D. H. Lawrence Quotes

The living self has one purpose only: to come into its own fullness of being, as a tree comes into full blossom, or a bird into spring beauty, or a tiger into lustre.

D. H. Lawrence

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• One of the things Kuhn said about normal science is that people 'expect' things to be discovered.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • People
  • Science
  • Said

• It may be that apartheid brings such stupendous economic advantages to countries that they would sooner have apartheid than permit its destruction.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • May
  • Economic
  • Destruction

• Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Why
  • Poetry
  • Away

• My music is not just about entertainment. It is about enlightenment also.

  

  Kailash Kher
  • Music
  • Just
  • Enlightenment

• The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does.

  

  Lascelles Abercrombie
  • Age
  • Reason
  • Poetry

• Throughout my whole swimming career, I've never been disqualified once. I've never been warned once.

  

  Cameron van der Burgh
  • Career
  • Never
  • Swimming

• Some people call it the 'Al Jazeera spirit' - courage, re-thinking authority, giving a voice to the voiceless. We have never been favored by the authority. The human being is the center of our editorial policy. We are not a TV station that rushes after stars, big names, press conferences, hand-shake journalism.

  

  Wadah Khanfar
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Giving

• No one inspired me to write, but writer Harlan Ellison terrified me into getting published.

  

  Dan Simmons
  • Inspired
  • Write
  • Terrified

• Conversion for me was not a Damascus Road experience. I slowly moved into an intellectual acceptance of what my intuition had always known.

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
  • Experience
  • Road
  • Acceptance

• My favorite actresses were Geraldine Paige, Anne Bancroft and Kim Stanley.

  

  Sally Kirkland
  • Favorite
  • Were
  • Anne

• Some people remaster their records six, seven times, remix it three, four times, spend a million hours, then they always go back and hear a demo of it and they'll say, 'Aw that sounds so much better than the final mix.'

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • People
  • Always
  • Better

• I went to the Westminster College for Men in Missouri, which is what it was called back then, and transferred to the University of Denver where I ultimately got my degree.

  

  Ted Shackelford
  • Men
  • College
  • Back

• Even Gaddafi's adversaries assure us that he stood out for his intelligence as a student; he was expelled from high-school for his anti-monarchic activities. He managed to enroll in another high-school and later graduated in law at the University of Benghazi at the age of 21.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • School
  • High
  • Age

• I'm vain enough to think that I've made a successful life. I've had everything I've ever wanted. You can't beat that.

  

  Jack Gilbert
  • Life
  • Think
  • Successful

• In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Long
  • Women
  • Apple

• I think life gives you lemons, and the thing that I'm working on doing is not watering it down, not putting sugar in it. Just drink it straight. The more you can take life head on... it's gonna make you a better person, and then you have nothing left to be afraid of. And what an awesome way to live.

  

  Cam
  • Life
  • Live
  • Awesome

• A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.

  

  Quintilian
  • Virtue
  • Laugh
  • Too Much

• Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.

  

  Lara St. John
  • Notes
  • Pure
  • Anywhere

• Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Teaching
  • Distraction

• There is a difference between finding trouble in your path and going out of your way searching for it.” -Jacen Solo

  

  R. A. Salvatore
  • Path

• In the end, each life is no more than the sum of contingent facts, a chronicle of chance intersections, of flukes, of random events that divulge nothing but their own lack of purpose.

  

  Paul Auster
  • Life
  • Purpose
  • Chance

• Because when the Creator of matter, tell you you matter, then you have a purpose and then you have self-esteem.

  

  Brad Stine
  • Purpose
  • Creator
  • Self-Esteem

• If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.'

  

  Aristotle Onassis
  • World
  • Women
  • Money

• The living self has one purpose only: to come into its own fullness of being, as a tree comes into full blossom, or a bird into spring beauty, or a tiger into lustre.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Purpose
  • Tree
  • Spring