T.E. Lawrence Quotes

You got responsibilities when you’re a leader. You got a responsibility not to kill too many of your men. Or who’re you going to lead?

I maintain a balanced view of the world, but that balance is always in my favour.

There's a purity to the struggle to reach a peak. You leave your world behind and take only what you need. For a creature like me there is nothing closer to redemption.

In the end it seems we're just toys,easy to break and hard to mend

We can't be trapped by fear. Lives lived within such walls are just slower deaths.

The biggest lies we save for ourselves.

If you must run, have something to run toward, so it feels less like cowardice.

something in me had got broken, but not so broken I didn't remember what it was.

She'll never love you better than she loves her own children.

Questions for questions. You're a man who's spent time at court.

There’s something brittle in me that will break before it bends.

Hate will keep you alive where love fails

You soon learn there’s no elegance or dignity in death if you spend time in the castle kitchens. You learn how ugly it is, and how good it tastes.

Cowards make the best torturers. Cowards understand fear and they can use it

If the sins of the flesh ever got old I didn't ever want enough years on me to know it.

You can't grow if you're constantly defined by this collection of frozen moments that you keep returning to. And if you can't grow, you're not alive.

All lives are tales. Some spread, and grow in the telling. Others are just told between us and the gods, muttered back and forth behind our days, but those tales grow too and shake us just as fierce.

I've always seen 'no' as a challenge rather than an answer.

It never pays to walk blindly. Especially not in your own castle where familiarity hides so much - even when we have the eyes to see.

I think you need to have lived more to truly know a man's heart. You need to have made more transactions in life to know the worth of the coin you spend so freely

Nature shaped the claw to trap, and the tooth to kill, but the thorn...the thorn's only purpose is to hurt.

I wanted to go home and if Hell rose up to stop me, it would make me desire it more.

Most men have at least one redeeming feature. Finding one for Brother Rike requires a stretch. Is 'big' a redeeming feature?

Enjoy your popcorn and enjoy the show. It's just a movie, so have fun!

If somebody pisses me off and I understand it ain't personal then I'll go to another place and I'll meditate.

As long as there's Big Momma, we're going to bring you comedy.

Women love to impress and be their best.

If I give you two children films then come back and give you an adult film. I just love mixing it up and not being pegged into one specific thing.

When I'm playing Big Momma, it's so much work that all I want to do, when I'm finished, is go back home and just relax and study my lines and get ready for the next day.

You might see some of the movies that I'm in where there are shades of drama or whatever, but for the most part, I don't get offered serious roles.

When you make movies based on real life, you try to exaggerate it.

It is rare, I think, for parents to let their children -- of any age -- grow up and become peers.

I was interested in working on a show that was driven by women.

I didnt like the Survivor shows because of the mean-spirited aspect, and women certainly were part of whatever conflict they would create.

You can't be in the music business as long as "Steve and Edie" have, if you stink.

Immorality, I know. Immortality, I cannot judge.

The Beduin could not look for God within him: he was too sure that he was within God.

If you wear Arab things, wear the best. Clothes are significant among the tribes, and you must wear the appropriate, and appear at ease in them. Dress like a Sherif, if they agree to it.

Things have always sort of happened for me. Something else always comes up.

You have striven so hard and so long to compel life. Can't you now slowly change and let life slowly drift into you ... let the invisible life steal into you and slowly possess you.

I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself.

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.

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

The mind can assert anything and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body on my intuitional consciousness and when I get a response there then I accept.

What you intuitively desire that is possible to you.

Life is ours to be spent not to be saved.

I never knew how soothing trees are - many trees and patches of open sunlight and tree presences it is almost like having another being.

Never trust the teller. Trust the tale.

While we live let us live.

I got the blues thinking of the future so I left off and made some marmalade. It's amazing how it cheers one up to shred oranges or scrub the floor.