John Buchan Quotes

We none of us know our ancestors beyond a little way. We all of us may have kings' blood in our veins.

John Buchan

• May

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• You don't have to fear defeat if you believe it may reveal powers that you didn't know you possessed.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Believe
  • May
  • Fear

• I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.

  

  e. e. cummings
  • May
  • Said
  • Living

• My dad grew up with an avocado tree in his backyard. My entire family, my wife and daughters, they love avocado. I may well be allergic. It makes me physically sick.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Up
  • Family
  • Love

• The world may be driven by the same ancient impulses. We will continue to see human struggles and successes. We will witness human glory and tragedies.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • World
  • May
  • Human

• Be kind to one another. You may need each other when you are older.

  

  Patricia Polacco
  • May
  • You
  • Need

• I think there are telegrams that may or may not be available, which indicated that I very much had in mind the need to give Europe substantial aid after the war, after Lend-Lease was over.

  

  W. Averell Harriman
  • Mind
  • May
  • War

• Ben Franklin may have discovered electricity- but it is the man who invented the meter who made the money.

  

  Earl Warren
  • Money
  • May
  • Man

• The man who can keep a secret may be wise, but he is not half as wise as the man with no secrets to keep.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • May
  • Man
  • Wise

• When I was young in L.A. and I couldn't get into clubs or restaurants, I would call imitating celebrities and get a table, and it would work often. I was either Stallone or Mickey Rourke: 'This is Sly. I may be late, but my buddy Hank will be there early.'

  

  Hank Azaria
  • Work
  • May
  • Table

• A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Real
  • Trying
  • May

• Benjamin Franklin may have discovered electricity, but it was the man who invented the meter who made the money.

  

  Earl Wilson
  • Money
  • May
  • Man

• I'm sure that was the right step, even though, formally speaking, it may seem disadvantageous for a president to resign. But, looking into what is happening today and what is going to happen in the future, I think history will show I made the right decision.

  

  Eduard Shevardnadze
  • May
  • History
  • Today

• Someday we may have as many followers as the harpsichord.

  

  Eddie Condon
  • May
  • Many
  • Someday

• New York may be the city that never sleeps, but Shanghai doesn't even sit down, and not just because there is no room.

  

  Patricia Marx
  • May
  • City
  • New

• If you think about racing too much you may just lose it a little bit.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • May
  • Think
  • Lose

• Whaling was the oil business of its day.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • Business
  • Day
  • Oil

• Orwell wasn't right about where society was in 1984. We haven't turned into that sort of surveillance society. But that may be, at least in small part, because of his book. The notion that ubiquitous surveillance and state manipulation of the media is evil is deeply engrained in us.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • May
  • Book
  • Society

• That the powers of labour, and of the other instruments which produce wealth, may be indefinitely increased by using their products as the means of further production.

  

  Nassau William Senior
  • May
  • Wealth
  • Products

• A family may be ruined by extravagance, but it is not always through ruin that the representatives in a family are to be found in humble or comparatively humble circumstances, but that the junior members of a gentle family went into trade.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Family
  • May
  • Humble

• If a nation's security is only as strong as its weakest link, then America may be in serious trouble. Hawaii may be our weakest link and could have a serious impact on our nation's immigration policy.

  

  Joe Arpaio
  • May
  • America
  • Strong

• Many high school students are under so much competitive pressure. They are sometimes taught that if they don't have a 4.0 GPA, score in the 99th percentile on admissions tests, and demonstrate leadership in sports and participate in clubs, they won't get into college anywhere. Even highly credentialed professionals get caught up in this.

  

  Elizabeth Thornton
  • Up
  • School
  • High

• The real scares on CNN, etc. and the scares in a movie, like 'The Purge,' are totally different. One of the ways you can tell when someone, whether it's a film maker or executive or producer, wants to make a scary movie but doesn't understand that distinction is they'll want to recreate too much of what's on TV.

  

  Jason Blum
  • Different
  • Real
  • Movie

• Everyone's had an interesting life. Unless they're interested in business or something.

  

  Leonora Carrington
  • Life
  • Business
  • Interesting

• We none of us know our ancestors beyond a little way. We all of us may have kings' blood in our veins.

  

  John Buchan
  • May