D. H. Lawrence Quotes

Necessary, forever necessary, to burn out false shames and smelt the heaviest ore of the body into purity.

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• I love the perspective afforded by having lived five decades, a degree of bemused and muted calm, a relief from the insistent demands of a turbulent ego and rampant ambition. I'd love to stay here forever. But something tells me that 50 is a sunny idyll, a temporary state of grace, a golden afternoon.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Perspective
  • Ambition
  • Grace

• Touring a segregated America - forever being stopped and harassed by white cops hurt you most 'cos you don't realise the damage. You hold it in. You feel empty, like someone reached in and pulled out your guts. You feel hurt and dirty, less than a person.

  

  B. B. King
  • America
  • You
  • Forever

• I think it's very hard to find a good friend. That's why I'm so lucky to have two sisters, because they're my best friends, and they have to be with me forever. They're stuck with me.

  

  Kate Upton
  • Good
  • Why
  • Friends

• Different races never fazed me because coming from Bethnal Green, I'd been around people of different races forever. Different class? That was much harder.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • People
  • Different
  • Me

• I would prefer to live forever in perfect health, but if I must at some time leave this life, I would like to do so ensconced on a chaise longue, perfumed, wearing a velvet robe and pearl earrings, with a flute of champagne beside me and having just discovered the answer to the last problem in a British cryptic crossword.

  

  Olivia De Havilland
  • Life
  • Time
  • Live

• History shows that no enemy remains hostile forever, nor do friends remain friendly forever. For that reason, we intend to have normal relations with all.

  

  Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
  • Friends
  • History
  • Forever

• I will always, forever, write songs, and wherever they're meant to be is where they'll be.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Forever
  • Write
  • Will

• No, I've been singing forever. I started out doing musicals. I think that was part of the reason why they gave me the part, because I sang.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Me
  • Reason
  • Singing

• Social media has changed our lives forever. Some continue to reject social media, refusing to become one of the sheep, but you just can't avoid it.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Forever
  • Media
  • Social Media

• Israel's capital will never again be a divided city, a city with a wall at its center, a city in which two flags fly. This city, will, in its entirety, absorb immigrants, welcome pilgrims and be the eternal capital of Israel forever.

  

  Yitzhak Shamir
  • City
  • Forever
  • Wall

• No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Forever
  • Force
  • Dictator

• I go on and off home-school and regular school, but the kids don't treat me any differently because they've all known me forever.

  

  Yara Shahidi
  • School
  • Home
  • Kids

• The Flower that once has blown forever dies.

  

  Omar Khayyam
  • Forever
  • Flower
  • Once

• There was endless controversy as to whether the acts of the New Deal did actually move recovery or retard it, and nothing final could ever come of that bitter debate because it is forever impossible to prove what might have happened in place of what did.

  

  Garet Garrett
  • Forever
  • Impossible
  • Bitter

• You carry forever the fingerprint that comes from being under someone's thumb.

  

  Nancy Banks Smith
  • You
  • Forever
  • Someone

• For many child soldiers, war and violence are all they have ever known. If we don't take it upon ourselves to show them an alternative, then they're going to be soldiers forever, and they'll continue to be recruited and to participate in violence if another conflict starts five or 10 years down the road.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • War
  • Forever
  • Violence

• Modern recording has made it so that people can spend forever taking shortcuts and making everything uniform, but that strips music of what makes it exciting.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • People
  • Music
  • Forever

• I've been recording forever. I'm a watcher. I'm a stalker. I love everything about people. It's always been a passion for me to observe.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • People
  • Passion
  • Forever

• It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Hate
  • Forever
  • Honesty

• I'm too much of a big kid.

  

  Iain Glen
  • Kid
  • Big
  • Too Much

• A writer who knows what he is doing isn't doing very much.

  

  Nelson Algren

• The money was good while it lasted. The best part was clearly that it changed my view of what's possible, as far as thinking how you can have an impact on a national level.

  

  Andrew Shue
  • Money
  • View
  • Impact

• We live in such a consumer-based world. Everything we do, someone else has provided for us, so there is something really empowering about knowing that once I have found the right pieces of wood, I can start a fire and keep myself warm and skin an animal to eat and make its skin into leather.

  

  Neil Jackson
  • World
  • Live
  • Fire

• Necessary, forever necessary, to burn out false shames and smelt the heaviest ore of the body into purity.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Forever