Lawrence Durrell Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I definitely had to do some soul searching, and there would be a lot of times where I would sit back and look at the Internet and say to myself, 'This is a way of being able to communicate with all my fans all over the world, other than just being in New York and only hearing the New York side of things.'
-
Goals enable you to do more for yourself and others, too.
-
I'm not the type of person that is forced.
-
The best way to hold a man is in your arms.
-
I hate wars and violence but if they come then I don't see why we women should just wave our men a proud goodbye and then knit them balaclavas.
-
I would never walk off any show.
-
I always think of it in terms of music. You're not always going to be a huge rock star in music, but musicians can play until the day they die. With sports, it's different. You can't always do it until the very end, and that's a hard reality of sports.
-
Christianity has kept itself going for centuries on hope alone, and has perpetrated all manner of naughtiness in the meantime.
-
Part of the new morality of the '60s and '70s is a new attitude toward homosexuality. The homosexual men and women have organized to fight for acceptance and respectability.
-
The English are good at bad guys - the James Bond-style villain, cunning, slow-burning. The Americans are much more obvious about it.
-
Don't say I was tough. I was strong. I had to be, because Ronnie liked everybody and sometimes didn't see - or refused to see - what the people around him were really up to. But everything I did, I did for Ronnie. I did for love.
-
God makes everything in perfect time, and he doesn't give you anything you can't handle.
-
Lack of time and money create really bad green practices.
-
Sex is the best high. It's better than any drug. I want to die making love because it feels so good.
-
I almost rented a house by an architect named Schindler, but I couldn't afford it. It was a jewel.
-
My life motto is basically to lower your standards and expectations so you're never disappointed and never put any trust in anything, and I try to prepare for the day that I wake up, and everyone I know is like, 'LOL JK best long-running practical joke ever', so I've never really let myself freak out or get too excited about anything.
-
I'm going to be a vice president very much like George Bush was. He proved to be a very effective vice president, perhaps the most effective we've had in a couple of hundred years.
-
There seemed nothing to do but live.
-
There is no well-trodden route to where I am, no formula to replicate.
-
My mother listened to all the news from the camp during the strike. She said little, especially when my father or the men who worked for him were about I remember her instinctive and unhesitating sympathy for the miners.
-
I am aware how difficult is the task to preserve free institutions over so wide a space and so immense a population, but we are blessed with a Constitution admirably calculated to accomplish it. Its elastic power is unequaled, which is to be attributed to its federal character.
-
Be still like a mountain and flow like a great river.
-
Brazil is bigger than Europe, wilder than Africa, and weirder than Baffin Land.
