Winston Quotes

Writing is an adventure. ~ Winston Churchill

America, can always be counted upon to do the right thing in the end, having first exhausted the available alternatives. ~ Winston Churchill

Instead, the room, which had seen her grow to maturity, would see her dry up and fade. The gilt mirror in the corner would bear its dispassionate testimony. All the ornaments and furnishings would be her companions through the years to come. And she realized that she would come to hate them, if she didn't already hate them, as one hates the witnesses of one's humiliation and futility. ~ Winston Graham

I think it's important for scientists to be a bit less arrogant, a bit more humble, recognising we are capable of making mistakes and being fallacious - which is increasingly serious in a society where our work may have unpredictable consequences. ~ Robert Winston

If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce. ~ Winston S. Churchill

There are two kinds of success-initial and ultimate. ~ Winston Churchill

He looks at the bathtub,
where I'm lounging like Cleo-fuck-ing-patra.
He looks at the bubbles surrounding my body
like a fluffy white clod. And then he looks at Winston.
"Dude," I blurt out. "It's not what it looks like!"
"Nope, nope, nope, I don't want to know!"
Snatches his pants off the rack. Continues backing away.
His eyes again focus on the pink dildo two inches from my hand.
I try again. "I promise you, it's not --"
"I don't want to know. ~ Elle Kennedy

Everyone is in favor of free speech. Hardly a day passes without its being extolled, but some people's idea of it is that they are free to say what they like, but if anyone else says anything back, that is an outrage. ~ Winston S. Churchill

The price of greatness is responsibilty. ~ Winston Churchill James

In late 1915 there appeared on the Western Front a German flier named Manfred von Richthofen, known as the Red Baron, after his royal title and a penchant for painting his squadron's Fokker triwing fighters red. He was a natural born killer who shot down more than eighty enemy aircraft before himself being fatally brought down by ground fire ~ Winston Groom

To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war ~ Winston S. Churchill

A love of tradition has never weakened a nation ... ~ Winston Churchill

My only consolation for the failure of the Dardanelles was that God wished things to be prolonged in order to sicken mankind of war, and that therefore He had interfered with a project that would have brought the war to a speedier conclusion. ~ Winston Churchill

When great causes are on the move in the world, stirring all men's souls, drawing them from their firesides, casting aside comfort, wealth and the pursuit of happiness in response to impulses at once awe-striking and irresistible, we learn that we are spirits, not animals. ~ Winston Churchill

Over the past 20 years, I have presented many science programmes on BBC1. But none is, I think, more socially important, or of more human interest, than this ongoing series of 'Child of Our Time.' ~ Robert Winston

They had bombed London, whether on purpose or not, and the British people and London especially should know that we could hit back. It would be good for the morale of us all. ~ Winston Churchill

Democracy means that when there's a knock in the door at 3 am, it's probably the milkman. ~ Winston Churchill

When I look round to see how we can win the war I see that there is only one sure path ... and that is absolutely devastating, exterminating attack by very heavy bombers from this country upon the Nazi homeland. We must be able to overwhelm them by this means, without which I do not see a way through. ~ Winston Churchill

People who are afraid to go to horror movies are generally afraid their whole lives. People say to me, 'Do you have nightmares?' I never have nightmares! And I go to movies and see the most bizarre things in the world, and go ... Wow that is really sick, how fun is that! And I don't have to carry it around. I think that's very healthy. ~ Stan Winston

The farther back you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see. ~ Winston Churchill

You have to run risks. There are no certainties in war. There is a precipice on either side of you - a precipice of caution and a precipice of over-daring. ~ Winston Churchill

No one can say how far Herr Hitler's empire will extend before this war is over, but I have no doubt it will pass away perhaps more swiftly than Napoleon's empire and without its glory. The British spirit and temperment, bred in freedom, will prove more enduring and resilient than the most efficient mechanical discipline.
Winston Churchill ~ Michael Tappenden

I've been all over the world on my own because, as a scientist, you travel a great deal if your work is reasonably successful or published. I get invitations to go to all sorts of strange countries where I would mostly be by myself and just meet other people there, instead of having travelling companions. ~ Robert Winston

One can usually put one's thoughts better in one's own words. ~ Winston Churchill

Enemy submarines are to be called U-Boats. The term submarine is to be reserved for Allied under water vessels. U-Boats are those dastardly villains who sink our ships, while submarines are those gallant and noble craft which sink theirs. ~ Winston S. Churchill

I just want to work with the best people I can get my hands on. ~ Jason Winston George

The Almighty in His infinite wisdom did not see fit to create Frenchmen in the image of Englishmen. ~ Winston Churchill

Success is going from one failure to the next without losing enthusiasm ~ Winston S. Churchill

Unless we establish some form of world government, it will not be possible for us to avert a World War III in the future. ~ Winston Churchill

Youth was so mercilessly hard in its decisions; it had its own unyielding standards and had not yet learned enough to know that time would prove them arbitrary. ~ Winston Graham

There was a man who sold a hyena skin while the beast still lived and who was killed in hunting it. ~ Winston Churchill

I have always noticed that whenever a radical takes to Imperialism, he catches it in a very acute form. ~ Winston Churchill

Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm. ~ Winston Churchill

Discipline is the concrete that allows you to be creative.' - Verna Gibson ~ Stephanie Winston

Achievement is not last, disappointment is not deadly: It is the mettle to proceed with that matters. ~ Winston Churchill

Watch your thoughts, they become your words. ~ Winston Churchill

Lady Nancy Astor: Winston, if you were my husband, I'd poison your tea.
Churchill: Nancy, if I were your husband, I'd drink it. ~ Winston S. Churchill

I drink a great deal. I sleep a little, and I smoke cigar after cigar. That is why I am in two-hundred-percent form. ~ Winston Churchill

How often in life must one be content with what one can get! ~ Winston Churchill

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. ~ Winston Churchill

Tenderness is not like money: the more you give to one, the more you have for others. ~ Winston Graham

Where my reason, imagination or interest were not engaged, I would not or I could not learn.
(Winston Churchill) ~ Winston S. Churchill

The soul of freedom is deathless; it cannot, and will not perish. ~ Winston Churchill

The tank was originally invented to clear a way for the infantry in the teeth of machine-gun fire. Now it is the infantry who will have to clear a way for the tanks. ~ Winston Churchill

It is with deep grief I watch the clattering down of the British Empire with all its glories and all the services it has rendered to mankind. ~ Winston Churchill

Winston was gelatinous with fatigue. ~ George Orwell

No more let us alter or falter or palter. From Malta to Yalta, and Yalta to Malta. ~ Winston Churchill

Be a peg, hammered into the frozen ground, immovable. ~ Winston S. Churchill

It isn't very pretty to have been made a fool of by one's own feelings,' he said. 'To take childish promises and build a--a castle out of them... ~ Winston Graham

Even the most eminent persons are subject to the laws of gravity. ~ Winston Churchill

The salvation of the common people of every race and of every land from war or servitude must be established on solid foundations and must be guarded by the readiness of all men and women to die rather than submit to tyranny. ~ Winston Churchill

See appendix A for a proof that Winston Churchill was a carrot. ~ Charles Seife

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. ~ Winston S. Churchill

When Jennie, mother of Winston Churchill invited playwright George Bernard Shaw to lunch, he telegraphed: "Certainly not. What have I done to provoke such an attack on my well-known habits?" She replied, "Know nothing of your habits; hope they are better than your manners." ~ Anne Sebba

Things don't happen to me. I happen to things! ~ Winston Churchill

The era of procrastination ... is coming to a close ... we are entering a period of consequences - Winston Churchill (warning about the danger of appeasement ~ Al Gore

"I have not made any arrogant, confident, boasting predictions at all. On the contrary, I have stuck hard to my "blood, toil, tears and sweat," to which I have added muddle and mismanagement, and that, to some extend I must admit, is what you have got out of it." ~ Winston Churchill

[The Balkans] produce more history than they can consume. ~ Winston Churchill

Without ships, we cannot live. ~ Winston Churchill

The longer you can look back, the farther you can look forward. ~ Winston S. Churchill

Nothing will bring American sympathy along with us so much as American blood shed in the field. ~ Winston Churchill

I think Winston Churchill is an appallingly bad politician, and always has been, that he hung onto power long after he should have done, and that his post-war administration was a disaster. ~ Malcolm Muggeridge

To be conservative at 20 is heartless and to be a liberal at 60 is plain idiocy. ~ Winston Churchill

I am reminded of the professor who, in his declining hours, was asked by his devoted pupils for his final counsel. He replied, 'Verify your quotations. ~ Winston Churchill

Most of all I want to make pop music that has something real behind it. ~ Alex Winston

A single glass of champagne imparts a feeling of exhilaration. The nerves are braced; the imagination is stirred, the wits become more nimble. ~ Winston Churchill

Winston Churchill used to say that we, Americans, try every other option before we finally do the right thing. After everything else is exhausted we eventually do the right thing and I think that's true for Congress as well. And it's important for Americans to remember that politics has always been messy. ~ Barack Obama

The arabs are a backward people who eat nothing but camel dung. ~ Winston Churchill

Winston had disliked her from the very first moment of seeing her. He knew the reason. It was because of the atmosphere of hockey−fields and cold baths and community hikes and general clean−mindedness which she managed to carry about with her. He disliked nearly all women, and especially the young and pretty ones. It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies and nosers−out of unorthodoxy. ~ George Orwell

For with primacy in power is also joined an awe inspiring accountability to the future. ~ Winston Churchill

I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks. ~ Winston Churchill

This is the sort of English up with which I will not put. ~ Winston S. Churchill

Where there is a great deal of free speech there is always a certain amount of foolish speech. ~ Winston Churchill

The head cannot take in more than the seat can endure. ~ Winston Churchill

I have to have an emergency phone number in case anything happens ~ Harry Winston

We wanted to solve robot problems and needed some vision, action, reasoning, planning, and so forth. We even used some structural learning, such as was being explored by Patrick Winston. ~ Marvin Minsky

Well, this machine is no more me than your physical brain is you. Observing your own brain in a bowl, you would not say, 'That object is me.' We are the sum of the interactions taking place within the mechanism. ~ Dan Brown

through all the monotony and the splendor of life. ~ Winston Graham

I do not know of any credible evidence that suggests Dr. Zavos can clone a human being. This seems to be yet another one of his claims to get publicity. ~ Robert Winston

You believe that reality is something objective, external, existing in its own right. You also believe that the nature of reality is self-evident. When you delude yourself into thinking that you see something, you assume that everyone else sees the same thing as you. But I tell you, Winston, that reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else. Not in the individual mind, which can make mistakes, and in any case soon perishes: only in the mind of the Paty, which is collective and immortal. ~ George Orwell

You must put your head into the lion's mouth if the performance is to be a success. ~ Winston Churchill

The only instance where five purely-negative words had had a highly positive, motivational impact are Winston Churchill's, Never, Never, Never, Never Give-up. ~ Nabil N. Jamal

Time is one thing that can never be retrieved. One may lose and regain friends. One may lose and regain money. Opportunity, once spurned, may come again. But the hours that are lost in idleness can never be brought back to be used in gainful pursuits ~ Winston Churchill

It cannot in the opinion of His Majesty's Government be classified as slavery in the extreme acceptance of the word without some risk of terminological inexactitude. ~ Winston Churchill

Some of my cousins who had the great advantage of University education used to tease me with arguments to prove that nothing has any existence except what we think of it. The whole creation is but a dream; all phenomena are imaginary. You create your own universe as you go along. The stronger your imagination, the more variegated your universe. When you leave off dreaming, the universe ceases to exist. These amusing mental acrobatics are all right to play with. They are perfectly harmless and perfectly useless. I warn my younger readers only to treat them as a game. The metaphysicians will have the last word and defy you to disprove their absurd propositions. ~ Winston S. Churchill

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. ~ Winston Churchill

Don't interrupt me while I'm interrupting. ~ Winston S. Churchill

From where Winston stood it was just possible to read, picked out on its white face in elegant lettering, the three slogans of the Party: WAR IS PEACE FREEDOM IS SLAVERY IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH. ~ George Orwell

Winston was a bit of a challenge, all right, from a lot of different perspectives. It wasn't just the culture or the class divide or the historical baggage - it was also the age difference. We had to see if I could be aged-up legitimately, without it becoming some sort of hokey acting challenge. ~ Brendan Gleeson

The most frightful of all spectacles is the strength of the civilization without its mercy. ~ Winston S. Churchill

And wherever men are fighting against barbarism, tyranny, and massacre, for freedom, law, and honour, let them remember that the fame of their deeds, even though they themselves be exterminated, may perhaps be celebrated as long as the world rolls round. ~ Winston S. Churchill

I get my exercise being a pallbearer for those of my friends who believed in regular running and calisthenics. ~ Winston Churchill

Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with it is a toy and an amusement. Then it becomes a mistress, then it becomes a master, then it becomes a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster and fling him to the public. ~ Winston S. Churchill

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind. ~ Winston S. Churchill

Cannot possibly attend first night, will attend second ... if there is one. ~ Winston Churchill

When we look back on all the perils through which we have passed ... why should we fear for our future? ~ Winston S. Churchill

War, which used to be cruel and magnificent has now become cruel and squalid. ~ Winston Churchill

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the
inherent vice of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries. ~ Winston S. Churchill

The further back I look, the further forward I can see. ~ Winston Churchill

The gift of a common tongue is a priceless inheritance and it may well some day become the foundation of a common citizenship. ~ Winston Churchill