Opening Shot

Famous quotes containing the words opening and/or shot:

“The appetite for power, even for universal power, is only insane when there is no possibility of indulging it; a man who sees the possibility opening before him and does not try to grasp it, even at the risk of destroying himself and his country, is either a saint or a mediocrity.”
—Simone Weil (1909–1943)

“Don’t sell the bearskin until you have shot the bear.”
—Swedish proverb, trans. by Verne Moberg.