#triumph

Covering Richard Nixon's triumphant run in 1968 turned out to be my last major assignment as a general correspondent for CBS News. In September of that year, '60 Minutes' made its debut and I began the best, the most fulfilling job a reporter could imagine. ↗

— Mike Wallace

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And what could be a hotter ticket than the improbable triumph of 'The Book of Mormon,' the musical-comedy moon shot of the season? Its creators, Matt Stone and Trey Parker, of Comedy Central's 'South Park,' are the most unlikely Rodgers and Hammerstein team ever to bowl a thundering strike. ↗

— James Wolcott

#bowl #central #comedy #could #creators

One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#better #down #likes #misfortune #much

Without the element of uncertainty, the bringing off of even, the greatest business triumph would be dull, routine, and eminently unsatisfying. ↗

— J. Paul Getty

#business #dull #element #eminently #even

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

Would it be possible to stand still on one spot more majestically - while simulating a triumphant march forward - than it is done by the two English Houses of Parliament? ↗

— Alexander Herzen

#english #forward #houses #march #more

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

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