Society ... is nothing more than the war of a thousand petty opposed interests, an eternal strife of all the vanities, which,… — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
For me, what is important is to bring the inner life of these characters - their strengths, contradictions, anguish and triumph -… — Sarita Choudhury Copy Share Image
But as Van casually directed the searchlight of backthought into that maze of the past where the mirror-lined narrow paths not only… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
We each deal with childhood in different ways. That brothers and sisters can take the same lump of clay that is childhood… — Laura Ramirez Copy Share Image
Despite everything I've achieved in my life, the culinary awards, the military commendations, the honorary degrees, I have never, ever lost sight… — Andrew Schneider Copy Share Image
Barbarianism is the natural state of mankind. Civilization is unnatural. It is the whim of circumstance. And barbarianism must ultimately triumph — Robert E. Howard Copy Share Image
Greater in battle than the man who would conquer a thousand-thousand men, is he who would conquer just one — himself. Better… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Straight lines go too quickly to appreciate the pleasures of the journey. They rush straight to their target and then die in… — Rene Crevel Copy Share Image
[I]n contrast to the common belief that they are the world's greatest cynics, the best journalists are the world's great idealists. They… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
God uses sorrowful tragedy to set the stage for surprising triumph-whether in this life or the life to come. — David Platt Copy Share Image
Faith is the final triumph over incongruity, the final assertion of the meaningfulness of existence. — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
The Democrats had long labeled the impeachment debate a distraction from the urgent business of a great nation. But the Republicans argued… — Peggy Noonan Copy Share Image
I'm always interested in people being able to share stories that allow us to see the landscape of human foibles, challenges, and… — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
Art and the triumph of the human spirit - the two combined thrill me. — Kristin Bauer van Straten Copy Share Image
But let us not too hastily triumph in the shame of Sparta, lest we aggravate our own condemnation. — Thomas Day Copy Share Image
That in order to achieve the triumph of liberty, justice and peace in the international relations of Europe, and to render civil… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
He who rejoices even at the stake triumphs not over pain but over the absence of pain where he had anticipated feeling… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The defeat of the Americans in Canada and the advantages gained by the British arms in the Jerseys, and indeed for some… — Mercy Otis Warren Copy Share Image
In Christ, troubles are turned into triumph, so in Him we look at what is coming as the times of the greatest… — Rick Joyner Copy Share Image