Churchillian Quotes

#1. He took a long drink, then grimaced. "I do not have a drinking problem," he announced, his voice needlessly loud. "I have a Churchillian relationship with alcohol: I can crack jokes and govern England and do anything I want to do. Except not drink.

John Green

#2. The temptation in any approaching crisis or conflict is, because people haven't got a clue what lies ahead, they're always searching into the past for some sort of pattern ... to galvanise the nation or their supporters and put themselves on a pedestal to sound Churchillian or Rooseveltian.

Antony Beevor

#3. If the British prose style is Churchillian, America is the tobacco auctioneer, the barker; Runyon, Lardner, W.W., the traveling salesman who can sell the world the Brooklyn Bridge every day, can put anything over on you and convince you that tomatoes grow at the South Pole.

Ishmael Reed

#4. It is true that despite occasional gleams of Churchillian eloquence he [Gen. Douglas MacArthur] usually spoke poorly. He was far more effective in conversations a deux. But those who dismiss him as shallow because his rhetoric was fustian err.

William Manchester

#5. You may only call me "Mrs. Darcy" ... when you are completely, and perfectly, and incandescently happy.

Jane Austen

#6. there are only a few obvious things that I notice as primarily beautiful: women, spring evenings, music at night, the sea;

F Scott Fitzgerald

#7. Every question is a door-handle.

George MacDonald

#8. I'm not about saving franchises.

LeBron James

#9. That which one can deviate from is not the true Tao.

Ken Wilber

#10. When you think about it finding the perfect partner is a bit like a game of pontoon. I mean, you get your cards and you make your decision, do you stick or twist? do you play safe and settle for 19 or do you go all out for 21 even if you might end up bust?

Mike Gayle

#11. You can make an oyster surrender its pearl," Clara says. "All you need is persistence and a sharp enough knife.

John Langan

#12. Words will never fully capture what is alive in our hearts.
It would be a shame, though, if we denied our bears their dancing.

Dinty W. Moore

#13. I make sure I make a painting - that's my job. And I cook the Sunday dinner.

Billy Childish

#14. This sweet little spot needs some TLC. Here's the deal, Soph. You admit it was me you thought about when you got dressed this evening, and I'll kiss it better.

Samanthe Beck

#15. I'm sorry that I'm both your umbrella and the rain.

Tablo

#16. People haven't always been there for me but music always has.

Taylor Swift

#17. Belief is better than anything else, and it is best when rapt - above paying its respects to anybody's doubt whatsoever.

Robert Frost