Winston Churchill Quotes, Time Quotes, War Quotes

Thus, then, on the night of the tenth of May, at the outset of this mighty battle, I acquired the chief power in the State, which henceforth I wielded in ever-growing measure for five years and three months of world war, at the end of which time, all our enemies having surrendered unconditionally or being about to do so, I was immediately dismissed by the British electorate from all further conduct of their affairs.

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Grown up, and that is a terribly hard thing to do. It is much easier to skip it and go from one childhood to another.

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All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.

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What would be the use of immortality to a person who cannot use well a half an hour?

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If you are killing time, it's not murder. It's suicide.

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Time travels in divers paces with divers persons.

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Day, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent.

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Time's the king of men; he's both their parent, and he is their grave, and gives them what he will, not what they crave.

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With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.

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Cities and Thrones and Powers Stand in Time's eye, Almost as long as flowers, Which daily die

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O mighty-mouthed inventor of harmonies, O skilled to sing of Time or Eternity, God-gifted organ-voice of England, Milton, a name to resound for ages.

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Fare forward, travellers! not escaping from the past Into different lives, or into any future; You are not the same people who left that station Or who will arrive at any terminus, While the narrowing rails slide together behind you.

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In the old times men carried out their rights for themselves as they lived, but nowadays every baby seems born with a social manifesto in its mouth much bigger than itself.

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On a fair prospect some have looked, And felt, as I have heard them say, As if the moving time had been A thing as steadfast as the scene On which they gazed themselves away.

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Time has laid his hand Upon my heart, gently, not smiting it, But as a harper lays his open palm Upon his harp, to deaden its vibrations.

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I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.

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It is not open to the cool bystander . . . to set himself up as an impartial judge of events which would never have occurred had he outstretched a helping hand in time.

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Your lordship, though not clean past your youth, have yet some smack of age in you, some relish of the saltiness of time.

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A world in which time is absolute is a world of consolation. For while the movements of people are unpredictable, the movement of time is predictable. While people can be doubted, time cannot be doubted. While people brood, time skips ahead without looking back.

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Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.

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