William Westmoreland Quotes

By the end of the summer of 1973 I thought it was virtually impossible for South Vietnam to survive. How in the heck could they?

William Westmoreland

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• In the first instance, therefore, global terrorism created a kind of global community sharing a common fate, something we had previously considered impossible.

  

  Ulrich Beck
  • Community
  • Fate
  • Impossible

• It is impossible for human beings not to view something subjectively.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Human
  • Impossible
  • View

• Scientists have proven that it's impossible to long-jump 30 feet, but I don't listen to that kind of talk. Thoughts like that have a way of sinking into your feet.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • Long
  • Thoughts
  • Impossible

• I wish I could fly. Or speak fluent Chinese. Both I think are equally impossible.

  

  Karlie Kloss
  • Wish
  • Speak
  • Chinese

• You don't dream about things that are impossible; that are out of your range.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Dream
  • You
  • Impossible

• Men like me are impossible until the day when they become necessary.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Men
  • Day
  • Impossible

• I think legally we have to do 'fun' with a period. I think we agreed because apparently there was another band called 'fun.' We Google-searched, which now makes sense because we're so impossible to Google-search.

  

  Nate Ruess Fun.
  • Fun
  • Think
  • Band

• It's Kennedy's war, Vietnam. Lyndon Johnson got all the flak, but it's Kennedy's war.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • War
  • Got
  • Vietnam

• If you attempt certain things at the right time, they are easy to accomplish - in fact, they almost get done by themselves. If you undertake them before the time is right, not only will they fail, but they will often become impossible to accomplish even when the time would have been right.

  

  Francesco Guicciardini
  • Time
  • Done
  • Easy

• The 8 P.M. hour in the cable news world is currently driven by the indomitable Bill O'Reilly, Nancy Grace, and Keith Olbermann. Shedding my own journalistic skin to try to inhabit the kind of persona that might coexist in that lineup is just impossible for me.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • World
  • Impossible
  • Grace

• We sometimes laugh from ear to ear, but it would be impossible for a smile to be wider than the distance between our eyes.

  

  Malcolm de Chazal
  • Eyes
  • Smile
  • Distance

• So much of Islam is Judeo-Christianity. It's impossible to divorce them. Islam is 600 years after Christ. Thousands of years after Judaism. Christ, Moses, Abraham - they are all in the Koran.

  

  Fatema Mernissi
  • Impossible
  • Divorce
  • Islam

• I believe it is impossible to be sure of anything.

  

  Han Fei
  • Believe
  • Impossible
  • Sure

• In such a diversity it was impossible I should be disposed to melancholy.

  

  Daniel Boone
  • Impossible
  • Diversity

• Sustaining an audience with a web series is an impossible task.

  

  Felicia Day
  • Audience
  • Impossible
  • Task

• The naked mole is, like, the ugliest freakin' creature in the world. It is so radically, unbelievably disgusting. And the star-nosed mole is also. It looks like it snorted a firecracker. They live way underground, and to get footage of them is basically impossible.

  

  Ze Frank
  • World
  • Live
  • Star

• It is impossible to say when 37-year-old Benedict Arnold first met 18-year-old Peggy Shippen, but we do know that on September 25, 1778, he wrote her a love letter - much of it an exact copy of one he'd sent to another woman six months before. But if the overheated rhetoric was recycled, Arnold's passion was genuine.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • Know
  • Passion
  • Woman

• There was endless controversy as to whether the acts of the New Deal did actually move recovery or retard it, and nothing final could ever come of that bitter debate because it is forever impossible to prove what might have happened in place of what did.

  

  Garet Garrett
  • Forever
  • Impossible
  • Bitter

• Don't go changing to try and please me You never let me down before Don't imagine you're too familiar And I don't see you anymore I would not leave you in times of trouble We never could have come this far I took the good times, I'll take the bad times I'll take you just the way you are Don't go trying some new fashion Don't change the color of your hair. . . . I could not love you any better I love you just the way you are.

  

  Billy Joel
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Bad

• Oh, my fellow men, do not defile your bodies with sinful foods. We have corn, we have apples bending down the branches with their weight, and grapes swelling on the vines. There are sweet-flavored herbs, and vegetables which can be cooked and softened over the fire, nor are you denied milk or thyme-scented honey. The earth affords a lavish supply of riches, of innocent foods, and offers you banquets that involve no bloodshed or slaughter; only beasts satisfy their hunger with flesh, and not even all of those, because horses, cattle, and sheep live on grass.

  

  Pythagoras
  • Men
  • Bodies
  • Foods

• The books we are required to teach frequently have nothing to do with anything except the fact that they have always been taught, or that there is an oversupply of them, or that some committee or other was asked to come up with some titles.

  

  Bel Kaufman
  • Books
  • Teach
  • Committee

• By the end of the summer of 1973 I thought it was virtually impossible for South Vietnam to survive. How in the heck could they?

  

  William Westmoreland
  • Impossible
  • Ends
  • Vietnam