T.E. Lawrence Quotes

Let me be candid, my party is full of racists

Let's go to Valhalla with the sun on our faces.

All artists are constantly looking for something and they don't always know what.

This is my genre...the happiness, tragedies, and the sorrows of mankind as realized in the teeming black ghetto.

And it is not necessary to have great things to do. I turn my little omelette in the pan for the love of God.

If you're too open-minded; your brains will fall out.

I would describe my work as expressionist. The expressionist point of view is stressing your own feelings about something.

To worship God in truth is to recognize Him for being who He is, and to recognize ourselves for what we are.

If I don't have anything to do all day, I might not even put my pants on.

We ought not to be weary of doing little things for the love of God, who regards not the greatness of the work, but the love with which it is performed.

You bring to a painting your own experience.

There's no greater lifestyle and no greater happiness than that of having a continual conversation with God.

Those that go searching for love only make manifest their own lovelessness, and the loveless never find love, only the loving find love, and they never have to seek for it.

Strength of character means the ability to overcome resentment against others, to hide hurt feelings, and to forgive quickly.

A sarcastic person has a superiority complex that can be cured only by the honesty of humility.

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

I don't want to sound facetious, but humour is the key to the soul. You know what I mean?

It certainly was difficult to sell NAFTA because it's always difficult to sell open markets.

Europe's the mayonnaise all right, but America supplies the good old lobster.

Serendipity. Look for something, find something else, and realize that what you've found is more suited to your needs than what you thought you were looking for.

The danger in media concentration comes not from the concentration, but instead from the feudalism that this concentration, tied to the change in copyright, produces.

In order to know God, we must often think of Him; and when we come to love Him, we shall then also think of Him often, for our heart will be with our treasure.

There is not in the world a kind of life more sweet and delightful, than that of a continual conversation with God; those only can comprehend it who practice and experience it.

A neurotic is a man who builds a castle in the air. A psychotic is the man who lives in it. A psychiatrist is the man who collects the rent.

Beauty is an experience, nothing else. It is not a fixed pattern or an arrangement of features. It is something felt, a glow or a communicated sense of fineness.

Blaming speculators as a response to financial crisis goes back at least to the Greeks. It's almost always the wrong response.

Perhaps only people who are capable of real togetherness have that look of being alone in the universe. The others have a certain stickiness, they stick to the mass.

The Moon! Artemis! the great goddess of the splendid past of men! Are you going to tell me she is a dead lump?

Poetry is eternal graffiti written in the heart of everyone.

We've got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.

Our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else.

I am convinced that nothing we do is more important than hiring and developing people. At the end of the day you bet on people, not on strategies.

No creature is fully itself till it is, like the dandelion, opened in the bloom of pure relationship to the sun, the entire living cosmos.

I have an assuredness of myself. I never protect myself against it.

The deadly Hydra now is the hydra of Equality. Liberty, Equality and Fraternity is the three-fanged serpent.

The dramatic modernization of the Asian economies ranks alongside the Renaissance and the Industrial Revolution as one of the most important developments in economic history.

Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar.

You try to stay within the rules for the sake of the game, but you can always turn up the intensity.

The lack of understanding of something is not evidence for God. It's evidence of a lack of understanding.

Global capital markets pose the same kinds of problems that jet planes do. They are faster, more comfortable, and they get you where you are going better. But the crashes are much more spectacular.

I love Photoshop more than anything in the world!

Money poisons you when you've got it, and starves you when you haven't.

Anyone who saw Nagasaki would suddenly realize that they'd been kept in the dark by the United States government as to what atomic bombs can do.

Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates.

Lord of all pots and pans and things make me a saint by getting meals and washing up the plates!

"You look how you look," "Be comfortable. What are you going to do? Be hungry every single day to make other people happy? That's just dumb."

NO ONE is immune to the trials and tribulations of life.

Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.

Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

Oh literature, oh the glorious Art, how it preys upon the marrow in our bones. It scoops the stuffing out of us, and chucks us aside. Alas!