Quotes tagged ‘Triumph’

“Commodus: Have I missed it? Have I missed the battle? [Commodus embraces him] Marcus Aurelius: You have missed the war. Commodus: Father, congratulations. I shall sacrifice a hundred bulls to honor your triumph. Marcus Aurelius: Save the bulls. Honor Maximus. He won the battle.”

— David Franzoni, John Logan, William Nicholson, Marcus Aurelius, Richard Harris, imdb.com

“[seeing the dinosaurs for the first time] You did it. You crazy son of a bitch, you did it.”

— Michael Crichton, David Koepp, Dr. Ian Malcolm, Jeff Goldblum, imdb.com

“Bringing down this club may be easier than I thought. I am engorged with venom and triumph.”

— Ian Brennan, Sue Sylvester, Jane Lynch, imdb.com

“We have known the bitterness of defeat and the exultation of triumph, and from both we have learned there can be no turning back.”

— Douglas Macarthur, freedomdocuments.com

“To me, it’s a victory over my whole life that I can do stand-up. The way that I got abused as a child was psychological, and when I’m onstage I’ve taken my life and I’ve turned it around. I’ve gone, You’ve made me this way and now you can’t get me. I even like hecklers because it’s like, Just try to…”

— Roseanne Barr, vanityfair.com

“There will be pain. There will be suffering. We will be confronted with the most horrific aspects of humanity. We will confront the inhuman. Evil itself. But we will triumph. It is not a war we will lose.”

— Beau Willimon‏, Frank Underwood, Kevin Spacey, imdb.com

“But after all, the most animating encouragement and potent appeal for freedom will be its own history - its trials and its triumphs.”

— Franklin Pierce, amazon.com

“Far better to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.”

— Theodore Roosevelt, theodorerooseveltcenter.org

“It doesn’t matter who you are, where you come from. The ability to triumph begins with you. Always.”

— Oprah Winfrey, passiton.com

“We cannot witness the struggle between the oppressed and his oppressor anywhere without the deepest sympathy for the former and the most anxious desire for his triumph.”

— Millard Fillmore, presidency.ucsb.edu

“The triumph of the industrial arts will advance the cause of civilization more rapidly than its warmest advocates could have hoped, and contribute to the permanent prosperity and strength of the country far more than the most splendid victories of successful war.”

— Charles Babbage, amazon.com

“Clouds and darkness surround us, yet Heaven is just, and the day of triumph will surely come, when justice and truth will be vindicated. Our wrongs will be made right, and we will once more taste the blessings of freedom, of which the degraded rebels would deprive us.”

— Mary Todd Lincoln, amazon.com

“Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.”

— Thomas Paine, amazon.com

“The presence of evil was something to be first recognized, then dealt with, survived, outwitted, triumphed over.”

— Toni Morrison, amazon.com

“Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals.”

— Oscar Wilde, amazon.com

“True love will triumph in the end - which may or may not be a lie, but if it is a lie, it's the most beautiful lie we have.”

— John Green, amazon.com