Triumph Quotes - Page 12

What a triumph for the advocates of despotism to find that we are incapable of governing ourselves, and that systems founded on the basis of equal liberty are merely ideal and fallacious.

The triumph of sugar over diabetes.

A noble soul spreads even over a face in which the architectonic beauty is wanting an irresistible grace, and a often even triumphs over the natural disfavor.

Courage is the best slayer - courage which attacketh, for in every attack there is the sound of triumph.

Television is a triumph of equipment over people.

Good' did not triumph. 'Evil' did not triumph. The two resolved, destroyed each other and created new 'evils', new 'goods' which slew each other in their turn.

The question always is, has everything been done to make the sufferings of these exceptions as small as possible? Or, in the triumph of the crowded procession, have the helpless been trampled on, instead of being gently lifted aside out of the roadway of the conqueror, whom they have no power to accompany on his march?

Vice-President Ford, possibly preparing for higher duties, assessed Kissinger's part in the Syrian-Israeli troop disengagement as "the great diplomatic triumph of this century or perhaps any other.

In matching your wits against yourself you take on the shrewdest and wiliest antagonist you can have, and consequently a victorious outcome in this duel of wits brings a great feeling of triumph.

Even in death may you triumphant

Survival is not so much about the body, but rather it is about the triumph of the human spirit.

It's all about the triumph of intellect and romance over brute force and cynicism.

There were times in my career ... when I felt like a trapeze artist doing dangerous somersaults without a net underneath. When you execute those somersaults flawlessly, the audience feels the same sense of triumph the performer does.

Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century.

The only difference between 'try' and 'triumph' is varying degrees of 'umph'

The triumphs of a mysterious non-meeting are desolate ones; unspoken phrases, silent words.

One life is but a single act. One body - a garment. One century - a day. One task - an experience. One triumph - an acquisition. One death - a breath of renovation.

What is life without its angles of difficulty and defeat, and its tip of triumph and power?

Woe betide the leaders now perched on their dizzy pinnacles of triumph if they cast away at the conference table what the soldiers had won on a hundred bloodsoaked battlefields.

Hail to the Chief who in triumph advances!

Now they [NATO and the USA ] are sitting there, and we are talking about all these crises we would otherwise not have. You can also see this striving for an absolute triumph in the American missile defense plans.

He had slipped, climbed, rolled, searched, walked, persevered, that is all. Such is the secret of all triumphs.

She was a triumph over ugliness, so often more beguiling than real beauty, if only because it contains paradox.

Life is not all about profundity. Life is about little things that piss you off, little triumphs, little defeats. So, you can't spend all your time being profound.

I am proud that I have devoted all my life to the struggle for the triumph of Leninism.