Nguyen Giap Quotes

#1. I hate the stereotype of the pitfalls of the child actor. There are so many amazing examples - Natalie Portman, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Jodie Foster, Drew Barrymore - of people who have made it through.

Jamie Bell

#2. Sometimes, even when I'm trying to keep the load light it just feels so heavy. Like the sky is a ton of bricks waiting to fall and anything I might do, think or feel could cause it to come crashing down.

Jane Devin

#3. Our civilization depends largely on paper.

Pliny The Elder

#4. Happiness and joy are inner qualities that can't be shaken by outer circumstances because they are inherent within the core Self.

Michael Beckwith

#5. The hardest thing in life to do is to change.

Mickey Rourke

#6. Any forces that would impose their will on other nations will certainly face defeat.

Vo Nguyen Giap

#7. Thus thou must use to keep thyself to the first motions and apprehensions of things, as they present themselves outwardly; and add not unto them from within thyself through mere conceit and opinion.

Marcus Aurelius

#8. There was nothing more pressing to do all day, every day, except think about the question that his whole life had failed to answer: How did music trick the body into thinking it had a soul?

Richard Powers

#9. My fighting gospel is T.E. Lawrence's Seven Pillars of Wisdom. I am never without it.

Vo Nguyen Giap

#10. Do not fear the enemy, for they can take only your life. Fear the media far more, for they will destroy your honour.

Vo Nguyen Giap

#11. (The main advantage of books over life is that they can be redrafted and redrafted, whereas life, alas, is always a first draft.)

Matt Haig

#12. Pure Christianity, instead of being shaped by its environment, actually stands in sharp opposition to it.

Aiden Wilson Tozer