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Brief File of Facts-

My name is Ally
I am fourteen years old
I’m English- and proud
Brunette, with green eyes
I’ve been a bibliophile and avid reader since forever
I’ve been a writer for about a year

Stories-

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Quotes

Churchill

From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.

It's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required.

Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.

Personally I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.

There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true.

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak, Courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

One day President Roosevelt told me that he was asking publicly for suggestions about what the war should be called. I said at once 'The Unnecessary War'.

We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.

Bessie Braddock: “Sir, you are drunk.”
Churchill: “Madam, you are ugly. In the morning, I shall be sober.”

Nancy Astor: “Sir, if you were my husband, I would give you poison.”
Churchill: “If I were your husband I would take it.”

If you are going to go through hell, keep going.

You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.

Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this island or lose the war. If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free and life of the world may move forward into broad, sunlit uplands. But if we fall, then the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science.
Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth lasts for a thousand years, men will still say, “This was their finest hour!”

Franklin Roosevelt

Are you laboring under the impression that I read these memoranda of yours? I can't even lift them.

I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.

Remember you are just an extra in everyone else's play.

Somoza may be a son of a bitch, but he's our son of a bitch.

There is nothing I love as much as a good fight.

When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck to crush him.

When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.

It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.

Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth

Stephen Fry

An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.

It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.

It only takes a room of Americans for the English and Australians to realise how much we have in common.

When you've seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists.

Albert Einstein

The secret of creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all art and science.

Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. THAT'S relativity.

If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

Example isn't another way to teach, it is the only way to teach.

Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -how passionately I hate them!

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.

Remember that you are an Englishman, and have consequently won first prize in the lottery of life

-Cecil Rhodes