Madame Nhu Quotes

#1. [Madame Nhu was] the Sandra Dee of South Vietnam. If I were cast on a desert island with her, I would quickly make friends with the natives.

Oscar Levant

#2. All of our panelists are deeply engaged in the topics at hand, so that leaves me free to convene a little dinner party, sans alcohol, and invite the rest of America to listen in.

Gwen Ifill

#3. Believe nothing, not even yourself.

G.I. Gurdjieff

#4. I must say, I rather like the way you manage Will.

Cassandra Clare

#5. You don't quite know how drunk you are until all of a sudden you're on the floor.

Gina Gershon

#6. Therefore you can never lose hope-hatikva-because if you keep hope alive, it will keep you alive.

Cassandra Clare

#7. from increasing the number of people in the "tails," that small, very small number of risk takers crazy enough to have ideas of their own, those endowed with

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#8. The professional world was much more unpleasant than I thought. I was always wishing I could get back that enthusiasm I had when I was doing shows at college.

Francis Ford Coppola

#9. You know, I designed the Queen crest. I simply combined all the creatures that represent our star signs-and I don't even believe in astrology.

Freddie Mercury

#10. But there's so much that was a lie, it's hard to figure out what was true, what was real, what matters.

Veronica Roth

#11. The movement to abolish the death penalty needs the religious community because the heart of religion is about compassion, human rights, and the indivisible dignity of each human person made in the image of God.

Helen Prejean

#12. They would go about town sighing and talking to themselves. "I love you," they would say to the imagined beloved, though it might have appeared to someone else that they were speaking to a snow shovel or an egg crate.

Mark Helprin

#13. Win your war, Lord Uhtred," he said, "then take her away from us priests and give her lots of children. She'll be happy, and one day she'll be truly wise. That's the women's real gift, to be wise, and not many men have it.

Bernard Cornwell

#14. We need to challenge our own thinking.

Elliot Aronson