Wilfred Owen Quotes

Ambition may be defined as the willingness to receive any number of hits on the nose.

Wilfred Owen

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• I usually get my stuff from people who promised somebody else that they would keep it a secret.

  

  Walter Winchell
  • People
  • Secret
  • Somebody

• Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Good
  • Never
  • Become

• People are really upside down. They want a government they can trust. They want one that's not going to raise their taxes by $15 billion and not lay off one state employee.

  

  Carl Paladino
  • People
  • Government
  • Trust

• No matter where you came from, you can be inspired.

  

  F. Gary Gray
  • You
  • Inspired
  • Matter

• Islam has been badly used by a certain ideology.

  

  Youssou N'Dour
  • Used
  • Islam
  • Ideology

• This seems to be the law of progress in everything we do; it moves along a spiral rather than a perpendicular; we seem to be actually going out of the way, and yet it turns out that we were really moving upward all the time.

  

  Frances E. Willard
  • Time
  • Law
  • Moving

• If you look at the market cap increase in Apple since it created the iPod versus what's happened to the music industry, you have to say Apple got the better part of that deal.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Jr.
  • Music
  • Better
  • Apple

• My father was a Methodist and my mother was a Baptist.

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Methodist

• You don't necessarily need a script or actors to tell a compelling tale. Finding a person at a key moment in his life and rendering the truth as you see it - that's the truest form of drama.

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
  • Life
  • Truth
  • Drama

• The football season is like pain. You forget how terrible it is until it seizes you again.

  

  Sally Quinn
  • Pain
  • Football
  • Season

• I'm a voracious reader. I also have a ton of favorite TV shows I'm addicted to.

  

  Zara Cox
  • Shows
  • Favorite
  • TV Shows

• Puerto Rico is a powerful island.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Powerful
  • Island
  • Puerto

• I have transcended that phase in my intellectual growth where I discover humour in simple freakishness. What exists is real; therefore it is tragic, since wherever lives must die. Only fantasy, the vapours rising from sheer nonsense, can now excite my laughter.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Real
  • Die
  • Simple

• When I put out a tweet and I put Reince's name in a tweet, they're all making the assumption that it's him because journalists know who the leakers are. So if Reince wants to explain he's not a leaker, let him do that. But let me tell you about myself. I'm a straight shooter and I'll go right to the heart of the matter.

  

  Anthony Scaramucci
  • Heart
  • Assumption

• I got to play on a couple of records with the Rolling Stones, and that was really special to me.

  

  Benmont Tench Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
  • Couple

• Even a war zone looks peaceful in most places, most of the time.

  

  Alex Berenson
  • Time
  • War

• I love to unwind and watch movies, especially those from the classic black-and-white era.

  

  Fred Savage
  • Black

• In my early twenties, that's when I really began to write. Before that, I was too busy working, keeping myself going.

  

  Paula Fox

• Winning doesn't come cheaply … you have to pay a big price.

  

  Jeev Milkha Singh
  • Winning

• Chief executives, who themselves own few shares of their companies, have no more feeling for the average stockholder than they do for baboons in Africa.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • Feeling
  • Own
  • Average

• And there you see the distinction between our feelings: had he been in my place, and I in his, though I hated him with a hatred that turned my life to gall, I never would have raised a hand against him. You may look incredulous, if you please! I never would have banished him from her society as long as she desired his. The moment her regard ceased, I would have torn his heart out and drank his blood! But, till then - if you don't believe me, you don't know me - til then, I would have died by inches before I touched a single hair on his head!

  

  Emily Bronte
  • Society
  • Feelings
  • Don't Believe

• It's hard to look inside a person to answer a question about why anybody wants to be president. I suppose a combination of ambition, ego, and a real feeling that he could make a difference and could accomplish some things. All you ever had to do for Jimmy Carter was to tell him something was impossible, and he would usually do it.

  

  Hamilton Jordan
  • Real
  • Why
  • Feeling

• The profit motive, when it is the sole basis of an economic system, encourages a cutthroat competition and selfish ambition that inspires men to be more concerned about making a living than making a life.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Life
  • Ambition
  • Selfish

• Ambition may be defined as the willingness to receive any number of hits on the nose.

  

  Wilfred Owen
  • Ambition
  • Number
  • Receive