"Impatience for victory guarantees defeat"

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Louis XIV

#Victory Quotes #Guarantees Quotes #Defeat Quotes

“In the theater the audience is generally riveted to a single angle of observation. The movie director, though, can rapidly shift from objective to subjective--and to any number of subjective points of view--and in so doing seem to pull the audience directly inside the frame of his picture, giving the spectator the sense of experiencing an action from the viewpoint of a participant. Identification of the viewer with the film character, then, can be much more intimate than the analogous situation in the theater.”
“Plan ahead: It wasn't raining when Noah built the ark.”
“This is a matter of freedom. If you don't have many possessions then you don't need to work all your life like a slave to sustain them, and therefore you have more time for yourself,”

Source : "Uruguay's President Mujica Shuns Wealth for Small Farm and VW Beetle", www.foxnews.com. November 15, 2012.
“Ah hell. We had more fun in a week than those weenies had in a lifetime.”
“Leave not a foot of verse, a foot of stone, A Page, a Grave, that they can call their own; But spread, my sons, your glory thin or thick, On passive paper, or on solid brick.”
“USE COMMON SENSE. If somebody offers you a thousand dollars for this book, chances are their motives are not pure. Then again, a thousand dollars is a lot of money. Take the money and run.”

Source : Pseudonymous Bosch (2012). “This Isn't What It Looks Like: The Secret Series”, p.37, Usborne Publishing Ltd
“The reality is no one knows how much it will cost us to wage war with Iraq.”

Source : "What would war with Iraq cost?" by Dana Bash, www.cnn.com. January 2, 2003.
“I might like to be an actor, but there are loads of other things I'm interested in as well, like music and writing and sports. I want to keep my options open.”

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