Trenches Quotes - Page 3

• I guess it’s true what they say," observed Jace. "There are no straight men in the trenches." "That’s atheists, jackass," said Simon furiously. "There are no atheists in the trenches.

  Cassandra Clare

  Atheist, Men, Jace

  Cassandra Clare (2009). “City of Ashes”, p.180, Simon and Schuster

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• I have great respect for people who are in the front lines and the trenches of trying to enact social change. I am far lazier than that.

  Jon Stewart

  People, Trying, Lines

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• During the First World War, I told her, Hitler had been a runner, delivering messages between the German trenches, and he was disgusted by seeing his fellow soldiers visit French brothels. To keep the Aryan bloodlines pure,and prevent the spread of venereal disease, he commissioned an inflatable doll that Nazi troops could take into battle. Hitler himself designed the dolls to have blond hair and large breasts. The Allied firebombing of Dresden destroyed the factory before the dolls could ever go into wide distribution.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  War, Hair, Soldier

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• If I could wear any label forever it would be Burberry. It covers a huge span of stuff. You can't go wrong with a classic trench and a pair of jeans.

  Emma Watson

  Jeans, Forever, Would Be

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• In the account book of the Great War the page recording the Russian losses has been ripped out. The figures are unknown. Five millions, or eight? We ourselves know not. All we know is that, at times, fighting the Russians, we had to remove the piles of enemy bodies from before our trenches, so as to get a clear field of fire against new waves of assault.

  Paul von Hindenburg

  War, Book, Fighting

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• We once discussed which were the cleanest troops in the trenches, taken by nationalities. We agreed on a descending-order like this: English and German Protestants; Northern Irish, Welsh and Canadians; Irish and German Catholics; Scots; Mohammedan Indians; Algerians; Portugese; Belgians; French. We put the Belgians and French there for spite; they could not have been dirtier than the Algerians and the Portugese.

  Robert Graves

  War, Taken, Order

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• Editing is hard but nowhere NEAR as tough as facing that blank page and blinking cursor each day. You're all alone and no one else can do it. At least with editing you have someone in the trench with you.

  Sarah Dessen

  Editing, Each Day, Pages

  Interview with Claire Zulkey, www.wbez.org. January 13, 2012.

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• War means fighting. The business of the soldier is to fight. Armies are not called out to dig trenches, to throw up breastworks, to live in camps, but to find the enemy and strike him; to invade his country, and do him all possible damage in the shortest possible time. This will involve great destruction of life and property while it lasts; but such a war will of necessity be of brief continuance, and so would be an economy of life and property in the end.

  Stonewall Jackson

  Country, War, Mean

  "Stonewall Jackson and the American Civil War". Book by George Francis Robert Henderson, 1898.

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• I can't say enough about the two Marine divisions. If I use words like 'brilliant,' it would really be an under description of the absolutely superb job that they did in breaching the so-called 'impenetrable barrier.' It was a classic- absolutely classic- military breaching of a very very tough minefield, barbed wire, fire trenches-type barrier.

  Norman Schwarzkopf

  Jobs, Military, Marine

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• Our family has made its livelihood from the land, digging trenches for hundreds of miles cross-country. You could say this is a real paradox, to destroy the land, yet love it at the same time. This is a typical story of Westerners, how we build community through change.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Country, Real, Land

  Interview with David Kupfer, progressive.org. February 1, 2005.

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• There's a trench coat and a tragedy in your future.

  Jim Norton

  Funny, Humor, Tragedy

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• The man who, as is often said, can get away with wearing a trench coat over his dinner jacket, or an old school tie for a belt, is the one who in fact understands best the rules of proper dress and can bend them to suit his own personality and requirements.

  G. Bruce Boyer

  Old School, Men, Ties

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• I don't tally the world, asking, "Would this annoy you? Would this annoy you?" That's so far removed from where I'm at when I'm in the trenches struggling with how to express things that I don't fully understand myself.

  Miranda July

  Struggle, Asking, World

  Interview with Noel Murray, film.avclub.com. July 28, 2011.

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• I wanted to write about the third world and had the opportunity to go live in the trenches, so to speak.

  Lurlene McDaniel

  Writing, Opportunity, World

  Source: bookpage.com

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• Sometimes we take somebody who's been in the trenches and fought the good fight and been steady for granted. Sometimes we act as if never having done something and not knowing what you're doing is a virtue.

  Barack Obama

  Fighting, Knowing, Done

  "How the Obama Revolution Could Hurt Hillary Clinton" by Charlotte Alter, time.com. July 28, 2016.

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• I'm not critical of the people who do psychotherapy. The therapists in the trenches have to face an awful lot of the social, political, and economic failures of capitalism. They have to take care of all the rejects and failures. They are sincere and work hard with very little credit, and the HMOs and the pharmaceutical companies and insurance companies are trying to wipe them out. So certainly I am not attacking them. I am attacking the theories of psychotherapy.

  James Hillman

  Hard Work, People, Political

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• For a long time, my uniform consisted of a trench coat, wide flared jeans, and little bottines - I copied a pair that my mother had in this theater place. I had, like, 10 pairs of the same shoes.

  Nicolas Ghesquiere

  Mother, Jeans, Shoes

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I realize that my opinion is my opinion, not everybody has to believe it and I never tried to shove anything down anyone's throat, but I was willing to take that to the trenches if you know what I mean. I took that opinion to the wall, often in public, often had to... I often had to fight in public with the very same people who I was trying to convince to play my records!

  Bernie Finkelstein

  Wall, Believe, Mean

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• If you take a wrong step but you're still in that football position, you can just react and change directions. I think for the most part young guys need to work on their football position. Get in their stance and hold it as long as possible. Work on your flexibility, especially in the hips, so you can hold that longer. A good football position will help you be more mobile and give you better leverage in the trenches.

  Brandon Spikes

  Football, Thinking, Long

  Source: www.nfl.com

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• You want to have strong legs. You're in the trenches going against bigger guys in there, and you want to be able to have some force against them.

  Brandon Spikes

  Strong, Guy, Legs

  Source: www.nfl.com

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• The classroom - not the trench - is the frontier of freedom now and forevermore.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Classroom, Frontiers

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• My husband was in the war of the Crimea. It is terrible the hardships he went through‚ to be two months without going into a house‚ under the snow in trenches. And no food to get‚ maybe a biscuit in the day. And there was enough food there‚ he said‚ to feed all Ireland; but bad management‚ they could not get it.

  Lady Gregory

  Husband, War, Two

  Lady Gregory (2013). “The Essential Lady Gregory Collection”, p.524, eBookIt.com

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• We're producing a movie now, 'The Onion' Movie, and it's very difficult for me to be on the set. If I'm not right in the trenches, it's very difficult for me to watch another director, because I'm not involved and it's not exciting.

  David Zucker

  Directors, Watches, Onions

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

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• If Israel sent the IDF three kilometers into Lebanon and started digging trenches and building bunkers it would make news all over the world. But Syria does it and everyone shrugs. Hardly anyone even knows it happened at all.

  Michael Totten

  Israel, Doe, Digging

  "Syria Invades Lebanon". www.michaeltotten.com. July 9, 2007.

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• [There, in War Horse] very little CGI. What happened there - because the horse was running very close to the trench, we had a rider. So in few instances, we had a rider dressed in a green suit. The rider would guide the horse through the frame, and through CGI [we removed] the rider. But that's about it.

  Janusz Kaminski

  Running, Horse, War

  Source: screenrant.com

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