A Quote by Winston Churchill

The vistas of possibility are only limited by the shortness of life.

Winston Churchill

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Life Limited Only Possibility Shortness Shortness Of Life Vistas

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Winston Churchill
British - Statesman
November 30, 1874 - January 24, 1965

It's a book [Bink & Gollie] about shortness and tallness, so I think it's appropriate to discuss the virtues of shortness.

Kate DiCamillo

Our time in this life is limited. And how we respect that time will create a greater possibility for fulfillment.

Ruben Papian

Never be limited by other people's limited imaginations. If you adopt their attitudes, then the possibility won't exist because you'll have already shut it out...You can hear other people's wisdom, but you've got to re-evaluate the world for yourself.

Mae Jemison

So far are we generally from thinking what we often say of the shortness of life, that at the time when it is necessarily shortest we form projects which we delay to execute, indulge such expectations as nothing but along train of events can gratify, and suffer those passions to gain upon us which are only excusable in the prime of life.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Profound insights arise only in debate, with a possibility of counterargument, only when there is a possibility of expressing not only correct ideas but also dubious ideas.

Andrei Sakharov

The thought of eternity consoles for the shortness of life.

Guillaume-Chretien de Lamoignon de Malesherbes

Our lives are about development, mutation and the possibility of change; that is almost a definition of what life is: change... If you disable change, if you effectively stop time, if you prevent the possibility of the alteration of an individual's circumstances — and that must include at least the possibility that they alter for the worse — then you don't have life after death; you just have death.

Iain Banks

Liberty is the possibility of doubting, the possibility of making a mistake, the possibility of searching and experimenting, the possibility of saying No to any authority - literary, artistic, philosophic, religious, social and even political.

Ignazio Silone

Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.

Pliny the Elder

No one who appreciates the shortness of this life and the eternality of the next can ever say, 'I'm bored'

Abu Ammaar Yasir Qadhi

The shortness of life, so often lamented, may be the best thing about it.

Arthur Schopenhauer

O gentlemen, the time of life is short! To spend that shortness basely were too long, If life did ride upon a dial's point, Still ending at the arrival of an hour.