I was conscious of a profound sense of relief. At last I had the authority to give directions over the whole scene. 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. In The Footsteps of Churchill - Página 201de Richard Holmes - 2009 - 376 páginasVisualização parcial - Sobre este livro
| Robert Blake, William Roger Louis - 1993 - 644 páginas
...quote his later evocation of the night of 10 May 1940, when the King asked him to form a government: 'I felt as if I were walking with destiny, and that...life had been but a preparation for this hour and for this trial.' 1 One might add that his subsequent life, for all its distinction, always seemed something... | |
| J. A. Cloake - 1994 - 148 páginas
...ships, 'Winston is back'. 1940 10 May; Prime Minister and Minister of Defence. 'I felt as if I was walking with destiny and that all my past life had been but a preparation for this hour and for this trial.' Churchill, The Gathering Storm, 1948. Churchill offered the unification of Ireland... | |
| Norman Rose - 1995 - 536 páginas
...would. There is no reason to doubt that he went to sleep that night inspired by a sense of destiny. I was conscious of a profound sense of relief. At...authority to give directions over the whole scene ... all my past life had been but a preparation for this hour and for this trial ... I thought I knew... | |
| R. Crosby Kemper (III.) - 1996 - 278 páginas
...underlying belief in a providential God. When the call to him came in 1940, he later was to write: "I felt as if I were walking with destiny, and that all my past life had been a preparation for this hour and this trial." And indeed when one looks back upon the hazards and dangers... | |
| John B. Severance - 1996 - 152 páginas
...of relief," Winston wrote in The Gathering Storm, the first volume of his history of World War II. "At last I had the authority to give directions over...had been but a preparation for this hour and this trial." Three days later, Churchill told the British people, "I have nothing to offer but blood, toil,... | |
| Barbara Reardon Farnham, Barbara Farnham - 2000 - 332 páginas
...relinquish power, Churchill "was conscious of a profound sense of relief" that he now possessed it: "At last I had the authority to give directions over the whole scene."30 Such positive feelings may also help political decision-makers to shoulder the extra cognitive... | |
| Paul Ramsden - 1998 - 310 páginas
...confidently into that future. THE LEADERSHIP CHALLENGE IN THE CONTEMPORARY CONTEXT OF HIGHER EDUCATION I felt as if I were walking with destiny, and that...life had been but a preparation for this hour and for this trial. Winston Churchill on taking up the Prime Ministership, 1940 Outstanding leaders base... | |
| Hyrum W. Smith - 2000 - 264 páginas
...possibly feel that upbeat, given the circumstances? Churchill provides his own answer to that question: "At last I had the authority to give directions over...scene. I felt as if I were walking with Destiny." Have you ever felt that you had authority over the whole scene of your personal life? Have you ever... | |
| Geoffrey Best - 2001 - 412 páginas
...But I cannot conceal from the reader of this truthful account that as I went to bed at about 3 am, I was conscious of a profound sense of relief. At...life had been but a preparation for this hour and for this trial ... I thought I knew a good deal about it all, and I was sure I should not fail. Therefore,... | |
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