"There are men in the world who derive……" — Winston Churchill
"There are men in the world who derive an exaltation from the proximity of disaster and ruin, as other from success."
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Winston Churchill
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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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The pleasure we derive from the representation of the present is due, not only to the beauty it can be…
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An economy genuinely local and neighborly offers to localities a measure of security that they cannot derive from a national…
— Wendell Berry
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The unhappy derive comfort from the misfortunes of others.
— Aesop
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Those of us who believe in God and derive our sense of right and wrong and ethics from God's Word…
— Benjamin Carson
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Our works, whatever they may be, derive from our incapacity to kill or to kill ourselves.
— Emile M. Cioran
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We derive our vitality from our store of madness.
— Emile M. Cioran
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Hinduism is a living organism liable to growth and decay subject to the laws of Nature. One and indivisible at…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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A mind of the caliber of mine cannot derive its nutrient from cows.
— George Bernard Shaw
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Muhammad professed to derive from Heaven, and he has inserted in the Koran, not only a body of religious doctrines,…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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One of the great problems of philosophy, is the relationship between the realm of knowledge and the realm of values.…
— Jacques Monod
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Unless there exist peculiar institutions for the support of such inquirers, or unless the Government directly interfere, the contriver of…
— Charles Babbage
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It is quite true that many scientists, many physicists, maintain that the physical constants, the half dozen or so numbers…
— Richard Dawkins
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