The Bowery was a place that would let us do original songs - not just covers - but we would have to work for tips, so we learned how to work an audience. In order to keep our jobs, we had to keep people happy, so that meant playing the latest Lynyrd Skynyrd and ZZ Top or Merle Haggard.
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Related We may claim to believe in God, but we don't want to believe so much that it makes us different. CRAIG GROESCHEL Destiny consist in the moments that we experienced, and not in the choices we have to do. DANIEL MELGAçO The four covers we play we have rewritten to our own style. We could play all covers and mix in some... JARRAD WOLIVER After 'Psychonauts,' we could have laid off half our team so that we'd have more money a... TIM SCHAFER It was only important to us because we were playing in it. We're happy with the win, but if we would... KIRSTEN JETER We'd have to suck away at oxygen canisters between songs just so that we could keep playing. MICHAEL HUTCHENCE What will happen if we go to 0 day? ... Everything has been wipe out from the techno... DEYTH BANGER The contra-flow will work. It's not something that we would prefer to do. We would hope that traffic... RON ANDERSON Most of us think we're too busy or too important to rest for a day. CRAIG GROESCHEL I think that many people will intentionally overlook all of the lifeless facts about their relations... C. JOYBELL C. Your "Not To Do" list is also important. MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN We have a set list, but we work up a lot more (songs) than we're gonna do. That way we can throw thi... TOM PETTY Vaughn would run them ragged. We were always changing the tires. But that told us how much playing t... LYNN TAYLOR I don't know that we wanted Air Force, but I just want to keep playing. I want to keep playing throu... BRANDON EWING It's tournament time, so you have to keep a constant effort, and that's what we tried to get done to... DRAKE REED I think everyone, all of us, are complicated people. We have jobs that require us to be a certain wa... PAUL GUILFOYLE If you love someone you must set them free like the wind and give them the respect they deserve.If y... GARY F EVANS... We are far from perfect but willing to be different. CRAIG GROESCHEL We had a good turnout, compared to what we expected. We wanted to do something visible and get the m... MATT RICHARDS We wanted something robust that would let us keep our legacy systems in place--a nice data warehouse... JAMES ARCHULETA It marked just our second time on the field so far. Considering that we haven't had an opportunity t... DICK MANDELLA One of our soldiers went down. Our hearts skipped a beat, but we had to keep playing. The thing he w... WILLIE MCGINEST I feel like I'm adapting well. It's not something I expected or thought would happen, but it's somet... COLBY ARMSTRONG We've worked so hard, and not just this season. We deserve it. But we have to keep humble and keep p... JENNIFER HUMPHREY All I ever did to that apartment was hang fifty yards of yellow theatrical silk across the bedroom w... JOAN DIDION We can never make proper goodbyes. It was your last ride in a Checker cab and you had no warning. It... COLSON WHITEHEAD We have our work cut out for us. They shut us out in the first game last year and we haven?t beaten ... SEAN ORR We keep having unfortunate things happen to us with injuries and everything, but we're just trying t... LUTHER HEAD But you can't blame it on the referees. We had our opportunities. It just wasn't meant to be. So man... STEVE NASH We've always dreamt of a TV series and working in film. When we first sat down to seriously writ... ALEKSEY IGUDESMAN Each day I will accomplish one thing on my to do list. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA After winning the third game I really had hopes that we could carry that momentum in to the fourth g... JEANA BREEDLOVE Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an... LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD People who pretend to be your friend lead you up a garden path by saying everything that you want to... GARY F EVANS... Many of the crew members I work with and continue to work with were friends or have become close fri... NOAH BAUMBACH Of course, we knew that this meant an attack on the union. The bosses intended gradually to get rid ... ROSE SCHNEIDERMAN The lobbyists are out there for other age blocks, but we don't have people in place to be pushing an... ROGER LUDY Normally when we go in and write the songs we write, we think about doing a cover, but never a cover... ROBERT CRAY We need to acquire wisdom and knowledge so that we would be able to keep and preserve our blessings ... SUNDAY ADELAJA It would suck for me to just be in the studio. We definitely want to tour, but two of us are married... ROMULO COSTA It would be nice if we had something here in the North Country where there were enough good jobs, go... JAMES DAWSON I pray that we would let God take us through the desert - not just so that we can arrive in the Prom... KATIE KIESLER NELSON I'd think we'd be in real trouble if we did not have them here. Without them, Nashville would in a b... ED WHITE The thing I'm most regretful about Jack not playing and Arnold not playing is that they used to be t... PHIL MICKELSON To be, or not to be, that is the question. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE We were just focused. We just had to keep playing our game and not worry about how they were winning... ALLISON SCHLINKERT They filed for bankruptcy some months ago, so this is something that is not completely unexpected, t... WANDA YUHAS We just calmed it down and slowed it down in our minds so it would be easier. We had to work for the... ALYSSA MAY We're just taking that as a challenge and just keep going. Coach Meyer must see something in us that... MARKUS MANSON The market is still waiting for HSBC results, which will have a big impact on the direction of the m... ANDREW TO Property shares had a technical rebound, but interest rate concerns will still affect properties unt... ANDREW TO Bank of China's results were quite good; double-digit growth can be taken as good results for a bank... ANDREW TO The index tried to challenge 18,000 but failed, so that triggered profit taking. Tokyo's slide also ... ANDREW TO Trading seems to be focusing on selective counters because investors are cautious amid interest rate... ANDREW TO We're seeing a minor technical rebound after Wall Street rebounded from two days of losses. The key ... ANDREW TO Some investors have returned to pick up the stock at bargain prices. ANDREW TO I think the take-up for the placement is not too good and other property developers may be discourag... ANDREW TO We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future. ANDREW TO I think there was some minor selling pressure on telecom stocks as the market continued to see a wea... ANDREW TO Our team has gone on an up-slope and we just keep getting better. I just try to keep up with the guy... JORDAN PARISE The one redeeming factor with this scheme is the claim that it will create 800 jobs. But most of tho... CHRIS LEWIS Our work was based in the village, so not many people had access to it, and it gave us an enormous s... GRZEGORZ BRAL We have to be guarded to keep a right-to-work law from passing, ... That will be one of our top prio... DAVID BOSWELL It was time for us to come up with a new series, and Peter Roth, whom we work for at Paramount, real... MAX MUTCHNICK I'm already gone. I died that night on the side of that road with my sister. TRISHA LEAVER Perfection isn't everything," she said as she turned and walked away. "I think the flaws are what ma... TRISHA LEAVER With her I'd buried myself, every memory of who I was now, six feet under with the sister I'd put th... TRISHA LEAVER Why bother with a cunning plan when a simple one will do? TERRY PRATCHETT Not every song of Lynyrd Skynyrd's was a single, but songs like 'Tuesday's Gone' and... JOHNNY VAN ZANT It's really an awareness thing. We want to keep our city a beautiful place to live and work. KATHY LAHEY I am grateful for the lessons I learned from my parents' sacrifices. They often had trouble maki... RICK SCOTT So when folks talk about the deficit and leaving the deficit for our children, we will never get out... DEBBIE STABENOW We had to go to a junior varsity program because we thought it would be better to wait until the gir... LISA COLLEY When we're playing well together we just want to keep getting the ball. You just keep feeding off it... MEL THOMAS See the world as it is, not as you wish it would be E. LOCKHART It's a lie to think that you are not good enough. It's a lie to think that you are not beautiful. It... DISON ARNIBAL It was a great goal. It was very exciting. A tie would have meant Pitt Meadows would have won the di... DAVE SATTLER Most of our games have been pretty close, so that part really isn't new to us. We need to do a littl... MARK WINTER To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being. TOM ROBBINS We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as... RICHARD FEYNMAN I was beginning to feel that I had finally found a place to stay, a place that was not so unstable o... VERONICA ROTH L. R. H. in Clearing Procedure, 1957:"The work was free. Keep it so."Therefore, although we have no ... L. RON HUBBARD I was trying not to get my head down because it was three minutes in and I knew we had time to come ... LINDSAY THOMPSON The quest of the Inner Ring will break your hearts unless you break it. But if you break it, a surpr... C.S. LEWIS Do we work for and pay for all this convenience in order to live our lives, or do we live our lives ... COLIN BEAVAN It was a volunteer position and that was her whole life, it would take someone who had that time to ... CHERYL MAGNUSSEN We just keep playing. We know how good we are and how good we can be. We have so many different play... LEVANCE FIELDS Time is established to keep us in order, and without it we wouldn't know where to start or where we ... MATTHEW WAYNE GAULIN We just have to keep playing good basketball and winning games. Anything can happen. Momentum can sw... AYINDE UBAKA 35. God is entitled to a portion of our income—not because He needs it but because we need to give... JAMES C. DOBSON In order for us to have jobs, in order to have a tax base, commerce, to have an economy work, we've ... GARY GILOT It has shown us all how our faith -- whatever our religion -- can inspire us to work together in fri... QUEEN ELIZABETH If Jesus gives us a task or assigns us to a difficult season, every ounce of our experience is meant... BETH MOORE If Jesus gives us a task or assigns us to a difficult season, every ounce of our experience is meant... BETH MOORE That's why we seize the moment try to freeze it and own it, squeeze it and hold it. EMINEM Our original name was Wild Country, but when we first went to The Bowery, they had the name of all 5... RANDY OWEN We should always choose our books as God chooses our friends, just a bit beyond us, so that we have ... OSWALD CHAMBERS Deadlines are meant to be broken. And I just keep breaking them. SARAH MCLACHLAN (Coach Rod Fisher) told us that we were playing not to lose and that we were not playing to win. We ... ERICA SIMPSON [All the ancient wisdom] tells us that work is necessary to us, as much a part of our condition as m... WENDELL BERRY
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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 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 It's our fellow Alabamians as well as people throughout the Gulf Coast. You want to be there for the... RANDY OWEN Without consistency there is no moral strength. OWEN A Poem does not grow by jerks. As trees in Spring produce a new ring of tissue, so does every poet p... WILFRED 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 Be bullied, be outraged, be killed, but do not kill. WILFRED 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 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 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 Shall Life renew these bodies? Of a truthAll death will he annul, all tears assuage?Or fill these vo... WILFRED OWEN 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 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 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 Those who have no hope pass their old age shrouded with an inward gloom. WILFRED 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 Finding that no religion is based on facts and cannot be true, I began to reflect what must be the c... ROBERT OWEN I'm sort of one of those weird actors who whenever I do a play, I think, 'Oh, we should film... CLIVE OWEN Mr. Darwin refers to the multitude of the individual of every species, which, from one cause or anot... RICHARD OWEN Never argue; repeat your assertion. ROBERT OWEN The relationship between renewable energy sources and the communities we expect to host them must be... OWEN PATERSON I think anybody who bets on horses and says they win is probably a liar. CLIVE OWEN I'd come from the bottom of the barrel. Just Owen Hart getting out of the shadow of Bret Hart... OWEN HART I was perhaps about 10 years old when a local farmer rang us up to say he had found a young badger a... OWEN PATERSON We have to use every tool at our disposal and that's why we're trialing a badger cull. We ne... OWEN PATERSON Do you know what would hold me together on a battlefield? The sense that I was perpetuating the lang... WILFRED OWEN Help the man-in-the-street make sense of the bewildering. OWEN ARTHUR As I get older, I've been having a better and better time. CLIVE OWEN I was given such a great gift. It's a miracle that never stops amazing me and reminding me to gi... JAKE OWEN She is elegant rather than belle. WILFRED OWEN Belfast during the Troubles looked like a different world. CLIVE OWEN Give a man a beer, waste an hour. Teach a man to brew, and waste a lifetime! BILL OWEN Introspection leads to insights; insights tell us what needs to change. SAM OWEN Embrace the anxiety of confronting your emotions because it’s often the emotional hitting of rock ... SAM OWEN He stands there, facing the largest windows, touching the glass with the open palm of his hands, fee... KATHERINE OWEN The custom of sinning takes away the sense of it, the course of the world takes away the shame of it... JOHN OWEN Do you mortify? Do you make it your daily work? Be always at it whilst you live; cease not a day fro... JOHN OWEN As a teenager I was crazy about David Bowie. He was a huge inspiration for me. I dressed a little bi... CLIVE OWEN It's kind of beating a dead horse if you're talking about going out and saying wrestling'... OWEN HART Human nature stays the same, the one thing that stays constant, like death and taxes. And people sti... ALISON OWEN The most interesting characters keep us hooked. Not likeable ones! Iago, Shylock, Darth Vader - are ... ALISON OWEN This is a first-time effort by our students to put on such an event, and they are really excited abo... BOB OWEN The kids have been working really hard. We have some talented players. BOB OWEN I think they have achieved some of their goals in that it is a broad-based, comprehensive tax that c... BOB OWEN This was better than I expected. I thought that mike would place first and the others would get seco... BOB OWEN It was awesome. After this season when we lost a ton of guys to injuries and never had a full lineup... BOB OWEN Everybody wants to get their hands on a jersey, a T-shirt, something. This is the first event of its... BOB OWEN I know if I was a woman I wouldn't want to be a member of an organization that's mostly men. BILL OWEN Women's cycling is on a high at the moment here in Wales and in Britain and it can only improve. BILL OWEN We spend about three days together in camp, and we just have a great time. We ride our horses and ta... BILL OWEN there hasn't been anyone that's been presented to the group that meets all the qualifications. BILL OWEN Patients -- when they really have control over their lives and over their disease in some way -- I t... BILL OWEN Unless it's down in the teens, we're actually bringing outside air in to cool it off a little bit. A... BILL OWEN Our parking lot has had license plates from surrounding states. ... It's had regional appeal, ... I ... BILL OWEN We hope the current situation with respect to the lease agreement will be short-lived and will work ... BILL OWEN All theological lore is becoming distasteful to me. WILFRED OWEN I'm confident in my own ability. If that wasn't the case you might as well pack it in now. I... MICHAEL OWEN People didn't suddenly wake up one morning and unanimously say 'I'm fed up with midbudge... ALISON OWEN See in the meantime that your faith bringeth forth obedience, and God in due time will cause it to b... JOHN OWEN Commemoration of Felix, Bishop, Apostle to the East Angles, 647 Christ claims our help in many a st... JOHN OWEN Commemoration of Mary Slessor, Missionary in West Africa, 1915 All love in general hath an assimi... JOHN OWEN I will not judge a person to be spiritually dead whom I have judged formerly to have had spiritual l... JOHN OWEN Poor souls are apt to think that all those whom they read of or hear of to be gone to heaven, went t... JOHN OWEN Feast of Richard Hooker, Priest, Anglican Apologist, Teacher, 1600 Commemoration of Martin of Porres... JOHN OWEN God sometimes marvelously raiseth the souls of his saints with some close and near approaches unto t... JOHN OWEN Feast of Gregory the Great, Bishop of Rome, Teacher, 604 We can have no power from Christ unless ... JOHN OWEN Commemoration of Brooke Foss Westcott, Bishop of Durham, Teacher, 1901 If ever we intend to take ... JOHN OWEN Whoever hath an interest in any one promise hath an interest in them all, and in the fountain-love f... JOHN OWEN Feast of Charles Simeon, Pastor, Teacher, 1836 You have your season, and you have but your seaso... JOHN OWEN Faith, if it be a living faith, will be a working faith. JOHN OWEN They that know anything in this world know that, as the first great opposition of hell, the world, a... JOHN OWEN That wisdom which cannot teach me that God is love, shall ever pass for folly. JOHN OWEN Temptations and occasions put nothing into a man, but only draw out what was in him before. JOHN OWEN Feast of Etheldreda, Abbess of Ely, c.678 See in the meantime that your faith bringeth forth obedi... JOHN OWEN Beginning a Lenten series on prayer: If we would talk less and pray more about them, things would ... JOHN OWEN Common experience declares how momentary and how useless are those violent fits and gusts of endeavo... JOHN OWEN Feast of the Naming & Circumcision of Jesus A LETTER FROM PAUL THE MISSIONARY TO THE SOCIETY OF CH... JOHN OWEN Commemoration of Maximilian Kolbe, Franciscan Friar, Priest, Martyr, 1941 That fear which keeps ... JOHN OWEN He has great tranquillity of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men. H... JOHN OWEN Let them pretend what they please, the true reason why any despise the new birth is because they hat... JOHN OWEN In all the sins of men, God principally regards the principle -- that is, the heart. JOHN OWEN It is to be feared that the most of us know not how much glory may be in present grace, nor how much... JOHN OWEN The war effects me less than it ought. I can do no service to anybody by agitating for news or makin... WILFRED OWEN As a youngster, I was considered exceptional, and in many ways that was to my detriment. MICHAEL OWEN The house built on the sand may oftentimes be built higher, have more fair parapets and battlements,... JOHN OWEN There are all kinds of ways for a relationship to be tested, even broken, some, irrevocably; it’s ... KATHERINE OWEN The old lie; Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori. (Sweet and fitting it is to die for the fathe... WILFRED OWEN The important thing is to know when to laugh, or since laughing is somewhat undignified to smile. Bu... RODERIC OWEN Be it jewel or toy, not the prize gives the joy, but the striving to win the prize. OWEN MEREDITH 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