"Hold on; hold fast; hold out. Patience is genius."

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Source : "New Cyclopædia of Illustrations". Book by Elon Foster, 1870.

Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

#Genius Quotes #Hold Fast Quotes

“Fatigue is here, in my body, in my legs and eyes. That is what gets you in the end. Faith is only a word, embroidered.”
“The misery in war-torn Afghanistan is reminiscent of images from the Thirty Years' War”
“In every country where independence has taken the place of liberty, the first desire of a manly heart is to possess a weapon which at once renders him capable of defence or attack, and, by rendering its owner fearsome, makes him feared.”
“When I made my first film, I think the thing was probably helped me the most was that it was such an unusual thing to do in the early 50s for someone who actually go and make a film. People thought it was impossible. It really is terribly easy. All anybody needs is a camera, a tape recorder, and some imagination.”
“Time will tell us what we did and didn't do.”
“Dreams are like commercials, but her dreams are picture perfect...”

Source : Song: Bubble Toes, Album: Brushfire Fairytales
“I don't understand why James Bond has to be a man all the time. When Pierce Brosnan retires, why not one of us?”
“Loving people, and allowing yourself to be loved, was only worth the risk if the odds were in your favor, but they quite clearly weren't. There were about seventy-nine squillion people in the world, and if you were very lucky, you would end up being loved by fifteen or twenty of them. So how smart did you have to be to work out that it just wasn't worth the risk?”

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