T.E. Lawrence Quotes

Don't be sucked in by the su-superior, don't swallow the culture bait, don't drink, don't drink and get beerier and beerier, do learn to discriminate.

Only this shimmeriness is the real living. The shape is a dead crust. The shimmer is inside really.

I've never considered failure.

Donald Trump has been getting favorable comments from white supremacists, from American Nazis. And any explanation of Donald Trump's rise that does not include those facts is a false analysis.

I have suggested that scientific progress requires a favorable environment.

You look how you look

Never trust the teller, trust the tale.

For me, this was all or nothing. I left no room for anything else. That goal was just for my own push, my own self-esteem. The fear of not being a success in my life made me push even harder.

“I'll never bowl with him again. After he got a strike, he spiked the ball.”

[Hawthorne''s] pious blame is a chuckle of praise all the while.

Well, actually, I do the voiceover for Quentin Sands.

How people talk to each other absolutely determines how well the organization will function.

Nothing but love has made the dog lose his wild freedom, to become the servant of man.

The only antidote to dangerous ideas is strong alternatives vigorously advocated.

To make war upon rebellion is messy and slow, like eating soup with a knife.

There are actresses who build themselves, and then there are actresses who are built by others. I want to build myself.

When I hear modern people complain of being lonely then I know what has happened. They have lost the cosmos.

All social life, stability, progress, depend upon each man's confidence in his neighbor, a reliance upon him to do his duty.

I stopped painting, not because I didn't like painting; the sensuality of it was fun. But I wasn't able to get to the point I wanted to.

That we should establish ourselves in a sense of GOD’s Presence, by continually conversing with Him. That it was a shameful thing to quit His conversation, to think of trifles and fooleries.

Donald J. Trump is calling for a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States.

Night after night I could feel the chills go up and down my spine, they played so well.

When love enters, the whole spiritual constitution of a man changes, is filled with the Holy Ghost, and almost his form is altered.

I want us to be together without bothering about ourselves- to be really together because we ARE together, as if it were a phenomenon, not a thing we have to maintain by our own effort.

And all the time she felt the reflection of his hopelessness in her. She couldn't quite, quite love in hoplessness. And he, being hopeless, couldn't ever love at all.

Half a calamity is better than a whole one.

Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.

The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.

The appalling thing is the degree of charity women are capable of. You see it all the time... love lavished on absolute fools. Love's a charity ward, you know.

I don’t believe one reads to escape reality. A person reads to confirm a reality he knows is there, but which he has not experienced.

Aside from communications satellites, space is devoid of industry.

Many men would take the death-sentence without a whimper, to escape the life-sentence which fate carries in her other hand.

I had become, with the approach of night, once more aware of loneliness and time - those two companions without whom no journey can yield us anything.

A little morphine in all the air. It would be wonderfully refreshing for everyone.

The Christian fear of the pagan outlook has damaged the whole consciousness of man.

I don't really judge. To each his own. You like what you like.

Reading books is good, Rereading good books is better.

Many times I wondered if I were truly carrying out God's plan for my life.

The search for happiness ... always ends in the ghastly sense of the bottomless nothingness into which you will inevitably fall if you strain any further.

When I'm not working, I am the laziest person. I can literally lie on a couch and watch television for 15 hours.

I’d rather look chubby on screen and like a person in real life.

It is not woman who claims the highest in man. It is a man's own religious soul that drives him on beyond women, to his supreme activity. For his highest, man is responsible to God alone.

From the beginning of the Radiation Laboratory, I have had the rare good fortune of being in the center of a group of men of high ability, enthusiastic and completely devoted to scientific pursuits.

Everyone's brain works in a different way. I didn't feel smart in school; I just didn't get it. I thought I was an idiot. Until I got out.

Truth is a matter of direct apprehension-you can't climb a ladder of mental concepts to it.

It used to be said that when the U.S. sneezed, the world caught a cold. The opposite is equally true today.

Deflation and secular stagnation are the risks of our time.

If you want to make friends, go out of your way to do things for other people--things that require time, energy, unselfishness, and thoughtfulness.

The whole memorial is for different senses... seeing, hearing, feeling, smelling. I probably would have come up with something different if I had not lived through it.

Never have I met a person doing terrible things who would meet my own eyes peacefully. To gaze into another person's face is to do two things: to recognize their humanity, and to assert your own.