Dh Lawrence Quotes

As DH Lawrence said, the Protestant societies do dirt on sex, it is their dirty mind which aligns sex and a woman's genitals with the debased and soiled. This is something terrible, I think, and to be contended with head-on in art. ~ Micheline Aharonian Marcom

I would like to be a D.H. Lawrence character, living in one of his novels. The people I meet don't even seem to have characters. And life seems so rich, when I look at it through his eyes, yet my own life very often appears sterile, like a bad patch of earth, as if nothing will grow there however hard I try. ~ Rachel Cusk

By god, DH Lawrence was right when he said there must be a dumb, dark, dull, bitter belly-tension between a man and a woman, and how else could this be achieved save in the long monotony of marriage? ~ Stella Gibbons

If I hadn't read all of Jane Austen and DH Lawrence, Tolstoy and Proust, as well as the more fun stuff, I wouldn't know how to break bad news, how to sympathise, how to be a friend or a lover, because I wouldn't have any idea what was going on in anybody else's mind. ~ Sebastian Faulks

When it comes to understanding others, we rarely tax our imaginations. ~ Lawrence Hill

And beyond that, the next issue is how do we guarantee one of these weapons, not necessarily this missile, but nuclear weapons ends up in the hands of Al Qaeda or some other terrorist group. ~ Lawrence Eagleburger

One might rationally argue that individual human beings should be free choose what moral behavior they approve of, and which they don't, subject to the constraints of the law. ~ Lawrence M. Krauss

Only the desert has a fascination
to ride alone
in the sun in the forever unpossessed country
away from man. That is a great temptation. ~ D.H. Lawrence

She liked Anthony, though. All her life, at intervals, she returned to the thought of him and of that which he offered. But she was a traveller, she was a traveller on the face of the earth, and he was an isolated creature living in the fulfilment of his own senses. She ~ D.H. Lawrence

And we went out into the day, and all the heat of it couldn't touch the ice in me. ~ Mark Lawrence

Over the course of his wartime service, Lawrence was awarded a number of medals and ribbons, but with his profound disdain for such things, he either threw them away or never bothered to collect them. He made an exception in the case of the Croix de Guerre; after the war, according to his brother, he found amusement in placing the medal around the neck of a friend's dog and parading it through the streets of Oxford. ~ Scott Anderson

She felt weak and utterly forlorn. She wished some help would come from outside. But in the whole world there was no help. ~ D.H. Lawrence

The art has to make it on its own, without explanations, and it's the same for poetry. If the poem or the painting has to be explained, then it's a failure in communication. ~ Lawrence Ferlinghetti

There's lots of good fish in the sea ... maybe ... but the vast masses seem to be mackerel or herring, and if you're not mackerel or herring yourself, you are likely to find very few good fish in the sea. ~ D.H. Lawrence

Is it possible to be overzealous, to destroy that which you hope to save-so that nothing is left but emptiness. ~ Jerome Lawrence

In spite of the Depression, or maybe because of it, folks were hungry for a good time, and an evening of dancing seemed a good way to have it. ~ Lawrence Welk

Some natural disasters were preferable to the sorts that people could wreak upon each other. ~ Mark Lawrence

I just wrote a book. But don't go and buy it yet, because I don't think it's finished. ~ Lawrence Welk

We don't want you here living with us. You are white, and we do not trust you. You must take your family and go.
I could hear the sudden intake of breath. every head in the crowd swiveled, first to the Nkosi, and then to me. I suddenly felt tired. This is what it had all come to;in South Africa, when logic shrivels, the same dreary dinosaurs rear their vicious heads. ~ Lawrence Anthony

Some say that I was once uncommonly beautiful, but I wouldn't wish beauty on any woman who has not her own freedom, and who chooses not the hands that claim her. ~ Lawrence Hill

Maybe that's why God made childbirth so painful, so that when your life is wrecked by children you know it could be worse. ~ J.T. Lawrence

Anger had its place, it was a weapon not to be neglected, but so did patience, and Nona decided that control lay in deciding which to use and when. She ~ Mark Lawrence

Cast up
the heart flops over
gasping 'Love'
a foolish fish which tries to draw
its breath from flesh of air
And no one there to hear its death
among the sad bushes
where the world rushes by
in a blather of asphalt and delay ~ Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Once you know about a work of mine you own it. There's no way I can climb inside somebody's head and remove it. ~ Lawrence Weiner

Legislation needs a better reason than that lawyers like it, and that America does it. ~ Lawrence Lessig

Emptiness is that which frees us from religiosity and leads us to true spirituality. ~ Brother Lawrence

the page welcomes me like a lover...and she is a demanding mistress ~ Kelly Lawrence

Because over and over again, the times that I've done really good things is because I've had a wonderful client of some kind, and a lot of it depended on me to induce them to be creative. ~ Lawrence Halprin

Sing then the core of dark and absolute oblivion where the soul at last is lost in utter peace. ~ D.H. Lawrence

The least little bit o' money 'll really do ... What have yer done ter yerselves, wi' the blasted work? Spoilt yerselves. No need to work that much. Take yer clothes off an' look at yourselves. Yer ought ter be alive an' beautiful, an' yer ugly an' half dead. ~ D.H. Lawrence

Patience! Patience! The world is a vast and ghastly intricacy of mechanism, and one has to be very wary, not to get mangled by it. ~ D.H. Lawrence

We need not feel ashamed of flirting with the zodiac. The zodiac is well worth flirting with. ~ D.H. Lawrence

Stoic ethics is a species of eudaimonism. Its central, organizing concern is about what we ought to do or be to live well - to flourish. That is, we make it a lemma that all people ought to pursue a good life for themselves as a categorical commitment second to none. It does not follow from this that they ought to pursue any one particular version of the good life, or to cling tenaciously to the one they are pursuing. …

Living virtuously is the process of creating a single, spatiotemporal object - a life. A life has a value as an object, as a whole. It is not always the case that its value as an object will be a function of the value of its spatiotemporal parts considered separately. But it is always the case that an evaluation of the parts will be incomplete until they are understood in the context of the whole life. What seems so clearly valuable (or required or excellent) when we focus on a thin temporal slice of a life (or a single, long strand of a life) may turn out to be awful or optional or vicious when we take a larger view. And it is the life as a whole that we consider when we think about its value in relation to other things, or its value as a part of the cosmos.

… In our view, a focus on the parts of a life, or on the sum of its parts, obscures some important features of ethical inquiry. One such feature is the extent to which an agent's own estimate of the value of his life is necessarily inconclusive: others will have to judge his life as ~ Lawrence C. Becker

Whenever there is some trouble in any area of the economy, the simplest solution to many people is "Let the government fix it." Yet ... every time the government uses its money or its power to favor this group or that ... the net result is such a web of supports, subsidies, interventions and controls that it is almost impossible for a nation to find its way back into a dynamic system of really free enterprise. ~ Lawrence Fertig

Donald Trump would not lose a single voter over any report indicating that his tax plan might not work. ~ Lawrence O'Donnell

The fact is that people would rather cling when they're afraid of something to a priori beliefs than rather open their minds about it. ~ Lawrence M. Krauss

I'd been holding the dress up to myself and gazing at my reflection in the store's mirror. "Seth, this is just a party. And it's definitely not a dress Cinderella would wear."
"Then be Callierella," he said with a wink. "Or Calliepunzel and you can lock yourself in your bedroom until Kayden begs for you to let him in."
I had snorted a laugh. "Are you drunk? I mean, I know you had a margarita at lunch, but it usually takes a lot more for you to get tipsy."
"I'm not drunk," he said, snatching the dress from my hand. "I'm just trying to give you the fairy-tale you deserve."
"Life isn't a fairy-tale," I replied. But in the end, I bought the dress, kind of wishing it was. ~ Jessica Sorensen

Having achieved and accomplished love ... man ... has become himself, his tale is told. ~ D.H. Lawrence

I wanted to study to be a dental hygienist, marry a rich dentist, and hang it up. ~ Vicki Lawrence

If you wear Arab things, wear the best. Clothes are significant among the tribes, and you must wear the appropriate, and appear at ease in them. Dress like a Sherif, if they agree to it. ~ T.E. Lawrence

I would have saved them. But the lie tastes rotten on my tongue. Would anything have held William from me? Would anything have held my mother back. Anything? All bonds can be slipped, all thorns torn free. It's simply a matter of pain, and of what you're prepared to lose. ~ Mark Lawrence

Poverty is a great cutter-off and riches a great shutter-off. ~ Lawrence Durrell

Show me why your regulation of culture is needed. Show me how it does good. And until you can show me both, keep your lawyers away. ~ Lawrence Lessig

There's always male roles I want to play. I'm so annoyed when I watch movies and go, "That could have been played by a woman." ~ Jennifer Lawrence

If some folks have buried their racial prejudices, the chances are that they've got the graves marked and will have no trouble disinterring their pet hates. ~ Josephine Lawrence

The ultimate arbiter of truth is experiment, not the comfort one derives from one's a priori beliefs, nor the beauty or elegance one ascribes to one's theoretical models. ~ Lawrence M. Krauss