Back In Nam Quotes

#1. What am I dying for? he cried back. I'm dying because this world I'm living in isn't worth dying for! If something is worth dying for, then you've got a reason to live.

Viet Thanh Nguyen

#2. I want to know without words. I want to fall so violently that I risk breaking into a million pieces. I want to love so desperately it's indecent. I want it to be wild and fated and forever. A no-choice connection.

Tia Williams

#3. If you're going to write a good book, you have to make mistakes and you have to not be so cautious all the time.

Zadie Smith

#4. So we need to not simply aim to do good in all areas of life, but be diligent in seeking to learn what actually will do good. We need to be smart about doing good. Good intentions are not enough. We need to do good that actually helps.

Matt Perman

#5. You can't play bass in a vacuum.

Roger Glover

#6. In very rare cases, people will be self-satisfied and content within themselves. More often than not the very same people who choose to live alone are simply in denial after a painful experience or the failure in an intimate relationship.

Nityananda Das

#7. I see a huge monster, and his name is Religion, and I am finally brave enough to be angry with him, because he has stolen God away from me, making Him into a tame little puny judge with graying hair who raps his wooden mallet and squeaks out, You're forever guilty.

Mandy Steward

#8. Back on the block they probably call Big Al "Fat Albert" but here in the Nam we don't insult our friends.

Derrick Wolf

#9. Positive thoughts (expectations) can change perspective, transform behaviors, and attract good fortune.

Donna M. McDine

#10. For the Christian, worship is co-extensive with life. Life is already an expression of worship.

Ravi Zacharias