Quotes About Exultation

Any fool can try to defend his or her mistakes - and most fools do - but it raises one above the herd and gives one a feeling of nobility and exultation to admit one's mistakes.

When he "stood up against this southern way of life," he had to stand alone; the other members of the union fled. He knew the exultation of his stand: "That made me merry in a way. I done what was right . . . "But he also knew its tragedy: "When they shot me it didn't shake me, when they arrested me it didn't shake me. But it shook me to see my friends was but few.

They damaged his nervous system with a wartime Russian mycotoxin. Strapped to a bed in a Memphis hotel, his talent burning out micron by micron, he hallucinated for thirty hours. The damage was minute, subtle, and utterly effective. For Case, who'd lived for the bodiless exultation of cyberspace, it was the Fall.

For Case, who'd lived for the bodiless exultation of cyberspace, it was the Fall.

Tantra is for the desperate. Unless you've really experienced pain and suffering, tantra won't work. Unless you've really experienced exultation and ecstasy, tantra won't work.

Then the congregation listened as the clock chimed the twelve bars of midnight. At the last one, Knibb shouted: 'The monster is dead! The negro is free! The church 'broke out into one loud and long-continued burst of exultation and joy,' that awoke Knibb's young son and rattled all the windows. 'Never did I hear such a sound,' Knibb wrote later.

Thou art my glory and the exultation of y heart: thou art my hope and refuge in the day of my trouble.

Close your eyes and turn your face into the wind. Feel it sweep along your skin in an invisible ocean of exultation. Suddenly, you know you are alive .

Man is a part of God, or else he is a beast; and beasts know love and fear and hate and hunger--but not exultation

God-My-Father says from those three words he gave me, all other words descend, branching. That still leaves me unfit for conversation, like some deranged bird you can't tell is crying in grief or exultation, all day long repeating, 'O my God. O my love. Holy, holy, holy.' 'Three Words

A wise man can do no better than to turn from the churches and look up through the airy majesty of the wayside trees with exultation, with resignation, at the unconquerable, unimplicated sun.

Overall, the library held a hushed exultation, as though the cherished volumes were all singing soundlessly within their covers.

So potent however is the concentrated love of the feminine heart, that although this man, sitting there above her, had just beheld—actually in the flesh—that elusive Mystery which was the cause of Glastonbury's being Glastonbury, it was the girl and not the man who dominated that moment, her exultation, and not his, that held the thunder-flash of that charged air.

Music is the exultation of Poetry. Both of them may excel apart but... are most excellent when they are joined.

I confess that I love him, I rejoice that I love him, I thank the maker of Heaven and Earth that gave him to me. The exultation floods me.

There can be praise and exultation and even awe for the hero, as well as the vicarious pleasure of imagining oneself in the hero's role. It's interesting, though, that this seems to be a milder pleasure than comeuppance, perhaps because there isn't the same evolutionary need for us to scrutinize and praise and take delight in goodness as there is for us to focus on the bad.

First Lieutenant Haskell of Gibbon's staff remembered the exultation of that heady moment. "The Rebel cry has ceased, and the men of the Union begin to shout there, under the smoke, and their lines to advance. See the Rebels are breaking! They are in confusion in all our front!—The wave has rolled upon the rock, and the rock has smashed it. Let us shout too!"33

They rejoice in Your name all day long, and in Your righteousness they exult.

Let the fields exult, and all that is in them. Then all the trees of the forest will sing for joy

Let the saints exult in glory; let them shout for joy upon their beds.

Even the cypresses and cedars of Lebanon exult over you: “Since you have been laid low, no woodcutter comes against us.”

In the LORD all descendants of Israel will be justified and will exult.

I will put an end to all her exultation: her feasts, New Moons, and Sabbaths—all her appointed feasts.

yet I will exult in the LORD; I will rejoice in the God of my salvation!