#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

Not in the clamor of the crowded street, not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#crowded #defeat #ourselves #shouts #street

Beset by a difficult problem? Now is your chance to shine. Pick yourself up, get to work and get triumphantly through it. ↗

— Ralph Marston

#chance #difficult #get #now #pick

It is the experiences, the great triumphant joy of living to the fullest extent in which real meaning is found. God it's great to be alive! ↗

— Christopher McCandless

#experiences #extent #found #fullest #god

A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him. ↗

— George Orwell

#does #exists #felt #forces #him

The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. ↗

— Thomas Paine

#conflict #glorious #harder #more #triumph

I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened. ↗

— Pat Robertson

#bring #communism #did #down #evil

Atheism is aristocratic; the idea of a great Being that watches over oppressed innocence and punishes triumphant crime is altogether popular. ↗

— Maximilien Robespierre

#aristocratic #atheism #being #crime #great

Praises for our past triumphs are as feathers to a dead bird. ↗

— Paul Eldridge

#dead #feathers #our #past #praises

The vast concourse of people who had assembled to witness the triumphant arrival of the successful travellers was of the lowest orders of mechanics and artisans, among whom great distress and a dangerous spirit of discontent with the government at that time prevailed. ↗

— Fanny Kemble

#arrival #artisans #assembled #dangerous #discontent