There's no point in killing an opponent... There's no triumph over a corpse, but a beaten opponent, who will remain beaten every… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I asked the head musician if I could go onstage during the next break and he said sure. I got two laughs… — Emo Philips Copy Share Image
I do not regard the Keynesian revolution as a great intellectual triumph. On the contrary, it was a tragedy because it came… — Joan Robinson Copy Share Image
A failure often does not have to be a failure at all. However, you have to be ready for it-will you admit… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
We salute our veterans of Pearl Harbor and World War II, whose sacrifices saved democracy during a dark hour. In their memory,… — George W. Bush 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
The People's democratic dictatorship needs the leadership of the working class. For it is only the working class that is most far-sighted,… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
If you look at things as they are, there does not seem to be a code either of man or of God… — Khushwant Singh Copy Share Image
The International Criminal Court, like most international institutions, is a wonderful idea. A noble idea. All it needs to work is planetary… — James Lileks Copy Share Image
There is a deeper pleasure in following truth to the scaffold or the cross, than in joining the multitudinous retinue, and mingling… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
Modern man is conditioned to expect instant gratification, but any success or triumph realized quickly, with only marginal effort, is necessarily shallow.… — Mark Twight Copy Share Image
Then we shall... be able to take part in the discussion of the question of why it is that we and the… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
America, 5 years after this brutal attack, is testament that a Nation conceived in liberty and equality will endure. It is a… — Nick Rahall Copy Share Image
Hark the herald angels sing 'Glory to the newborn King! Peace on earth and mercy mild God and sinners reconciled' Joyful, all… — Charles Wesley Copy Share Image
I have walked this south stream when to believe in spring was an act of faith. It was spitting snow and blowing,… — Ann Zwinger Copy Share Image
Chairman Mao once said that political power comes from the barrel of a gun. He was only partly right: power that comes… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Creation is a sustained period of bliss, even though the subject can still be very sad. Because there's the triumph of coming… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Softness triumphs over hardness, feebleness over strength. What is more malleable is always superior over that which is immoveable. This is the… — Laozi Copy Share Image
If the history of resistance to Darwinian thinking is a good measure, we can expect that long into the future, long after… — Daniel Dennett 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
If your blood is formed from eating the foods I teach [fruits and green-leaf vegetables] your soul will shout for joy and… — Arnold Ehret Copy Share Image
Where is my guilt? I can regret. I can regret that I made the party film, 'Triumph of the Will,' in 1934.… — Leni Riefenstahl Copy Share Image
If peace is to come, it must be peace within your own mind and heart. If hatred is to die, you must… — Henry Wriston Copy Share Image
To demand of strength that it should not express itself as strength, that it should not be a desire to overcome, a… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I have my own rules and adhere to them. The rule is simple but inflexible. A James Stewart picture must have two… — James Stewart Copy Share Image
Need and struggle are what excite and inspire us; our hour of triumph is what brings the void. Not the Jews of… — William James Copy Share Image
Most important, however, is the third avenue to meaning in life: even the helpless victim of a hopeless situation, facing a fate… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
Have patience with all things - but first with yourself. Never confuse your mistakes with your value as a human being. You… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For honest merit to succeed amid the tricks and intrigues which are now so lamentably common, I know is difficult; but the… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
Peace be unto thy soul; thine adversity and thine afflictions shall be but a small moment; And then, if thou endure it… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
“Get up," I tell myself, "You go and make your dreams a reality. There's no use staying home and whine every time… — Millicent Ashby Copy Share Image
It was an elevating, transforming vision: a new, fresh, vigorous, and above all morally regenerate people rising from the obscurity to defend… — Bernard Bailyn Copy Share Image
I love rhymes; I love to write a poem about New York and rhyme 'oysters' with 'The Cloisters.' And 'The lady from… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
I love the way Monteverdi's opera embodies the triumph of evil love in such a luscious way. The closing love duet is… — Charles Hazlewood Copy Share Image
Immanuel, God with us in our nature, in our sorrow, in our lifework, in our punishment, in our grave, and now with… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
The Lincoln Highway is to be something more than a road. It will be a road with a personality, a distinctive work… — Carl G. Fisher Copy Share Image
Hindus and Westerners alike see in the meat-eating taboos of India a triumph of morals over appetite. This is a dangerous misrepresentation… — Marvin Harris 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
There's been a lot of comparisons to "The Prisoner," and sometimes people take a negative tact on that, but to be really… — Remi Aubuchon Copy Share Image
Zoroastrianism is about the opposition of good and evil. For the triumph of good, we have to make a choice. We can… — Rohinton Mistry Copy Share Image