"In peace-armies discipline meant the hunt, not of……" — T.E. Lawrence
"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 down to the level of the weakest man on parade.... The deeper the discipline, the lower was the individual excellence; also the more sure the performance."
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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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There is an ideal standard somewhere and only that matters and I cannot find it. Hence the aimlessness.
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Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point…
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The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions.
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The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage.
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Once the last trace of emotion has been eradicated, nothing remains of thought but absolute tautology.
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