Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, KG, OM, CH, TD, PC, DL, FRS, RAwas a British statesman who was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955. Churchill was also an officer in the British Army, a non-academic historian, a writer, and an artist. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature, and was the first person to be made an honorary citizen of the United States...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionWorld Leader
Date of Birth30 November 1874
CityWoodstock, England
The object of Parliament is to substitute argument for fisticuffs.
When you have got a thing where you want, it is a good thing to leave it where it is.
Always remember, however sure you are that you could easily win, that there would not be a war if the other man did not think he also had a chance.
A little mouse of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic. They make frantic efforts to bar our thoughts and words; they are afraid of the workings of the human mind.
Is the only lesson of history to be that mankind is unteachable?
Atlee is a very modest man. And with reason.
it so often happens that, when men are convinced that they have to die, a desire to bear themselves well and to leave life's stage with dignity conquers all other sensations.
In Critical and baffling situations, it is always best to return to first principle and simple action
Men will forgive a man anything except bad prose.
It may be that those whose work is their pleasure are those who most need the means of banishing it at intervals from their minds.
Watch your thoughts, they become your words.
A man can wear out a particular part of his mind by continually using and tiring it, just in the same way he can wear out the elbows of his coat.
We were not made by Nature to work, or even to play, from eight o'clock in the morning till midnight. We ought to break our days and our marches into two.
Painting is the same kind of problem as unfolding a long, sustained interlocked argument... It is a proposition commanded by a single unity of conception.