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Boris Johnson Quotes

Total quotes: 8
“There are no disasters, only opportunities. And, indeed, opportunities for fresh disasters.”
— Boris Johnson, Boris Johnson's top 50 quotes
Tagged: Bounce Back, Disasters, opportunities
“Churchill's greatest intellectual gift was for picking on essentials and concentrating on them.”
— Jock Colville, Boris Johnson, The Churchill Factor
Tagged: Life
“When Winston was born lots of fairies swooped down on his cradle with gifts–imagination, eloquence, industry, ability–and then came a fairy who said 'No one person has a right to so many gifts,' picked him up and gave him such a shake and twist that with all these gifts he was denied judgment and wisdom.”
— Stanley Baldwin, Boris Johnson, The Churchill Factor
Tagged: Life
“'Mr. Churchill sir, to what do you attribute your success in life?'

Without pause of hesitation, he replied: 'Conservation of energy. Never stand up when you can sit down, and never sit down when you can life down.'

And then he got into his limo.”
— Boris Johnson, The Churchill Factor: How One Man Made History
Tagged: Life
“Nature is merciful and does not try her children, man or beast, beyond their compass. It is only when the cruelty of man intervenes that hellish torments appear. For the rest, live dangerously, take things as they come. Fear naught, all will be well.”
— Boris Johnson, The Churchill Factor
Tagged: Life
“None holds more lessons, especially for youth: How to use a difficult childhood. How to seize eagerly on all opportunities, physical, moral, and intellectual. How to dare greatly, to reinforce success, and to put the inevitable failures behind you. And how, while pursuing vaulting ambition with energy and relish, to cultivate also friendship, generosity, compassion, and decency.”
— Boris Johnson, The Churchill Factor
Tagged: Life
“The more the EU does, the less room there is for national decision-making. Sometimes these EU rules sound simply ludicrous, like the rule that you can’t recycle a teabag, or that children under eight cannot blow up balloons, or the limits on the power of vacuum cleaners. Sometimes they can be truly infuriating – like the time I discovered, in 2013, that there was nothing we could do to bring in better-designed cab windows for trucks, to stop cyclists being crushed. It had to be done at a European level, and the French were opposed.”
— Boris Johnson, There is only one way to get the change we want – vote to leave the EU
Tagged: European Union, Central Control, Universalism, Brexit, Stop Difference
“There is only one way to get the change we need, and that is to vote to go, because all EU history shows that they only really listen to a population when it says No... It is time to seek a new relationship, in which we manage to extricate ourselves from most of the supranational elements. We will hear a lot in the coming weeks about the risks of this option; the risk to the economy, the risk to the City of London, and so on; and though those risks cannot be entirely dismissed, I think they are likely to be exaggerated. We have heard this kind of thing before, about the decision to opt out of the euro, and the very opposite turned out to be the case.”
— Boris Johnson, There is only one way to get the change we want – vote to leave the EU
Tagged: European Union, Central Control, The Future of The European Union, London, The Euro
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