Fronts Quotes

• We were eighteen and had begun to love life and the world; and we had to shoot it to pieces.

  Erich Maria Remarque

  Love Life, Pieces, World

  Harold Bloom, Erich Maria Remarque (2008). “Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front”, p.30, Infobase Publishing

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• We are not youth any longer. We don’t want to take the world by storm. We are fleeing. We fly from ourselves. From our life. We were eighteen and had begun to love life and the world; and we had to shoot it to pieces.

  Erich Maria Remarque

  Love Life, Storm, Fleeing

  Erich Maria Remarque (2013). “All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel”, p.67, Random House

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• This book is to be neither an accusation nor a confession, and least of all an adventure, for death is not an adventure to those who stand face to face with it. It will try simply to tell of a generation of men who, even though they may have escaped shells, were destroyed by the war.

  Erich Maria Remarque

  War, Book, Adventure

  Harold Bloom, Erich Maria Remarque (2008). “Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front”, p.54, Infobase Publishing

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• But now, for the first time, I see you are a man like me. I thought of your hand-grenades, of your bayonet, of your rifle; now I see your wife and your face and our fellowship. Forgive me, comrade. We always see it too late. Why do they never tell us that you are poor devils like us, that your mothers are just as anxious as ours, and that we have the same fear of death, and the same dying and the same agony - forgive me, comrade; how could you be my enemy?

  Erich Maria Remarque

  Mother, Men, Hands

  "Im Westen nichts Neues (All Quiet on the Western Front)". Book by Erich Maria Remarque, 1929.

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• I am young, I am twenty years old; yet I know nothing of life but despair, death, fear, and fatuous superficiality cast over an abyss of sorrow. I see how peoples are set against one another, and in silence, unknowingly, foolishly, obediently, innocently slay one another.

  Erich Maria Remarque

  Years, Silence, Sorrow

  Erich Maria Remarque (2013). “All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel”, p.194, Random House

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• Play for the name on the front of the shirt, and they will remember the name on the back

  Tony Adams

  Soccer, Teamwork, Sports

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• Our thoughts are clay, they are moulded with the changes of the days;--when we are resting they are good; under fire, they are dead. Fields of craters within and without.

  Erich Maria Remarque

  Fire, Clay, Fields

  Erich Maria Remarque (1997). “All Quiet on the Western Front”

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• You take it from me, we are losing the war because we can salute too well.

  Erich Maria Remarque

  War, Losing, Salute

  Erich Maria Remarque (2013). “All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel”, p.32, Random House

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• Bombardment, barrage, curtain-fire, mines, gas, tanks, machine-guns, hand-grenades - words, words, but they hold the horror of the world.

  Erich Maria Remarque

  Gun, Fire, Hands

  Erich Maria Remarque (2013). “All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel”, p.99, Random House

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• The wisest were just the poor and simple people. They knew the war to be a misfortune, whereas those who were better off, and should have been able to see more clearly what the consequences would be, were beside themselves with joy.

  Erich Maria Remarque

  War, Simple, Should Have

  Erich Maria Remarque, Helmuth Kiesel, Joseph Roth (2004). “All quiet on the western front”, Continuum International Publishing Group

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• A good leader leads from the front. Don't get stuck in the office. Get out, meet people and listen to their stories.

  Richard Branson

  Leadership, People, Office

  FaceBook post by Richard Branson from Mar 27, 2012

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• It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspirational, Leadership, Appreciation

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Writing is easy. Just sit in front of a typewriter, open up a vein and bleed it out drop by drop.

  Red Smith

  Art, Writing, Typewriters

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• Greatness finds us by obstacles in front of us. I don’t look at hurdles as obstacles blocking my path but opportunities to overcome.

  Lolo Jones

  Inspirational, Success, Sports

  FaceBook post by Lolo Jones from Aug 04, 2012

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• When I perform, I don’t think about the haters, the Internet trolls, or anyone else. I care about giving the person in front of me something they won’t forget. And that’s why I bring the cake and raft out.

  Steve Aoki

  Hater, Thinking, Cake

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• Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.

  Albert Camus

  Love, Friendship, Happy

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• I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Life, Death

  Walden ch. 2 (1854)

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• The wild, cruel beast is not behind the bars of the cage. He is in front of it.

  Axel Munthe

  Inspirational, Freedom, Animal

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• If a man….who’s playing in front of the public, is being well paid, and he doesn’t dedicate himself to the job, I’d be hard on him. If I could I would put him in jail, out of the road of society. Because he’s a menace

  Bill Shankly

  Funny, Sports, Football

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• You put on such a brave front. But I know if I took another step toward you, you'd wet your pants." "With your blood." I brandished my knife. But I couldn't keep a straight face; the boast sounded ridiculous even to my own ears. I snickered. She laughed. The release of tension made me giddy, and soon I was laughing and crying.

  Maria V. Snyder

  Blood, Knives, Laughing

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• So what is government?... Very simply, it is an agency of coercion. Of course, there are other agencies of coercion - such as the Mafia. So to be more precise, government is the agency of coercion that has flags in front of its offices.

  Harry Browne

  Agency, Government, Office

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• They're naughty, all those writers - they mess around with people. I know James Gandolfini got a bit fed up on 'The Sopranos': if he said anything in front of a writer, told them a story from his life, it could make its way into the script.

  Kelly Macdonald

  Naughty, People, Stories

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• The Eastern front is like a house of cards. If the front is broken through at one point all the rest will collapse.

  Heinz Guderian

  War, House Of Cards, Broken

  Heinz Guderian (2001). “Panzer Leader”, p.387, Da Capo Press

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• Mussolini is quite humiliated because our troops have not moved a step forward. Even today they have not succeeded in advancing and have halted in front of the first French fortification which put up some resistance.

  Galeazzo Ciano

  War, Troops, World

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