Foxholes Quotes - Page 2

• There are no atheists in foxholes and there are no libertarians in financial crises.

  Paul Krugman

  Atheist, Libertarian, Financial

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• There are no atheist in foxholes.

  William Thomas Cummings

  Atheist, Atheism

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• There are no athiests in foxholes.

  William Thomas Cummings

  Wisdom

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• After a few days in hospital, I was thinking, Oh, gee - I raised in a church, Protestant upbringing which I'd rejected as an adult - I'm lying in bed thinking, Hmmm, maybe I ought to pray. They always say there are no atheists in a foxhole... and I thought, Here I am in a pretty good-sized foxhole... and I thought Naahhh. I wouldn't respect any God who would listen to me after I'd rejected him so vociferously.

  Chuck Close

  Atheist, Lying, Thinking

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• Perhaps, the answer is that my ravaged mind rails against the idea of God, but something deeper in me calls out as if God might answer. 'There are not foxholes,' I guess, and depression is the deepest and deadliest foxhole I've been in. It may be the 'dark night of the soul' that the mystics talk about but in depression it is not so much that one becomes lost in the dark as one becomes the dark.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Depression, Dark, Night

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• I got shot in the head by my own guys in my foxhole. And they didn't even give me an honorable death.

  Bill Vaughan

  Giving, Guy, Honorable Death

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• He likes a day in the studio to end, he says, "when my knees are all skinned up and my pants are wet and my hair's off to one side and I feel like I've been in the foxhole all day. I don't think comfort is good for music. It's good to come out with skinned knuckles after wrestling with something you can't see. I like it when you come home at the end of the day from recording and someone says, "What happened to your hand?" And you don't even know. When you're in that place, you can dance on a broken ankle.

  Tom Waits

  Wrestling, Home, Thinking

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• First Lieutenant Jimmy Cross carried letters from a girl named Martha, a junior at Mount Sebastian College in New Jersey. They were not love letters, but Lieutenant Cross was hoping, so he kept them folded in plastic at the bottom of his rusack. In the late afternoon, after a day's march, he would dig his foxhole, wash his hands under a canteen, unwrap the letters, hold them with the tips of his fingers, and spend the last hour of light pretending.

  Tim O'Brien

  Girl, College, Light

  Tim O'Brien (2009). “The Things They Carried”, p.1, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Oh, that fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Peace, Fighting, Small Amounts

  Cecelia Ahern (2007). “PS, I love you”

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• They're asking women to do impossible things. I don't believe women can carry a pack, live in a foxhole, or go a week without a bath.

  William Westmoreland

  Women, Believe, Impossible Things

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• It may be true that there are no atheists in foxholes. But you don't find many Christians there, either. Or, about as many of one as the other.

  Edward Abbey

  Christian, Atheist, May

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.10, RosettaBooks

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• The Buggers have finally, finally learned that we humans value each and every individual human life. But they've learned this lesson just in time for it to be hopelessly wrong — for we humans do, when the cause is sufficient, spend our own lives. We throw ourselves onto the grenade to save our buddies in the foxhole. We rise out of the trenches and charge the entrenched enemy and die like maggots under a blowtorch. We strap bombs on our bodies and blow ourselves up in the midst of our enemies. We are, when the cause is sufficient, insane.

  Orson Scott Card

  Blow, Enemy, Insane

  "Ender's Shadow". Book by Orson Scott Card, 1999.

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• If I had a worldview, and I don't know if I do, but if I did, it's one that's intensely humanistic. [That worldview] is that the only thing that matters is family and personal connection, and that's the only thing that gives life meaning. Religion and gods and beliefs - for me, it all comes down to your brother. And your brother might be the brother in your family, or it might be the guy next to you in the foxhole, it's about human connections.

  Eric Kripke

  Brother, Giving, Guy

  "'It's the fun Apocalypse': Creator Eric Kripke talks 'Supernatural'". Interview with Maureen Ryan, featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com. August 26, 2009.

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