Quotes of John Buchan

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Civilization is a conspiracy. Modern life is the silent compact of comfortable folk to keep up pretences.

- John Buchan

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“ We don’t really care for things that we get easily in life. Life always needs to be served hot. ”

- Subhasis Das

“ To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best. ”

- William M. Thackery

“ To being far away from everything and everyone Stefanie Sybens, Letters from the WhatWentBefore ”

- Stefanie Sybens

“ All worries are less with wine. ”

- Amit Kalantri

“ That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed but that our power to do has increased. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ I keep thinking about this river somewhere, with the water moving really fast. And these two people in the water, trying to hold onto each other, holding on as hard as they can, but in the end it’s just too much. The current’s too strong. They’ve got to let go, drift apart. ”

- Kazuo Ishiguro

“ Don't waste your love on somebody, who doesn't value it. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Reading is life, Reading is knowledge, Reading Is Everything. ”

- Ezra Heft

“ sometimes the unknown is better for all involved ”

- Azelene Williams

“ Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened. ”

- Dr. Seuss

“ My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right. ”

- Abraham Lincoln

“ Don't be pushed by your problems;be led by your dreams. Believe in you. ”

- Vasso Charalambous

“ Remember, if you don’t do anything – if you don’t change the way your mind works and direct your subconscious mind to create the life you want – then everything stays the same, nothing changes. ”

- Steve Backley

“ Everyone's time is limited. What matters most is to focus on what matters most. ”

- Roy Bennett

“ We always see our worst selves. Our most vulnerable selves. We need someone else to get close enough to tell us we’re wrong. Someone we trust. ”

- David Levithan

“ I do love nothing in the world so well as you is not that strange? ”

- William Shakespeare

“ ?Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats. ”

- Voltaire

“ Love is always patient and kind. It is never jealous. Love is never boastful or conceited. It is never rude or selfish. It does not take offense and is not resentful. Love takes no pleasure in other people’s sins, but delights in the truth. It is always ready to excuse, to trust, to hope, and to endure whatever comes. ”

- Anonymous

“ Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure. ”

- George Edward Woodberry

“ If every life is a river, then it's little wonder that we do not even notice the changes that occur until we are far out in the darkest sea. One day you look around and nothing is familiar, not even your own face. My name once meant daughter, grandaughter, friend, sister, beloved. Now those words mean only what their letters spell out; Star in the night sky. Truth in the darkness. I have crossed over to a place where I never thought I'd be. I am someone I would have never imagined. A secret. A dream. I am this, body and soul. Burn me. Drown me. Tell me lies. I will still be who I am. ”

- Alice Hoffman

“ Perfection does not exist you can always do better and you can always grow. ”

- Les Brown

“ Don't be afraid of the shadows, that only means there's a light nearby. ”

- Evanescence

“ Tomorrow I will run more courageously, more outrageously. ”

- Talismanist Giebra

“ A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes. ”

- Robert Frost

“ Tell me then, does love make one a fool or do only fools fall in love? ”

- Orhan Pamuk