Sentences with phrase «foxholes when»

And I can attest to that since I have been in foxholes when the crap hit the fan and the avowed atheists in my squad were all to a damned one crying and whining and spouting «Oh God, Oh God, let me live through this.»

Just don't lose sight that if trapped together in the foxhole when all the food runs out, they won't hesitate to carve you up for dinner.

Not exact matches

«The foxhole mentality of waiting out economic downturns will put you behind your competitors when things start turning around.

There is a phrase «there are no atheists in foxholes»... implying that when people are about to die they hedge their bets and start praying.

However, it is true that when men are in foxholes and their lives are on the line they all want a good weapon, ammunition, buddies they can count on, and air support, even the most devote believers, because deep down they know what's going to keep them alive, and it isn't God.

True to their rigorous training in civil rights preparedness, the four people inside dived to the floor, like soldiers in a foxhole, but when no more shots came, they all ran outside to find him lying facedown near the door.

When I am not in a foxhole, I don't go to have some distressing experience.

Late fall is a beautiful season in the Pennsylvania woods, but when the deer hunters come the beauty is best observed from a deep - dug foxhole or the steel safety of a tank

There are two nice moments, maybe three: one takes place early on, when Carter learns that he's superhuman in the Martian low - G; the second involves the discovery of a hatchery; and the possible third has Carter taking on a horde of baddies and building a foxhole of their corpses.

Finding myself in the same foxhole as Steve Schneider when the «Nuclear Winter «balloon went up — it was launched on the anniversary of Orson Welles» War of The Worlds Broadcast with a media graphics package prepared by the Creative Department of that great K - Street PR institution Porter Novell Inc., I remarked to him that it all seemed like a bad joke on Cold War policy analysts, played at the expense of the credibility of climate modeling on the eve of the global warming debate.