Quotes of: Lawrence Keyword

The defendant wants to hide the truth because he's generally guilty. The defense attorney's job is to make sure the jury does not arrive at that truth.

Alan Dershowitz

Colonel Brighton: Look, sir, we can't just do nothing. General Allenby: Why not? It's usually best.

Lawrence of Arabia

General Allenby: I thought I was a hard man, sir. Prince Feisal: You are merely a general. I must be a king.

Lawrence of Arabia

Auda abu Tayi: [his last words, to Ali] Being an Arab will be thornier than you suppose, Harith!

Lawrence of Arabia

Auda abu Tayi: [Auda starts the attack on Aqaba with these words] Make God your agent!... Aqaba!

Lawrence of Arabia

Dr. Lawrence Gordon: What's your name? Adam: My name is Very Fucking Confused; what's your name?

Saw

Mark Helprin and Lawrence Durrell, both of whom write fat and florid novels that appall me now but opened my eyes to the power of fiction when I was in my 20s.

Kevin Patterson

We live in a time when science is validating what humans have known throughout the ages: that compassion is not a luxury; it is a necessity for our well-being, resilience, and survival.

Joan Halifax

Yet it looks as if the thing we use to solve our problems with is the source of our problems. It's like going to the doctor and having him make you ill. In fact, in 20% of medical cases we do apparently have that going on. But in the case of thought,...

David Bohm

An artist needn't be a clergyman or a churchwarden, but he certainly must have a warm heart for his fellow men.

Vincent Van Gogh

I was born in Belgium on 6 November 1932. I am married to Mira Nikomarow and have five children: Michele, Anne, Georges, from a first marriage with Esther Dujardin, and Sarah, Helene from a second one with Danielle Vindal.

Francois Englert

Very seldom do we receive any support for trusting ourselves, listening to our own sense of inner truth, and expressing ourselves in a direct and honest way.

Shakti Gawain

My academic identity is that of a folklorist, and for many years I have taught only folklore courses.

Alan Dundes

In every man there is an instinctive and passionate reaction if his person or liberty is attacked.

Arthur Keith

The proper balance between individual liberty and central authority is a very ancient problem.

Arthur Keith

Universalism as an ideal is as old as nay, is probably much more ancient than the Christian ideal.

Arthur Keith

Christianity has not conquered nationalism; the opposite has been the case nationalism has made Christianity its footstool.

Arthur Keith

Tolerance is held to be a condition of mind which is encouraged by, and is necessary for, civilization.

Arthur Keith

Human beings are the only creatures who are able to behave irrationally in the name of reason.

Ashley Montagu

I deliberately did not read anything about the Vietnam War because I felt the politics of the war eclipsed what happened to the veterans. The politics were irrelevant to what this memorial was.

Maya Lin

It makes the heart to tremble when you open an undiscovered tomb.

Zahi Hawass