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  • To each there comes in their lifetime a special moment when they are figuratively tapped on the shoulder and offered the chance to do a very special thing, unique to them and fitted to their talents. What a tragedy if that moment finds them unprepared or unqualified for that which could have been their finest hour.

  • When you say "Holy Man", I immediately think of Eddie Murphy's finest hour. If it's anything comparable, I'm excited.

    Men   Thinking   Excited  
    Source: collider.com
  • There comes a special moment in everyone's life, a moment for which that person was born. That special opportunity, when he seizes it, will fulfill his mission - a mission for which he is uniquely qualified. In that moment, he will find greatness. It is his finest hour.

  • I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious.

    Vince Lombardi (2012). “What it Takes to be Number One”, Thomas Nelson Inc
  • Men's and nations' finest hour consist of those moments when extraordinary challenge is met by extraordinary response. Hence in those darkest hours, we must light our individual candles rather than vying with others to call attention to the enveloping darkness. Our indignation about injustice should lead to illumination, for if it does not, we are only adding to the despair-and the moment of gravest danger is when there is so little light that darkness seems normal!

  • I am quite sure, that if we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future.

    Time   Lost Love   Future  
    "Blood, Toil, Tears, and Sweat: The Speeches of Winston Churchill".
  • My best album is called In Search Of A Song. That was my best shot right there. My finest hour, as they say. I could listen to the whole thing all the way through. There's nothing really crammed into it.

    Song   Albums   Way  
  • 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... Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, 'This was their finest hour.'

    War   Moving   Fall  
    Hansard 18 June 1940, col. 60
  • I would say to the House, as I said to those who have joined this government: I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

    Speech in House of Commons, 13 May 1940
  • But also out here in this dreary, difficult war, I think history will record that this may have been one of Americas finest hours, because we took a difficult task and we succeeded.

    War   Thinking   History  
    Nixon, Richard M. (1971). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1969”, p.588, Best Books on
  • Appius Livius Ocella made mistakes in his whole long existence. Perhaps changing Eric was his finest hour. He created the perfect vampire. Eric's only flaw is you.

    Mistake   Long   Perfect  
    "Deadlocked". Book by Charlaine Harris, May 1, 2012.
  • To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.

    Peace   Giving Up   War  
    Remarks at White House luncheon,Washington, D.C., 26 June 1954
  • There comes into the life of every man a task for which he and he alone is uniquely suited. What a shame if that moment finds him either unwilling or unprepared for that which would become his finest hour.

    Men   Tasks   Shame  
  • We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.

    Hansard 4 June 1940, col. 796
  • What is our policy? ... to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark, lamentable catalogue of human crime.

    Hansard 13 May 1940, col. 1502
  • If I had to choose my best day ever, my finest hour, my wildest dream come true, mine would be you.

    Dream   Would Be   Hours  
    Song: Mine Would Be You, 2013
  • You ask, What is our policy? I will say; 'It is to wage war, by sea, land and air, with all our might and with all the strength that God can give us: to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark lamentable catalogue of human crime. That is our policy.' You ask, What is our aim? I can answer with one word: Victory-victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory there is no survival.

    Change   Giving Up   War  
    Hansard 13 May 1940, col. 1502
  • Everything is just make believe. They're just different versions of make believe. I love the period of this movie [The Finest Hours]. I love the '40s. I love the '50s. I love the style of the clothes. I love how the women looked. I love the dances. I love the music. I love the amber of the lights and the cars. I'm in love with all of it.

    Believe   Light   Clothes  
    "Chris Pine and Ben Foster Talk Their Finest Hours". Interview with Lynn Barker, www.kidzworld.com. January 25, 2016.
  • Getting to play the blues has been transcendant for me. I can't say if my finest hour is yet to come, you want to make a dent in this world, well I do anyway.

    Play   World   Want  
  • His finest hour lasted a minute and a half.

    "Fearless and Funny: When Comedy Was Queen" by Michael R. Drew and Robert J. Hughes, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 23, 2012.
  • [ The Finest Hours] reminded me a lot of a film I did called Unstoppable in that you have a driving thriller aspect of the film and it's not all that complicated of a story and there's a simple elegance to it. I liked that. It is also driven by a really strong romance and ordinary men doing extraordinary things. I love that.

    Strong   Simple   Men  
  • We are somehow the children of the planet, we are somehow its finest hour; we bind time, we bind the past, we anticipate the future - we are going hyper-spatial; we are claiming a whole new dimension for biology that it never claimed before. We are actually becoming a fourth-dimensional kind of creature. Our future is somehow with us, as we seem to be able to move through metamorphosis into our own imaginations - a super civilization spread throughout space and time. Our future is a mystery, our destiny is to live in the imagination.

    Children   Moving   Past  
  • The Battle of France is over. The Battle of Britain is about to begin. Upon this battle depends the future of Christian civilisation.

    "Churchill: The blood sweat and tears behind his finest hour speech" by Sam Jones, www.theguardian.com. June 17, 2010.
  • It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour.

    Change   Women   People  
    Pentimento "Theatre" (1973)
  • I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

    Speech in House of Commons, 13 May 1940
  • The judicial branch has, in its finest hours, stood firmly on the side of individuals against those who would trample their rights.

    Rights   Branches   Sides  
    U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on Judge Samuel Alito's Nomination to the Supreme Court, www.washingtonpost.com. January 9, 2006.
  • I always wanted to be commander-in-chief of my one-woman army, But I can envision the mediocrity of my finest hour.

    Army   Mediocrity   Hours  
    Song: Not So Soft
  • Things happened there that I don't think are the finest hours for anybody, whether it was a journalist, the legal system or, in that case of the political system, who would say that was an example of when Washington worked best.

  • For the faithful, our finest hours are sometimes during or just following our darkest hours.

  • We're not served by only knowing our finest hours through film or media, or in the history that we are taught. I think the only way we have a chance to not make the same mistakes again, is to historically understand the bad behavior and mistakes we've made previously.

    Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com
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