Half a calamity is better than a whole one.

I loved you, so I drew these tides of men into my hands/and wrote my will across the sky in stars

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.

We lived always in the stretch or sag of nerves, either on the crest or in the trough of waves of feeling.

Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown! Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers.

The Beduin could not look for God within him: he was too sure that he was within God.

To me an unnecessary action, or shot, or casualty, was not only waste but sin.