Owen Farrell Quotes

I don't think I'm invincible.

No man is invincible.

People don't slip. Time catches up with them.

No one is so rich and powerful that they cannot be punished, and no one is so poor that they cannot be protected.

I'm not invincible.

We're all expendable. We think the world's going to stop when a pope dies, or a king. And then... life goes on.

We fear that this moment will end, that we won't get what we need, that we will lose what we love, or that we will not be safe. Often, our biggest fear is the knowledge that one day our bodies will cease functioning. So even when we are surrounded by all the conditions for happiness, our joy is not complete.

But men are men; the best sometimes forget.

No young man ever thinks he shall die.

I have seen three emperors in their nakedness, and the sight was not inspiring.

A crime is a crime, regardless of what collar you wear.

I don't feel invincible because I'm human.

These things bring you to reality as to how fragile you are; at the same moment you are doing something that nobody else is able to do. The same moment that you are seen as the best, the fastest and somebody that cannot be touched, you are enormously fragile.

Economists, like royal children, are not punished for their errors.

I don't think of myself as being invincible anymore.

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.

Whether people be of high or low birth, rich or poor, old or young, enlightened or confused, they are all alike in that they will one day die.

Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.

I think a responsibility comes with notoriety, but I never think of it as power. It's more like something you hold, like grains of sand. If you keep your hand closed, you can have it and possess it, but if you open your fingers in any way, you can lose it just as quickly.

I recognize that I'm human, and the older I get, the more I realize how fallible I am, how fallible we all are.

The only thing I can say about having this type of success is that you can get yourself in trouble because basically the world is set open for you. People will say yes to anything you ask, so it's basically down to you and what you want or need.

Despite all the achievements of civilisation, the human being is still one of the most vulnerable creatures on earth.

On the most exalted throne in the world, we are still seated on nothing but our arse.

just because a king is a king that does not mean he is not as human as you

From this window we see the palace where the King is misled by perfidious counsels. Terror and fear have often issued from yon palace: let them return to-day in the name of the law, and let all those who inhabit that palace know that the King is alone inviolable, that the law will strike down the guilty without respect of persons, and that there is not a guilty head which can escape its sword.