Quotes About Nhu

#1. Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed by them.

Henry David Thoreau

#2. In trying to please other people, we find ourselves misdirected toward what lies outside our sphere of influence. In doing so, we lose our hold on our lifes purpose.

Epictetus

#3. I had no support, no opportunity, no sponsors backing me for most of my career.

Mary Kom

#4. If there were no war, if there was peace in the world, I'd say fine, have fun! But, Montag, you mustn't go back to being just a fireman. All isn't well with the world.

Ray Bradbury

#5. For many people traveling can have deep psychological meaning.

Helene Deutsch

#6. All the things we achieve are things we have first of all imagined.

David Malouf

#7. It's one thing if everyone wears the same shoes or drinks the same soda. But the world of literature is the last place in which globalization should mean homogeneity.

Benjamin Moser

#8. [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

#9. In his failure Nhu had withdrawn so far into himself that in the end his face was a mask that no longer opened onto the real world.

Frances FitzGerald

#10. It's part of our overall Body Negation Program.

Sue Monk Kidd

#11. I had nothing better to do, had I, except recount my money and repaint my finger-nails and die of frustration?

Elaine Dundy