I wrote my will across the sky, in stars
T.E. LawrenceMany men would take the death-sentence without a whimper, to escape the life-sentence which fate carries in her other hand.
T.E. LawrenceTags: fate death-sentence life-sentence
We lived always in the stretch or sag of nerves, either on the crest or in the trough of waves of feeling.
T.E. LawrenceWe had been hopelessly labouring to plough waste lands; to make nationality grow in a place full of the certainty of God… Among the tribes our creed could be only like the desert grass – a beautiful swift seeming of spring; which, after a day’s heat, fell dusty.
T.E. LawrenceTags: military counter-insurgency
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
T.E. LawrenceTags: military innovation discipline
We were fond together because of the sweep of open places, the taste of wide winds, the sunlight, and the hopes in which we worked. The morning freshness of the world-to-be intoxicated us. We were wrought up with ideas inexpressible and vaporous, but to be fought for. We lived many lives in those whirling campaigns, never sparing ourselves: yet when we achieved and the new world dawned, the old men came out again and took our victory to remake in the likeness of the former world they knew. Youth could win, but had not learned to keep, and was pitiably weak against age. We stammered that we had worked for a new heaven and a new earth, and they thanked us kindly and made their peace.
T.E. LawrenceTags: history
The printing press is the greatest weapon in the armory of the modern commander.
T.E. LawrenceYou wonder what I am doing? Well, so do I, in truth. Days seem to dawn, suns to shine, evenings to follow, and then I sleep. What I have done, what I am doing, what I am going to do, puzzle and bewilder me. Have you ever been a leaf and fallen from your tree in autumn and been really puzzled about it? That’s the feeling.
(T.E. Lawrence to artist Eric Kennington, May 1935 )
The trick, William Potter, is not minding that it hurts.
T.E. Lawrence- "I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!"
- "Ah, well, we can't all be lion tamers"
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"The trick, William Potter, is not minding that it hurts.
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