Trenches Quotes

• I'm not in the Lifetime Achievement area yet-I'm still battling it out in the trenches.

  Michael Caine

  Achievement, Lifetime, Stills

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• Battles are won in the trenches, in the grit and grime of courageous determination; they are won day by day in the arena of life.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Determination, Battle, Grit

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• It's easy to lose sight of the ultimate goal when you're in the trenches.

  Tony Dungy

  Sight, Goal, Moral

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• No one is going to stick their head out of the trenches for someone they don't respect or trust. You can get shot doing that.

  Gordon Bethune

  Sticks, Shots

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• Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship.

  David Foster Wallace

  Worship You, Choices, Yahweh

  "'Plain Old Untrendy Troubles and Emotions'". www.theguardian.com. September 19, 2008.

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• Love is like trench warfare - you cannot see the enemy, but you know he is there and that it is wiser to keep your head down.

  Lawrence Durrell

  Love Is, Enemy, Warfare

  Lawrence Durrell (2012). “The Alexandria Quartet: Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive, Clea”, p.231, Faber & Faber

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• Spiritual growth thrives in the midst of our problems, not in their absence. Spiritual growth occurs in the trenches of life, not in the classroom.

  Mike Yaconelli

  Spiritual, Growth, Problem

  Mike Yaconelli (2009). “Messy Spirituality”, p.49, Harper Collins

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• I've not seen an effective manager or leader who can't spend some fraction of time down in the trenches... If they don't do that they get out of touch with reality, and their whole thought and management process becomes abstract and disconnected.

  Jeff Bezos

  Communication, Reality, Leader

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• I'm hardly digging trenches for a living. I'm getting to tap into my boyhood fantasies of being a larger-than-life character.

  Joel Edgerton

  Character, Digging, Larger Than Life

  "Joel Edgerton’s flirtation with fame" by Luke Davies, www.themonthly.com.au. June 2013.

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• I do believe there's a heaven. I do believe that God has given me the resilience and the survival skills to withstand the chiffon trenches.

  Andre Leon Talley

  Believe, Skills, Heaven

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• Human nerves quickly get accustomed to the most unusual conditions and circumstances and I noticed that quite a number of men actually fell asleep from sheer exhaustion in the trenches, in spite of the roaring of the cannon about us and the whizzing of shrapnel over our heads.

  Fritz Kreisler

  Men, Numbers, Roaring

  Fritz Kreisler (2014). “Four Weeks In The Trenches; The War Story Of A Violinist [Illustrated Edition]”, p.21, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• Media over here, coming to ya like a world premiere. Trench coat and my underwear, let's go with this freak show.

  Britney Spears

  Art, Media, World

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• I am sitting in the trenches between love and desire.' - ART like LOVE is rarely understood.

  Laurence Gartel

  Love, Art, Desire

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• Most of the people who call me a sellout were 7 when I was down face-first in the punk trenches.

  Henry Rollins

  People, Faces, Firsts

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• Unless one lives and loves in the trenches, it is difficult to remember that the war against dehumanization is ceaseless.

  Audre Lorde

  Life And Love, War, Remember

  Audre Lorde (2012). “Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches”, p.119, Crossing Press

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• How horrible, fantastic, incredible, it is that we should be digging trenches and trying on gas-masks here because of a quarrel in a faraway country between people of whom we know nothing.

  Neville Chamberlain

  Country, War, People

  Radio broadcast, 27 Sept. 1938

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• Performance-wise, you really need to be down in the trenches; you need to do the hard work, for a lot of reasons: To build yourself as a performer, to get a sense of the audience, to work hard and to wonder, 'Do I really want to do this?'

  Joan Jett

  Wise, Hard Work, Needs

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• On Memorial Day, I don't want to only remember the combatants. There were also those who came out of the trenches as writers and poets, who started preaching peace, men and women who have made this world a kinder place to live.

  Eric Burdon

  Memorial Day, Men, World

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• If the head man in a company is not working 12 hours a day, doing things, taking risks, but also standing with his people in the trenches at the most difficult of times, then the company loses something.

  Rupert Murdoch

  Men, People, Risk

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• Never trust a man in a blue trench coat, never drive a car when you're dead

  Tom Waits

  Men, Blue, Car

  Song: Telephone Call from Istanbul, Album: Franks Wild Years

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• Sometimes, in the trenches, you get the sense of something, ancient. One trench we held, it had skulls in the side, embedded, like mushrooms. It was actually easier to believe they were men from Marlborough's army, than to think they'd been alive a year ago. It was as if all the other wars had distilled themselves into this war, and that made it something you almost can't challenge. It's like a very deep voice, saying; 'Run along, little man, be glad you've survived

  Pat Barker

  Running, War, Believe

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• I'm in the trenches; I do the best work I can always do. Having said that, the way that what I do converges with the outside world is fascinating to me. Because it ebbs and flows. People's interest and understanding, it changes all the time.

  Daryl Hall

  Ebb And Flow, People, Understanding

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• Fabrics and lining make a big difference in the garment. If you're buying an expensive trench coat, and it's lined in something cheap, it doesn't feel as nice.

  Christian Siriano

  Nice, Differences, Fabric

  "Project Runway's Fiercest Designer Ever". Interview with Leonora Epstein, www.cosmopolitan.com. October 29, 2008.

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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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• Patriotism, in the trenches, was too remote a sentiment, and at once rejected as fit only for civilians, or prisoners. A new arrival who talked patriotism would soon be told to cut it out.

  Robert Graves

  Cutting, Fit, Rejected

  Robert Graves (1980). “Good-Bye to All That: With a Prologue and an Epilogue”, Octagon Press, Limited

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