A Poem does not grow by jerks. As trees in Spring produce a new ring of tissue, so does every poet p...
WILFRED OWEN Be bullied, be outraged, be killed, but do not kill.
WILFRED OWEN It seemed that out of battle I escaped
Down some profound dull tunnel, long since scooped
Th...
WILFRED OWEN What passing-bells for these who die as cattle?
- Only the monstrous anger of the guns.
Only ...
WILFRED OWEN Shall Life renew these bodies? Of a truthAll death will he annul, all tears assuage?Or fill these vo...
WILFRED OWEN Never fear: Thank Home, and Poetry, and the Force behind both.
WILFRED OWEN My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.
WILFRED OWEN Those who have no hope pass their old age shrouded with an inward gloom.
WILFRED OWEN Do you know what would hold me together on a battlefield? The sense that I was perpetuating the lang...
WILFRED OWEN She is elegant rather than belle.
WILFRED OWEN All theological lore is becoming distasteful to me.
WILFRED OWEN The war effects me less than it ought. I can do no service to anybody by agitating for news or makin...
WILFRED OWEN The old lie; Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori.
(Sweet and fitting it is to die for the fathe...
WILFRED OWEN Was it for this the clay grew tall?
WILFRED OWEN Now rather thank I God there is no riskOf gravers scoring it with florid screed.Let my inscription b...
WILFRED OWEN Behold,A ram caught in a thicket by its horns;Offer the Ram of Pride instead of him.But the old man ...
WILFRED OWEN A few, a few, too few for drums and yells,May creep back, silent, to still village wellsUp half-know...
WILFRED OWEN Move him into the sun —Gently its touch awoke him once,At home, whispering of fields unsown.Always...
WILFRED OWEN My arms have mutinied against me — brutes!My fingers fidget like ten idle brats,My back's been sti...
WILFRED OWEN I don't ask myself, is the life congenial to me? But, am I fitted for, am I called to, the Minis...
WILFRED OWEN I am only conscious of any satisfaction in Scientific Reading or thinking when it rounds off into a ...
WILFRED OWEN What passing bells for these who die as cattle?Only the monstrous anger of the guns.Only the stutter...
WILFRED OWEN And you have fixed my life — however short. You did not light me: I was always a mad comet; but yo...
WILFRED OWEN Red lips are not so red as the stained stones kissed by the English dead.
WILFRED OWEN After all my years of playing soldiers, and then of reading History, I have almost a mania to be in ...
WILFRED OWEN All a poet can do today is warn.
WILFRED OWEN And in the happy no-time of his sleeping/ Death took him by the heart.
WILFRED OWEN All a poet can do today is warn. That is why the truest poets must be truthful.
WILFRED OWEN Shall Life renew these bodies? Of a truth
All death will he annul, all tears assuage?
Or fil...
WILFRED OWEN Behold,
A ram caught in a thicket by its horns;
Offer the Ram of Pride instead of him.
B...
WILFRED OWEN A few, a few, too few for drums and yells,
May creep back, silent, to still village wells
Up...
WILFRED OWEN Move him into the sun —
Gently its touch awoke him once,
At home, whispering of fields unso...
WILFRED OWEN My arms have mutinied against me — brutes!
My fingers fidget like ten idle brats,
My back's...
WILFRED OWEN Red lips are not so red/ As the stained stones kissed by the English dead.
WILFRED OWEN What passing-bells for these who die as cattle? Only the monstrous anger of the guns.
WILFRED OWEN The pallor of girls' brows shall be their pall;/ Their flowers the tenderness of patient minds,/ And...
WILFRED OWEN But the old man would not so, but slew his son,
And half the seed of Europe, one by one.
WILFRED OWEN When I begin to eliminate from the list all those professions which are impossible from a financial ...
WILFRED OWEN I find purer philosophy in a Poem than in a Conclusion of Geometry, a chemical analysis, or a physic...
WILFRED OWEN The old Lie:Dulce et decorum est
Pro patria mori.
WILFRED OWEN What passing bells for these who die as cattle?
Only the monstrous anger of the guns.
Only...
WILFRED OWEN All I ask is to be held above the barren wastes of want.
WILFRED OWEN Ambition may be defined as the willingness to receive any number of hits on the nose.
WILFRED OWEN It was necessary to bluff the Japanese camp commanders, with whatever authority I could muster, that...
WILFRED BURCHETT Hiroshima does not look like a bombed city. It looks as if a monster steamroller had passed over it ...
WILFRED BURCHETT The aim of philosophy is to understand how things in the broadest possible sense of the term hang to...
WILFRED SELLARS Success is focusing the full power of all you are on what you have a burning desire to achieve.
WILFRED PETERSON Of thousands of others, nearer the centre of the explosion, there was no trace. They vanished. The t...
WILFRED BURCHETT Could anything justify the extermination of civilians on such a scale?
WILFRED BURCHETT As in all his subsequent dealings with France, Ho Chi Minh's demands were a model of modesty.
WILFRED BURCHETT And just as there was something of every Vietnamese in Ho Chi Minh so there is something of Ho Chi M...
WILFRED BURCHETT In this first testing ground of the atomic bomb I have seen the most terrible and frightening desola...
WILFRED BURCHETT When you arrive in Hiroshima you can look around and for 25 and perhaps 30 square miles you can see ...
WILFRED BURCHETT Suicide is... the sincerest form of criticism life gets.
WILFRED SHEED Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worthwhil...
WILFRED GRENFELL Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in i...
WILFRED SHEED Vietnamese must be made to feel that they are racial inferiors with no right to national identity.
WILFRED BURCHETT The police chief of Hiroshima welcomed me eagerly as the first Allied correspondent to reach the cit...
WILFRED BURCHETT Richard Nixon means never having to say you're sorry
WILFRED SHEED Big thinking precedes great achievement.
WILFRED PETERSON Champion the right to be yourself; dare to be different and to set your own pattern; live your own l...
WILFRED PETERSON Thank God for the creative ideas that enrich life by adding your own creative contributions to human...
WILFRED PETERSON A man practices the art of adventure when he breaks the chain of routine and renews his life through...
WILFRED PETERSON The service we render others is the rent we pay for our room on earth.
WILFRED GRENFELL Let me look upward into the branches of the flowering oak and know that it grew great and strong bec...
WILFRED PETERSON For me, exploration was a personal venture. I did not go to the Arabian desert to collect plants nor...
WILFRED THESIGER I had learnt the satisfaction which comes from hardship and the pleasure which derives from abstinen...
WILFRED THESIGER If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English
WILFRED SHEED Explore your mind, discover yourself, then give the best that is in you to your age and to your worl...
WILFRED PETERSON Great men are little men expanded; great lives are ordinary lives intensified.
WILFRED PETERSON Be gentle with yourself, learn to love yourself, to forgive yourself, for only as we have the right ...
WILFRED PETERSON We have what's called long-term closures for these three blasts ... That bridge could be closed up t...
WILFRED HERNENDEZ The first blast should be taking place early spring. Basically, what you're going to see is the two ...
WILFRED HERNENDEZ My emotional and intellectual response to Hiroshima was that the question of the social responsibili...
WILFRED BURCHETT Ho joined the French socialist party, the first Vietnamese to be a member of a French political part...
WILFRED BURCHETT The mind likes a strange idea as little as the body likes a strange protein and resists it with simi...
WILFRED TROTTER Without consistency there is no moral strength.
OWEN Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worthwhil...
SIR WILFRED GRENFELL The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doi...
WILFRED A. PETERSON Oh, how bitter it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.
WILFRED T. GRENFELL They are preventable causes of death and as physicians, we think it's important.
DR. WILFRED POTTER As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway ...
WILFRED ARLAN PETERSON We worked hard on it, but the Legislature did not respond. We had some support but many of (legislat...
DR. WILFRED POTTER For the most part, people have been supportive. I estimate about 75 to 80 percent of the people we a...
DR. WILFRED POTTER Math is my Passion. Engineering is my Profession.
WILFRED JAMES DOLOR Just because someone has been in your life for many years, doesn’t mean there shouldn’t be a poi...
WILFRED JAMES DOLOR I love writing songs. I love doing my radio show and talking to the fans and listening to what they ...
RANDY OWEN Our original name was Wild Country, but when we first went to The Bowery, they had the name of all 5...
RANDY OWEN For me, when I grew up playing music, I played music in church and people were shouting and having a...
RANDY OWEN As long as God lets me live, I want to do things that make a difference in the world besides play mu...
RANDY OWEN God has to let you be there, and then you just have to have good fortune for whatever reason. I'...
RANDY OWEN I can't not be who I am.
RANDY OWEN The Bowery was a place that would let us do original songs - not just covers - but we would have to ...
RANDY OWEN I feel very good and positive about my future. I look forward to seeing the fans and doing what I do...
RANDY OWEN The juices never stop flowing. I still write songs.
RANDY OWEN The writing part of my life never changes, because that's just when the inspiration comes.
RANDY OWEN I joined Twitter and you read a lot of the comments. You're biting your lip and you want to repl...
MICHAEL OWEN Jewelery isn't really my thing, but I've always got my eye on people's watches.
CLIVE OWEN When yu' can't have what you choose, yu' just choose what you have.
OWEN WISTER When you can't have what you choose, you just choose what you have.
OWEN WISTER I think the way it works is that when you're casting a movie, you usually want to work with peop...
OWEN WILSON I definitely would like to do some more dramatic roles.
OWEN WILSON Movies I liked growing up were like Francis Ford Coppolla movies and Scorsese movies.
OWEN WILSON It's funny how it usually works out that I end up dying. It sort of works out, because by the ti...
OWEN WILSON You can think of Hollywood as high school. TV actors are freshmen, comedy actors are maybe juniors, ...
OWEN WILSON I have never taken myself that seriously as an actor.
OWEN WILSON One thing I have been banging on about, we have a dessert deficit in the U.K. We still import a very...
OWEN PATERSON No one is more keen than me to see the Hunting Act repealed, because I believe in the management of ...
OWEN PATERSON Government can wreck a business by confiscating its money by taxation.
OWEN PATERSON Climate change is obviously happening and there is obviously a man-made contribution.
OWEN PATERSON Dread lord and cousin, may the almighty preserve your reverence and lordship in long life and good f...
OWEN GLENDOWER And in that I cannot send unto you all my businesses in writing, I despatch these present bearers fu...
OWEN GLENDOWER Most redoubted lord and right sovereign cousin, may the Almighty Lord have you in his keeping.
OWEN GLENDOWER There is no one subsists by himself alone.
OWEN FELTHAM There is no belittling worse than to over praise a man.
OWEN FELTHAM Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.
OWEN FELTHAM Zeal without humanity is like a ship without a rudder, liable to be stranded at any moment.
OWEN FELTHAM Meditation is the soul's perspective glass.
OWEN FELTHAM Negligence is the rust of the soul, that corrodes through all her best resolves.
OWEN FELTHAM Each generation of scientists stands upon the shoulders of those who have gone before.
OWEN CHAMBERLAIN The whole structure of science gradually grows, but only as it is built upon a firm foundation of pa...
OWEN CHAMBERLAIN The development of physics, like the development of any science, is a continuous one.
OWEN CHAMBERLAIN I have a ton of videos on MySpace and YouTube.
OWEN BENJAMIN I was 6, and I was in the opera 'Carmen.' My dad sang opera and got me into the children'...
OWEN BENJAMIN To be fair, I don't get mad when people laugh at me when I fall down.
OWEN BENJAMIN For ultimately, the only way to win wars, is to prevent them occurring in the first place.
OWEN ARTHUR I am satisfied that all politicians were meant to be journalists and all journalists meant to be pol...
OWEN ARTHUR For he who has health has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.
OWEN ARTHUR Let us go forward in this battle fortified by conviction that those who labour in the service of a g...
OWEN ARTHUR Even if it's a white crowd, I tell my jokes for the four black people in the room, not the 100 w...
GARY OWEN I always wonder if my kids will say they're mixed or black.
GARY OWEN Everything I do, I go to black people. If I have a problem at the airport, I'll go to the black ...
GARY OWEN Master books, but do not let them master you. - Read to live, not live to read.
OWEN MEREDITH I'd love to go and I'd love to play for my country and go to a World Cup again. I've got...
MICHAEL OWEN The relationship between a Russian and a bottle of vodka is almost mystical.
RICHARD OWEN Zeal without humanity is like a ship without a rudder, liable to be stranded at any moment.
OWEN FELLTHAM You're obviously conscious of being brash or big-headed but I always knew I was going to be a fo...
MICHAEL OWEN Nobody really knows for sure who the Blue Blazer is, but like I said in my interview, there's a ...
OWEN HART There is no belittling worse than to over praise a man.
OWEN FELLTHAM Courts of law, and all the paraphernalia and folly of law cannot be found in a rational state of soc...
ROBERT OWEN Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.
OWEN FELLTHAM We may live without friends; we may live without books. But civilized men cannot live without cooks.
OWEN MEREDITH To preserve permanent good health, the state of mind must be taken into consideration.
ROBERT OWEN Zeal without humanity is like a ship without a rudder, liable to be stranded at any moment.
OWEN FELLTHAM We are now in the third stage of the industrial revolution. The first involved machines which extend...
OWEN DAVIES There is no one subsists by himself alone.
OWEN FELLTHAM Negligence is the rust of the soul, that corrodes through all her best resolves.
OWEN FELLTHAM There is nothing certain in a man's life but that he must lose it.
OWEN MEREDITH The pace of progress will accelerate so that even engineers and technical managers will find it nece...
OWEN DAVIES Zeal without humanity is like a ship without a rudder, liable to be stranded at any moment
OWEN FELLTHAM Genius does what it must, and Talent does what it can.
OWEN MEREDITH Genius does what it must, and Talent does what it can.
OWEN MEREDITH Those true eyes Too pure and too honest in aught to disguise The sweet soul shining through them
OWEN MEREDITH To train and educate the rising generation will at all times be the first object of society, to whic...
ROBERT OWEN When yu' can't have why you choose, yu' just choose what you have.
OWEN WISTER I certainly don't think of myself as an action hero.
CLIVE OWEN I wish thy lot, now bad, still worse, my friend, for when at worst, they say, things always mend.
JOHN OWEN Man is the creature of circumstances.
ROBERT OWEN Temptation is like a knife, that may either cut the meat or the throat of a man; it may be his food ...
JOHN OWEN The lips on my upper right bicep are my girlfriend's lips. She has the most amazing lips, and I ...
JAKE OWEN I like to take my dog on the road. He stays up front; he likes it there.
JAKE OWEN Most people think in order to validate yourself as an artist, you have to write your own songs. I co...
JAKE OWEN I had always loved music. I grew up listening to classic country, Waylon Jennings, Merle Haggard. My...
JAKE OWEN I believe a No. 1 song starts happening when it's believable and validating.
JAKE OWEN I've got a vibe going on with a lot of what I've been doing, and to completely change it bas...
JAKE OWEN But that's the problem with playing new music sometimes before the record comes out: You have a ...
JAKE OWEN I'm from Florida, so any time I get invited to come to Florida and play a show, I'm definite...
JAKE OWEN Some artists will tell you that's all they want to do is write their own music, and that's g...
JAKE OWEN I started putting down my own pen and spending some time searching for the best songs out there poss...
JAKE OWEN Some people choose to go on 'American Idol' or another singing contest, and some people choo...
JAKE OWEN Everyone has their own path and you can't judge.
JAKE OWEN Not to be narcissistic, but I truly believe in order to make yourself better, you should see what yo...
JAKE OWEN At first I was a little leery to just post photos of my little girl all the time and kind of exploit...
JAKE OWEN I look at my little girl and I wonder what she's going to be and what she's going to do and ...
JAKE OWEN You hear about people your whole life, 'So-and-so has cancer,' and you're like, 'Wow...
JAKE OWEN There are things I want to do to be a better human being and a better father.
JAKE OWEN There's always going to be life experiences that find their way into my songs.
JAKE OWEN Anytime you put your name on a ticket with nothing else attached to it, that's the true testamen...
JAKE OWEN I went from a playing in a bar on a bar stool for free beer and tip money, where people weren't ...
JAKE OWEN There's a lot that goes into being Tim McGraw or Kenny Chesney. They have great songs, their sho...
JAKE OWEN Everyone has their own path in life, no matter if it's being a celebrity or a singer. Quite fran...
JAKE OWEN You can pick songs that sound like hits, but if it's not something that somebody wants to tell t...
JAKE OWEN As long as you're true to you, you believe it and you make others believe it, then what you'...
JAKE OWEN I think if you just look at life in a positive way, positive things will happen.
JAKE OWEN Markets are confident that the Fed will raise rates another 25 basis points at the Federal Open Mark...
ANN OWEN The new belt has been ordered and as soon as it comes in, the furnace will be repaired.
ANN OWEN We had the buses take them home if there would be someone there. If not, they were taken to the room...
ANN OWEN If you want to know how much more it costs you to live this year than last year, look at the headlin...
ANN OWEN If you want to know how much more it costs you to live this year than last year, look at the headlin...
ANN OWEN I can tell you as someone who worked there, you really wanted to make sure that you knew what you we...
ANN OWEN The Fed is much more open about what it is going to do.
ANN OWEN I think the Fed in the last decade has been a real model on how to deal with crises.
ANN OWEN But of that day and hour no one knows neither the angels in heaven nor the Son but only the Father.�...
JOHN OWEN Every day you are getting new downgrades and (target) price cuts that add fuel to the downside fire....
ARNIE OWEN People are still concerned about the Asia-Pacific Rim, there are noises from some of the brokerages ...
ARNIE OWEN People are still concerned about the Asia-Pacific Rim, there are noises from some of the brokerages ...
ARNIE OWEN Every day you are getting new downgrades and (target) price cuts that add fuel to the downside fire,...
ARNIE OWEN The thing about the acquisitions is it shows companies are looking and seeing value in the marketpla...
ARNIE OWEN [For the markets,] the real issue is the election, ... The Pitt issue has been going on for a couple...
ARNIE OWEN A lot of the tech selling is over. And the considerable strength of the U.S. economy is intact, inte...
ARNIE OWEN