Top 100 Quotes About Lawrence
#1. Her lungs felt thick and slow, her mind dissolved, she felt she could cling like a bat in the long swoon of the crannied, underword darkness. Cling like a bat and sway for ever swooning in the draughts of the darkness
D.H. Lawrence
#2. Let us fear to leave Him. Let us be always with Him. Let us live and die in His presence.
Brother Lawrence
#3. Sometimes the only option is to raise the stakes, to throw yourself the other way, to force your opponent further down the path they've chosen, further than they might want to go.
Mark Lawrence
#4. There's nothing wrong with sexual feelings in themselves, so long as they are straightforward and not sneaking or sly. The right sort of sex stimulus is invaluable to human daily life. Without it the world grows grey.
D.H. Lawrence
#5. You look different," Snorri said. "I think 'even more handsome' was the phrase you were looking for.
Mark Lawrence
#6. When love enters, the whole spiritual constitution of a man changes, is filled with the Holy Ghost, and almost his form is altered.
D.H. Lawrence
#7. Abby," Lawrence said, "do exactly what I say, right when I say, no matter how crazy it sounds.
Blake Crouch
#8. A man driving a wagonload of children in a cage doesn't have to state his business. A farmer whose flesh lies sunken around his bones, and whose eyes are the colour of hunger, doesn't have to explain himself if he walks up to such a man. Hunger lies beneath all of our ugliest transactions.
Mark Lawrence
#10. The changes that happened in my life from doing these movies are so permanent that I don't think I'll ever really say goodbye, it'll always be a part of me, the Hunger Games.
Jennifer Lawrence
#11. Sometimes a high moon, liquid-brilliant, scudded across a hollow space and took cover under electric, brown-iridescent cloud-edges.
D.H. Lawrence
#12. Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things and I'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things.
Lawrence Dale Bell
#13. Now man cannot live without some vision of himself. But still less can he live with a vision that is not true to his inner experience and inner feeling.
D.H. Lawrence
#14. Why would people have confidence in a female director when there are so few?
Jennifer Lawrence
#15. Governments don't protect people, people protect governments."
"Order is organic, it can't just be ordered up."
"The more complexity, the more unpredictability and therefore the more uncontrollability. You cannot control what you cannot predict.
Lawrence Samuels
#16. After 'An Inconvenient Truth' came out, a lot of people came to me with their causes, and there are a lot - water, poverty, and so many, many more.
Lawrence Bender
#18. The forces that govern our experience, electromagnetism and gravity, are blind to the distinction between left and right. No process moderated by either force can turn something such as your right hand into its mirror image. I cannot
Lawrence M. Krauss
#19. Over time, stress hormones from multitasking can damage memory centers in the brain. Focus on one task at a time for better efficiency and memory.
Peter Lawrence
#20. Snorri stood with one thick arm gripping the wagon bed, arresting its motion. 'Come.'
I hadn't the breath to tell him that's what I was trying to do. Instead I slipped out, lacing up what needed to be laced.
Mark Lawrence
#21. Don't let anyone set restrictions on your life ... You chart the course of your own future, not anyone else. Don't let people have such a power over you. Because if you're always racing against their standards, then what's the point of reaching a useless finish line?
Kale Lawrence
#22. And she shrank away again, back into her darkness, and for a long while remained blotted safely away from living.
D.H. Lawrence
#23. Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves.
D.H. Lawrence
#24. There is an eternal vital correspondence between our blood and the sun: there is an eternal vital correspondence between our nerves and the moon. If we get out of contact and harmony with the sun and moon, then both turn into great dragons of destruction against us.
D.H. Lawrence
#25. There is a primacy of each individual object. And we'll see! That's the whole point of making sculpture, to present a question in a physical form to people.
Lawrence Weiner
#26. I'm focused on solving the problem that would make it plausible for gov't to get back to solving real problems.
Lawrence Lessig
#27. In a time of polarized politics there's one thing that more than ninety percent of Americans agree on, that our government is broken, and broken because of the money in politics.
Lawrence Lessig
#28. I want to be gone out of myself, and you to be lost to yourself, so we are found different.
D.H. Lawrence
#29. Football is not a game for the weak of heart, because every day you've got a hundred reasons to take all those pads off and say, 'F-k it.'
Lawrence Taylor
#32. I know the greatness of Christianity; it is a past greatness.. I live in 1924, and the Christian venture is done.
D.H. Lawrence
#33. I mean, I really liked those guys and the experience of doing Raiders was really good for me, but I did not really want to be involved - I only did Jedi, as I really owed George a favor.
Lawrence Kasdan
#34. You can win the victories you seek, Jorg. But only if you find better reasons to want them.
Mark Lawrence
#35. Well, you live and you learn, and generally in that order. I
Lawrence Block
#36. IT IS IMPORTANT, when killing a nun, to ensure that you bring an army of sufficient bravery. For when Sister Cage of the Sweet Mercy Convent steps onto the battlefield courage is often found to be in short supply. She
Mark Lawrence
#37. Half-way through the labour of an index to this book I recalled the practice of my ten years' study of history; and realized that I had never used the index of a book fit to read.
T.E. Lawrence
#38. The search for happiness ... always ends in the ghastly sense of the bottomless nothingness into which you will inevitably fall if you strain any further.
D.H. Lawrence
#39. What you hope for, like Unforgiven did a lot to give you a chance to do it again sometime.
Lawrence Kasdan
#40. It's always better to sit on your dignity in private than to stand on it in public.
Mark Lawrence
#41. I didn't ask anything - I hadn't the words. Instead I spoke the smallest one - the one I should have used more in my short and foolish life.
Sorry.
Mark Lawrence
#43. Does not everything depend on our interpretation of the silence around us?
Lawrence Durrell
#44. A man will be effective to the degree that he is able to concentrate! Concentration is not basically a mode of doing but above all a mode of Being.
Lawrence LeShan
#45. An opinion can be argued with; a conviction is best shot. The logical end of a war of creeds is the final destruction of one, and Salammbo is the classical text-book instance.
T.E. Lawrence
#47. The novel is the highest form of human expression so far attained. Why? Because it is so incapable of the absolute.
D.H. Lawrence
#48. We have buried so much of the delicate magic of life.
D.H. Lawrence
#49. I think the older you get, the more 'let's cut to the chase' you get, 'let's quit quibbling about this, let's tell it like it is.'
Vicki Lawrence
#51. There's been an increase in the number of Iraqis in training, but more Americans are dying and violence is increasing.
Lawrence Korb
#52. I feel as though I'm playing a part like those mummers who travel the roads, only I don't know the words properly, or how I'm supposed to act.
Mark Lawrence
#53. Through football, the incongruous became congruous.
Amy Lawrence
#54. Their words were only accidents in the mutual silence.
D.H. Lawrence
#55. In its most fundamental sense, execution is a systematic way of exposing reality and acting on it. Most companies don't face reality very well ... Realism is the heart of execution, but many organizations are full of people who are trying to avoid or shade reality. Why? It makes life uncomfortable.
Lawrence Bossidy
#56. Nothing's sacred anymore. Those girls and I got so close. They were painting me naked every day for months. It was kind of like going to a really bizarre sleepover. It's what you guys imagine we do: One naked girl and seven pairs of hands all over her.
Jennifer Lawrence
#57. But the act, called the sexual act, is not for the depositing of seed. It is for leaping off into the unknown, as from a cliff's edge, like Sappho into the sea.
D.H. Lawrence
#58. The most holy and necessary practice in our spiritual life is the presence of God. That means finding constant pleasure in His divine company, speaking humbly and lovingly with him in all seasons, at every moment, without limiting the conversation in any way.
Brother Lawrence
#59. Gods should be iridescent, like the rainbow in the storm. Man creates a God in his own image, and the gods grow old along with the men that made them ... But the god-stuff roars eternally, like the sea, with too vast a sound to be heard.
D.H. Lawrence
#60. Now, if I had an Indian name, it would be 'Stands in Confusion'.
Caroline Lawrence
#61. So slowly the hot elephant hearts
grow full of desire,
and the great beasts mate in secret at last,
hiding their fire.
D.H. Lawrence
#62. Along the avenue of cypresses,
All in their scarlet cloaks and surplices
Of linen, go the chanting choristers,
The priests in gold and black, the villagers ...
D.H. Lawrence
#63. It takes a lot of energy and a lot of neurosis to write a novel. If you were really sensible, you'd do something else.
Lawrence Durrell
#65. Even T.E. Lawrence, who hardly knew the meaning of fear, was by Sassoon's own account, terrified after only five minutes of his driving; 'my methods of turning from side roads into main roads were abrupt in those days' Sassoon added by way of explanation.
Jean Moorcroft Wilson
#66. I think women can be just as sexist. Women can be misogynistic, too - more so, they have more freedom to do it.
Jennifer Lawrence
#68. When I was nine, we moved to Stanford University in San Francisco so that my father could do a Ph.D. I went to Terman Junior High in Palo Alto. It was terrible, because my hormones were all over the place, and I became an ugly adolescent full of rage and loathing.
Caroline Lawrence
#69. Water is H2O, hydrogen two parts, oxygen one, but there is also a third thing, that makes it water and nobody knows what that is.
D.H. Lawrence
#70. If you have the choice between the right thing and the wrong thing, the right way is always less stressful.
Jennifer Lawrence
#71. Better a long ignoble life of shallow pleasures than a short stab at heroism, ending with a short stab. And just because one man plays another doesn't always mean that it's not the right direction for both of them.
Mark Lawrence
#72. And can a man his own quietus make
with a bare bodkin?
D.H. Lawrence
#73. My very first job was something called 'Nobody's Watching,' that Bill Lawrence who created 'Scrubs,' it was his pilot. It was my very first TV job, and it was a sitcom. Ever since that experience, I've been so itching to get back to that kind of environment and just to be involved with comedy.
Mircea Monroe
#74. I read a lot of books. Here are the books I'm using for my 9/11 project. [Wright gestures to three six-foot-long shelves of books.] As I read them I highlight certain passages. Then I have an assistant write down each quote on an index card and note where it came from.
Lawrence Wright
#75. I'm still getting used to everything. It still makes me a little emotional, just to see how quickly everything kind of changes - that it changes so fast.
Jennifer Lawrence
#76. The Greatest challenge in one person's lifetime is the challenge within yourself.
Harel R. Lawrence
#77. I hold that the parentheses are by far the most important parts of a non-business letter.
D.H. Lawrence
#78. The danger in media concentration comes not from the concentration, but instead from the feudalism that this concentration, tied to the change in copyright, produces.
Lawrence Lessig
#79. It's always fun to be able to have a voice, because it helps me to stay in tune with the project and the people that I am working with. Ther's nothing worse than being on a project and not being able to have a voice. I don't like that.
Martin Lawrence
#80. I had to learn how to chop wood actually - I don't think my dad would have let me go chop wood in the backyard growing up.
Jennifer Lawrence
#81. Cain said he wasn't Abel's keeper. Are those our only choices, keeper or killer?
Lawrence Block
#82. Having achieved and accomplished love ... man ... has become himself, his tale is told.
D.H. Lawrence
#83. After all, that's all a man really needs: a big city full of sin and sleaze, and a chance.
Mark Lawrence
#84. The purest lesson our era has taught is that man, at his highest, is an individual, single, isolate, alone, in direct soul-communication with the unknown God, which prompts within him.
D.H. Lawrence
#85. The glamour
Of childish days is upon me, my manhood is cast
Down in the flood of remembrance ...
D.H. Lawrence
#86. Couldn't one go right away, to the far ends of the earth, and be free from it all?
One could not. The far ends of the earth are not five minutes from Charing Cross. nowadays. While the wireless is active, there are no far ends of the earth.
D.H. Lawrence
#87. Start with the idea that you can't repeal the laws of economics. Even if they are inconvenient.
Lawrence Summers
#88. Tragedy looks to me like man in love with his own defeat.
Which is only a sloppy way of being in love with yourself.
D.H. Lawrence
#89. I like anything Jennifer Lawrence is in. She's so beautiful.
Clark Gregg
#90. He's got _go_, anyhow.'
Certainly, he's got go,' said Gudrun. 'In fact I've never seen a man that showed signs of so much. The unfortunate thing is, where does his _go_ go to, what becomes of it?
D.H. Lawrence
#91. I think if the copyright regime focuses on the people we are supposed to be helping, the artists and creators, and builds a system that gives them the freedom to choose and to protect and to be rewarded for their creativity, then we will have the right focus.
Lawrence Lessig
#92. I have picked up on the terminology of Brother Lawrence, who called praying unceasingly practicing God's presence. In fact, practicing God's presence has been my number one goal for the last year
Beth Moore
#93. Then I sit down, work at it, because now I have a convincing feeling about what that place wants to be, you see? And it's not just me. Me and my talent comes in taking that consensus and then making something wonderful out of it - a work of art.
Lawrence Halprin
#94. In the 1970s, 3 percent of retiring members became lobbyists. Thirty years later, that number has increased by an order of magnitude. Between 1998 and 2004, more than 50 percent of senators and 42 percent of House members made that career transition.
Lawrence Lessig
#95. Brother Maical's wisdom lies in knowing he is not clever and letting himself be led. The foolishness of mankind is that we do not do the same.
Mark Lawrence
#97. The proper way to eat a fig, in society,
Is to split it in four, holding it by the stump,
And open it, so that it is a glittering, rosy, moist, honied, heavy-petalled four-petalled flower.
D.H. Lawrence
#98. One thing all stage mothers share is an overpowering ambition for their daughters.
Lawrence Welk
#99. If the universe doesn't care about us and if we're an accident in a remote corner of the universe, in some sense it makes us more precious. The meaning in our lives is provided by us; we provide our own meaning.
Lawrence M. Krauss
#100. One great feature of modern society is the institutionalized respect we give to processes designed to destroy the past.
Lawrence Lessig
