Sudden Victory Period

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

    “Coming about its own business
    Till, with a sudden sharp hot stink of fox
    It enters the dark hole of the head.
    The window is starless still; the clock ticks,
    The page is printed.”
    —Ted Hughes (b. 1930)

    “In social halls a favored guest
    In years that follow victory won,
    How sweet to feel your festal fame
    In woman’s glance instinctive thrown:
    Repose is yours—your deed is known,”
    —Herman Melville (1819–1891)

    “There is a period in the history of the individual, as of the race, when the hunters are the “best men,” as the Algonquins called them.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)