T. E. Lawrence Quotes

Whether they are fit for independence or not remains to be tried. Merit is no qualification for freedom. Bulgars, Afghans, and Tahitans have it. Freedom is enjoyed when you are so well armed, or so turbulent, or inhabit a country so thorny that the expense of your neighbour's occupying you is greater than the profit.

T. E. Lawrence

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• Enjoy the satisfaction that comes from doing little things well.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Enjoy
  • Doing
  • Little Things

• Everyone will experience the consequences of his own acts. If his act are right, he'll get good consequences; if they're not, he'll suffer for it.

  

  Harry Browne
  • Good
  • Experience
  • Act

• Santorum is the greatest person on the face of the planet as far as I'm concerned.

  

  Foster Friess
  • Person
  • Face
  • Greatest

• The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.

  

  B. C. Forbes
  • Man
  • Chance
  • Luck

• I'm kind of a sucker for the retro-diagnoses.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Kind
  • Sucker

• Gautham was a premature baby. I remember when doctors said that his health condition was critical, I was tense. I could afford the treatment, but a lot of commoners can't. I believe more children's lives can be saved if we work towards it.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Children

• Sometimes fitness is a good thing to have, but you have to recognise that fitness takes you only so far, and skills are the most important thing. Fitness just helps you execute those cricketing skills for longer and more consistently, maybe.

  

  Rahul Dravid
  • Good
  • Important
  • Skills

• The trouble with the artists this year is they are all obsessed with Twitter and headlines. It feels like they are all getting a bit above themselves.

  

  Gary Barlow Take That
  • Trouble
  • Year
  • Artists

• If I wanted to know what a certain future would feel like to me, I would find someone who is already living that future. If I wonder what it's like to become a lawyer or marry a busy executive or eat at a particular restaurant, my best bet is to find people who have actually done these things and see how happy they are.

  

  Daniel Gilbert
  • People
  • Done
  • Happy

• Writers are always critical of themselves and I'm no exception. I always feel that maybe I could have done better.

  

  Iris Johansen
  • Done
  • Always
  • Better

• You need to learn. You need to grow up. You need to step up and know the difference between what you can do and what you can't.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • Up
  • Grow
  • Step

• Dried porcini add a substantial, deep flavour to otherwise more neutral vegetables. I use them in risottos, mashed roots and winter soups.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Deep
  • Winter
  • Roots

• I always tell women to use the fact that we offer a different point of view in a room full of men, to their advantage. Because we often stand out, we gain a unique platform to demonstrate our knowledge and capabilities.

  

  Padmasree Warrior
  • Men
  • Different
  • Women

• People should recognize who you are and how you can act rather then how famous you are.

  

  Mae Whitman
  • People
  • Famous
  • Act

• When the government takes more money out of the pockets of middle class Americans, entrepreneurs, and businesses, it lessens the available cash flow for people to spend on goods and services, less money to start businesses, and less money for businesses to expand - i.e. creating new jobs and hiring people.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • People
  • Money
  • Government

• My husband cooks fancier food for himself than I've ever cooked on-air. I call him from the road, and he's making champagne-vanilla salmon or black-cherry pork chop. Half of me is feeling unworthy. Not only am I not a chef, I'm not a better cook than my own husband!

  

  Rachael Ray
  • Black
  • Feeling
  • Food

• Would that well-thinking people should be replaced by thinking ones.

  

  Natalie Clifford Barney
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Would

• I am the best. There is nobody better than me.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Best
  • Better

• You are a spirit, then,you Man, and not a Manat all.You are a spirit and you dwellwithin the guts of mortal beast.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard

• A good whack on the head usually has the same effect.

  

  Kamahl
  • Good

• The short story can't really hold an interesting event. It can't hold a death or a war or a loss of great magnitude the way either a long story or a novel can.

  

  Ethan Canin
  • War
  • Death
  • Novel

• 'Ernest Borgnine' is sort of my version of Woody Allen's 'Purple Rose Of Cairo' in that it's about the occasional difficulty of coming to terms with the cold hard facts and the temptation to escape into another world - like movies, for example. I'm a pro at escaping.

  

  John Grant
  • World
  • Cold
  • Rose

• I was grateful to have two weeks to shoot this one scene in Harry Potter. It's a big, big scene, but they have to deliver. And they have high expectations.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • High
  • Two
  • Expectations

• Whether they are fit for independence or not remains to be tried. Merit is no qualification for freedom. Bulgars, Afghans, and Tahitans have it. Freedom is enjoyed when you are so well armed, or so turbulent, or inhabit a country so thorny that the expense of your neighbour's occupying you is greater than the profit.

  

  T. E. Lawrence
  • Country
  • Freedom