Triumph Quotes - Page 31

• The defeat of the Americans in Canada and the advantages gained by the British arms in the Jerseys, and indeed for some months in every other quarter, gave to the royal cause an air of triumph.

  Mercy Otis Warren

  Air, Arms, Canada

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• ... the human soul, beaten down, overwhelmed, faced by complete failure and ruin, can still rise up against unbearable odds and triumph.

  Harold Russell

  Odds, Soul, Ruins

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• Everyone has taste, yet it is more of a taboo subject than sex or money. The reason for this is simple: claims about your attitudes to or achievements in the carnal and financial arenas can be disputed only by your lover and your financial advisers, whereas by making statements about your taste you expose body and soul to terrible scrutiny. Taste is a merciless betrayer of social and cultural attitudes. Thus, while anybody will tell you as much (and perhaps more than) you want to know about their triumphs in bed and at the bank, it is taste that gets people's nerves tingling.

  Stephen Bayley

  Sex, Attitude, Simple

  Stephen Bayley (2000). “General Knowledge”, Booth-Clibborn

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• If the history of resistance to Darwinian thinking is a good measure, we can expect that long into the future, long after every triumph of human thought has been matched or surpassed by 'mere machines,' there will still be thinkers who insist that the human mind works in mysterious ways that no science can comprehend.

  Daniel Dennett

  Thinking, Long, Mind

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• Many women I know think the ideal of happiness is to be in love with a great man, or to be the wife of a great public success; to share his triumph! They forget you share the man as well!

  Ada Leverson

  Men, Thinking, Wife

  Ada Leverson (2012). “Tenterhooks”, p.130, tredition

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• The overwhelming triumph of the international multimedia conglomerate has resulted in less diversity within the field and has made it much harder for newer writers not only to break in, but to make any kind of a living while doing so.

  Alan Dean Foster

  Diversity, Fields, Kind

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• I write about the trials and triumphs of contemporary life - and often the readers see themselves between the lines of the story.

  Karen Kingsbury

  Writing, Stories, Trials

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• As Africans Americans we often think about the tragic stories associated with our lineage, but there are a lot of triumphs. Traveling helps you learn about other aspects of our history, like the story of Christ the Redeemer. It's empowering and inspiring.

  Laz Alonso

  Thinking, Empowering, Stories

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Childhood vaccines are one of the great triumphs of modern medicine. Indeed, parents whose children are vaccinated no longer have to worry about their child's death or disability from whooping cough, polio, diphtheria, hepatitis, or a host of other infections.

  Ezekiel Emanuel

  Children, Polio Vaccine, Vaccines

  "How We Can Save Over 4 Million Children" by Ezekiel Emanuel, M.D., Ph.D., www.huffingtonpost.com. October 7, 2010.

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• I've always loved writing emotionally rich, character-driven novels that explore the way people fall in love and deal with life's triumphs and tragedies. I enjoy writing the contemporary and historical books equally, though perhaps 'enjoy' is the wrong word.

  Susan Wiggs

  Falling In Love, Book, Writing

  Interview with Suzanne Fox, www.publishersweekly.com. January 28, 2002.

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• Zoroastrianism is about the opposition of good and evil. For the triumph of good, we have to make a choice. We can enlist on the side of good by prospering, making money and using our wealth to help others.

  Rohinton Mistry

  Helping Others, Evil, Choices

  "Touched with fire" by Angela Lambert, www.theguardian.com. April 26, 2002.

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• If love doesn’t triumph, it ought to. For love is the one thing we have that feels more powerful than even death; the only respite from life’s wretched absurdity. The magic of love is not that it contains all the answers, it’s that it eliminates the need for so many pressing questions. For love makes us feel like gods--and that’s what we’re really after, isn’t it?

  Jonathan Hull

  Powerful, Love Is, Magic

  Jonathan Hull (2001). “Losing Julia”, Island Books

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• Broken Horses is an artistic triumph. Beautifully written, acted and imaged, this film wraps slowly around you like a king snake and squeezes.

  James Cameron

  Horse, Kings, Snakes

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• We often read the Bible as if it were fundamentally about us: our improvement, our life, our triumph, our victory, our faith, our holiness, our godliness.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Victory, Holiness, Improvement

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• Access to goods, services & talent triumphs over ownership

  Lisa Gansky

  Talent, Ownership, Goods

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• Collective guilt is borne by what is conventionally called the scapegoat. Now the scapegoat for white society - which is based on myths of progress, civilization, liberalism, education, enlightenment, refinement - will be precisely the force that opposes the expansion and the triumph of these myths. This brutal opposing force is supplied by the Negro.

  Frantz Fanon

  Civilization, White, Guilt

  Frantz Fanon (1967). “Black Skin, White Masks”, p.194, Pluto Press

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• It is a fact of big cities that one girl's darkest how is always another's moment of shining triumph, and New York is the biggest and cruelest city of them all.

  Anna Godbersen

  Girl, New York, Cities

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• History meets romance meets suspense! Compelling, original and wildly romantic, Beatriz Williams’ prose is stunning and the plot edge-of-your-seat gripping. OVERSEAS is an absolute triumph—I loved every page.

  Tilly Bagshawe

  Romance, Plot, Suspense

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• It may well be that the world is denied miracle after miracle and triumph after triumph because we will not bring to Christ what we have and what we are. If, just as we are, we would lay ourselves on the altar of service of Jesus Christ, there is no saying what Christ could do with us and through us.

  William Barclay

  Jesus, Miracle, World

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• Our broken society is not born out of the triumph of the individual, but out of his effacement. He vanishes, she vanishes, ask them who they are and they will offer you a wallet or a child.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Children, Broken, Individual

  Jeanette Winterson (1995). “Art & Lies: A Piece for Three Voices and a Bawd”, Knopf

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• The Washingtonian said it shouldn't be built. The gallery's East Building is now considered a triumph, and members of the American Association of Architects have voted it one of the best buildings of all time.

  J. Carter Brown

  East, Association, Building

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• I'm proud of my triumphs. I've dreamed of being world champion, I've had some difficult times and they've made me value the good times.

  Sete Gibernau

  Champion, Proud, World

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• As for piracy, I love to be pirated. It is the greatest compliment an author can have. The wholesale piracy of Democracy was the single real triumph of my life. Anyone may steal what he likes from me.

  Henry Adams

  Real, Democracy, May

  Henry Adams, Ernest Samuels (1992). “Henry Adams, Selected Letters”, p.462, Harvard University Press

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• Evil can never survive, though for a time it may seem to triumph. It is only a question of our endurance and patience.

  Swami Paramananda

  Evil, Endurance, May

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• If you can win complete mastery over self, you will easily master all else. To triumph over self is the perfect victory.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Winning, Self, Discipline

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