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T.E. Lawrence

Seven Pillars of Wisdom

  • Maria Al Makahlehje citiralaпре 5 година
    The Beduin could not look for God within him: he was too sure that he was within God
  • Артем Гришинje citiraoпре 7 година
    Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses oftheir minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible
  • Артем Гришинje citiraoпре 7 година
    all things possible with dynamite and money
  • Артем Гришинje citiraoпре 7 година
    We had left thirty sick and wounded men in Yenbo when we marched away; also heaps of broken weapons, with two British armourer-sergeants repairing them. The sergeants, who found time hang heavily, had taken mended maxims and patients and combined them into a machine-gun company so thoroughly trained by dumb show that they were as good as the best we had.
  • Артем Гришинje citiraoпре 7 година
    I had seen a youth whose forearm had set crookedly; realizing this, he had dug into himself with a dagger till he had bared the bone, re-broken it, and set it straight; and there he lay, philosophically enduring the flies, with his left forearm huge under healing mosses and clay, waiting for it to be well.
  • Артем Гришинje citiraoпре 7 година
    She questioned me about the women of the tribe of Christians and their way of life, marvelling at my white skin, and the horrible blue eyes which looked, she said, like the sky shining through the eye-sockets of an empty skull.
  • Артем Гришинje citiraoпре 7 година
    wore his black hair in plaits down each side of his face, and kept it glossy with butter, and strong by frequent washings in camel urine
  • Артем Гришинje citiraoпре 7 година
    Some of the speed and secrecy of our victory, and its regularity, might perhaps be ascribed to this double endowment's offsetting and emphasizing the rare feature that from end to end of it there was nothing female in the Arab movement, but the camels.
  • Артем Гришинje citiraoпре 7 година
    The Arab leaders showed a completeness of instinct, a reliance upon intuition, the unperceived foreknown, which left our centrifugal minds gasping. Like women, they understood and judged quickly, effortlessly, unreasonably
  • Артем Гришинje citiraoпре 7 година
    the Arabs fought for freedom, and that was a pleasure to be tasted only by a man alive
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