Tergiversation Quotes & Sayings

The principle of evil in Europe is the enervating spirit of Russian absolutism. — Lajos Kossuth

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It happens to all writers, all artists, they can live beyond their best work and carry on with disappointment and mediocrity. — Chloe Thurlow

Everywhere on this day, the after-war continues, as eternally as war itself, — David Finkel

I think it's incredible what you can find with just a quick trip down to your local library — Denise Hemphill

I had a feeling once about Mathematics - that I saw it all. Depth beyond depth was revealed to me - the Byss and Abyss. I saw - as one might see the transit of Venus or even the Lord Mayor's Show - a quantity passing through infinity and changing its sign from plus to minus. I saw exactly why it happened and why the tergiversation was inevitable but it was after dinner and I let it go. — Winston S. Churchill

Ages of prolonged uncertainty, while they are compatible with the highest degree of saintliness in a few, are inimical to the prosaic every-day virtues of respectable citizens. There seems no use in thrift, when tomorrow all your savings may be dissipated; no advantage in honesty, when the man towards whom you practise it is pretty sure to swindle you; no point in steadfast adherence to the cause, when no cause is important or has a chance of stable victory; no argument in favour of truthfulness, when only supple tergiversation makes the preservation of life and fortune possible. The man whose virtue has no source except a purely terrestrial prudence will in such a world, become an adventurer if he has the courage, and, if not, will seek obscurity as a timid time-server. — Bertrand Russell

To see how seriously men take things and yet how little their seriousness profits them. Their tragedy makes our mediocrity all the more terrible. — Thomas Merton

Immortal amarant, a flower which once
In paradise, fast by the tree of life,
Began to bloom; but soon for man's offence
To heaven removed, where first it grew, there grows,
And flowers aloft, shading the fount of life,
And where the river of bliss through midst of heaven
Rolls o'er elysian flowers her amber stream:
With these that never fade the spirits elect
Bind their resplendent locks. — John Milton

I had the first integrated Army band in World War II. — Dave Brubeck

I still love pop music, I still have a huge pop music collection, and I like that juxtaposition of styles. — Thighpaulsandra

The children break all my jewelry, so everything I wear is cheap - from Topshop or Dorothy Perkins. — Sally Phillips

When will world leaders learn that you can never obtain peace by using war and aggression. They must find other avenues that will lead humanity to peace. — Timothy Pina