"I believe that every man has in his soul a passion for treasure-hunting, which will often drive a coward into prodigies of valour."

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Source : John Buchan (2017). “Prester John”, p.114, BookRix

John Buchan

#Believe Quotes #Passion Quotes #Men Quotes

“Of the irrational part of the soul again one division appears to be common to all living things, and of a vegetative nature.”
“I'd get up in the morning, get ready to go to school, and I would dread it. I hated it. My mother would have the radio on. And the guy on the radio sounded like he was having so much fun. And I knew, when his program was over, he wasn't going to go to school.”
“I love New York. I've always loved New York.”
“A woman may possess the wisdom and chastity of Minerva, and we give no heed to her, if she has a plain face. What folly will not a pair of bright eyes make pardonable? What dullness may not red lips are sweet accents render pleasant? And so, with their usual sense of justice, ladies argue that because a woman is handsome, therefore she is a fool. O ladies, ladies! there are some of you who are neither handsome nor wise.”
“Only those who spread treachery, fire, and death out of hatred for the prosperity of others are undeserving of pity.”
“Every mother is like Moses. She does not enter the promised land. She prepares a world she will not see.”
“Relativism is neither a method of fighting, nor a method of creating, for both of these are uncompromising and at times even ruthless; rather, it is a method of cognition.”
“As an artist, my concern is toward the synthesizing of all the visual elements at my disposal - at the exclusion of none.”

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