Poor human nature cannot bear such strains as heavenly triumphs bring to it; there must come a reaction. Excess of joy or… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
To speak in literature with the perfect rectitude and insouciance of the movements of animals and the unimpeachable of the sentiment of… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
I believe that communism is another sad, bizarre chapter in human history whose last pages even now are being written. I believe… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Socialism is precisely the religion that must overwhelm Christianity. … In the new order, Socialism will triumph by first capturing the culture… — Antonio Gramsci Copy Share Image
We are all subject to the fates. But we must all act as if we are not, or die of despair...death will… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
There is romance, the genuine glinting stuff, in typewriters, and not merely in their development from clumsy giants into agile dwarfs, but… — J. B. Priestley Copy Share Image
In matters of philosophy and science authority has ever been the great opponent of truth. A despotic calm is usually the triumph… — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
The election of a deputy to the Legislature offers a noble and majestic spectacle comparable only to the delivery of a child.… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
The blow back from the cold war is that a weakened Russia allowed Afghanistan to become a failed state, and then all… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
Many bad golfers marry, feeling that a wife's loving solicitude may improve their game. But they are rugged, thick-skinned men, not sensitive… — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
In the end, the aggressors always destroy themselves, making way for others who know how to cooperate and get along. Life is… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
Evan Handler is a man who’s looked into the abyss and laughed. His book, It’s Only Temporary, made me laugh along with… — Lance Armstrong Copy Share Image
Propose not to a woman when she hath gotten a new frock, nor when she is puffed up with victories; when she… — Gelett Burgess Copy Share Image
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… — Binnie Kirshenbaum Copy Share Image
When God wanted to defeat sin, His ultimate weapon was the sacrifice of His own Son. On Christmas Day two thousand years… — Charles Colson Copy Share Image
To create and to annihilate material substance, cause it to aggregate in forms according to his desire, would be the supreme manifestation… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
We have scaled the heights of Mount Everest, dominated the Southeast Asian games, we have won international beauty titles, and of course… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The history of missions is the history of answered prayer. From Pentecost to the Haystack meeting in New England and from the… — Samuel Marinus Zwemer Copy Share Image
The triumph of the written word is often attained when the writer achieves union and trust with the reader, who then becomes… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
What is it that is most beautiful? - The Universe; for it is the work of God. What is most powerful? -… — Thales Copy Share Image
Age has given me what I was looking for my entire life - it gave me me. It provided me the time… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
That is the operatic problem; the singer must keep up a big head of steam while trying to appear secretive, or seductive,… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
The triumphs of the warrior are bounded by the narrow theatre of his own age; but those of a Scott or a… — William H. Prescott Copy Share Image
To triumph fully, evil needs two victories, not one. The first victory happens when an evil deed is perpetrated; the second victory,… — Miroslav Volf Copy Share Image
If we cannot sing of faith and triumph, we will sing our despair. We will be that kind of bird. There are… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Those who oppose all reform will do well to remember that ruin in its worst form is inevitable if our national life… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The great fear that hung over the business community in the 1970s was death by regulation, and the great goal of the… — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
...failure is a human condition, not victory over odds; for each Hellen Keller who triumphs, there are tens of millions who fail,… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Our rockets can find Halley's comet, and fly to Venus with amazing accuracy, but side by side with these scientific and technical… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
So it was that the war in the air began. Men rode upon the whirlwind that night and slew and fell like… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
The Washingtonian said it shouldn't be built. The gallery's East Building is now considered a triumph, and members of the American Association… — J. Carter Brown Copy Share Image
In the abstract art of cooking, ingredients trump appliances, passion supersedes expertise, creativity triumphs over technique, spontaneity inspires invention, and wine makes… — Bob Blumer Copy Share Image
The triumph can't be had without the struggle. And I know what struggle is. I have spent a lifetime trying to share… — Wilma Rudolph Copy Share Image
Freedom sees in religion the companion of its struggles and its triumphs, the cradle of its infancy, the divine source of its… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Today’s events are tomorrow’s history, yet events seen by the naked eye lack the depth and breadth of human struggles, triumphs and… — Epifanio de los Santos Copy Share Image
Sometimes it seems especially difficult to submit to "great tribulation" when we look around and see others seemingly much less obedient who… — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
A skyscraper is at the same time a triumph of the machine and a tremendous emotional experience, almost breath-taking. Not merely its… — George Gershwin Copy Share Image
Heaven's Way does not contend, yet it certainly triumphs. It does not speak, yet it certainly answers. It does not summon, yet… — Laozi Copy Share Image
Smuggle out the truth, pass it through all the obstacles that its enemies fabricate; multiply, spread by all means possible her message… — Maximilien Robespierre Copy Share Image
Hostilities exist. There is no blinking at the fact that our people, our territory and our interests are in grave danger. With… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
