I felt as if I were walking with destiny, and that all my past life had been but a preparation for this hour and for this trial... I thought I knew a good deal about it all, I was sure I should not fail.
Winston S. ChurchillTags: inspirational
Writing a long and substantial book is like having a friend and companion at your side, to whom you can always turn for comfort and amusement, and whose society becomes more attractive as a new and widening field of interest is lighted in the mind.
Winston S. ChurchillTags: inspirational books writing
To each there comes in their lifetime a special moment when they are figuratively tapped on the shoulder and offered the chance to do a very special thing, unique to them and fitted to their talents. What a tragedy if that moment finds them unprepared or unqualified for that which could have been their finest hour.
Winston S. ChurchillTags: life inspirational success
There is nothing more exhilarating than to be shot at with no result.
Winston S. ChurchillDoubts [can] be swept away only by deeds.
Winston S. ChurchillThe farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston S. ChurchillTags: history
How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. The effects are apparent in many countries. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live. A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its dignity and sanctity. The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property – either as a child, a wife, or a concubine – must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men. Thousands become the brave and loyal soldiers of the faith: all know how to die but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science, the science against which it had vainly struggled, the civilisation of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilisation of ancient Rome.
Winston S. ChurchillTags: science power africa death civilization apathy grace brave curse rome influence islam mohammed the-prophet ancient-rome slavery development europe commerce dignity agriculture central-africa concubine faith-of-islam fanatical hydrophobia insecurity militant militant-faith mohammedan mohammedanism muslims paralysis property proselytizing religious-fanaticism retrograde sharia-law
The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.
Winston S. ChurchillTags: double-talk
This paper, by its very length, defends itself from ever being read.
Winston S. ChurchillTags: humor
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
Winston S. ChurchillTags: truth
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