Top 37 Thanhha Quotes
#1. Distress is virtue's opportunity: we only live to teach us how to die.
Thomas Southerne
#3. Being stubborn won't make you fluent. Practicing will! The more mistakes you make, the more you'll learn not to.
Thanhha Lai
#4. Would be simpler
if English
and life
were logical
Thanhha Lai
#5. Mother says,
People share
when they know they have escaped hunger.
Shouldn't people share
because there is hunger?
Thanhha Lai
#6. give me
a pillow of strong
ever-dependable shoulders
that i can bury my head in.
Sanober Khan
#7. Reality may avoid the obligation to be interesting, but ... hypotheses may not.
Jorge Luis Borges
#8. I hate being told I can't do something because I'm a girl!
Thanhha Lai
#9. Mother warns
how we act today
foretells the whole year
Thanhha Lai
#10. I wish
our cowboy could be persuaded
to buy a horse,
that I could be invisible
until I can talk back
Thanhha Lai
#11. No, Mr. Johnston doesn't have a horse, nor has he ever ridden one. What kind of a cowboy is he?
Thanhha Lai
#12. As an improvising musician, I am not in the music business, I am not in the creativity business; I am in the surrender business.
Stephen Nachmanovitch
#13. In the future, the number of languages being spoken will not matter. You could host a dinner party with eight different languages, and the voice your ear will always be whispering the one language you want to hear.
Alec J. Ross
#14. MiSSS SScott
points to the numbers
along the wall.
I count up to twenty.
The class claps
on its own.
I'm furious,
unable to explain
I already learned
fractions and how to purify water.
So this is what dumb feels like. I hate, hate,
hate it.
Thanhha Lai
#15. People living on others' goodwill cannot afford political opinions.
Thanhha Lai
#16. Let him join the men of the past. Her old lovers were ghosts. None of them had survived; none were missed.
Sarah Hall
#17. Oh, my daughter,
at times you have to fight,
but preferably
not with your fists.
Thanhha Lai
#18. I step back,
hating pity,
having learned
from Mother that
the pity giver
feels better,
never the pity receiver.
Thanhha Lai
#19. All day
I practice
squeezing hisses
through my teeth.
Whoever invented
English
must have loved
snakes.
Thanhha Lai
#20. The first dogma which I came to disbelieve was that of free will. It seemed to me that all notions of matter were determined by the laws of dynamics and could not therefore be influenced by human wills.
Bertrand Russell
#21. Entrepreneurs don't believe the future is predictable - but they do believe that they can create the future themselves.
Max McKeown
#22. How can we scramble away like rats, without honor, without dignity, when everyone must help rebuild the country?
Thanhha Lai
#23. Black seeds spill like clusters of eyes, wet and crying.
Thanhha Lai
#24. Our lives
will twist and twist,
intermingling the old and the new
until it doesn't matter
which is which.
Thanhha Lai
#25. I tell you of my loss, child, so you will listen, slowly, and know that in life every emotion is fated to rear itself within your being. Don't judge it proper or ugly. It's simply there and yours.
Thanhha Lai
#26. Mother tells me,
They tease you
because they adore you.
Thanhha Lai
#27. It's OK to have your eggs in one basket as long as you control what happens to that basket.
Elon Musk
#28. Whoever invented English
should have learned
to spell.
Thanhha Lai
#29. Everyone knows the ship could sink, unable to hold the piles of bodies that keep crawling on like raging ants from a disrupted nest. But no one is heartless enough to say stop because what if they had been stopped before their turn?
Thanhha Lai
#30. No one would believe me but at times I would choose wartime in Saigon over peacetime in Alabama.-Inside Out and Back Again
Thanhha Lai
#31. We glide and I feel as if I'm floating.
Thanhha Lai
#32. The more people, as you know, are able to be on whatever spectrum of femininity and masculinity they are on at that moment, that opens the door for women to not have to be the opposite of what the supposed traditional male is.
Kathleen Hanna
#33. Why no s for two deer,
but an s for two monkeys?
Brother Quang says
no one knows.
So much for rules!
Whoever invented English should be bitten by a snake.
Thanhha Lai
#34. And, though reading may not at first blush seem like an act of creation, in a deep sense it is. Without the enthusiastic reader, who is really the author's counterpart and very often his most secret rival, a book would die.
Henry Miller
#35. During the thousands of years of monetary system, most workers have been paid just enough to make it necessary that they return to work, even when higher wages have been possible. How else can the wage-payer keep the workers coming back?
Jacque Fresco
#36. This year I hope
I truly learn
to fly-kick
not to kick anyone
so much as
to fly.
Thanhha Lai
#37. My curse: rebellious in my head but oh-so-lovely in real life.
Thanhha Lai
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