John Buchan
"Yon Sir Erchibald has poor notions o’ strawtegy."
17 Quotes
"Yon Sir Erchibald has poor notions o’ strawtegy."
"السير أرشيبالد هذا، مفاهيمه عن الاستراتيجية ركيكة."
John Buchan
"We can pay our debts to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves."
"نوفي ديون الماضي بأن نجعل المستقبل مديناً لنا."
John Buchan
"“The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.”"
"إن مهمة القيادة ليست في غرس العظمة في البشر، بل في استجلائها، فالعظمة كامنة فيهم بالفعل."
John Buchan
"To live for a time close to great minds is the best kind of education."
"إن العيش لبرهةٍ في رحاب العقول العظيمة لهو أسمى أنواع التعليم."
John Buchan
"There may be Peace without Joy, and Joy without Peace, but the two combined make Happiness."
"قد يوجد السلام دون بهجة، والبهجة دون سلام، لكنهما معًا يصنعان السعادة."
John Buchan
"The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope."
"إن سحر الصيد يكمن في كونه سعيًا وراء ما هو بعيد المنال ولكنه ممكن الإدراك، سلسلة متواصلة من الفرص المتجددة للأمل."
John Buchan
"We can pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves."
"نُسدِّد دَينَ الماضي بأن نُرهِنَ المستقبلَ لدَينٍ علينا."
John Buchan
"The true definition of a snob is one who craves for what separates men rather than for what unites them."
"إن التعريف الحقيقي للمتغطرس هو من يتوق إلى ما يفرق الناس لا إلى ما يوحدهم."
John Buchan
"An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support."
"الملحد إنسان لا يملك سندًا غيبيًا."
John Buchan
"He disliked emotion not because he felt lightly but because he felt deeply."
"كره العاطفة لا لخفة إحساسه، بل لعمق شعوره."
John Buchan
"What would you call the highest happiness' Wratislaw was asked. 'The sense of competence ' was the answer given without hesitation."
"سُئل فراتيسلاف: "ماذا تسمي أسمى درجات السعادة؟" فأجاب دون تردد: "الشعور بالكفاءة."
John Buchan
"Here were we wretched creatures of men making for each other's throats, and outraging the good earth which God had made so fair a habitation."
"وها نحن أولاء، مخلوقات بشرية بائسة، يفتك بعضنا برقاب بعض، وننتهك حرمة الأرض الطيبة التي جعلها الله مسكناً بديعاً."
John Buchan
"The secret belongs only to the Maker of good and faithful dogs."
John Buchan
"We can pay our debts to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves."
John Buchan
"When a man comes out of great danger, he is apt to be a little deaf to the call of duty."
John Buchan
"It was strange how fear had gone,now that we knew the worst and had a fighting man by our side."
John Buchan
"The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there."
John Buchan
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