Quotes by T. E. Lawrence - Page 2

The Beduin of the desert, born and grown up in it, had embraced with all his sour this nakedness too harsh for volunteers, for the reason, felt but inarticulate, that there he found himself indubitably free.
T. E. Lawrence / Military Officer
Desert
Reason
Volunteer
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I had dropped one form and not taken on the other, and was become like Mohammed's coffin in our legend, with a resultant feeling of intense loneliness in life, and a contempt, not for other men, but for all they do.
T. E. Lawrence / Military Officer
Men
Loneliness
Taken
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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 re-make in the likeness of the former world they knew.
T. E. Lawrence / Military Officer
Campaigns
Former
New World
Victory
Achieved
Again
Those
Came
Old
Dawned
Likeness
Old Men
Sparing
Took
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It seemed that rebellion must have an unassailable base, something guarded not merely from attack, but from the fear of it: such a base as we had in the Red Sea Parts, the desert, or in the minds of the men we converted to our creed.
T. E. Lawrence / Military Officer
Men
Desert
Guarded
Mind
Rebellion
Red
Sea
Attack
Base
Converted
Creed
Merely
Minds
Parts
Seemed
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A skittish motorbike with a touch of blood in it is better than all the riding animals on earth, because of its logical extension of our faculties, and the hint, the provocation, to excess conferred by its honeyed untiring smoothness.
T. E. Lawrence / Military Officer
Animal
Blood
Riding
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Men have looked upon the desert as barren land, the free holding of whoever chose; but in fact each hill and valley in it had a man who was its acknowledged owner and would quickly assert the right of his family or clan to it, against aggression.
T. E. Lawrence / Military Officer
Men
Barren
Desert
Land
Acknowledged
Family Men Man
Assert
Chose
Clan
Owner
Holding
In Fact
Looked
Quickly
Valley
Whoever
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A first difficulty of the Arab movement was to say who the Arabs were. Being a manufactured people, their name had been changing in sense slowly year by year. Once it meant an Arabian. There was a country called Arabia; but this was nothing to the point.
T. E. Lawrence / Military Officer
Difficulty
Movement
Arab
Year
Meant
Slowly
Country People Name
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All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.
T. E. Lawrence / Military Officer
Death
Dream
Inspirational
Success
Dreams
Freedom
Men
Dangerous
May
Night
Open Eyes
Act
Make
Who
Those
Open
Them
Find
Possible
Day
Dreamers
Dusty
Equally
Eyes
Minds
Wake
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We 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. Lawrence / Military Officer
Beautiful
Military
Spring
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The desert Arab found no joy like the joy of voluntarily holding back. He found luxury in abnegation, renunciation, self restraint. He made nakedness of the mind as sensuous as nakedness of the body. He saved his own soul, perhaps, and without danger, but in a hard selfishness.
T. E. Lawrence / Military Officer
Danger
Desert
Joy
Luxury
Renunciation
Restraint
Saved
Selfishness
Arab
Soul Mind Body
Holding
Perhaps
Voluntarily
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The common base of all the Semitic creeds, winners or losers, was the ever present idea of world-worthlessness. Their profound reaction from matter led them to preach bareness, renunciation, poverty; and the atmosphere of this invention stifled the minds of the desert pitilessly.
T. E. Lawrence / Military Officer
Atmosphere
Common
Creeds
Desert
Invention
Poverty
Profound
Renunciation
Base
Losers
Led
Minds
Present
Preach
Reaction
Stifled
Winners
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A man who gives himself to be a possession of aliens leads a Yahoo life, having bartered his soul to a brute-master. He is not of them. He may stand against them, persuade himself of a mission, batter and twist them into something which they, of their own accord, would not have been.
T. E. Lawrence / Military Officer
Accord
Possession
Soul
Life Man Soul
Stand
Alien
Batter
Gives
Himself
Mission
Leads
Persuade
Twist
Yahoo
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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 / Military Officer
Men
Army
Military
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Arab civilizations had been of an abstract nature, moral and intellectual rather than applied; and their lack of public spirit made their excellent private qualities futile. They were fortunate in their epoch: Europe had fallen barbarous; and the memory of Greek and Latin learning was fading from men's minds.
T. E. Lawrence / Military Officer
Abstract
Epoch
Europe
Fading
Fortunate
Latin
Moral
Applied
Arab
Civilizations
Futile
Memory
Minds
Private
Qualities
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You 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 / Military Officer
Artist
Autumn
Sleep
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Yet when we achieved, and the new world dawned, the old men came out again and took our victory to remake it 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. Lawrence / Military Officer
Men
War
Winning
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Suppose we were (as we might be) an influence, an idea, a thing intangible, invulnerable, without front or back, drifting about like a gas? Armies were like plants, immobile, firm-rooted, nourished through long stems to the head. We might be a vapour, blowing where we listed Ours should be a war of detachment. We were to contain the enemy by the silent threat of a vast, unknown desert
T. E. Lawrence / Military Officer
War
Army
Ideas
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