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Wilfred Quotes By Wilfred Thesiger

No man can live this life and emerge unchanged. He will carry, however faint, the imprint of the desert, the brand which marks the nomad; and he will have within him the yearning to return, weak or insistent according to his nature. For this cruel land can cast a spell which no temperate clime can match. — Wilfred Thesiger

Wilfred Quotes By Wilfred Thesiger

As I listened I thought once again how precarious was the existence of the Bedu. Their way of life naturally made them fatalists; so much was beyond their control. It was impossible for them to provide for a morrow when everything depended on a chance fall of rain or when raiders, sickness, or any one of a hundred chance happenings might at any time leave them destitute, or end their lives. They did what they could, and no people were more self-reliant, but if things went wrong they accepted their fate without bitterness, and with dignity as the will of God. — Wilfred Thesiger

Wilfred Quotes By John Le Carre

CIA Interrogator:
Have you ever met any jazz musicians you would describe, or who would describe themselves, as anarchists?
Bartholomew 'Barley' Scott Blair:
Hmmm ... ah, there was a trombone player, Wilfred Baker.
Bartholomew 'Barley' Scott Blair:
He's the only jazz musician I can think of who is completely devoid of anarchist tendencies. — John Le Carre

Wilfred Quotes By Wilfred Bion

The boys throw rocks at the frogs in jest. But the frogs die in earnest. — Wilfred Bion

Wilfred Quotes By Wilfred Owen

The centuries will burn rich loads
With which we groaned,
Whose warmth shall lull their dreaming lids,
While songs are crooned:
But they will not dream of us poor lads,
Left in the ground. — Wilfred Owen

Wilfred Quotes By Michael Morpurgo

War continues to divide people, to change them forever, and I write about it both because I want people to understand the absolute futility of war, the 'pity of war' as Wilfred Owen called it. — Michael Morpurgo

Wilfred Quotes By Wilfred Owen

All a poet can do today is warn. — Wilfred Owen

Wilfred Quotes By Wilfred Owen

All a poet can do today is warn. That is why the true Poets must be truthful. — Wilfred Owen

Wilfred Quotes By Wilfred Burchett

Vietnamese must be made to feel that they are racial inferiors with no right to national identity. — Wilfred Burchett

Wilfred Quotes By Wilfred Owen

It seemed that out of battle I escaped Down some profound dull tunnel, long since scooped Through granites which titanic wars had groined. — Wilfred Owen

Wilfred Quotes By Eugene B. Sledge

As I crawled out of the abyss of combat and over the rail of the Sea Runner, I realized that compassion for the sufferings of others is a burden to those who have it. As Wilfred Owen's poem "Insensibility" puts it so well, those who feel most of others suffer most in war. — Eugene B. Sledge

Wilfred Quotes By W.B.Yeats

My anthology continues to sell & the critics get more & more angry. When I excluded Wilfred Owen, whom I consider unworthy of the poets' corner of a country newspaper, I did not know I was excluding a revered sandwich-board Man of the revolution & that some body has put his worst & most famous poem in a glass-case in the British Museum
however if I had known it I would have excluded him just the same. He is all blood, dirt & sucked sugar stick (look at the selection in Faber's Anthology
he calls poets 'bards,' a girl a 'maid,' & talks about 'Titanic wars'). There is every excuse for him but none for those who like him ... (from a letter of December 26, 1936, in Letters on Poetry from W. B. Yeats to Dorothy Wellesley, p. 124). — W.B.Yeats

Wilfred Quotes By Wilfred Owen

Strange friend,' I said,'here is no cause to mourn.' 'None,'said the other,'save the undone years, The hopelessness.Whatever hope is yours Was my life also; I went hunting wild After the wildest beauty in the world. — Wilfred Owen

Wilfred Quotes By Wilfred Bion

Misers take care of property as if it belonged to them, but derive no more benefit from it than if it belonged to others. — Wilfred Bion

Wilfred Quotes By Susan Goldsmith Wooldridge

Wilfred Funk writes in Word Origins and Their Romantic Stories that originally all words were poems, since our language is based, like poems, in metaphor. — Susan Goldsmith Wooldridge

Wilfred Quotes By Wilfred Trotter

The truly scientific mind is altogether unafraid of the new, and while having no mercy for ideas which have served their turn or shown their uselessness, it will not grudge to any unfamiliar conception its moment of full and friendly attention, hoping to expand rather than to minimize what small core of usefulness it may happen to contain. — Wilfred Trotter

Wilfred Quotes By Wilfred M. McClay

The study of history can be sobering and shocking, and morally troubling. One does not have to believe in original sin to do it successfully, but it probably helps. By relentlessly placing on display the pervasive crookedness of humanity's timber, history brings us back to earth, equips us to resist the powerful lure of radical expectations, and reminds us of the grimmer possibilities of human nature--possibilities that, for most people living in most times, have not been the least bit imaginary. With such realizations firmly in hand, we are far better equipped to move forward in the right way. — Wilfred M. McClay

Wilfred Quotes By Wilfred Owen

Then, when much blood had clogged their chariot-wheels I would go up and wash them from sweet wells, Even with truths that lie too deep for taint. I would have poured my spirit without stint But not through wounds; not on the cess of war. — Wilfred Owen

Wilfred Quotes By Wilfred Trotter

The second thing to be striven for is intuition. This sounds an impossibility, for who can control that small quiet monitor? But intuition is only interference from experience stored and not actively recalled. — Wilfred Trotter

Wilfred Quotes By Jennifer Ashley

Hart, you'd schedule Christ's second comimg and have Wilfred send him an itinery. — Jennifer Ashley

Wilfred Quotes By Wilfred Owen

I find purer philosophy in a Poem than in a Conclusion of Geometry, a chemical analysis, or a physical law. — Wilfred Owen

Wilfred Quotes By Wilfred Owen

If I have got to be a soldier, I must be a good one, anything else is unthinkable. — Wilfred Owen

Wilfred Quotes By Wilfred Bion

Old age is the harbor of all ills. — Wilfred Bion

Wilfred Quotes By Wilfred Owen

Move him into the sun-
gently its touch awoke him once, — Wilfred Owen

Wilfred Quotes By Wilfred Grenfell

The privilege of prayer to me is one of the most cherished possessions, because faith and experience alike convince me that God himself sees and answers, and His answers I never venture to criticize. It is only my part to ask. If it were otherwise, I would not dare to pray at all. — Wilfred Grenfell

Wilfred Quotes By Wilfred Owen

What passing bells for these who die as cattle?
Only the monstrous anger of the guns.
Only the stuttering rifle's rapid rattle
Can patter out their hasty orisons.
No mockeries now for them; no prayers, nor bells,
Nor any voice of mourning save the choirs,
The shrill demented choirs of wailing shells,
And bugles calling for them from sad shires.
What candles may be held to speed them all?
Not in the hands of boys, but in their eyes,
Shall shine the holy glimmers of goodbyes.
The pallor of girls' brows shall be their pall,
Their flowers the tenderness of patient minds,
And each, slow dusk a drawing down of blinds. — Wilfred Owen

Wilfred Quotes By Wilfred Trotter

The dispassionate intellect, the open mind, the unprejudiced observer, exist in an exact sense only in a sort of intellectualist folk-lore; states even approaching them cannot be reached without a moral and emotional effort most of us cannot or will not make. — Wilfred Trotter

Wilfred Quotes By Wilfred Funk

The more words you know, the more clearly and powerfully you will think ... and the more ideas you will invite into your mind. — Wilfred Funk

Wilfred Quotes By Wilfred Owen

The marvel is that we did not all die of cold. As a matter of fact, only one of my party actually froze to death before he could be got back, but I am not able to tell how many have ended up in hospital. We were marooned in a frozen desert. There was not a sign of life on the horizon and a thousand signs of death. — Wilfred Owen

Wilfred Quotes By Dominic Hibberd

But the most gratifying message was a warm-hearted and completely unexpected letter from Robert Graves, who had just been shown Wilfred's latest poems by Sassoon. 'Don't make any mistake, Owen,' Graves wrote, 'you are a damned fine poet already & are going to be more so... you have found a new method... those assonances instead of rhymes are fine - Puff out your chest a little, Owen & be big - for you've more right than most of us... You must help S.S. and R.N. and R.G. to revolutionize English Poetry - So outlive this War. — Dominic Hibberd

Wilfred Quotes By Wilfred Owen

Sleep mothered them; and left the twilight sad. — Wilfred Owen

Wilfred Quotes By Wilfred Owen

Little I'd ever teach a son, but hitting, Shooting, war, hunting, all the arts of hurting. — Wilfred Owen

Wilfred Quotes By Wilfred Burchett

And just as there was something of every Vietnamese in Ho Chi Minh so there is something of Ho Chi Minh in almost every present-day Vietnamese, so strong is his imprint on the Vietnamese nation. — Wilfred Burchett

Wilfred Quotes By Wilfred Grenfell

Beware as you get the octopus on board. Suddenly he relaxes his grasp, and shhots out a jet of ink, which smarts considerably. — Wilfred Grenfell

Wilfred Quotes By Wilfred Owen

Winter Song The browns, the olives, and the yellows died, And were swept up to heaven; where they glowed Each dawn and set of sun till Christmastide, And when the land lay pale for them, pale-snowed, Fell back, and down the snow-drifts flamed and flowed. From off your face, into the winds of winter, The sun-brown and the summer-gold are blowing; But they shall gleam with spiritual glinter, When paler beauty on your brows falls snowing, And through those snows my looks shall be soft-going. — Wilfred Owen

Wilfred Quotes By Wilfred Owen

Sweet and fitting it is to die for the fatherland. — Wilfred Owen

Wilfred Quotes By Siegfried Sassoon

His face - what would it have become? While calling him back in memory I have been haunted by the idea of the unalterable features of those who have died in youth. Borne away from them by the years, we - with our time-troubled looks and diminished alertness - have submitted to many a gradual detriment of change. But the young poet of twenty-five years ago remains his world-discovering self. His futureless eyes encounter ours from the faintly smiling portrait, unconscious of the privilege and deprivation of never growing old, unconscious of the dramatic illusion of completeness that he is destined to create. — Siegfried Sassoon

Wilfred Quotes By Wilfred Bion

Every session attended by the analyst must have no history and no future. What is 'known' about the patient is of no further consequence: it is either false or irrelevant. If it is 'known' by patient and analyst, it is obsolete ... The only point of importance in any session is the unknown. Nothing must be allowed to distract from intuiting that. In any session, evolution takes place. Out of the darkness and formlessness something evolves. — Wilfred Bion

Wilfred Quotes By Wilfred Trotter

The first [quality] to be named must always be the power of attention, of giving one's whole mind to the patient without the interposition of anything of oneself. It sounds simple but only the very greatest doctors ever fully attain it ... The second thing to be striven for is intuition. This sounds an impossibility, for who can control that small quiet monitor? But intuition is only interference from experience stored and not actively recalled ... The last aptitude I shall mention that must be attained by the good physician is that of handling the sick man's mind. — Wilfred Trotter

Wilfred Quotes By Wilfred Owen

I thought of all that worked dark pits
Of war, and died
Digging the rock where Death reputes
Peace lies indeed. — Wilfred Owen

Wilfred Quotes By Wilfred Owen

When I begin to eliminate from the list all those professions which are impossible from a financial point of view and then those which I feel disinclined to - it leaves nothing. — Wilfred Owen

Wilfred Quotes By Wilfred Bion

To dare to be aware of the facts of the universe in which we are existing calls for courage. — Wilfred Bion

Wilfred Quotes By Wilfred Grenfell

I have always believed that the Good Samaritan went across the road to the wounded man just because he wanted to. — Wilfred Grenfell

Wilfred Quotes By Wilfred Owen

And by his smile, I knew that sullen hall, By his dead smile I knew we stood in Hell. — Wilfred Owen

Wilfred Quotes By Wilfred Burchett

In this first testing ground of the atomic bomb I have seen the most terrible and frightening desolation in four years of war. It makes a blitzed Pacific island seem like an Eden. The damage is far greater than photographs can show. — Wilfred Burchett

Wilfred Quotes By Wilfred Owen

I don't ask myself, is the life congenial to me? But, am I fitted for, am I called to, the Ministry? — Wilfred Owen

Wilfred Quotes By Wilfred Owen

Never fear: Thank Home, and Poetry, and the Force behind both. — Wilfred Owen

Wilfred Quotes By Wilfred Burchett

Ho, or Nguyen Ai Quoc, thus became the first Vietnamese communist and a founding member of the French Communist party, born out of the split. — Wilfred Burchett

Wilfred Quotes By Wilfred Trotter

The air of caricature never fails to show itself in the products of reason applied relentlessly and without correction. The observation of clinical facts would seem to be a pursuit of the physician as harmless as it is indispensable. [But] it seemed irresistibly rational to certain minds that diseases should be as fully classifiable as are beetles and butterflies. This doctrine ... bore perhaps its richest fruit in the hands of Boissier de Sauvauges. In his Nosologia Methodica published in 1768 ... this Linnaeus of the bedside grouped diseases into ten classes, 295 genera, and 2400 species. — Wilfred Trotter

Wilfred Quotes By Wilfred Thesiger

The deserts in which I have travelled had been blanks in time as well as space. They had no intelligible history, the nomads who inhabited them had no known past. — Wilfred Thesiger

Wilfred Quotes By Wilfred Trotter

It is necessary to guard ourselves from thinking that the practice of the scientific method enlarges the powers of the human mind. Nothing is more flatly contradicted by experience than the belief that a man distinguished in one or even more departments of science, is more likely to think sensibly about ordinary affairs than anyone else. — Wilfred Trotter

Wilfred Quotes By Wilfred Owen

I dreamed kind Jesus fouled the big-gun gears; and caused a permanent stoppage in all bolts; and buckled with a smile Mausers and Colts; and rusted every bayonet with His tears. — Wilfred Owen

Wilfred Quotes By Wilfred Owen

And Death fell with me, like a deepening moan.
And He, picking a manner of worm, which half had hid
Its bruises in the earth, but crawled no further,
Showed me its feet, the feet of many men,
And the fresh-severed head of it, my head. — Wilfred Owen

Wilfred Quotes By Wilfred Waters

Bob, I am grateful for your
Three letter name.
It's another reminder of home
Of a world predictable
Of a life I had. — Wilfred Waters

Wilfred Quotes By Wilfred R. Bion

Wisdom or oblivion - take your choice. From that warfare there is no release. — Wilfred R. Bion

Wilfred Quotes By Wilfred Greene, 1st Baron Greene

A learned County Court judge in a book of memoirs recently said that the overwhelming amount of his time on the bench was taken up with people who are persuaded by persons whom they do not know to enter into contracts that they do not understand to purchase goods that they do not want with money that they have not got. — Wilfred Greene, 1st Baron Greene

Wilfred Quotes By Wilfred Owen

A Poem does not grow by jerks. As trees in Spring produce a new ring of tissue, so does every poet put forth a fresh outlay of stuff at the same season. — Wilfred Owen

Wilfred Quotes By Wilfred Trotter

Disease often tells its secrets in a casual parenthesis. — Wilfred Trotter

Wilfred Quotes By Wilfred Burchett

Hiroshima does not look like a bombed city. It looks as if a monster steamroller had passed over it and squashed it out of existence. — Wilfred Burchett

Wilfred Quotes By Wilfred Bion

The road to Hades is easy to travel. — Wilfred Bion

Wilfred Quotes By Wilfred Owen

Oh, Death was never enemy of ours!
We laughed at him, we leagued with him, old chum.
No soldier's paid to kick against His powers.
We laughed, - knowing that better men would come,
And greater wars: when each proud fighter brags
He wars on Death, for lives; not men, for flags. — Wilfred Owen

Wilfred Quotes By Wilfred Owen

No-man's land under snow is like the face of the moon: chaotic, crater ridden, uninhabitable, awful, the abode of madness. — Wilfred Owen

Wilfred Quotes By Wilfred Owen

Now begin
Famines of thought and feeling. — Wilfred Owen

Wilfred Quotes By P.G. Wodehouse

Major-General Sir Wilfred Bosher came to distribute the prizes at that school', proceeded Gussie in a dull, toneless voice.'He dropped a book. He stooped to pick it up. And, as he stooped, his trousers split up the back'.
'How we roared! — P.G. Wodehouse

Wilfred Quotes By Wilfred Owen

Walking abroad, one is the admiration of all little boys, and meets an approving glance from every eye of elderly. — Wilfred Owen

Wilfred Quotes By Wilfred Burchett

My emotional and intellectual response to Hiroshima was that the question of the social responsibility of a journalist was posed with greater urgency than ever. — Wilfred Burchett

Wilfred Quotes By Wilfred Bion

The end of a dissolute life is a desperate death. — Wilfred Bion

Wilfred Quotes By Pat Barker

I don't think it's possible to c-call yourself a C-Christian and ... and j-just leave out the awkward bits.' -Wilfred Owen — Pat Barker

Wilfred Quotes By Wilfred Thesiger

For this was the real desert where differences of race and colour, of wealth and social standing, are almost meaningless; where coverings of pretence are stripped away and basic truths emerge. — Wilfred Thesiger

Wilfred Quotes By Wilfred Owen

I have perceived much beauty
In the hoarse oaths that kept our courage straight;
Heard music in the silentness of duty;
Found peace where shell-storms spouted reddest spate. — Wilfred Owen

Wilfred Quotes By Wilfred Funk

Success and vocabulary go hand in hand. This has been proven so often that it no longer admits of argument. — Wilfred Funk

Wilfred Quotes By Wilfred Trotter

The various systems of doctrine that have held dominion over man have been demonstrated to be true beyond all question by rationalists of such power-to name only a few-as Aquinas and Calvin and Hegel and Marx. Guided by these master hands the intellect has shown itself more deadly than cholera or bubonic plague and far more cruel. The incompatibility with one another of all the great systems of doctrine might surely be have expected to provoke some curiosity about their nature. — Wilfred Trotter

Wilfred Quotes By Wilfred Owen

Consummation is consumption
We cannot consummate our bliss and not consume
All joys are cakes and vanish in eating
All bliss is sugar's melting in the mouth — Wilfred Owen

Wilfred Quotes By Wilfred Owen

Happy are men who yet before they are killed
Can let their veins run cold. — Wilfred Owen

Wilfred Quotes By Wilfred Owen

I am only conscious of any satisfaction in Scientific Reading or thinking when it rounds off into a poetical generality and vagueness. — Wilfred Owen

Wilfred Quotes By Wilfred Owen

I went hunting wild
After the wildest beauty in the world
Which lies not calm in eyes, or braided hair
But mocks the steady running of the hour
And if it grieves, grieves richlier than here — Wilfred Owen

Wilfred Quotes By Wilfred Burchett

Of thousands of others, nearer the centre of the explosion, there was no trace. They vanished. The theory in Hiroshima is that the atomic heat was so great that they burned instantly to ashes - except that there were no ashes. — Wilfred Burchett

Wilfred Quotes By Wilfred A. Peterson

Our children are watching us live, and what we ARE shouts louder than anything we can say. — Wilfred A. Peterson

Wilfred Quotes By Wilfred Owen

Some say God caught them even before they fell. — Wilfred Owen

Wilfred Quotes By Wilfred Bion

Of all evil things the least quantity is to be borne, but of learning and knowledge, the more a man hath, the better he can bear it. — Wilfred Bion

Wilfred Quotes By Wilfred Thesiger

I knew instinctively that it was the very hardness of life in the desert which drew me back there - it was the same pull which takes men back to the polar ice, to high mountains, and to the sea. — Wilfred Thesiger

Wilfred Quotes By Wilfred Thesiger

I had learnt the satisfaction which comes from hardship and the pleasure which derives from abstinence; the contentment of a full belly; the richness of meat; the taste of clean water; the ecstasy of surrender when the craving of sleep becomes a torment; the warmth of a fire in the chill of dawn. — Wilfred Thesiger

Wilfred Quotes By Wilfred Funk

When words fail, wars begin. When wars finally end, we settle our disputes with words. — Wilfred Funk

Wilfred Quotes By Wilfred Owen

After all my years of playing soldiers, and then of reading History, I have almost a mania to be in the East, to see fighting, and to serve. — Wilfred Owen

Wilfred Quotes By Wilfred Bion

To be unable to bear an ill is itself a great ill. — Wilfred Bion

Wilfred Quotes By Wilfred Owen

Numbers of the old people cannot read. Those who can seldom do. — Wilfred Owen

Wilfred Quotes By Wilfred Owen

The old happiness is unreturning. Boy's griefs are not so grievous as youth's yearning. Boys have no sadness sadder than our hope. — Wilfred Owen

Wilfred Quotes By Wilfred Owen

So secretly, like wrongs hushed-up, they went. — Wilfred Owen

Wilfred Quotes By Wilfred Trotter

It is sometimes asserted that a surgical operation is or should be a work of art ... fit to rank with those of the painter or sculptor ... That proposition does not admit of discussion. It is a product of the intellectual innocence which I think we surgeons may fairly claim to possess, and which is happily not inconsistent with a quite adequate worldly wisdom. — Wilfred Trotter

Wilfred Quotes By Wilfred Owen

I was a boy when I first realized that the fullest life liveable was a Poet's. — Wilfred Owen

Wilfred Quotes By Wilfred Trotter

The ordinary patient goes to his doctor because he is in pain or some other discomfort and wants to be comfortable again; he is not in pursuit of the ideal of health in any direct sense. The doctor on the other hand wants to discover the pathological condition and control it if he can. The two are thus to some degree at cross purposes from the first, and unless the affair is brought to an early and happy conclusion this diversion of aims is likely to become more and more serious as the case goes on. — Wilfred Trotter

Wilfred Quotes By Wilfred Owen

My friend, you would not tell with such high zest to children ardent for some desperate glory. The old lie: It is sweet and fitting that you should die for your country. — Wilfred Owen

Wilfred Quotes By Wilfred Trotter

It was not noisy prejudice that caused the work of Mendel to lie dead for thirty years, but the sheer inability of contemporary opinion to distinguish between a new idea and nonsense. — Wilfred Trotter

Wilfred Quotes By Wilfred Thesiger

What use will money be to him in the Sands. — Wilfred Thesiger

Wilfred Quotes By Wilfred Owen

If in some smothering dreams you too could pace
Behind the wagon that we flung him in,
And watch the white eyes writhing in his face,
His hanging face, like a devil's sick of sin;
If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood
Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs,
Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud
Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues,
My friend, you would not tell with such high zest
To children ardent for some desperate glory,
The old Lie:
Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori. — Wilfred Owen

Wilfred Quotes By Wilfred Trotter

The mind likes a strange idea as little as the body likes a strange protein and resists it with similar energy. It would not perhaps be too fanciful to say that a new idea is the most quickly acting antigen known to science. If we watch ourselves honestly we shall often find that we have begun to argue against a new idea even before it has been completely stated. — Wilfred Trotter

Wilfred Quotes By Wilfred Thesiger

Hunger, thirst, heat and cold: I had tasted them in full — Wilfred Thesiger

Wilfred Quotes By Wilfred Burchett

In Hiroshima, thirty days after the first atomic bomb destroyed the city and shook the world, people are still dying, mysteriously and horribly-people who were uninjured in the cataclysm from an unknown something which I can only describe as the atomic plague. — Wilfred Burchett

Wilfred Quotes By Wilfred Owen

All theological lore is becoming distasteful to me. — Wilfred Owen

Wilfred Quotes By Wilfred Bion

Arrogance is a great obstruction to wisdom. — Wilfred Bion