Triumph famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Poets by Death are conquer'd but the wit Of poets triumphs over it.
-- Abraham Cowley -
Who’s afraid of the big, bad buildings? Everyone, because there are so many things about gigantism that we just don’t know. The gamble of triumph or tragedy at this scale — and ultimately it is a gamble — demands an extraordinary payoff. The trade center towers could be the start of a new skyscraper age or the biggest tombstones in the world.
-- Ada Louise Huxtable -
Every man should have aunts. They illustrate the triumph of guess work over logic.
-- Agatha Christie -
There is an optimism which nobly anticipates the eventual triumph of great moral laws, and there is an optimism which cheerfully tolerates unworthiness.
-- Agnes Repplier -
We all bullet point our triumphs, but I am who I am because of everything you don't see on my CV. The stuff that doesn't work out teaches you how to trust your instincts and adapt.
-- Aimee Mullins -
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 -
The work of art is born of the intelligence's refusal to reason the concrete. It marks the triumph of the carnal.
-- Albert Camus -
The greatest triumphs of propoganda have been accomplished, not by doing something, but by refraining from doing. Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.
-- Aldous Huxley -
One of the great triumphs of the nineteenth century was to limit the connotation of the word "immoral" in such a way that, for practical purposes, only those were immoral who drank too much or made too copious love. Those who indulged in any or all of the other deadly sins could look down in righteous indignation on the lascivious and the gluttonous.... In the name of all lechers and boozers I most solemnly protest against the invidious distinction made to our prejudice.
-- Aldous Huxley -
Miserere is about redemption, and the triumph of our best impulses over our worst. It's also about swords, monsters, chases, ghosts, magic, [and] court intrigues. It's also really, really good.
-- Alex Bledsoe -
(The discovery of penicillin) was a triumph of accident, a fortunate occurrence which happened while I was working on a purely academic bacteriological problem.
-- Alexander Fleming -
Though triumphs were to generals only due, crowns were reserved to grace the soldiers too.
-- Alexander Pope -
A long war almost always places nations in this sad alternative: that their defeat delivers them to destruction and their triumph to despotism.
-- Alexis de Tocqueville -
It is one of the triumphs of human wit ... to conquer by humility and submissiveness ... to make oneself small in order to appear great ... such ... are often the expedients of the neurotic.
-- Alfred Adler -
Idiots have always been exploited, and this is only right. The day they cease to be, they will triumph, and the world will be lost.
-- Alfred Capus -
Perfection does not exist; to understand it is the triumph of human intelligence; to expect to possess it is the most dangerous kind of madness.
-- Alfred de Musset -
Thus the negative perception is the triumph of consciousness.
-- Alfred North Whitehead -
It's so reassuring to have a woman heroine who triumphs with more than just what she has on the outside who has more to offer the world than just a pretty picture.
-- America Ferrera -
To commit suicide is easy. To live without a god is more difficult. The drunkenness of triumph is greater than the drunkenness of sacrifice.
-- Anais Nin -
Artists are a free society's greatest advocates and its best bulwarks. Their triumphs are civilization's triumphs.
-- Andres Serrano -
Fold the worst events of your life into a narrative of triumph.
-- Andrew Solomon -
You need to take the traumas and make them part of who you've come to be, and you need to fold the worst events of your life into a narrative of triumph, evincing a better self in response to things that hurt.
-- Andrew Solomon -
Mediocrity triumphs because it presents itself as democratic and because it is dull, and so for many does not seem worth struggling against.
-- Anthony Daniels -
Mere absurdity has never prevented the triumph of bad ideas, if they accord with easily aroused fantasies of an existence freed of human limitations.
-- Anthony Daniels -
To invoke solely the weaker arguments and yet triumph is an art worth more than a hundred thousand drachmae.
-- Aristophanes -
Great triumphs of engineering genius-the locomotive, the truss bridge, the steel rail- ... are rather invention than engineering proper.
-- Arthur M. Wellington -
I saw that evil was impotent—that evil was the irrational, the blind, the anti-real—and that the only weapon of its triumph was the willingness of the good to serve it.
-- Ayn Rand -
Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.
-- B. C. Forbes -
Science is triumphant with far-ranging success, but its triumph is somehow clouded by growing difficulties in providing for the simple necessities of human life on earth.
-- Barry Commoner -
One of the chief triumphs of modern mathematics consists in having discovered what mathematics really is.
-- Bertrand Russell -
There were times in my career ... when I felt like a trapeze artist doing dangerous somersaults without a net underneath. When you execute those somersaults flawlessly, the audience feels the same sense of triumph the performer does.
-- Beverly Sills -
For anyone of a rational disposition, fashion is often nearly impossible to fathom. Throughout many periods of history – perhaps most – it can seem as if the whole impulse of fashion has been to look maximally ridiculous. If one could be maximally uncomfortable as well, the triumph was all the greater.
-- Bill Bryson -
Sin was conquered on the cross. Christ's death is the foundation of our hope, the promise of our triumph.
-- Billy Graham -
Jerusalem Maiden is a page-turning and thought-provoking novel. Extraordinary sensory detail vividly conjures another time and place; heroine Esther Kaminsky’s poignant struggle transcends time and place. The ultimate revelation here: for many women, if not most, 2011 is no different than 1911, but triumph is nonetheless possible.
-- Binnie Kirshenbaum -
It's not that Good doesn't triumph over Evil, it's that the point spread is too small.
-- Bob Thaves -
Love is a fragile, corruptible thing. And yet I have seen it evince a curious strength. It is beyond any comprehension Love is a weakness that once in a great while triumphs over strength.
-- Brent Weeks -
Every cell is a triumph of natural selection, and we’re made of trillions of cells. Within us, is a little universe.
-- Carl Sagan -
It can happen to but few philosophers, and but at distant intervals, to snatch a science, like Dalton, from the chaos of indefinite combination, and binding it in the chains of number, to exalt it to rank amongst the exact. Triumphs like these are necessarily 'few and far between.'
-- Charles Babbage -
O for a thousand tongues to sing my great Redeemer's praise, the glories of my God and King, the triumphs of his grace!
-- Charles Wesley -
Lo! He comes with clouds descending, Once for favoured sinners slain; Thousand thousand Saints attending Swell the triumph of His train.
-- Charles Wesley -
Joyful, all ye nations, rise. Join the triumph of the skies. With angelic hosts proclaim "Christ is born in Bethlehem!
-- Charles Wesley -
My work is one long triumph over my limitations.
-- Charles Willeford -
There are none so low but they have their triumphs. Small successes suffice for small souls.
-- Christian Nestell Bovee -
Is it not passing brave to be a King and ride in triumph through Persepolis?
-- Christopher Marlowe -
Generally it is our failures that civilize us. Triumph confirms us in our habits.
-- Clive James -
I am certain that, however great the hardships and the trials which loom ahead, our America will endure and the cause of human freedom will triumph.
-- Cordell Hull -
It's all about the triumph of intellect and romance over brute force and cynicism.
-- Craig Ferguson -
For a Hero cannot triumph all the time. Sometimes he will be defeated, and how he faces that defeat is a test of his character.
-- Cressida Cowell -
Sharing a triumph with someone you love is an incredible high.
-- Cynthia Weil -
True love bears all, endures all and triumphs!
-- Dada Vaswani -
Preaching to the choir actually arms the choir with arguments and elevates the choir's discourse. There's a reason the right does it and does it well and triumphs.
-- Dan Savage -
Survival is not so much about the body, but rather it is about the triumph of the human spirit.
-- Danitra Vance -
The Wombat is a Joy, a Triumph, a Delight, a Madness!
-- Dante Gabriel Rossetti -
To have a firm persuasion in our work - to feel that what we do is right for ourselves and good for the world at exactly the same time - is one of the great triumphs of human existence.
-- David Whyte -
We have known the bitterness of defeat and the exultation of triumph, and from both we have learned there can be no turning back. We must go forward to preserve in peace what we won in war.
-- Douglas MacArthur -
We tell our triumphs to the crowds, but our own hearts are the sole confidants of our sorrows.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton -
Vice-President Ford, possibly preparing for higher duties, assessed Kissinger's part in the Syrian-Israeli troop disengagement as "the great diplomatic triumph of this century or perhaps any other.
-- Edwin Newman -
We must not see any person as an abstraction. Instead, we must see in every person a universe with its own secrets, with its own treasures, with its own sources of anguish, and with some measure of triumph.
-- Elie Wiesel -
Good' did not triumph. 'Evil' did not triumph. The two resolved, destroyed each other and created new 'evils', new 'goods' which slew each other in their turn.
-- Eric Ambler -
Obamas finest speeches do not excite. They do not inform. They dont even really inspire. They elevate. . . . He is not the Word made flesh, but the triumph of word over flesh . . . Obama is, at his best, able to call us back to our highest selves.
-- Ezra Klein -
The struggle is so great that the triumph over fascism alone is worth the sacrifice of our lives.
-- Federica Montseny -
It is only after an unknown number of unrecorded labors, after a host of noble hearts have succumbed in discouragement, convinced that their cause is lost; it is only then that cause triumphs.
-- Francois Guizot -
Television is the triumph of machine over people.
-- Fred Allen -
Television is a triumph of equipment over people,
-- Fred Allen -
The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche -
[Regarding mathematics,] there are now few studies more generally recognized, for good reasons or bad, as profitable and praiseworthy. This may be true; indeed it is probable, since the sensational triumphs of Einstein, that stellar astronomy and atomic physics are the only sciences which stand higher in popular estimation.
-- G. H. Hardy -
The Hours is in fact a lovely triumph. Cunningham honors both Mrs. Dalloway and its creator with unerring sensitivity, thanks to his modesty of intention and his sovereignly affecting prose.... With his elliptical evocation of Mrs. Dalloway, he has managed to pay great but quiet tribute -- reminding us of the gorgeous, ferocious beauty of what endures.
-- Gail Caldwell -
Propose not to a woman when she hath gotten a new frock, nor when she is puffed up with victories; when she reigneth and rejoiceth in her hour of triumph, come not nigh unto her; but when she be ill or weary, when she is cast down in spirit and needeth a comforter, then be thou ready, and make thy suit.
-- Gelett Burgess -
A skyscraper is at the same time a triumph of the machine and a tremendous emotional experience, almost breath-taking. Not merely its height but its mass and proportions are the result of an emotion, as well as of calculation.
-- George Gershwin -
The die is now cast; the colonies must either submit or triumph.... we must not retreat.
-- George III -
Each day can be one of triumph if you keep up your interests.
-- George Matthew Adams -
And I believe that totalitarianism, if not fought against, could triumph again.
-- George Orwell -
the harder the conflict, the greater the triumph.
-- George Washington -
What a triumph for the advocates of despotism to find that we are incapable of governing ourselves, and that systems founded on the basis of equal liberty are merely ideal and fallacious.
-- George Washington -
My brave fellows, let no sensation of satisfaction for the triumphs you have gained induce you to insult your fallen enemy. Let no shouting, no clamorous huzzaing increase their mortification. It is sufficient for us that we witness their humiliation. Posterity will huzza for us.
-- George Washington -
Since the hour when Christ despoiled Hades, men have danced in triumph over death.
-- Gregory Thaumaturgus -
When Satan's not in the mood, virtue triumphs. Hasn't even Satan a right not to be in the mood once in a while?
-- Gunter Grass -
Thanks be unto God which always causeth us to triumph in Christ!
-- Hannah Whitall Smith -
Ive never been a big believer in ghosts or the spirit world, and for me, that was part of the point of the movie, ... What the Ghostbusters represented was the triumph of human courage and human ingenuity. People create their own monsters. Our fears come from within us, not outside.
-- Harold Ramis -
Not only were the minds of artists formed by the university; in the same mold were formed those of the art historians, the critics, the curators, and the collectors by whom their work was evaluated. With the rise of Conceptual art, the classroom announced its final triumph over the studio.
-- Harold Rosenberg -
... the human soul, beaten down, overwhelmed, faced by complete failure and ruin, can still rise up against unbearable odds and triumph.
-- Harold Russell -
Isn't it better to triumph by the strength of your muscles than by the artifice of a derailleur?
-- Henri Desgrange -
Heroism is the brilliant triumph of the soul over the flesh - over fear...Heroism is the dazzling and glorious concentration of courage.
-- Henri Frederic Amiel -
Throughout history the world has been laid waste to ensure the triumph of conceptions that are now as dead as the men that died for them.
-- Henry de Montherlant -
The storm is ended! The impartial sunLaughs down upon the battle lost and won,And crowns the triumph of the cloudy hostIn rolling lines retreating to the coast.
-- Henry Van Dyke -
Not in the clamor of the crowded street, not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -
It has been said that Poland is dead, exhausted, enslaved, but here is the proof of her life and triumph.
-- Henryk Sienkiewicz -
The first phase of American political history was characterized by the conflict between the Federalists and the Republicans, and it resulted in the complete triumph of the latter.
-- Herbert Croly -
Statistics are the triumph of the quantitative method, and the quantitative method is the victory of sterility and death.
-- Hilaire Belloc -
The election of a deputy to the Legislature offers a noble and majestic spectacle comparable only to the delivery of a child. It involves the same efforts, the same impurities, the same laceration, and the same triumph.
-- Honore de Balzac -
For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled.
-- Hunter S. Thompson -
Democracy is always, by nature and constitution, the triumph of mediocrity.
-- Indro Montanelli -
On the chessboard, if nowhere else, justice does triumph.
-- Irving Chernev -
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 -
Sometimes men pick fights just for something to do-just to feel something like the threat of harm and the possibility of triumph.
-- Jack Donovan -
I believe that Icarus was not failing as he fell, but just coming to the end of his triumph.
-- Jack Gilbert
