#triumph

I wanted to give you a victory. But by their essential nature triumphs can’t be given. ↗

— Lois McMaster Bujold

#give #giving #nature #nature-of-things #triumph

Television is the triumph of machine over people. ↗

— Fred Allen

#over #people #television #triumph

People are really suffering these days. There's a lot of corporate triumph and a lot of personal despair as they wonder what are they working for. ↗

— Laurie Anderson

#days #despair #lot #people #personal

Why do we capital-N Nerds love Mars so much? Because it's beautiful, it's tough, it's buried in our mythic, childhood memories. It's covered with human triumphs but also with sad stories of failure. ↗

— Greg Bear

#beautiful #because #buried #childhood #childhood memories

In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness. ↗

— George Eliot

#dullness #nature #private #quarrels #reason

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#evil #good men #good men to do nothing #men #necessary

Those who have always had faith in its final success can do no less than rejoice as if it was our own triumph after five years of daily struggle to impose Cuban music on the European continent. ↗

— Alejo Carpentier

#always #continent #cuban #daily #european

I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph. ↗

— Margaret Thatcher

#because #believe #between #conflict #end

To win without risk is to triumph without glory. ↗

— Pierre Corneille

#risk #triumph #win #without

When there is no peril in the fight there is no glory in the triumph. ↗

— Pierre Corneille

#glory #peril #triumph