Viet Nam Sayings

#1. I asked this heroic pet lover how it felt to have died for a schnauzer named Teddy. Salvador Biagiani was philosophical. He said it sure beat dying for absolutely nothing in the Viet Nam War.

Kurt Vonnegut

#2. The Communist leaders in Moscow, Peking and Hanoi must fully understand that the United States considers the freedom of South Viet Nam vital to our interests. And they must know that we are not bluffing in our determination to defend those interests.

Gerald R. Ford

#3. Before Watergate and Viet Nam, the American public, as a whole, believed everything it was told, and since then it doesn't believe anything, and both of those extremes hurt us because they prevent us from recognizing the truth.

Daniel Keys Moran

#4. Just like the Alamo, somebody damn well needed to go to their aid. Well, by God, I'm going to Viet Nam's aid!

Lyndon B. Johnson

#5. ... Ending a conflict is not so simple, not just calling it off and coming home. Because the price for that kind of peace could be a thousand years of darkness for generation's Viet Nam borned.

Ronald Reagan

#6. I was eighteen when I first read Joseph Heller's stunning work 'Catch-22,' and was at that time close to being drafted for the fruitless and unenlightened war in Viet Nam.

Thomas Steinbeck

#7. My name Quan. Quan Nguyen. This Kim-Ly, wife. We next door. Do nails. We with Mr. Blaylock. He fight, we fight. We come here from Viet Nam. This good country, but sometimes, good people in good country have to fight.

Dan Groat

#8. I don't know why I am internally a violent person. I don't have the normal nerve endings most people do, which was very good for me as a pilot in Viet Nam. When most people are afraid, I'm actually quite excited about things. The more dangerous something is, the happier I am.

Robert Kiyosaki

#9. I don't let any personal views about religion cause me to want to take away something that's offering the patient comfort. I never want to take away something when I don't have anything better to offer him in a way.

Irvin D. Yalom

#10. Anyone who isn't confused really doesn't understand the situation.

Edward R. Murrow

#11. Everybody is continuously connected to everybody else on Twitter, on Facebook, on Instagram, on Reddit, e-mailing, texting, faster and faster, with the flood of information jeopardizing meaning. Everybody's talking at once in a hypnotic, hyper din: the cocktail party from hell.

Maureen Dowd

#12. Do interesting things and interesting things will happen to you.

John Hegarty

#13. If people know how it's done, all the magic goes.

Charlie Chaplin

#14. I was in a fashion show and I had on a strapless top. When I got to the end the top was down.

Adriana Lima

#15. When I was born God made an awful error. He allowed me to live.

Sarah Noffke

#16. There's a terrible truth for many women in the picture business: Aging typically takes its toll and means fewer and less desirable roles.

Maureen O'Hara

#17. Physical experience is the translation of phenomena into symbolic language, and the law is the creation of the wind or a symbol.

Fulton J. Sheen

#18. There has been treatment for hepatitis C, but the treatment has not been overwhelmingly effective, number 1. And number 2, it has had considerable toxicity.

Anthony Fauci

#19. Love is not measured by WHO you love, love is measured by HOW you love.

Santosh Kalwar

#20. Post-Traumatic Stress Injury isn't a disease. It's a wound to the soul that never heals.

Tom Glenn

#21. Don't think about who they are. Think about who you are and what sacrifices you can live with and what will break you.

Kristin Hannah

#22. You haven't lived a full life until you have been in a very tough situation when you thought you were going to die. War does that to you.

William E. Peterson

#23. Controller Borasus sighed with relief. Libraries were not places of danger. It had to be a hoax.

Diana Wynne Jones

#24. The element of surprise is vastly overrated in any relationship.

Molly Harper

#25. What am I dying for? he cried back. I'm dying because this world I'm living in isn't worth dying for! If something is worth dying for, then you've got a reason to live.

Viet Thanh Nguyen

#26. The danger in trying to do good is that the mind comes to confuse the intent of goodness with the act of doing things well.

Ursula K. Le Guin