"I loved you, so I drew these tides of men into my hands/and wrote my will across the sky in stars"

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Source : The Seven Pillars of Wisdom dedication, l. 1 (1926)

T. E. Lawrence

#Stars Quotes #Men Quotes #Hands Quotes

“I enjoy writing, sometimes; I think that most writers will tell you about the agony of writing more than the joy of writing, but writing is what I was meant to do.”
“The lily in splendor, the vine in her grace, The fox in the forest, all had their desire, As then I had mine, in the place that was happy and poor.”

Source : Ruth Pitter (1969). “Collected poems”
“Hammer and tongs! I am so torn between rage and joy, that if I do not burst, it will be a marvel!”
“I'd like a glass of cold gravy with a hair in it, please.”
“Everybody wants you to do good things, but in a small town you pretty much graduate and get married. Mostly you marry, have children and go to their football games.”
“The question I have is out of all these commencement speeches that are happening, what`s the really worthwhile advice that a 21, 22 year old person will walk away from the speech and say, I can apply this maybe five years, 10 years later. How many speeches actually push the button like that, other than yours?”

Source : Source: www.msnbc.com
“My first acting job happened by accident when I was really young. I was in fifth grade and my teacher saw an ad in the paper and took me to the audition after school and I got the part.”
“Political [or individual] rights do not exist because they have been legally set down on a piece of paper, but only when they have become the ingrown habit of a people, and when any attempt to impair them will be meet with the violent resistance of the populace... One compels respect from others when he knows how to defend his dignity as a human being... The people owe all the political rights and privileges which we enjoy today, in greater or lesser measure, not to the good will of their governments, but to their own strength”

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