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Quotes About Triumphant

If I will write a book, I will write it triumphantly.
~ Charles Fort
He gave a peculiar smile. It seemed intended to be rueful, but some other emotion was hijacking it, warping it into something weirdly triumphant. You seemed pretty sure a month ago . . . I said. Well, you have to take a position, don't you? ...
~ James Lasdun
Life is meant to be lived from a Center, a divine Center…Life from the Center is a life of unhurried peace and power. It is simple. It is serene. It is amazing. It is triumphant. It is radiant. It takes no time, but it occupies all our time. And it makes our life programs new and overcoming. We need not get frantic. He is at the helm. And when our little day is done we lie down quietly in peace, for all is well.
~ Thomas R. Kelly
Indeed, in this ordinance, the whole of what Christianity means is expressed: one Lord Jesus Christ, incarnate, atoning, and triumphant as the sum and substance of the observance. Without
~ Thomas R. Schreiner
I felt one hundred feet tall, made of solid gold, and on fire.
~ Cory Doctorow
Birkin came with Hermione. She had a rapt, triumphant look, like the fallen angels restored, yet still subtly demoniacal, now she held Birkin by the arm. And he was expressionless, neutralised, possessed by her as if it were his fate, without question.
~ D.H. Lawrence
Out of the temptation of Hate, and burned by the fire of Despair, triumphant over Doubt, and steeled by Sacrifice against Humiliation, . . . He bent to all the gibes and prejudices, to all hatred and discrimination with that rare courtesy which is the armor of pure souls. . . . he simply worked, inspiring the young, rebuking the old, helping the weak, guiding the strong.
~ W.E.B. Du Bois
Remember my words, I may again return, I love you, I depart from materials, I am as one disembodied, triumphant, dead.
~ Walt Whitman
For the materialist historian, every epoch with which he occupies himself is only a fore-history of that which really concerns him. And that is precisely why the appearance of repetition doesn't exist for him in history; because the moments in the course of history which matter most to him become moments of the present through their index as fore-history, and change their characteristics according to the catastrophic or triumphant determination of that present.
~ WALTER BENJAMIN
Does not the morn break thus, Swift, bright, victorious.
~ lazarus emma ii
a triumphant grin on his face, dressed in a familiar suit made of slippery-looking material, but with a portrait of another author whom only a very devoted reader would recognize
~ Lemony Snicket
A story in the Talmud relates that after the Israelites had safely crossed the Red Sea,* they sang a song of praise to God, but when the angels sought to join the triumphant paean, God thundered: "You shall not sing while my other children [the Egyptians] are drowning.
~ Leo Rosten
Lady Blunt had come up, flushed and triumphant, having left the solitary porter a demoralized wreck.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
God in his infinite mercy has devised a way by which justice can be satisfied, and yet mercy can be triumphant. Jesus Christ, the only begotten of the Father, took upon himself the form of man, and offered unto Divine Justice that which was accepted as an equivalent for the punishment due to all his people.
~ Charles Spurgeon
She seems to give a respectful credence to the statement that "God is loveonly to hurry on to explore with real interest the possibility that God is wrath." She can read from the book of Revelation with a ringing conviction in her voice that can make the creation seem only a stage setting for the triumphant thunderation of end.
~ Wendell Berry
Man is spirit--that is all man needs to know; and spirit is triumphant over matter.
~ White Eagle
the rigorously impersonal view of science might one day appear as having been a temporarily useful eccentricity rather than the definitively triumphant position which the sectarian scientist at present so confidently announces it to be.
~ William James
There have been low moments before, but Christianity is an incredibly adaptable organism, using different parts of its repertoire to mutate into new ecological niches, yet preserving intact its story of grace, of love improbably triumphant.
~ Francis Spufford
You are not fighting for victory—you are fighting from victory. This battle has already been won!
~ Tony Evans
Art is triumphant when it can use convention as an instrument of its own purpose.
~ W. Somerset Maugham
I smiled thinly and pressed the middle fingers of my right hand to my fore-head and eyelids, making the death's touch sign. "Even in death, may I be triumphant!
~ Darren Shan
If I had been an Italian I am sure that I should have been whole-heartedly with you from the start to finish in your triumphant struggle against the bestial appetites and passions of Leninism. (Speech in Rome on 20 January, 1927, praising Mussolini)
~ Winston Churchill
If we look at the world today in isolation from the past and the future, the forces of secularism may seem triumphant. This, however, is but a moment in the life of humanity, and it does not possess the promise of stability and permanence.
~ Unknown
Here I am ready for life! Dear sirs, no one's looking at me, no one realises I exist! Yet, dear sirs, I exist, I swear that I exist! Very much, even. Look, all of you, with that triumphant attitude, look: I can vibrate, vibrate like the taunt of a harp. I can suffer with more intensity than any of you, gentleman. I am superior. And do you know why? Because I know I exist!
~ Clarice Lispector