D. H. Lawrence Quotes

For how can a man stand, unless he have something sure under his feet. Can a man tread the unstable water all his life, and call that standing? Better give in and drown at once.

D. H. Lawrence

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• I spend my life essentially alone at a computer. That doesn't change. I have the same challenges every day.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Life
  • Change
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• I grew up with injustice and could do nothing about it. But once in America, I had freedom of choice.

  

  Zainab Salbi
  • Up
  • America
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• It's difficult to talk about, you know, my inadequacies, my inability to stay sober when I'm a relatively bright man and I've had a lot of great blessings and a lot of great opportunities.

  

  Daniel Baldwin
  • Great
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• Always be courageous and strong, and don't fear.

  

  Gabby Douglas
  • Strong
  • Fear
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• I have an idea that the phrase 'weaker sex' was coined by some woman to disarm the man she was preparing to overwhelm.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Man
  • Woman
  • Idea

• Caste may be bad. Caste may lead to conduct so gross as to be called man's inhumanity to man. All the same, it must be recognized that the Hindus observe Caste not because they are inhuman or wrong-headed. They observe Caste because they are deeply religious.

  

  Babasaheb
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  • Bad
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• I believe in the impossible because no one else does.

  

  Florence Griffith Joyner
  • Believe
  • Impossible

• Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds... is not productive.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • World
  • Science
  • Powerful

• The reason that the all-American boy prefers beauty to brains is that he can see better than he can think.

  

  Farrah Fawcett
  • American
  • Think
  • Boy

• When we were growing up, women in their late 40s generally didn't dye their hair.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Up
  • Women
  • Growing

• From 1 till 7, when we moved to England, I spoke only Portuguese.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • England
  • Only
  • Spoke

• There is evidence that some of al Qaeda's nuclear efforts over the years met with swindles and false leads.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Years
  • Evidence
  • Over

• I got as much information as I could, so I wouldn't look stupid, but this is a post 9/11 world and there's only so much you can do with the FBI in terms of research.

  

  Aaron Eckhart
  • World
  • Stupid
  • Research

• I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Morning
  • Like
  • Idea

• I don't trust that many people. Just my mother and my wife and a couple of friends. When I trust people, it doesn't end well.

  

  Gary Sheffield
  • People
  • Friends
  • Mother

• Starting in the third grade, my dad had me read the 'Denver Post.' I had to discuss two articles with him before dinner, and we would also watch '60 Minutes' together.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Dad
  • Read
  • Minutes

• I made nothing happen very slowly.

  

  Gary McCord
  • Nothing
  • Very
  • Happen

• When you're in the music business, everything is very personal, because you are invested in everything; there's a very deep, personal attachment to your music.

  

  Larry Mullen, Jr. U2
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  • Business
  • Deep

• I'm terrible about people wanting to take pictures with me. I'm a giant baby about it. They treat you like a cartoon. There's nothing you can do except make light of it. That's if I'm in the mood – sometimes I get superbummed.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Light
  • Baby
  • Mood

• When you're young, you don't have much sense. You don't have any reasoning power. You don't have any ability to take a blow, an insult, a hurt in the right way. There is no way a child can do that. All a child can do is feel the pang of it, the heartache of it.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Power
  • Hurt
  • Child

• I think we get stuck in routines so easily that when an absurd moment in life seems to be there for no reason, it wakes you up out of your everyday pattern. You pull back and look at life a little bit wider because of that one weird thing you weren't expecting.

  

  Kurt Braunohler
  • Life
  • Up
  • Weird

• Men may be rivals, opponents in their fortunes, and yet be friends in their hearts and fair towards each other's worth; but woman, the instant she is rivaled, becomes unjust.

  

  Jane Welsh Carlyle
  • Men
  • May
  • She

• Hopefully, my tears are worth something to the outside world.

  

  Rachael Yamagata
  • World
  • Tears
  • Hopefully

• For how can a man stand, unless he have something sure under his feet. Can a man tread the unstable water all his life, and call that standing? Better give in and drown at once.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Life
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