Vietnam War Historiography Quotes & Sayings

Gil has put his book down and is gazing at something inside his head. — Meg Rosoff

When you ask for what you need and receive what people and the world have to give, you reduce stress and gain energy. ~Amanda Owen — Amanda Owen

Venice seems like a wonderful city in which to die a slow and alcoholic death, or to lose a loved one, or to lose the murder weapon with which the loved one was lost in the first place. — Elizabeth Gilbert

In books there were people who were always agreeable or tender, and delighted to do things that made one happy, and who did not show their kindness by finding fault. The world outside the books was not a happy one, Maggie felt: it seemed to be a world where people behaved the best to those they did not pretend to love and that did not belong to them. And if life had no love in it, what else was there for Maggie? Nothing but poverty and the companionship of her mother's narrow griefs - perhaps of her father's heart-cutting childish dependence. There is no hopelessness so sad as that of early youth, when the soul is made up of wants, and has no long memories, no super-added life in the life of others; though we who look on think lightly of such premature despair, as if our vision of the future lightened the blind sufferer's present. — George Eliot

I love school. I was a great student. — Joan Jett

Hey Nash! You scared?'
'Terrified,mortified,petrified...stupefied by you! — Sylvia Nasar

Your consent is your character. — Shannon L. Alder