"The arc of history is longer than human vision. It bends. We abolished slavery, we granted universal suffrage. We have done hard things before. And every time it took a terrible fight between people who could not imagine changing the rules, and those who said, 'We already did. We have made the world new.' The hardest part will be to convince yourself of the possibilities, and hang on."

-- Barbara Kingsolver

#Fighting Quotes #People Quotes #Vision Quotes

“I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one.”
“A fact of modern life is that it takes women longer to get ready than men.”

Source : Jessica Savitch (1983). “Anchorwoman”, Berkley
“Christ did not die for any upon condition, if they do believe; but He died for all God's elect, that they should believe.”

Source : John Owen (1852). “The works ...”, p.235
“I feel thereâ€™s an existential angst among young people. I didnâ€™t have that. They see enormous mountains, where I only saw one little hill to climb.”
“You know why I want to win? Because of 15,000 reasons inside of the tennis court.”
“If I ever see another Shakespeare production where somebody drives a Jeep on stage, I'm going to run screaming up the aisle. These tend to be matters of design. I mean, we're seeing a lot of - it's very common to see Shakespeare with automatic weapons, things like that. They are clichés. They're new clichés, but they are clichés. And they're provincial. It's not clever to do Henry V, and have everybody dressed in United Nations soldier's costumes anymore. I've seen that one too. That kind of thing irritates me.”

Source : Source: bigthink.com
“There are certain things people always bring up with me. The accident. The drugs. And how tight my pants were.”
“I'm completely surrounded, not only my father, but also my three brothers, and Sergio, my husband, all four of them work in film. Some are writers, or directors, or cinematographers, all of them. I'm surrounded by men that make films, so much that at some point I felt there was no more room in the family for another filmmaker.For many years I was only working as novelist or writing screenplays for others to direct.”

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