T.E. Lawrence Quotes

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• Dream your dreams with open eyes and make them come true.
• As long as the arabs fight tribe against tribe, so long will they be a little people, a silly people, greedy, barbarous and cruel.
• Yet when we achieved, and the new world dawned, the old men came out again and took our victory to remake it in the likeness…
• It seems to me that the conquest of the air is the only major task for our generation.
• The Beduin could not look for God within him: he was too sure that he was within God.
• I haven't got a heart: only the former site of one, with a monument there to say that it has been removed and the area…
• Misery, anger, indignation, discomfort-those conditions produce literature. Contentment-never. So there you are.
• Suppose we were (as we might be) an influence, an idea, a thing intangible, invulnerable, without front or back, drifting about like a gas? Armies…
• To make war upon rebellion is messy and slow, like eating soup with a knife.
• I could write for hours on the lustfulness of moving Swiftly,
• The dreamers of the day are dangerous... for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible.
• In peace-armies discipline meant the hunt, not of an average but of an absolute; the hundred per cent standard in which the ninety-nine were played…
• There is an ideal standard somewhere and only that matters and I cannot find it. Hence the aimlessness.
• They taught me that no man could be their leader except he ate the ranks' food, wore their clothes, lived level with them, and yet…
• Half a calamity is better than a whole one.
• All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that…
• All the revision in the world will not save a bad first draft: for the architecture of the thing comes, or fails to come, in…
• To me an unnecessary action, or shot, or casualty, was not only waste but sin.
• The printing press is the greatest weapon in the armoury of the modern commander.
• To have news value is to have a tin can tied to one's tail.

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