susane Colasanti

When helicopters were snatching people from the grounds of the American embassy compound during the panic of the final Vietcong push into Saigon, I was sitting in front of the television set shouting, Get the chefs! Get the chefs! — Calvin Trillin

Johnson had been the most powerful man in the world, yet the North Vietnamese and the Vietcong had resisted, overcome his power, broken his will. — Stephen Ambrose

You're in trouble for that," I told Bennett. "Will said he's going to 'Vietcong' on you — Christina Lauren

Postmodern theatre seems unwilling to listen to talk about textual or theatrical heritage, which it treats as no more than memory in the technical sense of that word, as an immediately available and reusable memory bank. — Patrice Pavis

I learned that in a tragedy there are no winners, only people struggling to survive the aftermath. — Ruth Cardello

I really like the iPad. I think that's pretty cool. — Justin Verlander

I Ain't Got No Quarrel With The VietCong ... No VietCong Ever Called Me Nigger. — Muhammad Ali

We the People - shelling the Vietcong — Allen Ginsberg

The desire for self-expression afflicts people when they feel there is something of themselves which is not getting through to the outside world. — Fay Weldon

I, for one, will not have [the Vietcong] insulted by any comparison to the forces of Zarqawi, the Fedayeen Saddam, and the criminal underworld now arrayed against us. These depraved elements are the Iraqi Khmer Rouge. — Christopher Hitchens

I got no quarrel with them Vietcong. — Muhammad Ali