#triumph

If I could learn to treat triumph and disaster the same, then I would find bliss. ↗

— Kathie Lee Gifford

#could #disaster #find #i #if i could

Prostitution, although hounded, imprisoned, and chained, is nevertheless the greatest triumph of Puritanism. ↗

— Emma Goldman

#chained #greatest #hounded #imprisoned #nevertheless

Perseverance, secret of all triumphs. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#secret #triumphs

Physical nature lies at our feet shackled with a hundred chains. What of the control of human nature? Do not point to the triumphs of psychiatry, social services or the war against crime. Domination of human nature can only mean the domination of every man by himself. ↗

— Johan Huizinga

#chains #control #crime #domination #every

Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels. ↗

— Henry Adams

#amuses #applying #carries #everyone #himself

The beauty of defeat is that when you fall, you fly. ↗

— Lionel Suggs

#live-in-the-moment #triumph #beauty

Statistics are the triumph of the quantitative method, and the quantitative method is the victory of sterility and death. ↗

— Hilaire Belloc

#method #quantitative #statistics #sterility #triumph

The Washingtonian said it shouldn't be built. The gallery's East Building is now considered a triumph, and members of the American Association of Architects have voted it one of the best buildings of all time. ↗

— J. Carter Brown

#architects #association #best #building #buildings

Survival is triumph enough. ↗

— Harry Crews

#survival #triumph

The librarian must be the librarian militant before he can be the librarian triumphant. ↗

— Melvil Dewey

#librarian #militant #must #triumphant