#trenches

I'm hardly digging trenches for a living. I'm getting to tap into my boyhood fantasies of being a larger-than-life character. ↗

— Joel Edgerton

#boyhood #character #digging #fantasies #getting

If the head man in a company is not working 12 hours a day, doing things, taking risks, but also standing with his people in the trenches at the most difficult of times, then the company loses something. ↗

— Rupert Murdoch

#company #day #difficult #doing #head

But now that I'm cartooning full-time, I'm more of an observer. I'm talking to people who are experiencing these things. But it's not like being in the trenches. ↗

— Ted Rall

#cartooning #experiencing #full-time #i #like

Most of the people who call me a sellout were 7 when I was down face-first in the punk trenches. ↗

— Henry Rollins

#down #i #me #most #people

I'm on the ground, I've been in swing states, I've been talking to the American people, I've been out there speaking on behalf of Obama's record, I've been in the trenches. ↗

— Eva Longoria

#american people #been #behalf #ground #i

It is my intention to proceed slowly with our trenches. ↗

— Peter Stuyvesant

#our #proceed #slowly #trenches

I honestly wish I could believe that things will end perfectly with one big bright happy ending. But these last few days have taught me that life isn't made up of shiny moments. Life is hard; it's gritty. One day you are filled with joy and the next, you are crawling through the muddy trenches with no inkling of when you might be able to climb your way back up again. ~Willow Mosby (Exposing ELE) ↗

— Rebecca Gober

#happy-ending #hard-life #hurt #life #life-and-living