and damned if you do not,
that was the situation that American astronaut Scott Kelly found himself in when he used some truly great quotes of one of the greatest men to have ever lived, Winston Churchill, whose quotes landed him in hot water with people
who oppose the wartime British prime minister's views on empire and race, so he apologized, and then Churchill fans attacked him for discrediting the
politician's record! the wartime leader wrote "In victory, magnanimity" in his book about World War
Two to refer to the need for winners of a conflict to show grace, Kelly added:
"I guess those days are over", these are just a few quotes that made the man so
great,
• “It is a good thing
for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.”
• “There are a terrible
lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are
true.”
• “To build may have to
be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act
of a single day.”
• “To improve is to
change, so to be perfect is to change often.”
• “The farther backward
you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.”
• “The price of
greatness is responsibility.”
• “Men occasionally
stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if
nothing ever happened.”
• “Never hold
discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.”
• “One ought never to
turn one’s back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do
that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without
flinching, you will reduce the danger by half.”
• “Personally I’m always
ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.”
• “Success is the
ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.”
• “Broadly speaking
short words are best and the old words when short, are best of all.”
• “Courage is rightly
esteemed the first of human qualities because it has been said, it is the
quality which guarantees all others.”
• “Every day you may
make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before
you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will
never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only
adds to the joy and glory of the climb.”
• “History will be kind
to me for I intend to write it.”
• “Attitude is a little
thing that makes a BIG difference.”
• “Success is not final,
failure is not fatal, it is the courage to continue that counts.”
• “If you’re going
through hell, keep going.”
• “Everyone has his day,
and some days last longer than others.”
• “You have enemies?
Good. It means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.”
for more quotes fro the great man have a look here.
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