D. H. Lawrence Quotes
But the effort, the effort! And as the marrow is eaten out of a man's bones and the soul out of his belly, contending with the strange rapacity of savage life, the lower stage of creation, he cannot make the effort any more.
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I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.
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The love of liberty and the sense of human dignity are the basic elements of the Anarchist creed.
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Traveling is one expression of the desire to cross boundaries.
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The first function of a book review should be, I believe, to give some idea of the contents and character of the book.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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I kind of wanna be pro basketball, pro skateboarder.
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Clinton's hands remain incredibly clean, don't they, and Tony Blair's smile remains as wide as ever. I view these guises with profound contempt.
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The last thing I wanted was to be with someone who's the same age as me and wanted the limelight, wanted the attention. There's lots of girls out there who do.
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I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
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In 1255, Louis IX of France presented an elephant to Henry III of England to add to the menagerie of exotic animals he kept in the Tower of London.
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Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.
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Be fond of the man who jests at his scars, if you like; but never believe he is being on the level with you.
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You never want to have that ticking clock and know that you had all this time and didn't use it.
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Animals are companions on this planet, not necessarily our feedbags.
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I'm the most optimistic guy about VR out there. I have crazy visions of what we'll be doing in the future.
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I went to church when I was younger, but it was never something pushed down my throat or anything, which is a good thing. I found out for myself where I belonged.
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I don't like to pretend I was guided in any way by the supernatural world, but the more you talk about that, the easier it is to dismiss those notions.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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Every child matters. If we fail our children, we are bound to fail our present, our future, faith, cultures, and civilisations as well.
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But a lot of that kind of work is done pre-flight, coordinating efforts with the flight directors and the ground teams, and figuring out how you're going to operate together.
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I don't know how many people really knew who I was before the Olympics and that's the fun thing of the Olympics - you get to know someone who captures your heart, hopefully.
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Death is the prerequisite to resurrection, the new life God intends.
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You don't have to call it God or Jesus. That's religious humbug to a lot of people, but you've gotta believe that nature and spiritual things surround us. That is what put us here! I thank the universe for that every day of my life.
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But the effort, the effort! And as the marrow is eaten out of a man's bones and the soul out of his belly, contending with the strange rapacity of savage life, the lower stage of creation, he cannot make the effort any more.
