John Buchan Quotes
A falsehood, which may be pardoned if it is to save another, is black sin if used by a coward to save himself.John Buchan
Quotes to Explore
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Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me.
Carl Sandburg -
I often get mistaken for Dumbledore. One wizard is very much like another.
Ian Mckellen -
The horror genre is not my favorite. I think it's fun, there's a great place for it and I get a kick out of it, but some stuff I'm too old for. You can't just take 10 guys and stick them in a cabin and off them one at a time - I'm not vested.
Jackie Earle Haley -
The mistake of the West was to put the Sauds on the throne of Saudi Arabia and give them control of the world's oil fortune, which they then used to propagate Wahhabi Islam.
Salman Rushdie -
I freakin' hate Twitter, man. I honestly don't understand the purpose of it.
Landon Liboiron -
Doctrines provide an architecture for both Republican and Democrat presidents to carry out policies.
Malcolm Wallop
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A great sense of peace entered my body, and seemingly into every cell.
Harold E. Hughes -
I don't have a goal but I just want to work on movies that I really like.
Patricia Arquette -
It's not comfortable for me to write about my family. I'm not comfortable writing about me.
Karl Rove -
When you're bad in the NBA, you're in the lottery. When you're great in college, you get multiple lottery picks.
Larry Brown -
I feel like I've been the star of my own show for a while now. I was always putting on shows as a kid, and obviously, my household was really creative.
Mamie Gummer -
Well yes so far, I was recently in Germany and they had me do six book signings a day and that was too much so I had them cut it down to about three. It becomes taxing at times but its a lot of fun and you meet a lot of nice people.
Larry Hagman
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One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.
K. A. Applegate -
People always say that you can't please everybody. I think that's a cop-out. Why not attempt it? 'Cause think of all the people you will please if you try.
Kanye West -
Fat Joe is signed to Fat Joe. I have a distribution deal for my label. I'm independent. I'm very happy with that.
Fat Joe -
I have to be honest - I don't love guns.
Vanessa Ferlito -
The one person whom I would like to be is Meryl Streep. Even at her age, she sits alongside the younger heroines at the Oscars with her name in the nominee list, and others around her wonder whether they still stand a chance.
Rani Mukerji -
I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.
Nathan Hale
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I don't like writing with real people in mind.
Laura Wade -
There is no adequate definition for creative writing, any more than it is possible to describe pain or flavor or color.
Fannie Hurst -
I can still remember them wheeling the black and white TV sets into our classroom at school so we could watch the men landing on the Moon, and that obviously had a huge impact. I later found out those people flying Apollo were ex-military test pilots, so I decided to join the Air Force and become a test pilot.
David Mackay -
To prevent enabling oppression, we demand that black people be twice as good. To prevent verifying stereotypes, we pledge to never eat a slice a watermelon in front of white people.
Ta-Nehisi Coates -
The Christian is a [person] of joy... A gloomy Christian is a contradiction of terms, and nothing in all religious history has done Christianity more harm than its connection with black clothes and long faces.
William Barclay -
A falsehood, which may be pardoned if it is to save another, is black sin if used by a coward to save himself.
John Buchan