T. E. Lawrence quote: "Men have looked upon the desert as barren land, the free holding of whoever chose; but in fact each hill and valley in it had a man who was its acknowledged owner and would quickly assert the right of his family or clan to it, against aggression."

We lived many lives in those whirling campaigns, never sparing ourselves; yet when we achieved, and ...
T. E. LAWRENCE

All the revision in the world will not save a bad first draft: for the architecture of the thing com...
T. E. LAWRENCE

All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake ...
T. E. LAWRENCE

This creed of the desert seemed inexpressible in words, and indeed in thought.
T. E. LAWRENCE

Arab civilizations had been of an abstract nature, moral and intellectual rather than applied; and t...
T. E. LAWRENCE

To me an unnecessary action, or shot, or casualty, was not only waste but sin.
T. E. LAWRENCE

A first difficulty of the Arab movement was to say who the Arabs were. Being a manufactured people, ...
T. E. LAWRENCE

Do not try to do too much with your own hands. Better the Arabs do it tolerably than you do it perfe...
T. E. LAWRENCE

The desert Arab found no joy like the joy of voluntarily holding back. He found luxury in abnegation...
T. E. LAWRENCE

I've been & am absurdly over-estimated. There are no supermen & I'm quite ordinary, ...
T. E. LAWRENCE

A man who gives himself to be a possession of aliens leads a Yahoo life, having bartered his soul to...
T. E. LAWRENCE

The foreigners come out here always to teach, whereas they had much better learn, for, in everything...
T. E. LAWRENCE

Some of the evil of my tale may have been inherent in our circumstances. For years we lived anyhow w...
T. E. LAWRENCE

The common base of all the Semitic creeds, winners or losers, was the ever present idea of world-wor...
T. E. LAWRENCE

All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake i...
T. E. LAWRENCE

When I am angry, I pray God to swing our globe into the fiery sun and prevent the sorrows of the not...
T. E. LAWRENCE

Nine-tenths of tactics are certain, and taught in books: but the irrational tenth is like the kingfi...
T. E. LAWRENCE

All men dream; but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake i...
T. E. LAWRENCE

The printing press is the greatest weapon in the armoury of the modern commander.
T. E. LAWRENCE

All men dream...... But not equally..Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds w...
T. E. LAWRENCE

It seemed that rebellion must have an unassailable base, something guarded not merely from attack, b...
T. E. LAWRENCE

To have news value is to have a tin can tied to one's tail.
T. E. LAWRENCE

This death's livery which walled its bearers from ordinary life was sign that they have sold their w...
THOMAS E. LAWRENCE

All men dream, but unequally. Those that dream at night in the dusty recesses of their minds awake t...
THOMAS E. LAWRENCE

There could be no honor in a sure success, but much might be wrested from a sure defeat.
THOMAS E. LAWRENCE

To have news value is to have a tin can tied to one's tail.
THOMAS E. LAWRENCE

Man is an extraordinarily fixed and limited animal whose nature is absolutely constant. It is only b...
T. E. HULME

The view which regards man as a well, a reservoir full of possibilities, I call the romantic; the on...
T. E. HULME

All conviction - and so, necessarily, conversion - is based on the motor and emotional aspects of th...
T. E. HULME

All national histories are partisan and designed to give us a good conceit of ourselves.
T. E. HULME

Born with blue spectacles, you would think the world was blue and never be conscious of the existenc...
T. E. HULME

Here is the root of all romanticism: that man, the individual, is an infinite reservoir of possibili...
T. E. HULME

Out of fifty mathematical papers presented in brief at such a meeting, it is a rare mathematician in...
E. T. BELL

I have always hated machinery, and the only machine I ever understood was a wheelbarrow, and that bu...
E. T. BELL

Fashion as King is sometimes a very stupid ruler.
E. T. BELL

Time makes fools of us all. Our only comfort is that greater shall come after us.
E. T. BELL

It is the perennial youthfulness of mathematics itself which marks it off with a disconcerting immor...
E. T. BELL

Euclid taught me that without assumptions there is no proof. Therefore, in any argument, examine the...
E. T. BELL

Science makes no pretension to eternal truth or absolute truth.
E. T. BELL

The longer mathematics lives the more abstract - and therefore, possibly also the more practical - i...
E. T. BELL

The mistakes and unresolved difficulties of the past in mathematics have always been the opportuniti...
E. T. BELL

The man who has accomplished all that he thinks worthwhile has begun to die.
E. T. TRIGG

Nevertheless, the consuming hunger of the uncritical mind for what it imagines to be certainty or fi...
E. T. BELL

The heart is the only broken instrument that works.
T. E. KALEM

Pure geometrical regularity gives a certain pleasure to men troubled by the obscurity of outside app...
T. E. HULME

'Obvious' is the most dangerous word in mathematics.
E. T. BELL

Guided only by their feeling for symmetry, simplicity, and generality, and an indefinable sense of t...
E. T. BELL

The pursuit of pretty formulas and neat theorems can no doubt quickly degenerate into a silly vice, ...
E. T. BELL

If indeed, as Hilbert asserted, mathematics is a meaningless game played with meaningless marks on p...
E. T. BELL

No history can be a faithful mirror. If it were, it would be as long and as dull as life itself. It ...
T. E. HULME

Rarely has a people paid the lavish compliment and taken the subtle revenge of turning its oppressor...
T. E. KALEM

[A] final comfort that is small, but not cold: The heart is the only broken instrument that works.
T. E. KALEM

He sometimes ran a purple ribbon through his typewriter and gushed where he should have dammed.
T. E. KALEM

How prone poor Humanity is to dam up the minutest remnants of its freedom, and build an artificial r...
E. T. A. HOFFMANN

Once you are dancing with the devil, the prettiest capers won't help you.
E. T. A. HOFFMANN

Not a single man on earth knows from his own experience the how and where of his birth, only from tr...
E. T. A. HOFFMANN

I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
E. E. CUMMINGS

To destroy is always the first step in any creation.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Nothing recedes like progress.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Unbeing dead isn't being alive.
E. E. CUMMINGS

I like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more...
E. E. CUMMINGS

Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.
E. E. CUMMINGS

I imagine that yes is the only living thing.
E. E. CUMMINGS

At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks.
E. E. CUMMINGS

I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.
E. E. CUMMINGS

It takes three to make a child.
E. E. CUMMINGS

The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Be of love a little more careful than of anything.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Listen; there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Here is little Effie's head. Her brains are made of gingerbread. When the judgement day comes, God w...
E E CUMMINGS

Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.
E E CUMMINGS

It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are.
E E CUMMINGS

He without fear is king of the world.
E. E. EDDISON

America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: Amer...
E. E. CUMMINGS

Unbeing dead isn't being alive.
E. E. CUMMINGS

To be nobody but yourself in a world that's doing its best to make you somebody else, is to fight th...
E. E. CUMMINGS

To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't whi...
E E CUMMINGS

Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.
E. E. CUMMINGS

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.
E. E. CUMMINGS

America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: Amer...
E. E. CUMMINGS

Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience ...
E. E. CUMMINGS

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody e...
E. E. CUMMINGS

A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. ...
E. E. CUMMINGS

I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blu...
E. E. CUMMINGS

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
E. E. CUMMINGS

A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Private property began the instant somebody had a mind of his own.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Palm Sunday In the person of Christ, the formidable law of God, which by itself appalls us by its...
E. E. JENKINS

To destroy is always the first step in any creation.
E E CUMMINGS

The only man, woman, or child who ever wrote a simple declarative sentence with seven grammatical er...
E E CUMMINGS

To be nobody-but-yourself -- in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybod...
E E CUMMINGS

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everybod...
E E CUMMINGS

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
E E CUMMINGS

Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience ...
E E CUMMINGS

Listen; there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go.
E E CUMMINGS

Life's not a paragraph And death i think is no parenthesis
E E CUMMINGS

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
E E CUMMINGS

I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
E E CUMMINGS

(i do not know what it is about you that closes
and opens; only something in me understands
...
E E CUMMINGS

I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
E. E. CUMMINGS

It is with roses and locomotives (not to mention acrobats Spring electricity Coney Island the 4th of...
E. E. CUMMINGS

To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn&#...
E. E. CUMMINGS

who knows if the moon's / a balloon, coming out of a keen city / in the sky - filled with pretty peo...
E. E. CUMMINGS

for whatever we lose (like a you or a me) / it's always ourselves we find in the sea
E. E. CUMMINGS

The earth laughs in flowers.
E. E. CUMMINGS

The Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls are unbeautiful and have comfortable minds.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong...
E. E. CUMMINGS

To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't whi...
E. E. CUMMINGS

I would rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.
E. E. CUMMINGS

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody e...
E. E. CUMMINGS

Here is the deepest secret nobody knows.Here is the root of the root and the bud of the budAnd the s...
E. E. CUMMINGS

"maggie and millie and molly and may"maggie and millie and molly and maywent down to the beach (to p...
E. E. CUMMINGS

The sensual mysticism of entire vertical being.
E. E. CUMMINGS

and it's you whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is you.
E. E. CUMMINGS

I don't know what it is about you that closes and opens;only something in me understands the voice o...
E. E. CUMMINGS

Art is a mystery.A mystery is something immeasurable.In so far as every child and woman and man may ...
E. E. CUMMINGS

Progress is a comfortable disease.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Since feeling is first, who pays any attention to the syntax of things will never wholly kiss you, w...
E. E. CUMMINGS

Be of love (a little) more careful than of anything.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink
E. E. CUMMINGS

We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, wort...
E. E. CUMMINGS

next to of course god america i / love you land of the pilgrims and so forth oh
E. E. CUMMINGS

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you like everyb...
E. E. CUMMINGS

he sang his didn't he danced his did
E. E. CUMMINGS

If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little -- somebody who is obses...
E. E. CUMMINGS

and down went / my Uncle / Sol / and started a worm farm
E. E. CUMMINGS

If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little - somebody who is obsess...
E. E. CUMMINGS

Bless the flowers and the weeds, my birds and bees
E. E. CUMMINGS

"maggie and millie and molly and may"

maggie and millie and molly and may
went down to ...
E. E. CUMMINGS

Why do you paint?
For exactly the same reason I breathe.
Thats not an answer.
There is...
E. E. CUMMINGS

We all have somebody that sits down at the Thanksgiving table and says the most outrageous things, a...
VICKI LAWRENCE

In spite of the Depression, or maybe because of it, folks were hungry for a good time, and an evenin...
LAWRENCE WELK

My accent remained terrible. It was very hard for me to initiate any conversation with someone I did...
LAWRENCE WELK

One time I introduced my orchestra as the Shampoo Music Makers instead of the Champagne Music Makers...
LAWRENCE WELK

Many times I wondered if I were truly carrying out God's plan for my life.
LAWRENCE WELK

Sounds always fascinated me.
LAWRENCE WELK

The first time I try anything is invariably not very successful. I tend to grow slowly, but solidly.
LAWRENCE WELK

The ones the listeners loved most of all in those early years were the four Lennon girls who became ...
LAWRENCE WELK

When my parents first arrived there, North Dakota had just been admitted to the Union, and the count...
LAWRENCE WELK

Dreams do come true, even for someone who couldn't speak English and never had a music lesson or...
LAWRENCE WELK

It's curious how we act in moments of personal despair.
LAWRENCE WELK

For a while we had trouble trying to get the sound of a champagne cork exploding out of the bottle. ...
LAWRENCE WELK

Night after night I could feel the chills go up and down my spine, they played so well.
LAWRENCE WELK

The William Penn Hotel in Pittsburgh... was the place where Champagne Music was born.
LAWRENCE WELK

If they can't hum it after we play it, it's not for us.
LAWRENCE WELK

This is the best biography by me I have ever read.
LAWRENCE WELK

I expected to be a farmer like my father and brothers. Life seemed pleasant and orderly.
LAWRENCE WELK

If you put all your strength and faith and vigor into a job and try to do the best you can, the mone...
LAWRENCE WELK

Music was my joy, my home, the one place I felt happy and secure.
LAWRENCE WELK

One thing all stage mothers share is an overpowering ambition for their daughters.
LAWRENCE WELK

I just wrote a book, but don't go out and buy it yet, because I don't think it's finishe...
LAWRENCE WELK

I have a tremendous desire to learn, and to grow, and to develop whatever I have that will make for ...
LAWRENCE WELK

Southern California, where the American Dream came too true.
LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI

The internet to me is kind of like a black hole, and I never really go on it.
JENNIFER LAWRENCE

I think coming East and doing something like Broadway would probably be a good career move.
VICKI LAWRENCE

I am not a politician; I've never run for anything in my life. I'm an economist. I'm a b...
LAWRENCE KUDLOW

The E.U.'s tax and regulatory policies, climate-change and welfare spending, and free immigratio...
LAWRENCE KUDLOW

Wars breed unfairness, just as they breed collateral damage.
LAWRENCE KUDLOW

We don't exist unless we are deeply and sensually in touch with that which can be touched but not kn...
D.H. LAWRENCE

We were endowed by our Creator with the inalienable rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happi...
LAWRENCE KUDLOW

Let's bring in Donald Trump. He wants to lower taxes across the board for individuals and large ...
LAWRENCE KUDLOW

We all know him: everybody has an Archie Bunker in their family, so you love to laugh at him, and yo...
VICKI LAWRENCE

There is a natural partnership between State and Commerce, and the American business community to wo...
LAWRENCE EAGLEBURGER

And when I'm on set, I'm just thinking about the script and of working. I think I've sta...
JENNIFER LAWRENCE

When I started on the 'Burnett' show, I was just out of high school, and when we went off th...
VICKI LAWRENCE

The thing that everybody loves about the 'Burnett Show' was that you felt like you were real...
VICKI LAWRENCE

It took me a lot of years on the 'Burnett' show to feel like I had earned the privilege to p...
VICKI LAWRENCE

Most of the cast and crew on 'Mama's Family' have been together since the 'Carol Bur...
VICKI LAWRENCE

People would get Carol Burnett and Vicki Lawrence all mushed together in their brains, and, bless th...
VICKI LAWRENCE

Everybody just told me from the day I went into high school that I looked like Carol Burnett.
VICKI LAWRENCE

Everyone has fond memories of 'The Carol Burnett Show' and the characters we did.
VICKI LAWRENCE

I think the Mama people remember is from 'Mama's Family.' She really turned into a prett...
VICKI LAWRENCE

There were probably about five games in my career where everything was moving in slow motion and you...
LAWRENCE TAYLOR

On economic policy, Pence has held to the key building block of growth. He is a budget hawk who vote...
LAWRENCE KUDLOW

Plot is what happens in your story. Every story needs structure, just as every body needs a skeleton...
CAROLINE LAWRENCE

And I tell ya, when I sit in that sound booth and started reading the script and starting to get int...
LAWRENCE TAYLOR

In the 1980s and 1990s, radical change in economic policies fostered by Ronald Reagan and Margaret T...
LAWRENCE KUDLOW

Don't patronize the chain bookstores. Every time I see some author scheduled to read and sign hi...
LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI

Each handicap is like a hurdle in a steeplechase, and when you ride up to it, if you throw your hear...
LAWRENCE BIXBY

Lucifer spoke thus. Pride took him from heaven, though he sat at God's right hand.' Her voice grew f...
MARK LAWRENCE

Yes, there should be tough border security. Yes, there should be foolproof ID cards, with biometrics...
LAWRENCE KUDLOW

Great innovators like Thomas Alva Edison, Henry Ford, and Andrew Carnegie didn't rely on governm...
LAWRENCE KUDLOW

We’ll have to get you a sword,” I said. “When funds allow.”
Snorri shook his head. “A...
MARK LAWRENCE

Those were great big angry men with sharp swords actually wanting to cut pieces off me. It’s not u...
MARK LAWRENCE

It's shame that gets us killed. Shame is the anchor, the heaviest burden to carry from the battlefie...
MARK LAWRENCE

I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.
LAWRENCE DURRELL

Commemoration of Wulfstan, Bishop of Worcester, 1095 As for the miseries and sins he heard of da...
BROTHER LAWRENCE

Lift up your heart to Him, sometimes even at your meals, and when you are in company; the least litt...
BROTHER LAWRENCE

Feast of Hilary, Bishop of Poitiers, Teacher, 367 Commemoration of Kentigern (Mungo), Missionary Bi...
BROTHER LAWRENCE

Commemoration of Rose of Lima, Contemplative, 1617 Lift up your heart to Him, sometimes even at ...
BROTHER LAWRENCE

The sorest afflictions never appear intolerable, but when we see them in the wrong light: when we se...
BROTHER LAWRENCE

Commemoration of Remigius, Bishop of Rheims, Apostle of the Franks, 533 Commemoration of Thér...
BROTHER LAWRENCE

Commemoration of Martyrs of Papua New Guinea, 1942 I have quitted all forms of devotion and set p...
BROTHER LAWRENCE

He said: that it was a Great delusion to think that the times of prayer ought to differ from other t...
BROTHER LAWRENCE

Feast of Gregory, Bishop of Nyssa, & his sister Macrina, Teachers, c.394 & c.379 You will tell me...
BROTHER LAWRENCE

Feast of Perpetua, Felicity & their Companions, Martyrs at Carthage, 203 Use yourself then by deg...
BROTHER LAWRENCE

He had no qualms; "for", said he, "when I fail in my duty, I readily acknowledge it, saying, 'I am u...
BROTHER LAWRENCE

Men have looked upon the desert as barren land, the free holding of whoever chose; but in fact each hill and valley in it had a man who was its acknowledged owner and would quickly assert the right of his family or clan to it, against aggression.

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T. E. Lawrence

Men have looked upon the desert as barren land, the free holding of whoever chose; but in fact each hill and valley in it had a man who was its acknowledged owner and would quickly assert the right of his family or clan to it, against aggression.

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