"The era of procrastination, of half-measures, of soothing……" — Winston Churchill
"The era of procrastination, of half-measures, of soothing and baffling expedients, of delays is coming to its close. In its place we are entering a period of consequences."
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1,057 Quotes by Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill has 1,057 quotes on this site.
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Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
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Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the…
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You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
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Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
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I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.
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The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
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A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
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Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and…
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A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
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The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
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Never, never, never give up.
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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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Baffling late-life discovery: Golfers wear those awful clothes on purpose.
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The northern ocean is beautiful, ... and beautiful the delicate intricacy of the snowflake before it melts and perishes, but…
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A good title should be like a good metaphor. It should intrigue without being too baffling or too obvious.
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...Nature-the word that stands for the baffling mysteries of the Universe. Steadily, unflinchingly, we strive to pierce the inmost heart…
— William Crookes
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When things are baffling they usually don't unbaffle themselves.There's just, you know, a certain amount of baffling stuff that always,…
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The power of mistakes enables us to reframe creative blocks and turn them around...The troublesome parts of our work, the…
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Increasingly, people seem to misinterpret complexity as sophistication, which is baffling -- the incomprehensible should cause suspicion rather than admiration.
— Niklaus Wirth
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Consciousness poses the most baffling problems in the science of the mind. There is nothing that we know more intimately…
— David Chalmers
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Early youth is a baffling time
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But alas, the most terrifying aspect of the whole fascist episode is the dark fact that most of its poisons…
— John T. Flynn
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It is baffling, I must say, that in our modern world we have such blind trust in science and technology…
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