Contempt is the only way to triumph over calumny. — Francoise d'Aubigne, Marquise de Maintenon Copy Share Image
I was born, so that the whole world could be a spectatorOf my triumph or my doom. — Mikhail Lermontov Copy Share Image
Wars are fought for the benefit of oligarchs, triumphs bought with the blood of peons. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Religion is the resolute following of the star of hope through triumphs and tragedies of time. — Eustace Haydon Copy Share Image
Our examples of enduring hardship are often more powerful than our stories of success and triumph. — Mark Dever Copy Share Image
It is a fact of big cities that one girl's darkest how is always another's moment of shining triumph, and New York… — Anna Godbersen Copy Share Image
For what are the triumphs of war, planned by ambition, executed by violence, and consummated by devastation? The means are the sacrifice… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
People rise out of the ashes because, at some point, they are invested with a belief in the possibility of triumph over… — Robert Downey, Jr Copy Share Image
To commit suicide is easy. To live without a god is more difficult. The drunkenness of triumph is greater than the drunkenness… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Every great and commanding movement in the annals of the world is due to the triumph of enthusiasm. Nothing great was ever… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Statistics are the triumph of the quantitative method, and the quantitative method is the victory of sterility and death. — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
A style does not go out of style as long as it adapts itself to its period. When there is an incompatibility… — Coco Chanel Copy Share Image
This had been real: real in its flaws and uncertainties, real in its small triumphs, real in its compromises and understanding. — Juliet Marillier Copy Share Image
The Middle Ages were an era of mysticism, ruled by blind faith and blind obedience to the dogma that faith is superior… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Sadly, a prize for peace is a rarity in this world. Most nations have monuments or memorials to war, bronze salutations to… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
“The Dark Cloud Is the incompetence of a bastard that thinks they’re above the law Is the crude behavior of someone who… — Aida Mandic Copy Share Image
...for thousands of years human history has been a magnificently futile conflict, a wonderfully staged panorama of triumphs and tragedies based on… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting; in the trying, not… — Zig Ziglar Copy Share Image
It is the triumph of civilization that at last communities have obtained such a mastery over natural laws that they drive and… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
A villain must be a thing of power, handled with delicacy and grace. He must be wicked enough to excite our aversion,… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
What could you do better for your children and your children's children than to record the story of your life, your triumphs… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
The triumph of the Romans was indeed sullied by their treatment of the captive king, whom they hung on a gibbet without… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
On the whole, we think that the greatest victories are yet to be won, the greatest deeds yet to be done, and… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I cannot love evergreens - they are the misanthropes of nature. To them the spring brings no promise, the autumn no decline;… — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
I began dividing life in absolutes... Things and people were either perfectly bad, or perfectly good, and when life didn't obey this… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Separate from the other unnamed billions who walk the earth, each of these little groups of three or five or twelve, brought… — Belva Plain Copy Share Image
Any piece of knowledge which the pupil has himself acquired- any problem which he has himself solved, becomes, by virtue of the… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
He examined the chess problem and set out the pieces. It was a tricky ending, involving a couple of knights. 'White to… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
O! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand Between their loved home and the war's desolation! Blest with victory and peace,… — Francis Scott Key Copy Share Image