Ermey Vietnam Quotes

#1. A believer twists the Bible to fit his or her lifestyle. A follower works to make his or her lifestyle resemble the teachings of the Bible.

Jarrid Wilson

#2. Becoming attached to a country involves pressing, uncomfortable questions about justice and opportunity for its least powerful citizens.

Katherine Boo

#3. Because I make films about eating disorders and sexual assault, people always come up to me and are like, "Are you okay?" like I'm a broken-down shell of a woman.

Jessie Kahnweiler

#4. Communications are better now than in my Vietnam days.

R. Lee Ermey

#5. Poetry is the imitation of the most important aspect of human existence life and that's what make's it so beautiful and necessary.

Nicolas Saperstein

#6. I have come to the point in life where I begin to discover that forgiveness is not for the other person, it's for you.

Abdulazeez Henry Musa

#7. I've always regarded it as a test of character to dislike the Kennedys. I don't really respect anyone who falls for Camelot.

Christopher Hitchens

#8. The detail is as important as the essential is. When it is inadequate, it destroys the whole outfit.

Christian Dior

#9. In other words, such is he desire which everyone has to exculpate himself by blackening his neighbour. You and I, Belford, have been very kind to the world in furnishing it with many opportunities to gratify its devil.

Samuel Richardson

#10. If, at any time, it comes into my head, that a present is due from me to somebody, I am puzzled what to give, until the opportunity is gone.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#11. Everybody respects the Vietnam Veterans of America.

R. Lee Ermey

#12. Back in the old Corp, we weren't training those privates to infiltrate into the peacetime Marine Corp. We were training those privates to go to Vietnam.

R. Lee Ermey

#13. Kevyn, I'm promoting you from Tech Sergeant to Munitions Commander. I want you to take responsibility for all Company weapons.
Munitions Commander? Why me?
I don't know. Call it "suspicion of extreme competence" on my part.
-Captain Tagon & Commander Kevyn Andreyasn

Howard Tayler

#14. We remember an atmosphere because girls were smiling in it.

Marcel Proust

#15. You cannot expect life to go wonderfully. Terrible things might not be happening now...but they will. Probably to you. Your job is to accept that and live a nice life anyway.

Jennifer Niesslein

#16. Do not believe everything you think or that you believe.

Tom Cunningham