T.E. Lawrence Quotes

We need to live our experience as it is and with our eyes open. The universe is the way it is, whether we like it or not.

I always knew this story would break my heart

I remember the stink of corruption. It had a kind of sweetness to it, a sweetness that'd make you want to hurl.

But are we human creatures as honest, kind, trustworthy as we at times are inclined to believe?

Her eyes flashed seven kinds of hell.

You have to get angry in the face of bad situations. It's the most effective way to escape the bridles of despair.

But when people are angry, they tend to say things they do not mean... Anger is a very powerful feeling.

I’ve never seen a man who understands so little about women and yet is so led about by them.

I have been too young to know, and I have been too old to care. It’s in that oh so narrow slice between that memories are made.

Sometimes I wished I could cut away old memories and let the wind take them. If a sharp knife could pare away the weakness of those days, I would slice until nothing but the hard lessons remained.

Every star, turning in the black depth of heaven, burns for no better reason than that humanity raised its face to look. Every great deed needs to be witnessed. Go out there and do something great.

I’m a liar and a cheat and a coward, but I will never, ever, let a friend down. Unless of course not letting them down requires honesty, fair play, or bravery.

What the world really needs is courageous parenting from mothers and fathers who are not afraid to speak up and take a stand.

Truth is a weapon and lies are a necessary shield.

It’s the silence that scares me. It’s the blank page on which I can write my own fears.

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When the people are not enlightened enough to exercise intelligent control, you take it from them, not to command their lives, but to create a safe depository for the ultimate powers.

[I]t kind of terrified me to imagine myself spending the rest of my life tinkering on the margins of the small arguments.

A book is as dangerous as any journey you might take. The person who closes the back cover may not be the same one that opened the front one. Treat them with respect.

Bridges are built not to cross over it but it is built to lift you to the other side safely.

I wouldn't wish beauty on any woman who has not her own freedom, and who chooses not the hands that claim her.

After all, that’s all a man really needs: a big city full of sin and sleaze, and a chance.

Give us everything we ask for and suddenly it's too much.

The world is what you make of it, friend. If it doesn't fit, you make alterations.

The road forgets. Make your life a journey, keep moving toward what you want, leave behind anything that's too heavy to carry.

Decide if a poem is a question or a declaration, a meditation or an outcry.

If my home is indeed a sanctuary, I want to treat everything I bring into it as sacred.

News invented the modern world as much as the modern world invented news. Finding out what was going on elsewhere in the world change people's minds about what was possible or tolerable.

He trusts her.She nodded andseemed happy to betrusted at last.- Not First Love

And they fear nothing, and they respect nothing, the young don't.

You can demand courtesy but you have to earn respect.

The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.

Collectivists see the world the way Mr. Magoo did—as one big blur. They homogenize people in a communal blender, sacrificing the discrete features that make us who we are.

He felt if he could not be alone, and if he could not be left alone, he would die.

Everything’s possible and nothing’s not.

The way I’d put it, ” said Makin, “is that Rike can’t make an omelet without wading thigh deep in the blood of chickens and wearing their entrails as a necklace.

Part of the art of survival as a coward is not letting things get to the point where that cowardice is exposed.

Revenge is a business of calculation, best served cold. Rescue holds more of sacrifice, suicidal danger, and all manner of other madness that should have me running in the opposite direction.

I am just going outside and may be some time." Reportedly the last words of Lawrence Oates according to Captain Robert Falcon Scott, who commanded the ill-fated expedition to the South Pole 1911/12.

Every lawyer shall tell his or her client that becoming involved with the legal system is like three years of experimental chemotherapy, one hundred percent guaranteed not to work.

A democracy is not truly democratic unless it's secular.

If you have the opportunity to help, then you have the responsibility to do it, do what is right simply because it is the right thing to do

Speak when you're angry, and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret.

Never apologize for correct actions.

Perhaps I just wanted to know what it was that I wanted. Maybe that is all that growing up means.

Writing is something I do everyday. If I waited for inspiration, I’d never get anything done.

Controlling people do not like to be controlled. Controlling people do not like to have their agendas obstructed.

Assassination is murder with a touch more precision. Brother Sim is precise.

She looked at his face. So old and wrinkled. So beautiful and just right.

Ideology follows the money.""Governments don't protect people, people protect governments.""To accept the legitimacy of the state is to embrace the necessity for war.