There is a saying attributed to Lenin: “Nothing can happen for decades, and then decades can happen in weeks.” It wasn’t Lenin, but Scottish MP George Galloway (great name). Galloway was paraphrasing, with typical Scottish brevity, something much more roundabout and obtuse that Lenin said in 1918, after the radical changes wrought by his revolution.
Interesting lineage on this quote:
https://quoteinvestigator.com/2020/07/13/decades-weeks/
