Ignacio Estanga

“I know he's a good general, but is he lucky?”
― Napoleon Bonaparte

“The Government simply cannot make up their mind or they cannot get the prime minister to make up his mind. So they go on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all powerful for impotency. And so we go on preparing more months more years precious perhaps vital for the greatness of Britain for the locusts to eat. - Speaking in the Address in Reply debate, after giving some specific instances of Germany's war preparedness”
― Winston Churchill

“If I had a formula for bypassing trouble, I wouldn't pass it around. Wouldn't be doing anybody a favor. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it. I don't say embrace trouble. That's as bad as treating it as an enemy. But I do say, meet it as a friend, for you'll see a lot of it and had better be on speaking terms with it.”
― Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

“L’amore. Certo, l’amore. Fuoco e fiamme per un anno, cenere per trenta.”
― Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, Il Gattopardo