D. H. Lawrence Quotes

Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable.

I am like a brick.

Our peace shall stand as firm as rocky mountains.

You can't achieve anything without getting in someone's way.

Having people jumping in front of you taking a photo can be unnerving.

Be as a tower firmly set; Shakes not its top for any blast that blows.

People are looking for stability in a shaky world. They want something they can get hold of that's firm and sure and an anchor in the midst of all of this instability in which they're living.

Mountains terrify me - they just sit about; they are so proud.

When we got to the moron who was sitting in the only path to the stairway, Adam caught my waist and lifted me over before stepping over the man himself. “Scott?” Adam said as we headed upstairs. “Yeah?” “Unless someone shoots you, skins you, and throws the results on the floor, I don’t want to see you lying in the walkway again.” “Yessir!

I fell in love with his unchanging soul.

What has happened to the dreams of the United Nations' founders? What has happened to the spirit which created the United Nations? The answer is clear: Governments got in the way of the dreams of the people.

Every good work has to face opposition, and the reaction of the opposition offered always helps the work.

When the new light which we beg for shines in upon us, there be [those] who envy and oppose, if it come not first in at their casements.

Everywhere there is craft and technique; everywhere there is artistry and form. Art itself, technique, is ponderous and clumsy, and because of its awkwardness it obstructs that inner element.

I don't feel old or young, I just am

In writing, I shall always confine myself strictly to the truth, except when it is attended with inconvenience.

They say that if the Swiss had designed these mountains they'd be rather flatter.

One always goes on as one begins.

Scientific discovery consists in the interpretation for our own convenience of a system of existence which has been made with no eye to our convenience at all.

A ship is worse than a gaol. There is, in a gaol, better air, better company, better conveniency of every kind; and a ship has the additional disadvantage of of being in danger.

A scholar is a man with his inconvenience, that, when you ask him his opinion of any matter, he must go home and look up his manuscripts to know.

Reality is a staircase going neither up nor down, we don't move; today is today, always is today.

Time steals away without any inconvenience.

Lack of compliance is hindering the investigation.