If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.
Quote by Winston Churchill
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If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.
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Winston Churchill Quotes
- In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.
- In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.
- Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft.
- Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
- No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered with a searching but at the same time a steady eye.
- Short words are best and the old words when short are best of all.
- All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
- It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
- I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.
- Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.
Best Quotes
- I am the woman I grew to be partly in spite of my mother, and partly because of the extraordinary love of her best friends, and my own best friends' mothers, and from surrogates, many of whom were not women at all but gay men. I have loved them my entire life, even after their passing.
- I have found little that is 'good' about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all. That is something that you cannot say aloud, or perhaps even think.
- Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.
- People see I am a mother and head of a household. Today in Chile, one-third of households are run by women. They wake up, take the children to school, go to work. To them I am hope.
- Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
- All humanity is passion without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.
- Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.
- Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.
- A good thing to remember is somebody's got it a lot worse than we do.
- We are always on the anvil by trials God is shaping us for higher things.