"Right, good temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil……" — Daniel Handler

"Right, good temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant."

— Daniel Handler

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495 Quotes by Daniel Handler

Daniel Handler has 495 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

One's home is like a delicious piece of pie you order in a restaurant on a country road one cozy…
The Long Goodbye' is one book I like to read over and over again, and it was an enormous inspiration…
I love no one but you, I have discovered, but you are far away and I am here alone.
Labor Day is a holiday honoring those who work for a living. Laborious Day is a lesser known holiday honoring…
One wanders through life as if wandering through a field in the dark of night, wearing a blindfold and very…
This is like a cookie, it tastes like a cookie having sex with a doughnut.
The way sadness works is one of the strange riddles of the world. If you are stricken with a great…
You might find it difficult to see anything but your own sadness, the way smoke can cover a landscape so…
I like to give people novels I think they would like, on no particular occasion - just when we're in…
The real Santa Claus is at the mall.
Assumptions are dangerous things to make, and like all dangerous things to make - bombs, for instance, or strawberry shortcake…
How wrong to think I was anyone else, like thinking grass stains make you a beautiful view, like getting kissed…

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When the British came to Ibo land, for instance, at the beginning of the 20th century, and defeated the men… — Chinua Achebe
The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries with terror before being defeated. — Charles Baudelaire
There is no meeting of minds, no point of understanding with such terror. Just a choice: Defeat it or be… — Tony Blair
But I am an optimist about Britain; and the difference between an optimist and a pessimist is not that the… — Tony Blair
We've shown the world that New York can never be defeated, because of its dynamic and diverse population and because… — Michael Bloomberg
Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily. — Napoleon Bonaparte
Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his… — Muhammad Ali
If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
It is better to be defeated standing for a high principle than to run by committing subterfuge. — Grover Cleveland
We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated. — Maya Angelou
Will is what can make you succeed when your thoughts tell you that you're defeated. — Carlos Castaneda
Like an army defeated the snow hath retreated. — William Wordsworth

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