No less a bold and pugnacious figure than Winston Churchill broke down and was unable to finish his remarks at the sendoff of the British Expeditionary Force into the maelstrom of World War I in Europe. Votes: 13
One Cardinal entered his cathedral for the first time at his funeral. Votes: 7
Revolutions produce other men, not new men. Halfway between truth and endless error, the mold of the species is permanent. That is Earth's burden. Votes: 7
If a man is a writer, everybody tiptoes around past the locked door of the breadwinner. But if you're an ordinary female housewife, people say, 'This is just something Barbara wanted to do; it's not professional.' Votes: 7
After the war, when my husband came home, we had two more children, and domesticity for a while prevailed combined with beginning the work I had always wanted to do, which was writing a book. Votes: 6
Enormity of the stakes became the new self-hypnosis. Votes: 6
In individuals as in nations, contentment is silent, which tends to unbalance the historical record. Votes: 4
No one is is sure of his premise as the man who knows too little. Votes: 4
Fate represents the fulfillment of man's expectations of himself. Votes: 4
When the children were very small, I worked in the morning only, and then gradually, as they spent full days at school, I could spend full days at work. Votes: 2
I want the reader to turn the page and keep on turning until the end. Votes: 2
If I had taken a doctoral degree, it would have stifled any writing capacity. Votes: 2
The fate of warnings in political affairs is to be futile when the recipient wishes otherwise. Votes: 2
The utility of perseverance in absurdity is more than I could ever discern. Edmund Burke Votes: 1
He had the ruthlessness of uninterrupted success. Votes: 1
He wanted AFFIRMATION rather than INFORMATION. Votes: 1
The limitation prompting folly " was an attitude of superiority so dense as to be impenetrable. Votes: 1
Vainglory, however, no matter how much medieval Christianity insisted it was a sin, is a motor of mankind, no more eradicable than sex. Votes: 1
The reality of a question is inevitably more complicated than we would like to suppose. Votes: 1