D. H. Lawrence Quotes

I do esteem individual liberty above everything. What is a nation for, but to secure the maximum liberty to every individual?

D. H. Lawrence

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• I find dates, in general, horrific. We have to sit there and ask these questions and pretend to eat a meal, and it just feels so stiff.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Find
  • Questions
  • Sit

• No matter how much you like your local school teacher, he or she is a government agent.

  

  Nancy Pearcey
  • School
  • She
  • Government

• The impact of any particular writer on your own work is hard to discern.

  

  Daniel Alarcon
  • Work
  • Writer
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• I stay true to myself, my daughter. I just remember where I came from - I remember what I'm coming from - and then I remember why I do what I do.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
  • Why
  • Remember
  • True

• Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.

  

  Natalie Clifford Barney
  • Virtue
  • Demand
  • Greater

• When I went to school, it was really just to immerse myself in listening to, studying, and making music.

  

  Dan Deacon
  • Music
  • School
  • Myself

• Do I like foreign aid? Sometimes, but not every time. Don't like giving money to our enemies, but I love giving money to Israel.

  

  Dan Webster
  • Time
  • Money
  • Love

• A lot of directors say, 'Do whatever you want, and I'll just change it on set.' But I love being involved in every part of production. It's very exciting. It's like an empire of creation: Everybody is working so hard to respect a vision and an idea, and it's very weird and inspiring at the same time.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • Time
  • Respect
  • Like

• I envy those Hindus and Buddhists who have in their religion philosophy and ancestor worship which build in the believer a continuity with the past, and that most important ingredient in the building of a nation - memory.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Important
  • Past
  • Religion

• I guess some kids around me had to grow up quickly, had all those problems. But I wasn't one of those kids, or around those kids, not at all.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Problems

• We can't do a modern Batman continually beating up thugs in zoot suits with tommy guns in violin cases. The game has to move on. It has to feel relevant.

  

  Gary Frank
  • Up
  • Game
  • Batman

• I really did try to write it so that an educated public that cares about issues like this doesn't have to be a lawyer and can read it and understand it.

  

  Floyd Abrams
  • Understand
  • Lawyer
  • Educated

• Medicine may be the lens through which I see the world, but since I think of medicine as 'life +', a place where life is exaggerated and seen at its most vital and poignant, I'll be writing about life more than I will be writing about medicine.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • Life
  • World
  • Writing

• My favourite book as a child was an old 'Newne's Children's Encyclopaedia' which my grandfather had bought just before World War II and donated to our family after seeing how interested we were in it. Each volume had special chapters called 'Things Boys can Do.' My brothers and I would pick out interesting projects.

  

  Barry Marshall
  • World
  • Children
  • Family

• I love children and I love men, but I can't commit to either for the rest of my life.

  

  Lara Flynn Boyle
  • Life
  • Men
  • Children

• I'm a fan of homeopathy, acupuncture and spiritual healing. In Australia, this is not weird, but when I arrived in the U.K., everyone thought I was a freak.

  

  Natalie Imbruglia
  • Spiritual
  • Thought
  • Weird

• People have really strong images of what church is, and it's almost certainly not the same as mine.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • People
  • Strong
  • Church

• I could meet dreadful people and end up seeing the world through their eyes, seeing their frailties, their needs.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• It never occurred to me that I wouldn't go to college and have a career - as well as a family - of my own. Both my parents, but especially my mother, encouraged me and led me to believe that it was possible.

  

  Dee Dee Myers
  • Believe
  • Family
  • Mother

• Art is rarely intelligible to the criminal classes.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Art
  • Criminal
  • Classes

• First law on holes - when you're in one, stop digging!

  

  Denis Healey
  • Law
  • Stop

• If we can implant in our people the Christian virtues which we sum up in the word character, and, at the same time, give them a knowledge of the line which should be drawn between voluntary action and governmental compulsion in a democracy, and of what can be accomplished within the stern laws of economics, we will enable them to retain their freedom, and at the same time, make them worthy to be free.

  

  Winthrop W. Aldrich
  • People
  • Christian
  • Democracy

• Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.

  

  Charles Kettering
  • Hope
  • Future
  • Imagination

• I do esteem individual liberty above everything. What is a nation for, but to secure the maximum liberty to every individual?

  

  D. H. Lawrence