Fronts Quotes - Page 17

• The enemy bombards our front not only with a drumfire of artillery, but also with a drumfire of printed paper. Besides bombs, which kill the body, his airmen also throw down leaflets which are intended to kill the soul.

  Paul von Hindenburg

  Military, Soul, Enemy

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• In wartime, the degree of patriotism is directly proportional to distance from the front.

  Philip Caputo

  Peace, War, Distance

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• My dear fellow citizens: For forty years you have heard from my predecessors on this day different variations of the same theme: how our country flourished, how many millions of tons of steel we produced, how happy we all were, how we trusted our government, and what bright perspectives were unfolding in front of us. I assume you did not propose me for this office so that I, too, would lie to you.

  Vaclav Havel

  Country, War, Lying

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• If you want to look good in front of thousands, you have to out work thousands in front of nobody.

  Damian Lillard

  Looks, Want, Ifs

  FaceBook post by Damian Lillard from Mar 13, 2016

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• It has been said repeatedly that one can never, try as he will, get around to the front of the universe. Man is destined to see only its far side, to realize nature only in retreat.

  Loren Eiseley

  Nature, Men, Trying

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• In theater, the wellspring of the character comes from the doing of it, like a trial by fire, but in front of an audience.

  Estelle

  Character, Fire, Trials

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• What's twelve inches long and hangs in front on ass, Mankind's tie.

  Jerry Lawler

  Funny, Wwe, Ties

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• That's the first time he had started from the front row in a Grand Prix, having done so in Canada earlier this year.

  Murray Walker

  Funny, Motor Racing, Years

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• And he's lost both right front tires.

  Murray Walker

  Funny, Motor Racing, Tire

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• And if a diversion is needed, why not arrest a general? Arthur Dillon is a friend of eminent deputies, a contender for the post of Commander-in-Chief of the Northern Front; he has proved himself at Valmy and in a halfdozen actions since. In the National Assembly he was a liberal; now he is a republican. Isn't it then logical that he should be thrown into gaol, July 1, on suspicion of passing military secrets to the enemy?

  Hilary Mantel

  Military, July, Secret

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• Zombies are the liberal nightmare. Here you have the masses, whom you would love to love, appearing at your front door with their faces falling off; and you're trying to be as humane as you possibly can, but they are, after all, eating the cat. And the fear of mass activity, of mindlessness on a national scale, underlies my fear of zombies.

  Clive Barker

  Fall, Cat, Doors

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• The most beautiful thing I have ever seen in a movie theatre is to go down to the front and turn around, and look at all the uplifted faces, the light from the screen reflected upon them.

  Francois Truffaut

  Beautiful, Light, Theatre

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• You want to run out in front, prepare to be tripped from behind.

  Albie Sachs

  Wise, Running, Want

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• When Love runs through the front door fear runs out the back.

  Mark Beeson

  Running, Doors, Front Doors

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• The back is like a frame, the front body, the painting that it throws into relief.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Relief, Body, Painting

  B. K. S. Iyengar (2016). “Sparks of Divinity: The Teachings of B. K. S. Iyengar”, p.134, Shambhala Publications

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• A vague uneasiness: the police. It's like when you suddenly understand you have to undress in front of the doctor.

  Ugo Betti

  Doctors, Police, Vague

  Ugo Betti (1968). “Three Plays”

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• People are overwhelmed looking up at the Mount Everest of environmental challenges that we face. But you put one foot in front of the other and you recognize that not everyone is Sir Edmund Hillary.

  Ed Begley, Jr.

  Feet, People, Challenges

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

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• Improvisation is just writing in front of an audience.

  Carl Reiner

  Writing, Humor, Improvisation

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• Where I came from, sports were the only way to get out front.

  Joe Namath

  Sports, Way

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• A year after Hemingway died on the front page, Faulkner went off after a binge, as if dying was nobody's business but his own.

  Alfred Kazin

  Death, Years, Dying

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• I don't know how long a child will remain utterly static in front of the television, but my guess is that it could be well into their thirties.

  A. A. Gill

  Children, Long, Television

  A. A. Gill (2008). “Paper view: the best of the Sunday Times television reviews”, Orion Pub Co

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• All Quiet on the Western Front.

  Erich Maria Remarque

  War, Lost Youth, Quiet

  All Quiet on the Western Front ch. 12 (1929) (translation by A. W. Wheen) See Beers 1

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• Ninety-eight per cent of actors who actually make a living do so in front of a camera.

  Julian Fellowes

  Eight, Cameras, Actors

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• Our attainments [in space] are a major element in the competition between the Soviet system and our own . . . . in this sense, [they] are part of the battle along the fluid front of the cold war.

  James E. Webb

  War, Moon, Space

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• I saw a great Newfoundland dog the other day sitting in front of a mirror at the entrance to a shop in Regent's Circus, and examining himself with an amount of smug satisfaction that I have never seen equaled elsewhere outside a vestry meeting.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Funny, Dog, Humorous

  Jerome K. Jerome (2016). “The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow”, p.38, Jerome K. Jerome

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