Give me the comma of imperfect striving, thus to find zest in the immediate living. Ever the reaching but never the gaining, ever the climbing but never the attaining of the mountain top.


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Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next...
WINSTON CHURCHILL
A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, ...
WINSTON CHURCHILL
To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.
WINSTON CHURCHILL
True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting informat...
WINSTON CHURCHILL
Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.
WINSTON CHURCHILL
We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.
WINSTON CHURCHILL
Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.
WINSTON CHURCHILL
I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is a...
WINSTON CHURCHILL
Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the...
WINSTON CHURCHILL
You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else.
WINSTON CHURCHILL
This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.
WINSTON CHURCHILL
If you're going through hell, keep going.
WINSTON CHURCHILL
Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it.
WINSTON CHURCHILL
It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look further than you can see.
WINSTON CHURCHILL
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
WINSTON CHURCHILL
If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.
WINSTON CHURCHILL
In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always fo...
WINSTON CHURCHILL
It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is neces...
WINSTON CHURCHILL
You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
WINSTON CHURCHILL
Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.
WINSTON CHURCHILL
The price of greatness is responsibility.
WINSTON CHURCHILL
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor...
WINSTON CHURCHILL
Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft.
WINSTON CHURCHILL
Growing up, I never listened to English music. I was more into Motown, as well as early rock n' ...
ALEX WINSTON
Childhood is not dead. Children were worse off when we were hunter-gatherers; they were threatened i...
ROBERT WINSTON
In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best ...
WINSTON CHURCHILL
Women of child-bearing age steadily run out of eggs by the continuous process of cell death. While r...
ROBERT WINSTON
I don't smoke and don't drink. Never did.
ARTHUR WINSTON
It wasn't heavy work, that's the main thing. It's fast but not heavy, and I don't mind the work, so ...
ARTHUR WINSTON
I'm kind of nervous about leaving the job, I've been doing it for so long.
ARTHUR WINSTON
I'm kind of nervous about leaving the job, I've been doing it for so long. I'm going to miss my crew...
ARTHUR WINSTON
Carbon dioxide is unusual because it doesn't go through the usual three phases of matter, from s...
ROBERT WINSTON