The war in Vietnam was not lost in the field, nor was it lost on the front pages of the 'New York Times' or the college campuses. It was lost in Washington, D.C.
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Related Some guys spend days looking for something they lost. I never seem to have anything that if I lost i... J.D. SALINGER The rules only applied to people who couldn’t afford different rules. CAMERON STRACHER She was intimidating and all I could do was sit back on the couch as she paced back and forth, slowl... IN THE MAKING Of course, the outcome of the war would not have been changed. The war was lost perhaps, when it was... ADOLF GALLAND Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room. Vietnam was lost in the... MARSHALL MCLUHAN Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room. Vietnam was lost in the... MARSHALL MCLUHAN When you grow up there are things that you would love to do make your father proud is one and have f... GARY F EVANS... Be lost. Give up. Give In. in the end It would be better to surrender before you begin. be lost. Be ... VICTORIA SCHWAB I Think it is lost.....but nothing is ever lost nor can be lost . The body sluggish, aged, cold... WALT WHITMAN In the beginning, there was nothing and from nothing came our species then behold the dawn of music.... GARY F EVANS... Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over. RICHARD CARLSON Time is a teacher which in the end it kills all it's students. (Synchronicity 2015 Film) DEYTH BANGER To get over the past, you first have to accept that the past is over. No matter how many times you r... MANDY HALE Flirting with the dark side has always had it's fascination. Because you learn, and there's wisdom t... EDWARD HERRMANN So, a crash course for the amnesiac,” Leo said, in a helpful tone that made Jason think this was n... RICK RIORDAN We fall back into the past, we jump ahead into the future, and in this we lose our entire lives. THICH NHAT HANH And the day came out... the mask was removed... and who was behind it? ... No Face... a pe... DEYTH BANGER Maybe it’s the other way around,” Jason suggested. “Maybe people with special gifts show up wh... RICK RIORDAN When you live in the present, the past is forgotten & the future takes care of itself. MANDY HALE The bulkheads were close together, the ceilings low above their helmets. Not much space in there to ... CHRISTINA ENGELA I've told you I don't live and die by the polls. Thus, I will refrain from pointing out that we're n... , IN THE NEW REPUBLIC There is no such thing as objectivity. We are all just interpreting signals from the universe and tr... BONES THE DOCTOR IN THE PHOTO I don't know if I have a favorite color. KATE MIDDLETON It's very special having a new little girl. KATE MIDDLETON I have always wished the present to resemble memory: because the present can be flat at times, and b... LYDIA MILLET In Washington, no one believes anything unless it comes from 'The New Yorker,' 'New York... TUCKER CARLSON We can leave a place behind, or we can stay in that place and leave our selfishness (often expressed... JOHN H. GROBERG God is not impressed with what PRECEDES your name, but how you PROCEED in His Name." BJ NELSON When Luke had descended into the River Styx, he would've had to focus on something important that wo... RICK RIORDAN For the want of a nail, the horseshoe was lost;
For the want of a horseshoe a horse was lost;
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KARINA HALLE I know,” said November. He was pale and thin lipped. He helped October out of the wooden chair. �... NEIL GAIMAN That’s what I liked about those nuns. You could tell, for one thing, that they never went anywhere... J.D. SALINGER Now is the only time we have, and the only time we have any control over. RICHARD CARLSON How would it be,” said Pooh slowly, “if, as soon as we’re out of sight of this Pit, we try to ... MILNE, A. A. Suntem creatori, dar jucăm naivi, rolul de „creație”. Ne considerăm biete oi neajutorate, mâ... DAN BROWN Ce soartă va avea condiția omenească dacă marile mistere ale vieții vor fi în sfârșit elucid... DAN BROWN Schimbarea este iminentă. Ființa omenească se află în pragul unei noi ere, când își va înto... DAN BROWN A trăi în lume fără a deveni conștient de sensul ei este ca și când ai rătăci într-o mare ... DAN BROWN Adevărul are putere. Iar dacă gravităm cu toții în jurul acelorași idei, o facem poate, întru... 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Times,' the 'Washington Post' and the 'New Y... STEPHEN GAGHAN Fitz’s human clothes are a huge snoozefest. Check out what Dex and I found in Alvar’s closet!”... SHANNON MESSENGER Traitor!" Hera shouted. "You meddlesome, D-list goddess! You aren't worthy to pour my wine, much les... RICK RIORDAN It is no bad thing celebrating a simple life. J.R.R. TOLKIEN Though he walked and breathed, and about him living leaves and flowers were stirred by the same cool... J.R.R. TOLKIEN Now i know what it feels like being Ryan Bingham ARIEL SERAPHINO To have the time to reminisce is one of the futures gifts. Don't think to much, don't live to fast, ... CALVIN WILSON We are the masters of our own destinies we shape and mould our lives into to the circumstances surro... GARY F EVANS... It was one of those situations where if we would have played Calgary (who they lost to in the Cup) n... BOB CAMERON I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES 'Matterhorn' is my metaphor of the Vietnam War - we built it, we abandoned it, we assaulted ... KARL MARLANTES America lost its face with the debacle of the Vietnam War. TINY TIM In the end, we lost IndoChina to the communists. But we did not lose Southeast Asia. WILLIAM WESTMORELAND You take after Bilbo,' said Gandalf. 'There is more about you than meets the eye, as I said of him l... J.R.R. TOLKIEN He called out to his fellow monks,'Come quickly I am tasting stars. JOHN GREEN I remember what it was like to be doing 'Lost' and how creatively immersive it was. I just c... DAMON LINDELOF Woody Allen stayed so good because he never left New York. Howard Stern stayed so good because he ne... ARTIE LANGE All the things that are in the past are in the past. PABLO SANDOVAL What else? She is so beautiful. You don’t get tired of looking at her. You never worry if she is s... JOHN GREEN What day is it?" It's today," squeaked Piglet. My favorite day," said Pooh. A.A. MILNE And let me tell you something else, my friend," she said in the precise enunciation of a trained nur... JAMES JONES Be present in all things and thankful for all things. MAYA ANGELOU Look at everything always as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time: Thus is yo... BETTY SMITH Pero diré esto: Cuando los científicos del futuro aparezcan en mi casa con ojos robot y me digan q... JOHN GREEN I hate saying corny things like 'traveling incognito.' But when I' with somebody that's corny, I alw... J.D. SALINGER Do not look back and grieve over the past, for it is gone; and do not be troubled about the future, ... IDA SCOTT TAYLOR MCKINNEY Life is a preparation for the future; and the best preparation for the future is to live as if there... ALBERT EINSTEIN The only way to survive eternity is to be able to appreciate each moment. LAUREN KATE Better to play dumb than to go as smartass… after all smartasses get what they deserve in the end.... DEYTH BANGER Things were a little untidy, but what did that matter? It was possible to become the slave of things... ELIZABETH VON ARNIM Live today. Not yesterday. Not tomorrow. Just today. Inhabit your moments. Don't rent them out to to... JERRY SPINELLI How can something feel so crucial in the moment and then seem completely trivial after the fact? PAULA STOKES There's no sustenance in the past. VIOLETTE LEDUC
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LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD You couldn't be that good and not know it, somewhere in your secret heart, however much you'd been a... LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD An honor is not diminished for being shared. LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD If the truth doesn't save us, what does that say about us? LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD I don't confuse greatness with perfection. To be great anyhow is
the higher achievement. LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD If power was an illusion, wasn't weakness necessarily one also? LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them. LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD I'm very interested in the impact of biotechnology on the way people live. LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD Miles was…the thing is, he was afflicted with a severe birth injury. He grew up pretty much crippl... LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD Poets speak of hope in ladies smiles, but give me a smirk any day, I say. LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD Not that I haven't leaped up into the blinding light of competence now and then. It's sustaining the... LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, w... LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD Any man can be kind when he is comfortable. I'd always thought kindness a trivial virtue, therefore.... LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD On the sixth day God saw He couldn't do it all, so He created ENGINEERS LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD This is the most important thing I will ever say to you. The human mind is the ultimate testing devi... LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD Miles is... Miles; close to a force of nature, climbing up out of his own pages and escaping subordi... LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD The world is made by the people who show up for the job. LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD Cecil flashed a grin. "Quite. Plus your rather irritating habit of treating your superior officers a... LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD Oh, was that liquor of yours a stimulant?" asked Elena. "I wondered why he didn't fall asleep." LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD The rule for finding plots for character-centered novels, which is to ask: 'So what's the worst poss... LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD Don't wish to be normal. Wish to be yourself. To the hilt. Find out what you're best at, and develop... LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD I need words that mean more than they mean, words not just with height and width, but depth and weig... LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD The really unforgivable acts are committed by calm men in beautiful green silk rooms, who deal death... LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD All the geniuses I ever met were so just part of the time. To qualify, you only have to be great onc... LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD Since no one is perfect, it follows that all great deeds have been accomplished out of imperfection.... LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD If you can't be seven feet tall, be seven feet smart. LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. When you desire a consequence... LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD Events may be horrible or inescapable. Men have always a choice - if not whether, then how, they may... LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. It's peace that's... LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD There are always survivors at a massacre. Among the victors, if nowhere else. LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD What you are is a question only you can answer. LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD If you make it plain you like people, it's hard for them to resist liking you back. LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD A good friend of my son's is a son to me. LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, w... LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD Some men just aren't cut out for paternity. Better they should realize it before and not after they ... LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD You try to give away what you want yourself. LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD Some prices are just too high, no matter how much you may want the prize. The one thing you can't tr... LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD It was never what I wanted to buy that held my heart's hope. It was what I wanted to be. LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD If you can't do what you want, do what you can. LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD I am who I choose to be. I always have been what I chose
though not always what I pleased. LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD How could you be a Great Man if history brought you no Great Events, or brought you to them at the w... LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD His mother had often said, When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. Sh... LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD The will to be stupid is a very powerful force, but there are always alternatives. LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD Suicidal glory is the luxury of the irresponsible. We're not giving up. We're waiting for a better o... LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD Our children change us... whether they live or not. LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD My home is not a place, it is people. LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD Good soldiers never pass up a chance to eat or sleep. They never know how much they'll be called on ... LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD Experience suggests it doesn't matter so much how you got here, as what you do after you arrive. LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnatio... LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD But pain... seems to me an insufficient reason not to embrace life. Being dead is quite painless. Pa... LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD Any community's arm of force - military, police, security - needs people in it who can do necessary ... LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards. LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD I am an atheist, myself. A simple faith, but a great comfort to me, in these last days. LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD Adversity does teach who your real friends are. LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself. LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD You have to be careful who you let define your good. LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all. LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD Never... ever suggest they don't have to pay you. What they pay for, they'll value. What they get fo... LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's ski... LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD A tactical retreat is not a bad response to a surprise assault, you know. First you survive. Then yo... LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD A hundred objective measurements didn't sum the worth of a garden; only the delight of its users did... LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD If you're trying to take a roomful of people by surprise, it's a lot easier to hit your targets if y... LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD A weapon is a device for making your enemy change his mind. LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD It's important that someone celebrate our existence... People are the only mirror we have to see our... LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD A son should inherit his father's money - not his religion; he may be too lazy to build upon a new f... LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD Miles had sworn his officer's oath to the Emperor less than two weeks ago, puffed with pride at his ... LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD The gods' most savage curses come upon us as answers to our own prayers. Prayer is a dangerous busin... LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD I think 99 percent of women's lib comes from technology making different kinds of lives possible... LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD Galeni made her smile but not laugh. The lack of any sense of play between them worried Miles; you h... LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD Vormurtos leaned on the frame with his arms crossed, and failed to move aside. At Miles's... LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD Real destiny takes everything—the last drop of blood, and strip out your veins to be sure—and gi... LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD Hunting hawks did not belong in cages, no matter how much a man coveted their grace, no matter how g... LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD Do it for yourself. The universe will be around to collect its cut later. LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD He let his head rest against the crisp cloth of her uniform jacket a moment longer. She shifted, her... LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD Mon Dieu, it’s the little admiral,” she said cheerfully. “What are you doing here?” Ignoring... LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD The door was locked. The control had been buggered. Miles ripped it apart, shorted it out, and heave... LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD How does a kidnapping grab you?” She giggled inexplicably. “Absolutely not!” “Oh, you’re g... LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD We’re just good friends,” caroled Miles, and laughed hysterically. He lunged for the comconsole�... LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD You make yourself sound like a Venn diagram. ‘The set of all sets which are members of themselves�... LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD Some attitudes couldn't be changed, they just had to be outlived LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD The will to be stupid is a very powerful force— LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD . . . people do get hypnotized by the hard choices. And stop looking for alternatives. LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD I had to discover and teach myself all kinds of tricks to get people to respond to the inside of me,... LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD