"He was old and wise, which meant tired…" — T.E. Lawrence
"He was old and wise, which meant tired and disappointed..."
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42 Quotes by T.E. Lawrence
T.E. Lawrence has 42 quotes on this site.
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Dream your dreams with open eyes and make them come true.
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As long as the arabs fight tribe against tribe, so long will they be a little people, a silly people,…
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Yet when we achieved, and the new world dawned, the old men came out again and took our victory to…
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It seems to me that the conquest of the air is the only major task for our generation.
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The Beduin could not look for God within him: he was too sure that he was within God.
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I haven't got a heart: only the former site of one, with a monument there to say that it has…
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Misery, anger, indignation, discomfort-those conditions produce literature. Contentment-never. So there you are.
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Suppose we were (as we might be) an influence, an idea, a thing intangible, invulnerable, without front or back, drifting…
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To make war upon rebellion is messy and slow, like eating soup with a knife.
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I could write for hours on the lustfulness of moving Swiftly,
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The dreamers of the day are dangerous... for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible.
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In peace-armies discipline meant the hunt, not of an average but of an absolute; the hundred per cent standard in…
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More Disappointed Quotes
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All in all, for someone who was immersed in, fascinated by, and dedicated to flight, I was disappointed by the…
— Neil Armstrong
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Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
— Jane Austen
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In nine times out of ten, the slanderous tongue belongs to a disappointed person.
— George Bancroft
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Most crime fiction, no matter how 'hard-boiled' or bloodily forensic, is essentially sentimental, for most crime writers are disappointed romantics.
— John Banville
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I think I got disappointed over the years about New York, about the States. You know, sometimes you go and…
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
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The man for whom time stretches out painfully is one waiting in vain, disappointed at not finding tomorrow already continuing…
— Theodor Adorno
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My dad encouraged us to fail. Growing up, he would ask us what we failed at that week. If we…
— Sara Blakely
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I've done well, I've been disappointed, and I think it all goes back to you. Of course the labels are…
— Mary J. Blige
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I hate it when there's a good movie, someone overhypes it and I'm disappointed that I don't like it more.
— Jeff Bridges
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Expect people to be better than they are; it helps them to become better. But don't be disappointed when they…
— Mary Browne
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I don't know whether I'm misanthropic. It seems to me I'm constantly disappointed. I'm very easily disappointed.
— Bill Bryson
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I don't know whether I'm misanthropic. It seems to me I'm constantly disappointed. I'm very easily disappointed. Disappointed in the…
— Bill Bryson
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