#triumphant

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

— Melvil Dewey

#librarian #militant #must #triumphant

If a man has been his mother's undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not seldom brings actual success along with it. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

#along #been #brings #confidence #darling

There are some defeats more triumphant than victories. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#more #some #than #triumphant #victories

I have been judged to be a pessimist but what abyss of ignorance and low egoism is not hidden in one who thinks that Man is the god of himself and that his future can only be triumphant? ↗

— Eugenio Montale

#been #egoism #future #god #hidden

If there's some triumphant end of the story, I guess in a roundabout way I've gotten what I wanted, which is the ability to do interesting things and the wealth to be free. ↗

— Sean Parker

#end #free #gotten #guess #i

Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring. ↗

— S. J. Perelman

#dying #love #love is #moan #triumphant

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

He remembered the gracefulness with which she moved in battle—like liquid flesh. There was no one quite like his wife, and he never felt more triumphant and free than when he was in her company. ↗

— Nadia Scrieva

#freedom #grace #gracefulness #love #marriage

The true purpose of education is to teach a man to carry himself triumphant to the sunset. ↗

— Liberty Hyde Bailey

#education #himself #man #purpose #sunset