T. E. Lawrence Quotes
We lived always in the stretch or sag of nerves, either on the crest or in the trough of waves of feeling.

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Any people attempting to govern themselves by laws of their own making, and by officers of their own appointment, are in direct rebellion against the kingdom of God.
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I am going to change the world, and I'm talking to everybody in the possible world that I can get to that can help me to do that.
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The man who interprets Nature is always held in great honor.
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The reason that the all-American boy prefers beauty to brains is that he can see better than he can think.
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Sometimes when you're a songwriter, you kind of have this egotistic thing: you just want to write something that you love, and you don't care about if people like it or not, but personally, I want to write something that people can jive to.
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You don't get money unless you have a lot of talent, which I don't have, or you work hard, which is what I do. We don't have any golden touch here.
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Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them.
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Let your watchword be order and your beacon beauty.
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I remember my father, who was 'somebody' in the synagogue, bringing home with him one of the poor men who waited outside to be chosen to share the Passover meal. These patriarchal manners I remember well, although there was about them an air of bourgeois benevolence which was somewhat comic.
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I like to write scenes in the middle of the night. We could change every word of 'Family Ties' between Monday and Friday.
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In Europe, the big word is tolerance. You tolerate everything.
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If there's a pregnancy rumor, people will find out it's not true when you wind up not being pregnant, like nine months from now, and if there's a house rumor, they'll find out it's not true when you are actively not ever spotted at that house.
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Cotton was a force of nature. There's a poetry to it, hoeing and growing cotton.
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I believe the House of Representatives is exactly the place where immigration reform should take place. Our entire House is elected every two years. We're the people closest to the people.
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I've always supported new music from classic bands, especially if it's good.
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I spend most of my time at concerts hoping for that one second that the artist looks at me, I look at the artist, and that's when I get to say, 'Thank you.'
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The only people who usually have input on my writing are my wife and my editor. I'm not in conversation with anyone except the people I report on and the people I work with.
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Waste not your Hour, nor in the vain pursuit Of This and That endeavour and dispute; Better be jocund with the fruitful Grape Than sadden after none, or bitter, Fruit.
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It's almost like the better I do, the more my feeling of inadequacy actually increases, because I'm just going, 'Any moment, someone's going to find out I'm a total fraud, and that I don't deserve any of what I've achieved. I can't possibly live up to what everyone thinks I am and what everyone's expectations of me are.'
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Being in Blur has allowed me to travel and hear the music that's being made all over the world.
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It's just a nightmare. And speed bumps, they did install them and everything and they don't work.
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Let your food be your medicine, and your medicine be your food.
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We lived always in the stretch or sag of nerves, either on the crest or in the trough of waves of feeling.