Lawrence Oates quotes

Lawrence Oates quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“I am just going outside and I may be some time”
-- Lawrence Oates

Source : Quoted in Robert Falcon Scott, Diary, 16 - 17 Mar. 1912

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“A bona fide spiritual master, under the guidance of authorities, can turn anyone to the Vaisnava cult so that naturally he may come to the topmost position of a brahmana.”
“If a poem is each time new, then it is necessarily an act of discovery, a chance taken, a chance that may lead to fulfillment or disaster”
“While moral rules may be propounded by authority the fact that these were so propounded would not validate them.”

Source : "The Meaning of Life and Other Essays" by A.J. Ayer, ("The Meaning of Life"), 1990.
“The experience youâ€™ve had may be unwanted, may amount to nothing but damage and waste, but experience has substance, is factual, authoritative, lives on in your past and affects your present, whatever you attempt to do about it.”
“I may be wrong, but the essential illustrative nature of most documentary photography, and the worship of the object per se, in our best nature photography, is not enough to satisfy the man of today, compounded as he is of Christ, Freud, and Marx.”
“You always have to make positive choices as an actor, even when you're playing someone who may not be doing the best things.”

Source : Source: www.justjared.com
“Because Iâ€™ve had a taste and Iâ€™m not sharing. This isnâ€™t just for fun. I may be slightly addicted.”
“One never knows the ending. One has to die to know exactly what happens after death, although Catholics have their hopes.”
“I am dying. Please ... bring me a toothpick.”
“Let me go, let me go.”

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