T.E. Lawrence Quotes

One sheds one's sicknesses in books - repeats and presents again one's emotions, to be master of them.

An artist is only an ordinary man with a greater potentiality.

The fun part for me is to just really push that envelope.

The purpose of education is not to validate ignorance but to overcome it.

Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves.

There is no sweeter manner of living in the world than continuous communion with God.

I like to say that while antimatter may seem strange, it is strange in the sense that Belgians are strange. They are not really strange; it is just that one rarely meets them.

Being a writer is like having homework every night for the rest of your life.

A woman's best love letters are always written to the man she is betraying.

The only good cage is an empty cage.

A snake came to my water trough On a hot, hot day, and I in pajamas for the heat, To drink there.

You're a Good Little Slave

During the early 1960s, I decided to supplement research support for quantitative economic studies at Pennsylvania by selling econometric forecasts to private and public sector buyers.

One thing all stage mothers share is an overpowering ambition for their daughters.

I, Lawrence Klein, was born in Omaha, Nebraska, as were my elder brother and younger sister.

Our government is a bird with two right wings... They're devoted to the perpetuation & spread of corporate capitalism.

Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow.

Getting cancer can become the beginning of living. The search for one's own being, the discovery of the life one needs to live, can be one of the strongest weapons against disease.

You need not cry very loud; he is nearer to us than we think.

Skills come with age, but wisdom, I doubt it very, very much.

To gaze into another persons face is to do two things: to recognise their humanity and to assert your own.

Beauty is a mystery. You can neither eat it nor make flannel out of it.

Sustainability is a political choice, not a technical one. It's not a question of whether we can be sustainable, but whether we choose to be

In the history of the world, no one has ever washed a rented car.

Let us think often that our only business in this life is to please God. Perhaps all besides is but folly and vanity.

Steroids are for guys who want to cheat opponents.

The war against illegal file-sharing is like the church's age-old war against masturbation. It's a war you just can't win.

Once the government becomes the supplier of people's needs, there is no limit to the needs that will be claimed as a basic right.

It's always such a joy that you wake up in the morning and there's work to do.

Over and over I marvel at the blessings of my life: Each year has grown better than the last.

Excellence is not an accomplishment. It is a spirit, a never-ending process.

Creation always involves building upon something else. There is no art that doesn't reuse. And there will be less art if every reuse is taxed by the appropriator.

Eating is one of my favorite parts of the day

Put good energy out. Get good energy back.

Never set a child afloat on the flat sea of life with only one sail to catch the wind.

All taxes discourage something. Why not discourage bad things like pollution rather than good things like working?

A heavily armed citizenry is not about overthrowing the government; it is about preventing the government from overthrowing liberty.

You must have your player's heads and hearts before they will do anything for you

There is no idea so stupid or hackneyed that a sufficiently-talented writer can't get a good story out of it.

Paradoxical as it may seem, men and women who are free to pursue individualism and material wealth turn out to be the most compassionate of all.

Do not always scrupulously confine yourself to certain rules, or particular forms of devotion, but act with a general confidence in GOD, with love and humility.

Memories are dangerous things. You turn them over and over, until you know every touch and corner, but still you'll find an edge to cut you.

A mystic is anyone who has the gnawing suspicion that the apparent discord, brokenness, contradictions and discontinuities that assault us every day might conceal a hidden unity.

Chess is a meritocracy.

It always seemed to me that men wore their beards, like they wear their neckties, for show.

In the facades we put on for others we demonstrate our potential; through our children we reveal our reality.

The only art I'm interested in is the art I don't understand right away. If you understand it right away it really has no use except as nostalgia.

Consciousness is an end in itself. We torture ourselves getting somewhere, and when we get there it is nowhere, for there is nowhere to get to.

As an artist, it is central to be unsatisfied.

Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.