Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft.
Quote by Winston Churchill
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Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft.
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Winston Churchill Quotes
- We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.
- 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.
- War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.
- Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.
- 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.
- War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin, keep out of the way till you can.
- I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting.
- Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.
- In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times.
- Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.
- When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.
Best Quotes
- I always wanted to be honest with myself and to those who have had faith in me.
- The serve, I was too young and too small and... not enough powerful to have a good serve when I was young, so my forehand was always my signature shot. So I used to always run around my backhand, you know, use my forehand as much as I could, and so that's why I think it's my strength also today, you know.
- I did all the right things in so many tournaments. But like I said, sometimes in sports it just goes the other way. Maybe you've already won so much that it evens it out a bit sometimes. I don't know.
- I used to get nervous, you know if my parents would come watch. And then I would get nervous if my friends came and watched. Today it's not a problem anymore actually, because now I enjoy it. I see that they, you know, respect me immensely, and I try to put on a good show and show that I can still play very good tennis.
- When I won in 2003, never in my wildest dreams did I ever think I would win Wimbledon and have my kids seeing me lift the trophy, so this is pretty surreal. And yeah, I was almost shocked in the moment that it all came together so nicely.
- Before, I guess, mum and dad were everything, but now, in my case, I had two new girls and all of a sudden they're completely dependent on you and there's a third generation. It's a funny shift all of a sudden. You have the babies, you have yourself and then you have your parents.
- My dad said if you become a tennis professional just make sure you get into the top hundred, because you have to make a little bit of money. You make a living so you can pay your coaching and, you know, your travels.
- When you do something best in life, you don't really want to give that up - and for me it's tennis.
- When there is nothing to talk about don't force yourself to say anything because it may land you in trouble.
- It’s crazy how people say, "I rely on facts," And believe thier television sets.
- Some people are drawn naturally - there are natural guitarists, and there are natural piano players, and I think guitar implies travel, a sort of footloose gypsy existence. You grab your bag and you go to the next town.