Wilfred Owen Famous Quotes
What passing bells for these who die as cattleOnly the monstrous anger of the guns.Only the stuttering rifles' rapid rattleCan patter out their hasty orisons.
Wilfred Owen Quotations
"Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn."
Charlie Parker
"And I said to the one who stood at the gate of the year, 'Give me a light that I may tread safely into the Unknown.' And he replied, 'Go out into the darkness and put your hand into the hand of God. That shall be to you better than light and safer than a known way.'"
Minnie Haskins
"Libraries keep the records on behalf of all humanity. ... the unique and the absurd, the wise and the fragments of stupidity."
Vartan Gregorian
"Men are born with two eyes, but only one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say."
Charles Caleb Colton
Nothing happens to anybody which he is not fitted by nature to bear.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
"After a person makes his mark in the world, a lot of people will come around with erasers."
Joe Moore
"No evil is without its compensation. The less money, the less trouble the less favor, the less envy. Even in those cases which put us out of wits, it is not the loss itself, but the estimate of the loss that troubles us."
Seneca
"Management means, in the last analysis, the substitution of thought for brawn and muscle, of knowledge for folkways and superstition, and of cooperation for force. It means the substitution of responsibility for obedience to rank, and of authority of performance for the authority of rank. Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision."
Peter Drucker
"A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off"
Andrew Schneider
In bed my real love has always been the sleep that rescued me by allowing me to dream.
Luigi Pirandello