"Defeat may be victory in disguise."

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Source : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow “The Complete Poems of Longfellow”, Library of Alexandria

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#Victory Quotes #May Quotes #Defeat Quotes

“Unfortunately, on May 2, 2011, we killed bin Laden, but we didn't kill his message. His message lives.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“Claude Rains was what we call an actor's actor. He was very involved with himself and his performance.”
“They put their feelers out for all the names and then they'll cast you up to the point a name steps up, and then it doesn't matter how much they love you, there's a certain marketing value on that name, and there you go.”
“Life is made up of danger and heartbreak, I laugh in the face of both!”

Source : William Joyce, Laura Geringer (2011). “Nicholas St. North and the Battle of the Nightmare King”, p.73, Simon and Schuster
“I love Japan, and Tokyo is my favorite city.”
“No one can feel more gratefully the charm of noble scenery, or the refreshment of escape into the unspoiled solitudes of nature, than the laborer at some close in-door employment.”
“Once you teach people to say what they do not understand, it is easy enough to get them to say anything you like.”
“... because real thoughts come from outside and travel with us like the noodle soup we take to work; in other words, inquisitors burn books in vain. If a book has anything to say, it burns with a quiet laugh, because any book worth its salt points up and out of itself.”

Source : Bohumil Hrabal (1992). “Too Loud a Solitude”, p.4, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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