Vietnam My Lai Quotes & Sayings

Try always, Wolsey says, to find out what people wear under their clothes. — Hilary Mantel

Don't bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. — Bob Marley

It is proposed that a form of free dialogue may well be one of the most effective ways of investigating the crisis which faces society, and indeed the whole of human nature and consciousness today. Moreover, it may turn out that such a form of free exchange of ideas and information is of fundamental relevance for transforming culture and freeing it of destructive misinformation, so that creativity can be liberated. — David Bohm

If one morning in the Spring, a stranger came and said to me, Your mother, father, brother, sister, uncle, lover, friend, is dead. From a b-52, napalm bombing, search and destroy mission, air attack, Tet offensive, My Lai massacre, failed escape, I would not scream but make of my body a net, a tarp, stretched taut across the sky, the sea, over every village and hamlet. Prepared to catch everything from the sky, shade everything on the ground, rain water and receive you, war, with arms outstretched. — Le Thi Diem Thuy

Reason is not measured by size or height, but by principle. — Epictetus

The only American soldier convicted in the [My Lai Massacre in Vietnam], Lieutenant William Calley, served three months under house arrest. What the massacre drove home to me was that Oriental life was not terribly valuable. You could extinguish hundreds of Orientals - unarmed villagers, farmers, women, toddlers, infants - and the penalty would be napping and watching television in your apartment for twelve weeks. — Alex Tizon

I just don't want to make the same old movies. I'm not interested in it. Directing's hard. It takes up a lot of your life, and I'm not that interested in making the same old film. — Drew Goddard

Here is a secret that no one has told you: Real life is junior high. — Tom Brokaw

Those who understand only what can be explained understand very little. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

Sometimes you don't feel the hits from the game until you're at home on the couch. — Eddie Lacy

The America I know is great - not because government made it great but because ordinary citizens like me, like my father and like you are given the opportunity every day to do extraordinary things. — Mia Love

We want, in fact, not so much a father in heaven as a grandfather in heaven: a senile benevolence who, as they say, "liked to see young people enjoying themselves" and whose plan for the universe was simply that it might be truly said at the end of each day, "a good time was had by all." — C.S. Lewis

Being stubborn won't make you fluent. Practicing will! The more mistakes you make, the more you'll learn not to. — Thanhha Lai

I hate being told I can't do something because I'm a girl! — Thanhha Lai

One for sorrow, two for mirth, three for a wedding, four for a birth, five for silver, six for gold, seven for a secret that's never been told.
~ Simon — Cassandra Clare

I want to make my own discoveries ... ... .penetrate the evil which attracts me — Anais Nin

Every time a customer calls or you call a customer, you have an opportunity and a choice. What choice are you making? — Jeffrey Gitomer

It used to be that people needed products to survive. Now products need people to survive. — Nicholas Johnson

'These boat people,' says the government of Hong Kong, 'they all want to go to America.' Well, I swear I don't know why, do you? I mean, take Vietnam. Why would any Vietnamese come to America after what American did to Vietnam? Don't they remember My Lai, napalm, Sylvester Stallone? — Linda Ellerbee