Barbed Quotes

54 quotes by 52 authors

A collection of huts surrounded by a barbed wire fence, and in the huts lived 500 of the original inhabitants of our area. And so… — Phillip Noyce
One man's pointlessness is another's barbed satire. — Franklin P. Adams
Contrary to popular opinion, the Constitution was not - and is not - a grant of rights to the citizenry. Instead, the Constitution is a… — Jacob G. Hornberger
Those who take refuge behind theological barbed wire fences, quite often wish they could have more freedom of thought, but fear the change to the… — Luther Burbank
A woman's dress should be like a barbed-wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view. — Sophia Loren
When things go badly, individuals look for scapegoats. I just do not believe that barbed-wire fences or guns on our border will solve any of… — Ron Paul
Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders. — Ronald Reagan
Yes, I remember the barbed wire and the guard towers and the machine guns, but they became part of my normal landscape. What would be… — George Takei
And I said to myself: That's true, hope needs to be like barbed wire to keep out despair, hope must be a mine field. — Yehuda Amichai
Human reason is beautiful and invincible. No bars, no barbed wire, no pulping of books, No sentence of banishment can prevail against it. It puts… — Czeslaw Milosz
It's easier to floss with barbed wire than admit you like someone in middle school. — Laurie Halse Anderson
And the commercials would have sickened a goat raised on barbed wire and broken beer bottles. — Raymond Chandler
Luxâ€™s frequent forged excuses from phys. Ed. She always used the same method, faking the rigid tâ€™s and bâ€™s of her motherâ€™s signature and then,… — Jeffrey Eugenides
The heart of it all is mystery, and science is at best only the peripheral trappings to that mystery--a ragged barbed-wire fence through which mystery… — Rick Bass
I first became fascinated with the Sears catalogue because all the people in its pages were perfect. Nearly everybody I knew had something missing, a… — Harry Crews
Squatting on old bones and excrement and rusty iron, in a white blaze of heat, a panorama of naked idiots stretches to the horizon. Complete… — William S. Burroughs
What I didn't say was that each time I picked up a German dictionary or a German book, the very sight of those dense, black,… — Sylvia Plath
They are not brave, the days when we are twenty-one. They are full of little cowardices, little fears without foundation, and one is so easily… — Daphne du Maurier
One minute she acts like she wants to be with me and I'm the one rejecting her. The next, she's got this barbed wire fence… — Jennifer Armintrout
What made losing someone you loved bearable was not remembering but forgetting. Forgetting small things first... it's amazing how much you could forget, and everything… — Ron Rash

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