Trenches Quotes

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Dig a trench through a landfill and you will see layers of phone books like geographical strata or layers of cake.... During a recent landfill… — William Rathje
Stated as an English sentence, of course, this is just a banal platitude-but the fact is that, in the day-to-day trenches of adult existence, banal… — David Foster Wallace
The events inspired characters that truly existed, as well as fictitious people I had to invent. Sometimes the harsh reality was too much, too absurd.… — Christian Carion
Trenches, hospitals, the common grave--there are no other possibilities. — Erich Maria Remarque
While the high-level climate talks pursue their stately progress towards some ill-defined destination, down in the trenches there is an undercurrent of suppressed panic in… — Gwynne Dyer
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… — Fritz Kreisler
However, the fact that the tanks had now been raised to such a pitch of technical perfection that they could cross our undamaged trenches and… — Paul von Hindenburg
Hardly one soldier in a hundred was inspired by religious feeling of even the crudest kind. It would have been difficult to remain religious in… — Robert Graves
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… — Christian Siriano
I had wanted to make a film about World War II for some time, but I didn't really want to do something that was set… — Michael Apted
Alan Ladd was a marvelous person in his simplicity. In so many ways we were kindred spirits. We both were professionally conceived through Hollywood's search… — Veronica Lake
You are a beautiful soul hidden by the trench coat of the ego. — Michael Dolan
If a garden require it, now trench it ye may, one trench not a yard, from another go lay; Which being well filled with muck… — Thomas Tusser
I think that nonviolence is one way of saying that there are other ways to solve problems, not only through weapons and war. Nonviolence also… — Rigoberta Menchu
Iâ€™ve always been a sort of self-imposed outsider, not a geeky outsider or a snobby outsider but, I just have a natural desire to live… — Sara Quin
A humane and authentic book written by another voice from the trenches. — Joanne Greenberg
The church is not a dormitory for sleepers, it is an institution for workers; it is not a rest camp, it is a front line… — Billy Sunday
Put on a trench, you're suddenly Audrey Hepburn walking along the Seine. — Michael Kors
European nations began World War I with a glamorous vision of war, only to be psychologically shattered by the realities of the trenches. The experience… — Virginia Postrel
In the day-to-day trenches of adult life, there is actually no such thing as atheism. There is no such thing as not worshipping. Everybody worships.… — David Foster Wallace

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