#winston

It is indeed strange, given the heavy emphasis placed by chroniclers on Churchill's sheer magnitude of personality, that the ingredient of pure ambition should be so much ignored or even disallowed. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#biography #larger-than-life #personality #winston-churchill #love

Winston Churchill aroused this nation in heroic fashion to save civilisation in World War Two. We have everything we need except political will, but political will is a renewable resource. ↗

— Al Gore

#churchill #civilisation #everything #except #fashion

We wanted to solve robot problems and needed some vision, action, reasoning, planning, and so forth. We even used some structural learning, such as was being explored by Patrick Winston. ↗

— Marvin Minsky

#being #even #explored #forth #learning

I'm the American Winston Churchill. ↗

— Michael Moriarty

#churchill #i #winston #winston churchill

To paraphrase Winston Churchill, I did not take the oath I have just taken with the intention of presiding over the dissolution of the world's strongest economy. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

#did #dissolution #economy #i #intention

Winston was a bit of a challenge, all right, from a lot of different perspectives. It wasn't just the culture or the class divide or the historical baggage - it was also the age difference. We had to see if I could be aged-up legitimately, without it becoming some sort of hokey acting challenge. ↗

— Brendan Gleeson

#age #also #baggage #becoming #bit

My father was quite conscious of that distinction, too, and because he spoke very freely in private, he used to sometimes say, quite fiercely, "Now that's secret!" And then if I or somebody else looked hurt because they thought, "Well, of course I'm not going to leave the table and pick up the telephone and ring the papers." If Papa saw that we were wounded, he would say, "It isn't that I don't trust you, but I'm labeling it, I'm labeling it." That phrase passed into family history. "I'm labeling it!" Papa would say, quite merrily sometimes. ↗

— Mary Soames

#secrecy #winston-churchill #family

Winston Churchill was not entirely British. His mother was American, making Sir Winston part Iroquois Indian. ↗

— Rachel Blanchard

#british #churchill #entirely #his #indian

Now, forty years after his passing, Winston Churchill is still quoted, read, revered, and referred to as much, if not more, than when he was alive. ↗

— Mac Thornberry

#alive #churchill #forty #forty years #his

Winston Churchill would be great to have around the table. ↗

— Ian Botham

#churchill #great #table #winston #winston churchill