Isonzo Quotes & Sayings

If I were confined to a corner of a garret all my days, like a spider, the world would be just as large to me while I had my thoughts about me. — Henry David Thoreau

God Almighty, I love life. Even this vile place, where the trees are shattered stubs and where nothing grows but craters, even the sights, scents, sounds, and stirrings of this place are preferable to the unchanging nothingness of the Great Darkness. — Dan Simmons

For sheer mindless futility, though, it was hard to compete with the newly opened Southern Front in northeastern Italy. Having belatedly joined the war on the side of the Entente, by November 1915 Italy had already flung its army four times against a vastly outnumbered Austro-Hungarian force commanding the heights of a rugged mountain valley, only to be slaughtered each time; before war's end, there would be twelve battles in the Isonzo valley, resulting in some 600,000 Italian casualties. — Scott Anderson

Indiana Jones is very much an old-world kind of hero. He doesn't really have any kind of superpower or rely on any kind of technology to help him out of things. — Jamie Bell

It is a common thing for people to begin to lean in the direction of recovery, only to stop and take score too soon. And when they still find unwanted symptoms or conditions, they then offer resistant thought and lose the improved ground they have gained. With consistent releasing of resistance, all unwanted conditions will subside, returning you to your natural state of Well-Being. — Esther Hicks

A quick thought shot through my mind. Could I really drown in a dream? I remembered the movie the Matrix. If you died in the matrix, you died in real life. I wasn't about to take a chance ... — Cameo Renae

That so-called feminine ardor for clothes shopping had been flagging for some time. Between 1980 and 1986, at the same time that women were buying more houses, cars, restaurant dinners, and health care services, they were buying fewer pieces of clothing-from dresses to underwear. — Susan Faludi

Even Silence Has an End: My Six Years of Captivity in the Colombian Jungle in — Anne Barone

You don't like me do you?'
'That would take effort,' she replied. 'Indifference is much, much easier. — Jasper Fforde

I ate two waffles, a banana and cereal with blueberries. And that whas between my two breakfasts. — Amy Poehler

When the first 'Hellboy' series came out, in the same batch of fan mail I got a letter from somebody from the Church of Satan, and I got a letter from a minister, and they both liked it. And I thought, 'What am I doing that I'm making both these guys happy?' — Mike Mignola

Dreams always end before you kill the last person. — Steve Aylett

I grew up in Hollywood. Saying my name here is like mentioning Ford in Detroit. — Tony Goldwyn

We could crawl inside your head and make you but a shell of yourself, a puppet of meat, for which we keep the only strings." It paused to let the impact of this settle in. "Please stop trying to be brave, and become the pathetic creature we both know you to be."
My short nails bit against my arms. "Fuck you. — Cassie Alexander

Give yourself time just to be with yourself. — Maya Angelou

Gods be good, why would any man ever want to be king? When everyone was shouting King in the North, King in the North, I told myself ... swore to myself ... that I would be a good king, as honorable as Father, strong, just, loyal to my friends and brave when I faced my enemies ... now I can't even tell one from the other. — George R R Martin