Triumph Quotes
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God indeed tempteth no man; but yet we ask, in this petition, that he would keep and preserve us, lest the devil, the world, and our own flesh delude and draw us away from the true faith, and throw us into superstition, distrust, despair, and other grievous sins and wickedness; and that, if we should be tempted therewith even to the highest degree, we still may conquer, and at last triumph over them.
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City of prose and fantasy, of capitalist automation, its streets a triumph of cubism, its moral philosophy that of the dollar. New York impressed me tremendously because, more than any other city, it is the fullest expression of our modern age.
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The supreme triumph of reason is to cast doubt upon its own validity.
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The fate of war is to be exalted in the morning, and low enough at night! There is but one step from triumph to ruin.
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Idiots have always been exploited, and this is only right. The day they cease to be, they will triumph, and the world will be lost.
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From triumph to downfall is but a step. I have seen a trifle decide the most important issues in the gravest affairs.
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Perfection does not exist; to understand it is the triumph of human intelligence; to expect to possess it is the most dangerous kind of madness.
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Both triumph and disaster are impostors.
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Miserere is about redemption, and the triumph of our best impulses over our worst. It's also about swords, monsters, chases, ghosts, magic, [and] court intrigues. It's also really, really good.
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Let hundreds like me perish, but let truth triumph.
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For, once man is declared 'the measure of all things,' there is no longer a true, or a good, or a just, but only opinions of equal validity whose clash can be settled only by political or military force; and each force in turn enthrones in its hour of triumph a true, a good, and a just which will endure just as long as itself.
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The triumph of an uncluttered mind.
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The anarch is oriented to facts, not ideas. He fights alone, as a free man, and would never dream of sacrificing himself to having one inadequacy supplant another and a new regime triumph over the old one. In this sense, he is closer to the philistine; the baker whose chief concern is to bake good bread; the peasant, who works his plow while armies march across his fields.
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Let the emperor make war on heaven; let him lead heaven captive in his triumph; let him put guards on heaven; let him impose taxes on heaven! He cannot. . . . He gets his sceptre where he first got his humanity; his power where he got the breath of life.
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The daguerreotype itself must undoubtedly be regarded as the most important, and perhaps the most extraordinary triumph of modern science.
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It is a triumph of life that old people lose their memories of inessential things.
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If you can wait, and not be tired by waiting ... if you can dream, and not make dreams your master; if you can think, and not make thoughts your aim; if you can meet with Triumph and Disaster, and treat those two impostors just the same; ... yours is the earth and everything that's in it...
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My work is one long triumph over my limitations.
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Life has meaning only in the struggle. Triumph or defeat is in the hands of the Gods. So let us celebrate the struggle!
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Coquetry, it's a triumph of the spirit over the senses.
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The die is now cast; the colonies must either submit or triumph.... we must not retreat.
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To survive the day is triumph enough for the walking wounded among the great many of us.
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It is almost as easy to be enervated by triumph as by defeat.
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Man's triumph will consist in substituting the struggle for existence by a struggle for mutual service.
