Winston Churchill Quotes, Men Quotes, Tasks Quotes

There comes into the life of every man a task for which he and he alone is uniquely suited. What a shame if that moment finds him either unwilling or unprepared for that which would become his finest hour.

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No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered with a searching but at the same time a steady eye.

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One time he was asked if he believed in an afterlife. After a moment's hesitation he said no, that he thought there was only "some kind of velvety cool blackness," adding then: "Of course, I admit I may be wrong. It is conceivable that I might well be reborn as a Chinese coolie. In such case I should lodge a protest."

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History unfolds itself by strange and unpredictable paths. We have little control over the future; and none at all over the past.

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More than 80 per cent of the British casualties of the Great War were English. More than 80 per cent of the taxation is paid by the English taxpayers. We are entitled to mention these facts, and to draw authority and courage from them.

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It may be that those whose work is their pleasure are those who most need the means of banishing it at intervals from their minds.

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A good speech should be like a woman's skirt: long enough to cover the subject and short enough to create interest

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Nature has not intended mankind to work from eight in the morning until midnight without that refreshment of blessed oblivion which, even if it only lasts twenty minutes, is sufficient to renew all the vital forces.

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It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right.

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Books, in all their variety, offer the human intellect the means whereby civilisation may be carried triumphantly forward.

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The Times is speechless, and takes three columns to express its speechlessness.

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Fancy cutting down all those beautiful trees...to make pulp for those bloody newspapers, and calling it civilisation.

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I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.

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If you recognize anyone it does not mean you like them.

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He has the gift of compressing the largest amount of words into the smallest amount of thoughts.

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Writing ... it begins as an amusement, then it becomes a mistress, then a master, and finally a tyrant.

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Nobody ever launched an attack without having misgivings beforehand, You ought to have misgivings before; but when the moment of action is come, the hour of misgivings is passed. It is often not possible to go backward from a course which has been adopted in war. A man must answer "Aye" or "No" to the great questions which are put, and by that decision he must be bound.

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The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

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When you are going through hell, don't stop.

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What a fool I have been!

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