D. H. Lawrence Quotes

There is no evolving, only unfolding. The lily is in the bit of dust which is its beginning, lily and nothing but lily: and the lily in blossom is a ne plus ultra: there is no evolving beyond.

D. H. Lawrence

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• If we focus on our health, including our inner health, our self-esteem, and how we look at ourselves and our confidence level, we'll tend to be healthier people anyway, we'll tend to make better choices for our lives, for our bodies, we'll always be trying to learn more, and get better as time goes on.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • People
  • Time
  • Trying

• Now an infinite happiness cannot be purchased by any price less than that which is infinite in value; and infinity of merit can only result from a nature that is infinitely divine or perfect.

  

  Adam Clarke
  • Nature
  • Perfect
  • Value

• I believe in peace. I believe in mercy.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Believe
  • Peace
  • Mercy

• The great thing about a culture of givers is that's not a delusion - it's reality.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Great
  • Reality
  • Culture

• There is nothing in my work that can be taken as blasphemy.

  

  Oleg Kulik
  • Work
  • Taken
  • Nothing

• Sometimes you just have to jump off the cliff without knowing where you will land.

  

  Zainab Salbi
  • You
  • Sometimes
  • Jump

• To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • World
  • Different
  • Heaven

• I'm only an actor. I'm not a writer. I'm not going to leave any legacy. All I've ever done is learn the lines and say them.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Done
  • Learn
  • Legacy

• I really like to experiment. That's the only way I can work. It's instinctive.

  

  F. Murray Abraham
  • Work
  • Way
  • I Can

• The long term sustainable growth in job creation comes from the private sector. It is important that the Obama administration partner with the private sector and come up with the best possible ideas for creating jobs.

  

  Valerie Jarrett
  • Up
  • Long
  • Important

• My childhood was great because my family has an amazing sense of humor, and it was just all making videos and jokes and doing skits and things.

  

  Zach Anner
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  • Family
  • Amazing

• If, in the schools, the classical language would no longer be taught, whom could we entrust with the writing of memorials, documents, letters and notes in the public service? How could we possibly assign important offices and heavy responsibilities to someone who cannot even write fluently?

  

  Zhang Zhidong
  • Important
  • Writing
  • Language

• We need to quit arguing about whether the glass is half full or half empty - and instead acknowledge that there's not quite enough water to go around.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Water
  • Enough
  • Quit

• The interval between a cold expectation and a warm desire may be filled by expectations of varying degrees of warmth or by desires of varying degrees of coldness.

  

  Samuel Alexander
  • May
  • Desire
  • Cold

• I live in Harlem, New York City. I am unmarried. I like 'Tristan,' goat's milk, short novels, lyric poems, heat, simple folk, boats and bullfights; I dislike 'Aida,' parsnips, long novels, narrative poems, cold, pretentious folk, buses and bridges.

  

  Langston Hughes
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• I've never thought in terms of 'men do this' and 'women do that.'

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Men
  • Women
  • Thought

• The power for creating a better future is contained in the present moment: You create a good future by creating a good present.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Good
  • Power
  • Future

• To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Great
  • Man
  • Greatness

• We apply fight-or-flight reflexes not only to predators, but to data itself.

  

  Chris Mooney
  • Itself
  • Reflexes
  • Predators

• I started as an actor. I started directing because Steppenwolf needed another strong director.

  

  Gary Sinise
  • Strong
  • Actor
  • Director

• What's it like to envision the ten-thousand-year environmental impact of tossing a plastic bottle into the trash bin, all in the single second it takes to actually toss it? Or the ten-thousand-year history of the fossil fuel being burned to drive to work or iron a shirt? It may be environmentally progressive, but it's not altogether pleasant.

  

  Douglas Rushkoff
  • Work
  • May
  • History

• When the bride is one with her lover, who cares about the wedding party?

  

  Kabir
  • Party
  • Wedding

• In Sarah Palin's new book, she says when she first laid eyes on her future husband, she said out loud, 'Thank you, God,' which is the same thing the Democrats said when they first laid eyes on Sarah Palin.

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • God
  • She
  • Book

• There is no evolving, only unfolding. The lily is in the bit of dust which is its beginning, lily and nothing but lily: and the lily in blossom is a ne plus ultra: there is no evolving beyond.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
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