Sudden Victory Period

Famous quotes containing the words sudden, victory and/or period:

“Loss of freedom seldom happens overnight. Oppression doesn’t stand on the doorstep with toothbrush moustache and swastika armband—it creeps up insidiously ... step by step, and all of a sudden the unfortunate citizen realises that it is gone.”
—Baron Lane (b. 1918)

“A victory is twice itself when the achiever brings home full numbers.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“The production of obscurity in Paris compares to the production of motor cars in Detroit in the great period of American industry.”
—Ernest Gellner (b. 1925)