“- "I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!"- "Ah, well, we can't all be lion tamers"--------------------------------------"The trick, William Potter, is not minding that it hurts.”
“Club Secretary: "I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!"T.E. Lawrence: "Ah, well, we can't all be lion tamers.”
“The trick, William Potter, is not minding that it hurts.”
“In peace-armies discipline meant the hunt, not of an average but of an absolute; the hundred per cent standard in which the ninety-nine were played down to the level of the weakest man on parade…. The deeper the discipline, the lower was the individual excellence; also the more sure the performance. – T. E. Lawrence Seven Pillars of Wisdom”
“Mankind has had ten-thousand years of experience at fighting and if we must fight, we have no excuse for not fighting well.”
“I'm not scared because I can't give you my love in return, I'm scared because I love you so much sometimes it's hard to breathe."[...]"Everything I have to give, it's yours. It's always been yours.”
“If thou could'st empty all thyself of self, like to a shell dishabited, then might He find thee on the ocean shelf, and say "This is not dead," and fill thee with Himself instead. But thou art all replete with very thou and hast such shrewd activity, that when He comes He says, "This is enow unto itself-'twere better let it be, it is so small and full, there is no room for Me.”