D. H. Lawrence Quotes

I don't believe any more in democracy. But I can't believe in the old sort of aristocracy, either, nor can I wish it back, splendid as it was. What I believe in is the old Homeric aristocracy, when the grandeur was inside a man, and he lived in a simple wooden house.

D. H. Lawrence

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• I believe there are more films that involve love and forgiveness than violence, but they often seem fake and are almost embarrassing to watch.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Believe
  • Violence
  • Forgiveness

• To be is to do.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Brainy

• For many years, the government of Canada has massively supported orchestras and the arts in general.

  

  Lara St. John
  • Government
  • Years
  • Canada

• I think watching Channing Tatum caress his Lego Oscar statue will be something I won't forget. Even if I try.

  

  Nathan Sawaya
  • Think
  • Forget
  • Try

• We have a tax code that allows groups to use their political operations within the tax code, under the guise of a charity, to use undisclosed millions of dollars to do political campaigns.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Political
  • Charity
  • Tax

• We are not a TV station that only concentrate on those who are always under light. We are not a TV station for celebrities and for grand politicians and superstars. We are a TV station for the ordinary person. The normal people, ordinary people in the Arab world sees Al Jazeera as their voice.

  

  Wadah Khanfar
  • People
  • World
  • Light

• 'The Outsiders' cast in particular was a joy to be around - sweet kids, normal goofy teenagers off camera and serious artists on. They were great. I never got them mixed up with the characters, though. Each of them had his own strong personality.

  

  S. E. Hinton
  • Up
  • Great
  • Kids

• Coming from the Midwest, I didn't know about stand-up as an art. I just thought stand-up comedians were old men in suits talking about their wives.

  

  Natasha Leggero
  • Up
  • Men
  • Art

• I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.

  

  Kate Walsh
  • Like
  • Take
  • Sensitive

• It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Work
  • God
  • Quality

• French people are never happy with what they have. They're always complaining. They're happy when they're complaining.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • People
  • Happy
  • Complaining

• I did not lose this election, or had a bad result compared with what we might have got because of Islam.

  

  Imran Khan
  • Bad
  • Lose
  • Election

• I met Gerhard Richter and Alighiero Boetti when I was a teenager, and I was really inspired by them. When Boetti died, I realized I only vaguely remembered so many things he told me. It was such a pity. Had I only recorded his voice, he would still be with me, and I could listen to it from time to time.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Time
  • Voice
  • Inspired

• Essentially what photography is is life lit up.

  

  Sam Abell
  • Life
  • Up
  • Photography

• You've got to eat while you dream. You've got to deliver on short-range commitments, while you develop a long-range strategy and vision and implement it. The success of doing both. Walking and chewing gum if you will. Getting it done in the short-range, and delivering a long-range plan, and executing on that.

  

  Jack Welch
  • Long
  • Done
  • Success

• A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man pushing a button that releases a bomb.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Man
  • Dragon
  • Button

• Globalization is exposing new fault lines - between urban and rural communities, for example.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • New
  • Fault
  • Globalization

• Don't be a victim; if you want to make movies, make movies.

  

  Lance Reddick
  • Want
  • You
  • Movies

• Whenever a work's structure is intentionally one of its own themes, another of its themes is art.

  

  Annie Dillard
  • Work
  • Art

• Beloved, let the fact of what our Lord suffered for you grip you, and you will never again be the same

  

  Oliver B. Greene
  • Suffering
  • Facts
  • Beloved

• Men started to geoform the earth in the middle of the twentieth century. Unfortunately, a lot of the early work was done by people who failed to see the earth as a closed set of mutually interrelated systems.

  

  Joe Haldeman
  • People
  • Work
  • Men

• Blues ain’t football. You don’t have to retire at 30. You can grow and play all your life.

  

  Elvin Bishop
  • Play
  • Football
  • Grow

• Increasingly, I'm finding myself uncomfortable about how the Internet's developing, who's influencing its development, and who is not.

  

  Sue Gardner
  • Internet
  • Developing
  • Influencing

• I don't believe any more in democracy. But I can't believe in the old sort of aristocracy, either, nor can I wish it back, splendid as it was. What I believe in is the old Homeric aristocracy, when the grandeur was inside a man, and he lived in a simple wooden house.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Believe
  • Men
  • House