#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

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

Preaching to the choir actually arms the choir with arguments and elevates the choir's discourse. There's a reason the right does it and does it well and triumphs. ↗

— Dan Savage

#arms #choir #discourse #does #elevates

I tend to think of action movies as exuberant morality plays in which good triumphs over evil. ↗

— Sylvester Stallone

#action movies #evil #exuberant #good #i

To live for a principle, for the triumph of some reform by which all mankind are to be lifted up to be wedded to an idea may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages. ↗

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#happiest #holiest #idea #lifted #live

The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy. ↗

— Ben Stein

#achieve #be happy #happy #human #human spirit

In pure literature, the writers of the eighteenth century achieved, indeed, many triumphs; but their great, their peculiar, triumphs were in the domain of thought. ↗

— Lytton Strachey

#century #domain #eighteenth #eighteenth century #great

The genius of the French language, descended from its single Latin stock, has triumphed most in the contrary direction - in simplicity, in unity, in clarity, and in restraint. ↗

— Lytton Strachey

#contrary #descended #direction #french #french language

I think the best American poetry is the poetry that utilizes the resources of poetry rather than exploits the defects or triumphs of the poet's personality. ↗

— Mark Strand

#best #defects #exploits #i #i think