Nguyen Viet Thang Quotes

People might like to think a war is done when a cease fire is signed, but for most people who lived through a war it goes on for decades.

Nguyen Viet Thang

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• You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Art
  • War
  • Enemy

• But it required a disastrous, internecine war to bring this question of human freedom to a crisis, and the process of striking the shackles from the slave was accomplished in a single hour.

  

  Wendell Willkie
  • War
  • Freedom
  • Question

• For believers, both privilege and privation are a trial, and both demand responses: one demands service, and the other demands patience. The greatest privilege is to live well in flourishing lands; the greatest privation is to live in the midst of war, especially civil war.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • Live
  • War
  • Service

• These Scriptures, therefore, are infinitely far from justifying the slavery under consideration; for it cannot be made to appear that one in a thousand of these slaves has done any thing to forfeit his own liberty.

  

  Samuel Hopkins
  • Done
  • Liberty
  • Slavery

• I was at a slight disadvantage in that I had never played in bands or done any performances before, and that's just as important as writing, recording, and putting records out. It's been a lot of hard work, balanced with a lot of pinch-myself moments of touring in crazy parts of the world.

  

  Washed Out
  • World
  • Work
  • Important

• Everything in the world we want to do or get done, we must do with and through people.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • People
  • World
  • Done

• I'm just going to have to grow old, because I'm too terrified to have anything done.

  

  Natalie Wood
  • Done
  • Old
  • Grow

• We're so enamored of technological advancements that we fail to think about how to best apply those technologies to what we're trying to achieve. This can mask some very important continuities in the nature of war and their implications for our responsibilities as officers.

  

  H. R. McMaster
  • Important
  • Trying
  • War

• If you want to teach women to be great writers, you should show them the best, and the best was often done by men. It was more often done by men than by women, if we're going to be truthful.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Great
  • Men
  • Women

• We've always been proud of what we've done.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Done
  • Proud
  • Always

• Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing.

  

  G. M. Trevelyan
  • God
  • Done
  • May

• Every successful person I have heard of has done the best he could with the conditions as he found them, and not waited until next year for better.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Done
  • Best
  • Better

• I want to start my own airplane business. I'm going to buy two Dakotas, paint them up in war colours and do, er, nostalgia trips to Arnhem - you know, where the old paratroopers used to go - and charge them about 20 quid a time.

  

  Gary Numan
  • Up
  • Time
  • Business

• Let them do what I have done.

  

  Cornelius Vanderbilt
  • Done

• My concern is to continue respecting my work as I've done since I began as an actor and I could only do that if I'm strong enough to keep on doing what I think best in an artistic way.

  

  Javier Bardem
  • Work
  • Done
  • Strong

• I think our sense as actors of what we've just done - whether or not it be in an audition - is usually really not connected to any truth. I'm always asking for more takes and more goes. I think I just need to shut up and listen.

  

  Lily James
  • Up
  • Done
  • Truth

• I fear it's because religion is man's attempt to reach God, and when he feels he has succeeded, he cannot abide anyone else's claim to have done the same.

  

  Jerry B. Jenkins
  • God
  • Done
  • Fear

• There's a lot of history here. In terms of Asians in this country, you have a big influx after the Cultural Revolution, a big influx after the Korean War, a big influx after the Vietnam War.

  

  Freddie Wong
  • Country
  • War
  • History

• I happen to take photographs, and they happen to be used for a lot of things, but they're not really made to order. They're paid for, but they're not made for order. I've never really done real commercial work.

  

  Anton Corbijn
  • Work
  • Real
  • Done

• Leading a human life is a full-time occupation, to which everyone devotes decades of intense concern.

  

  Thomas Nagel
  • Life
  • Concern
  • Intense

• I try to maintain a balance between having a vision of the world that many readers do not experience for themselves, trying to give them enough grounding in the world we are all familiar with, so they don't feel that they are completely lost in Faerie.

  

  Elizabeth Hand
  • World
  • Trying
  • Experience

• I love Fall Fashion Week because it means lots of layering, long sweaters and vintage coats.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Long
  • Fashion
  • Means

• There are a lot of ways to make people not like you, but one of the most powerful - if least fair - is to be really, really successful. Nobody resents the guy who just lost his job. But the guy whose Internet start-up made him a billionaire at 25? That's a whole different kettle of envy.

  

  Jeffrey Kluger
  • People
  • Up
  • Different

• People might like to think a war is done when a cease fire is signed, but for most people who lived through a war it goes on for decades.

  

  Nguyen Viet Thang
  • Done
  • War
  • Decades