Famous Quotes & Sayings

Clive James

Generally it is our failures that civilize us. Triumph confirms us in our habits.

Abraham Cowley

Poets by Death are conquer'd but the wit Of poets triumphs over it.

Ameen Rihani

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

David Byrne

I'm afraid that reason will triumph and that the world will become a place where anyone who doesn't fit that will become unnecessary

Juvenal

Wisdom triumphs over chance.

George Eliot

The tendency toward good in human nature has a force which no creed can utterly counteract, and which insures the ultimate triumph of that tendency over all dogmatic perversions.

Hugo Chavez

Your triumph is the triumph of all of Venezuela,

Iris Murdoch

There is no triumph of good, and if there were it would not be a triumph of good.

Gunter Grass

When Satan's not in the mood, virtue triumphs. Hasn't even Satan a right not to be in the mood once in a while?

Tessa Hafen

Senator Reid has done nothing wrong and he doesn't see any reason why he would need to return the money.

Don Braunecker

Megan Richardson was a big reason for our success (Tuesday) night.

Charles Spurgeon

The only reason why anything virtuous or lively survives in us is this, 'the LORD is there'" (Ez. 35:10)

Charles Spurgeon

Faith is reason at rest in God.

Deborah Tannen

Part of the reason images of women in positions of authority are marked by their gender is that the very notion of authority is associated with maleness.

Edgar Allan Poe

As a poet and as a mathematician, he would reason well; as a mere mathematician, he could not have reasoned at all.

Eleanor Holmes Norton

There is no reason to repeat bad history.

Taylor Vichorek

For some reason OTs haven't treated us as well as we hoped.

Ahmed Chalabi

Do not seek to find a reason why elections are not possible. Seek to make them possible, and they will be possible.

Howard Dean

Maine folks are just like Vermont people -- they're very independent. And that's a great place to start the turnaround,

Chuck Rosenberg

Let me be clear, we do not want to overstate the risks, we do not want to understate the risks, ... We need to get good information out to folks as soon as possible.

Steven Jones

So many folks just want to do their own things.

Cassandra Gash

My folks have worked without knowing whether they are going to get paid.

Zach Duke

My folks had an idea of what my value was. And they wanted to stick with it.

James Curtis

One of the things that's important to me is to help people, as opposed to just getting up there and being sort of a pontificate, omnipotent and all-powerful individual lecturing folks from on high, ... Curtis Court.

Louis Cataldie

My heart goes out to the folks here locally,

John Steinbeck

Maybe there ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue, they's just what people does. Some things folks do is nice and some ain't so nice, and that's all any man's got a right to say.

Will Rogers

Maybe ain't ain't so correct, but I notice that lots of folks who ain't using ain't ain't eating.