One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Now comes the picture of mass defeat, the most awesome spectacle of the war. It is in the bent bodies of old… — Audie Murphy Copy Share Image
It seems to me that my lack of faith is not, as I once thought, a triumph of the rational mind, but… — Zoë Heller Copy Share Image
We always want to see people strive and see the human spirit triumph against adversity. That's what it's all about because that's… — William H. Macy Copy Share Image
The great intellectual tradition that comes down to us from the past was never interrupted or lost through such trifles as the… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Mindful of the fact you live in an agricultural country, I presume you know what an ass is. We read in the… — Richard Cushing Copy Share Image
Community connectedness is not just about warm fuzzy tales of civic triumph. In measurable and well-documented ways, social capital makes an enormous… — Robert D. Putnam Copy Share Image
“No matter who we are, where we live, what we look like, the circumstances of our birth or the situations we face;… — Charlene Costanzo Copy Share Image
It is not rifles but people who triumph, and the conclusion from all the wars is that we need better people, not… — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
The obscure only exists that it may cease to exist. In it lies the opportunity of all victory and all progress. Whether… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
Children are our crop, our fields, our earth. They are birds let loose into darkness. They are errors renewed. Still, they are… — James Salter Copy Share Image
I am not one of those who have the least anxiety about the triumph of the principles I have stood for. I… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
True love will triumph in the end—which may or may not be a lie, but if it is a lie, it's the… — John Green Copy Share Image
Hellenic science is a victory of rationalism, which appears greater, not smaller, when one is made to realize that it had been… — George Sarton Copy Share Image
Liberty begets anarchy, anarchy leads to despotism, and despotism brings about liberty once again. Millions of human beings have perished without being… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
“Make your pain productive and you can transform tragedy into triumph.” — Jaeda DeWalt Copy Share Image
The total liberation and unification of Africa under an All-African Socialist Government must be the primary objective of all Black revolutionaries throughout… — Kwame Nkrumah Copy Share Image
Most of our platitudes notwithstanding, self-deception remains the most difficult deception. The tricks that work on others count for nothing in that… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
Whenever we depart from voluntary cooperation and try to do good by using force, the bad moral value of force triumphs over… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
I do not permit affection, or lack thereof, to influence my actions. There is good, and there is evil. The good must… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
My first option is always to triumph at Real Madrid. After that, you never know what can happen. — Marco Asensio Copy Share Image
The extraordinary triumph of the cellphone among India's poor stemmed from its ability to enable a most mundane human need, which is… — Manu Joseph Copy Share Image
