"It seems to me that the conquest of……" — T.E. Lawrence
"It seems to me that the conquest of the air is the only major task for our generation."
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T.E. Lawrence
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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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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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There is an ideal standard somewhere and only that matters and I cannot find it. Hence the aimlessness.
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More Air Quotes
This quote is filed under Air Quotes,
one of 4,448 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the…
— Alexis Arguello
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Spare me the whispering, crowded room, the friends who come and gape and go, the ceremonious air of gloom -…
— Matthew Arnold
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On some summer days in New York City, the air hangs thickly visible, like the combined exhalations of eight million…
— Diane Ackerman
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It's much easier to wear a Chairman Mao button and shake your fists in the air and all that, then…
— Lester Bangs
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Let us never forget this: since the day of the air, the old frontiers are gone. When you think of…
— Stanley Baldwin
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Lexington did launch its air group when a Japanese carrier was reported.
— Jack Adams
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Kisses, even to the air, are beautiful.
— Drew Barrymore
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I love roller coasters that make my stomach drop. One ride in Las Vegas, the Big Shot, straps you into…
— Drew Barrymore
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Obviously, the young dancers lack a certain air of maturity.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
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The nation that secures control of the air will ultimately control the world.
— Alexander Graham Bell
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A rose is the visible result of an infinitude of complicated goings on in the bosom of the earth and…
— Clive Bell
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When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is…
— Hilaire Belloc
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