I speak truth, not so much as I would, but as much as I dare; and I dare a little more, as I grown older.


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The innocent are so few that two of them seldom meet - when they do meet, their victims lie strewn a...
ELIZABETH BOWEN
If you look at life one way, there is always cause for alarm
ELIZABETH BOWEN
Never to lie is to have no lock on your door, you are never wholly alone
ELIZABETH BOWEN
Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies
ELIZABETH BOWEN
Each of us keeps, battened down inside himself, a sort of lunatic giant - impossible socially, but f...
ELIZABETH BOWEN
Mechanical difficulties with language are the outcome of internal difficulties with thought
ELIZABETH BOWEN
Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself - in fact, till it does that, it hardl...
ELIZABETH BOWEN
Art is the only thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting
ELIZABETH BOWEN
One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it
ELIZABETH BOWEN
Nobody can be kinder than the narcissist while you react to life in his own terms
ELIZABETH BOWEN
We are minor in everything but our passions
ELIZABETH BOWEN
Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that we live, if we do
ELIZABETH BOWEN
No, it is not only our fate but our business to lose innocence, and once we have lost that, it is fu...
ELIZABETH BOWEN
Who is ever adequate? We all create situations each other can't live up to, then break our hearts at...
ELIZABETH BOWEN
When I hear of an 'equity' in a case like this, I am reminded of a blind man in a dark room - lookin...
CHARLES BOWEN
The rain it raineth on the just And also on the unjust fella, But chiefly on the just, because The u...
CHARLES BOWEN
It really concerns me that we are losing a great statesman because the current leadership is so unwi...
CHUCK BOWEN
Personally, I think the odds are more like 1 in 33,000 for the average golfer.
JAMES BOWEN
El amor es una amistad prendida fuego. Ahora lo entiendo.
SARINA BOWEN
There's a famous quote I read somewhere. It says we are all given second chances every day of our li...
JAMES BOWEN
I enjoy playing against Ray. You're playing against one of the top guys in the league as far as peri...
BRUCE BOWEN
Livvy noted there seemed some communal feeling between the married: any wife could be faintly rude t...
ELIZABETH BOWEN
I, on the other hand, do. I have the same damn weakness I’ve always had. It’s still there as I s...
SARINA BOWEN
It's not her fault she can't cook."
"You are too nice natured, darling. You won't get anywhere ...
RHYS BOWEN
If they don't pay out a special dividend, it could well indicate that they could be planning for som...
BOWEN PHUA
Basically the story hasn't changed much - Singapore is no longer a growth market and neither is Aust...
BOWEN PHUA
My guess is that we'll only have a better, clearer indication of the magnitude of cost savings in 20...
BOWEN PHUA
It's not about taking away rights from gays and lesbians as much as it is denying the best opportuni...
CHUCK BOWEN
Idealistic? Ruddy stupid, if you'll pardon the language, miss,: Mr Roberts said. "All this talk abou...
RHYS BOWEN
In my first courtroom scene, William [Shatner] had one of those giant monologues [creator] David Kel...
JULIE BOWEN
Taste the rainbow.
JOHN BOWEN
While we continue to oppose even the amended version, we knew that if we appeared before the committ...
CHUCK BOWEN
It comes down to cost, condition and space as to why the pool is closing. It's time to take action.
CHARLES BOWEN
I think as an educational institution, at some point during a student's journey, it becomes importan...
CHARLES BOWEN
More students have a better knowledge of pop culture than of the Constitution,
CHARLES BOWEN
When Karen ran for office in 2003 and stressed her support for equality for us, none of us knew that...
CHUCK BOWEN
I've been consumed for a year with the fear we would run out of money to finish projects.
STUART BOWEN