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Triumph Quotes by Virginia Woolf
- In people's eyes, in the swing, tramp, and trudge; in the bellow and uproar; the carriages, motor cars, omnibuses, vans, sandwich men shuffling and swinging;…
- One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.
- Nothing could be slow enough, nothing lasts too long. No pleasure could equal, she thought, straightening the chairs, pushing in one book on the shelf,…
- Again, somehow, one saw life, a pure bead. I lifted the pencil again, useless though I knew it to be. But even as I did…
More Triumph Quotes
- An American of the present day reading his Sunday newspaper in a state of lazy collapse is one of the most perfect… — Irving Babbitt
- Why comes temptation but for man to meet And master and make crouch beneath his foot, And so be pedestaled in triumph? — Robert Browning
- One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong… — Robert Browning
- The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. — Edmund Burke
- Television is the triumph of machine over people. — Fred Allen
- It always amazes me to think that every house on every street is full of so many stories; so many triumphs and… — Glenn Close
- Let judges secretly despair of justice: their verdicts will be more acute. Let generals secretly despair of triumph; killing will be defamed.… — Leonard Cohen
- Somebody asked me earlier if I thought it was really important to tell stories about women's struggles. And I said yes, but… — Diablo Cody
- Most men in a concentration camp believed that the real opportunities of life had passed. Yet, in reality, there was an opportunity… — Viktor E. Frankl
- Heroes and scholars represent the opposite extremes... The scholar struggles for the benefit of all humanity, sometimes to reduce physical effort, sometimes… — Santiago Ramon y Cajal
- Motherhood is neither a duty nor a privilege, but simply the way that humanity can satisfy the desire for physical immortality and… — Rebecca West
- We are all the sons or daughters of immigrants - some more recent than others - but all dedicated to the triumph… — Jack Kemp