"The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed."

-- Baron de Montesquieu

#Success Quotes #Knowing Quotes #Long Quotes

“In historical fact, all of history's despots, combined, never managed to get things done as well as this rambunctious, self-critical civilization of free and sovereign citizens, who have finally broken free of worshipping a ruling class and begun thinking for themselves. Democracy can seem frustrating and messy at times, but it delivers.”

Source : David Brin, Matthew Woodring Stover (2013). “Star Wars on Trial: Science Fiction And Fantasy Writers Debate the Most Popular Science Fiction Films of All Time”, p.48, BenBella Books, Inc.
“I was entirely wrapped up in the idea of becoming an actor. I learned how to write on the job, basically out of necessity. I always thought it'd be fun to write something, but it never was an ambition of mine, per se. I just thought, "Well, maybe I'll do it one day just for the hell of it and see if it works."”

Source : "Jacked In". Interview with David Read, www.gateworld.net. July 30, 2004.
“I am quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood. I had, as I now think vainly, flattered myself that without very much bloodshed it might be done.”

Source : John Brown (1910). “The Life and Letters of John Brown, Liberator of Kansas and Martyr of Virginia”
“New Yorkers always hate LA! I love both cities! I do love the sunshine and the beach after growing up in rainy England.”
“I think an old style of addressing environmental problems is ebbing, but the rise of the so-called conservative, political movement in this country is not a trend towards the future but a reaction to this very broad shift that we are undergoing.”
“I was the first actress in the family, and I am still the only actress in the family. I shouldn't be saying it, but it slipped out!”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I search for the realness, the real feeling of a subject, all the texture around it... I always want to see the third dimension of something... I want to come alive with the object.”

Source : "Unhaling: On God, Grace and a Perfectly Imperfect Life". Book by Elise Seyfried (p. 85), May 6, 2010.
“I heard one time that the Superman glyph is the second or third most recognizable symbol on Earth after the Christian cross.”

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