"We lived always in the stretch or sag……" — T.E. Lawrence
"We lived always in the stretch or sag of nerves, either on the crest or in the trough of waves of feeling."
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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 Crest Quotes
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Looking up and out, how can we not respect this ever-vigilant cognizance that distinguishes us: the capability to envision, to…
— Vanna Bonta
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There is nothing like the first hot days of spring when the gardener stops wondering if it's too soon to…
— Henry Mitchell
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They are dead; but they live in each Patriot's breast, And their names are engraven on honor's bright crest.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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The crest and crowning of all good, life's final star, is Brotherhood.
— Edwin Markham
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...the floss-silk manes tossed up like the crest of a breaking wave....Light ran and glittered on them. They were obedient...you…
— Mary Stewart
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Famous people feel that they must perpetually be on the crest of the wave, not realising that it is against…
— Olivia de Havilland
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My timing in life has been extraordinary. I've ridden the crest of the wave of the women's movement.
— Susan Sullivan
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Get out well, but not too quickly, move through the field, be comfortable. Strategy-wise, go with your strengths. If you…
— John Treacy
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The tyrant is a child of Pride Who drinks from his sickening cup Recklessness and vanity, Until from his high…
— Sophocles
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....all the things and events we usually consider as irreconcilable, such as cause and effect, past and future, subject and…
— Ken Wilber
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And that, I think, was the handle--that sense of inevitable victory over the forces of Old and Evil. Not in…
— Hunter S. Thompson
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In his laborious efforts to attain mountaintops, where the air is lighter and purer, the climber gains new strength of…
— Pope Pius XI
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