Quotes About Triumph

Then think of fire, It's laughter, the music of splintering beams and glass, The flames reaching through the second story of a house almost as if to -mistakenly- rescue someone who left you years ago. It is so American, fire. So like us. It's desolation. And it's eventual, brief triumph.

Fear and pessimism make no sense when victory is guaranteed.

on the morning of the best day of her life, Maude Flynn was locked in the outhouse singing 'the Battle Hymn of the Republic

Gracias por seguir existiendo." Victoria

A smile spread across her face. "Score one for the rookie detective." Her

It is in times of superlative hardship that individuals live their epic adventures, stories that thrill, fascinate, inspire, and illuminate.

Thorbjørn Christiansen

Laura Hillenbrand

A moment of pain is worth a lifetime of glory

A lifetime of glory is worth a moment of pain. Louie thought: Let go.

A lifetime of glory is worth a moment of pain.

Living well is the best revenge (Margot Radcliffe)

But Sean wasn't going to let her win. Not this time. She'd won the last round, back in Rome, when the wooden door to her room in the slightly cheesy pensione nearly flattened him.

Never argue when you're winning.

Lauren Myracle

After all the ordeals suffered by the armada, the discovery of the strait did lay claim to being a miracle.

Fletcher recalled, "this was the greatest." They were grateful to have overcome it, "but it was not the last.

The humiliating rejection proved to be the making of Ferdinand Magellan.

Thirty-eight days later, Magellan spied the Pacific Ocean and wept with joy.

Winnen is niets, mijn jongen. Winnen laat geen sporen na. Winnen is bevrediging. Verliezen is leven.

A purchase is but a purchase, now that you have money enough and to spare. Formerly it used to be a triumph.

Sometimes the bitch wins.

American influence in Latin America has been at the disposal of whoever has wished to destroy the heritage of Spain and Portugal (whose daughter Brazil became an independent Empire under a Portuguese Prince in 1822). It has been a long hard struggle, with American-backed forces generally triumphing in the end. But the endurance of the Catholic Iberian tradition may be seen by the fact that the battle is not over yet.

As they approached Dhauli the elephant refused to go forward; nothing that Mark or the mahout did could persuade her to cross the open ground in front of them. Only then did Mark learn that they had come to the Kalinga battlefield, on which hundreds of war elephants are said to have died.