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Sir Winston Churchill

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I read the Odyssey because it was the story of a man who returned home after being absent for more t...
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Denver is a city that will be far more defined by its future than its past.
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Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the o...
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I'm the American Winston Churchill.
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It takes a good deal of character to judge a person by his future instead of his past
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I've got more in common with a three-toed sloth than I have with Winston Churchill. There is no ...
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Winston Churchill would be great to have around the table.
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Churchill explains that having a woman in Parliament was like...
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Success in life is determined by your ability to go from failure to failure without loss of enthusia...
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Should we not be moved rather than chilled by the knowledge that he might have attained his greatnes...
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It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before
JANE AUSTEN
Twenty years old was Ahaz when he began to reign, and reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem, and did no...
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No less a bold and pugnacious figure than Winston Churchill broke down and was unable to finish his ...
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The Ruffed Padanga of Borneo and Rotherham spreads out his feathers in his courtship dance and imita...
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Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not...
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Fancy cutting down all those beautiful trees...to make pulp for those bloody newspapers, and calling...
JOHN VAILLANT
I love English. I learned it from the speeches of Winston Churchill.
MAURICE DRUON
Do not suppose, dearest Sir, that I am so short-sighted as to destroy my life by English preaching, ...
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In fact, the history of North America has been perhaps more profoundly influenced by man's inher...
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I grew up in the '40s and I heard all these great speeches, like Winston Churchill. His most famous,...
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-Sir, se lei fosse mio marito, io le avvelenerei il tè.
-Madam, se lei fosse mia moglie, io lo...
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I warn you, sir, I am more than skilled in deadly combat,” I said, hoping that was something someo...
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If man had his way, the plan of redemption would be an endless and bloody conflict. In reality, salv...
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There is a bird who by his coat,And by the hoarseness of his note,Might be supposed a crow.
WILLIAM COWPER
And she laid up his garment by her, until his lord came home.
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He should be on his third Oscar by now, and that might not be enough,
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Tell me your past, my beloved, for a man is his past, and is to be known by it.
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The fact that he had broken his oath more times than there were years intervening did not trouble hi...
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Forget grief. Only an idiot has no grief, and only a fool would forget it. What else is there in thi...
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And they did bind the breastplate by his rings unto the rings of the ephod with a lace of blue, that...
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His discontent stemmed from dislike rather than appreciation for the hardness growing in him, and th...
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I asked him on whom or what he had based his oratorical style. Churchill replied, It was an American...
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We can't live in our past, it is no more. We can't live in the future, it is yet to be formed. We ca...
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But when the pen is in his hand he has to write by itch and twitch, though certainly his itch and tw...
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What (Winston) Churchill did in wartime, Margaret Thatcher did in peacetime.
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I think the next ten years will be even more fun than the last ten years.
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You can make more friends in a month by being interested in them than in ten years by trying to get ...
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Again, I feel like the Lord has just caused it to happen; more publicity than I've ever gotten in my...
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Don’t let past failures determine what your future success will be. Walt Disney went bankrupt — ...
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The mental capacity of a person to make reasonable contracts, is the only criterion, by which to det...
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I watched the spinning stars, grateful, sad and proud, as only a man who has outlived his destiny an...
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In the past ten years, Cummings Foundation has awarded nearly 0,000 in scholarships to outstanding W...
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Her father had always said that a man could be fairly judged by the quality of his allies and that o...
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His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy.
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They took his passport away and they said it had to be held by the police.
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Burnt by egotism, one forgets the Lord from his mind
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Millard! Who's the prime minister?"

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I am convinced that our movement will be more demoralized and weakened by blind and uncritical admir...
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[Katz, defeated by Street four years ago, was cautious in his remarks Wednesday and said any] innuen...
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There are certain moments when we might wish the future were built by men of the past.
JEAN ROSTAND
There are certain moments when we might wish the future were built by men of the past.
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By perfect good karma, you shall meet the True Guru, and then the Dear Lord, by His Sweet Will, shal...
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Why does a virtuous man take delight in the landscapes? Because the din of the dusty world and the l...
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Why does a virtuous man take delight in the landscapes? Because the din of the dusty world and the l...
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Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others. -Win...
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A twenty-minute eulogy, unless composed by a) William Shakespeare, b) Winston Churchill, or c) Mark ...
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Cono felt embarrassed by the thought that he might have been just another pitiful orphan trying to t...
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Churchill for all his love of the present hour, his unquenchable appetite for new knowledge, his sen...
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We should always remember that it is by His invitation that we come to His holy house, the temple of...
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I don't want to be a cheerleader. I am not happy and I am not a leader. I'm much more similar to a d...
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Listening to him tell the story now, it was clear to Adam that Glendower was more than a historical ...
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Let the past run by and the future come by.
NELINA JUNE ORBE RILLOMA
Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
VOLTAIRE
Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers
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Since the social victim has been oppressed by society, he comes to feel that his individual life wil...
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Since the social victim has been oppressed by society, he comes to feel that his individual life wil...
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I think that perhaps the classic propagandists of the - in the Second World War was Winston Churchil...
ALEXANDER HAIG
I do here speak it before the court. I look that the Lord should deliver me by his providence.
ANNE HUTCHINSON
It was there I met my future wife, Celeste Landry, although our lives took us separate ways for many...
ERIC ALLIN CORNELL
Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of His might. Ephesians 6:10
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Could we have entered into the mind of Sir Isaac Newton, and have traced all the steps by which he p...
JOSEPH PRIESTLEY
It is by becoming increasingly complex that the self might be said to grow.
MIHALY CSIKSZENTMIHALYI
A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words.
PHILLIPS BROOKS
A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words.
PHILLIP BROOKS
Judge of a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
VOLTAIRE
She is said to be the hand-maiden of her Beloved Lord; His sweetheart surrenders to His Name.
SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB
His eyes are blazing with light, more light than all the lights in every city in the whole world, mo...
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Like Winston Churchill said, 'Never give up,' and I won't give up. It's a miracle th...
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But in his heart, he wanted to be at Camp Half-Blood. The months he'd spent there with Piper ...
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The miner that survived thus far is younger than everyone else, and his body might be more resistant...
DR. DAVID KATZ
Now, of my threescore years and ten, / Twenty will not come again.
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SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations...
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Moral of the Work. In war: resolution. In defeat: defiance. In victory: magnanimity. In peace: goodw...
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I cannot pretend to feel impartial about colors. I rejoice with the brilliant ones and am genuinely ...
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Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into an even smaller hole, with weapons singula...
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In War: Resolution. In Defeat: Defiance. In Victory: Magnanimity. In Peace: Goodwill.
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Always remember, a cat looks down on man, a dog looks up to man, but a pig will look man right in th...
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I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
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I have been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who get drunk.
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No two on earth in all things can agree. All have some daring singularity.
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Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you a...
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In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best ...
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The latest refinements of science are linked with the cruelties of the Stone Age.
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The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contrad...
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The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
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There is only one duty, only one safe course, and that is to try to be right.
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The only guide to man is his conscience; the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerit...
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An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile -- hoping it will eat him last.
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The English never draw a line without blurring it.
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Socialism is like a dream. Sooner or later you wake up to reality.
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The substance of the eminent Socialist gentlemen's speech is that making a profit is a sin. It is my...
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It is a socialist idea that making profits is a vice; I consider the real vice is making losses.
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Socialists think profits are a vice; I consider losses the real vice.
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I will not pretend that if I had to choose between communism and Nazism I would choose communism.
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No comment is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again.
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I have never accepted what many people have kindly said-namely that I inspired the nation. Their wil...
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Never give in! Never give in! Never, never, never. Never -- in anything great or small, large or pet...
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Responsibility is the price of greatness.
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When the eagles are silent the parrots begin to jabber.
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Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old.
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We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
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It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at ...
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There is no such thing as a good tax.
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A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
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Say what you have to say and first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending; sit down.
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Opening amenities are often opening inanities.
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If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use the pile driver. Hit t...
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Haven't you learned yet that I put something more than whisky into my speeches.
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Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.
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Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if not...
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It's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required.
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It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a...
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It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been...
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If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future.
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I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponen...
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I cannot pretend to feel impartial about colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones and am genuinely...
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I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is much better policy to prophesy after the event ...
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However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.
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History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
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He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
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Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you a...
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