#triumph

Christianity does not remove you from the world and its problems; it makes you fit to live in it, triumphantly and usefully. ↗

— Charles Templeton

#does #fit #live #makes #problems

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

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

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. ↗

— David Byrne

#anyone #become #fit #i #place

We tell our triumphs to the crowds, but our own hearts are the sole confidants of our sorrows. ↗

— Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

#hearts #our #own #sole #sorrows

Art is the triumph over chaos. ↗

— John Cheever

#chaos #over #triumph

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

— Melvil Dewey

#librarian #militant #must #triumphant

In the Soviet Union, capitalism triumphed over communism. In this country, capitalism triumphed over democracy. ↗

— Fran Lebowitz

#communism #country #democracy #over #soviet

For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#beast #bird #flower #man #most