Entrenchments Quotes & Sayings

In vain, without the Bible, we increase penal laws and draw entrenchments around our institutions. — James McHenry

Her hands twisted restlessly together like a pair of pink and hairless animals at play. — Stephen King

Life is too mysterious to try to map it out. I've certainly lived long enough to know it will take you places you never thought it would take you - and some of those places are kind of wonderful. — Alan Ball

Why did you become a journalist?"
"Better than working for a living. — Leslie Cockburn

To sing about freedom and to pray for its coming is not enough. Freedom must be actualized in history by oppressed peoples who accept the intellectual challenge to analyze the world for the purpose of changing it. — James H. Cone

You're not famous until you're a Pez dispenser. — Carrie Fisher

Until the raw ingredients of a pudding make a pudding, I shall never believe that the raw material of sensation and thought can make a work of art without the cook's intervening. — Edith Wharton

Already, I'm starting to forget the face of the man I killed. — Marie Lu

really thats your code name? — Michael Buckley

Normally, you cast a pilot, and you have to make compromises about being political about who you cast. — Jill Soloway

There is something universal about being stood up in a city restaurant between one and two - a spiritual no-man's-land, whose blasted trees, entrenchments, and ratholes we all share, disarmed by the gullibility of our hearts. — John Cheever

Indeed, four men like them, four men devoted to each other from their money to their lives, four men always supporting each other, never retreating, performing singly or together the resolutions they had made in common; four arms threatening the four points of the compass or all turning to a single point, must inevitably, be it surreptitiously, be it openly, be it by mines, by entrenchments, by guile, or by force, open a way to the end they wanted to reach, however well defended or far off it might be. — Alexandre Dumas

Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying. — Simone De Beauvoir

Bibles are strong entrenchments. Where they abound, men cannot pursue wicked courses, and at the same time enjoy quiet conscience. — James McHenry