(59 quotes found)
“I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.”
Winston Churchill
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
“I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the ordeal of meeting me is another matter.”
“A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.”
“Churchill wrote his own speeches. When a leader does that, he becomes emotionally invested with his utterances. If Churchill had had a speech writer in 1940, Britain would be speaking German today.”
James C. Humes
“However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.”
“I grew up in the '40s and I heard all these great speeches, like Winston Churchill. His most famous, or infamous commencement exercise speech was one that consisted of seven words. He stood before this graduating class and said: "Never, never, never, never give up."”
Johnny Cash
“A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.”
“It would be inaccurate to say that Churchill and I conversed. Like Gladstone speaking to Victoria, he addressed me as though I were a one-man House of Commons. It was superb.”
William Manchester
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