Beside him a tiny elderly woman was leaning on a cane, studying him with curiosity. Since good manners seemed to require that… — Judith McNaught Copy Share Image
As long as humankind recklessly proceeds in the fateful delusion of being biologically fated for triumph, nothing essential will change. — Peter Wessel Zapffe 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
A long war almost always places nations in this sad alternative: that their defeat delivers them to destruction and their triumph to… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
When I left England, my hope of India's conversion was very strong; but amongst so many obstacles, it would die, unless upheld… — William Carey Copy Share Image
We all know that the great memories of our childhood are the little triumphs - it doesn't really matter whether that was… — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear. — Bertolt Brecht 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
“We’ve repeated history a few times and it seems to be getting worse before it gets better. And it will get better.… — Richie Norton Copy Share Image
A fairly clear line separated advertisement from art. ... The first effect of the triumph of the capitalist (if we allow him… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
It may help to understand human affairs to be clear that most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused,… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
God indeed tempteth no man; but yet we ask, in this petition, that he would keep and preserve us, lest the devil,… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
My feelings tried to control me on my run. I had to concentrate fully on forthcoming running and success. I wanted to… — Cathy Freeman Copy Share Image
Let judges secretly despair of justice: their verdicts will be more acute. Let generals secretly despair of triumph; killing will be defamed.… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
The great triumph of the Sixties was to dramatize just how arbitrary and constructed the seeming normality of the Fifties had been.… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
My brave fellows, let no sensation of satisfaction for the triumphs you have gained induce you to insult your fallen enemy. Let… — George Washington Copy Share Image
I think words are the thing that either triumphs for you, in your desire to communicate something, or fails. I love language… — Claudia Rankine Copy Share Image
I wish to preach not the doctrine of ignoble ease but the doctrine of the strenuous life; the life of toil and… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Isn't it better to triumph by the strength of your muscles than by the artifice of a derailleur? — Henri Desgrange Copy Share Image
I should like to be the landscape which I am contemplating, I should like this sky, this quiet water to think themselves… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
To some, the temporal triumph of the Christian community in the world is a sign of God's favor and the essential righteousness… — Peter J. Gomes Copy Share Image
