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It always amazes me to think that every house on every street is full of so many stories; so many triumphs and tragedies, and all we see are yards and driveways.
by Glenn Close (Actor , born in 1947) keywords: always, amazes, every, full, house, many, see, stories, street, think, tragedies, triumphs , yards You can't relate to a superhero, to a superman, but you can identify with a real man who in times of crisis draws forth some extraordinary quality from within himself and triumphs but only after a struggle.
by Timothy Dalton (Actor, Welsh , born in 1946) keywords: after, crisis, draws, extraordinary, forth, himself, identify, man, only, quality, real, relate, some, struggle, superhero, superman, times, triumphs , within But what has America to boast? What are the graces or the virtues which distinguish its inhabitants? What are their triumphs in war, or their inventions in peace?
by Thomas Day (Author, British , born in 1748) keywords: america, boast, distinguish, graces, inhabitants, inventions, peace, their, triumphs, virtues, war , which The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
by Will Durant (Historian, American , born in 1885) keywords: acting, against, because, divided, machine, majority, minority, political, triumphs , united I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.
by Robert Fulghum (Author, American , born in 1937) keywords: always, believe, cure, death, dreams, experience, facts, grief, history, hope, imagination, knowledge, laughter, love, more, myth, only, over, potent, powerful, stronger, than , 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.
by Johan Huizinga (Historian, Dutch , born in 1872) keywords: against, chains, control, crime, domination, every, feet, himself, human, hundred, lies, man, mean, nature, only, our, physical, point, psychiatry, services, shackled, social, triumphs , war The world is indebted for all triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.
by Thomas Jefferson (President, American , born in 1743) keywords: been, error, gained, humanity, indebted, oppression, over, reason, triumphs, which , world To try to fashion something from suffering, to relish our triumphs, and to endure defeats without resentment: all that is compatible with the faith of a heretic.
by Walter Kaufmann (Philosopher, German , born in 1921) keywords: compatible, defeats, endure, faith, fashion, heretic, our, relish, resentment, something, suffering, triumphs, try , without I came not to your glorious shores to enjoy a happy rest - I came not to gather triumphs of personal distinction, but as a humble petitioner, in my country's name, as its freely chosen constitutional leader, to entreat your generous aid.
by Lajos Kossuth (Lawyer, Hungarian , born in 1802) keywords: aid, came, chosen, constitutional, country, distinction, enjoy, entreat, freely, gather, generous, glorious, happy, humble, leader, name, personal, petitioner, rest, shores, triumphs , your To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.
by James Madison (President, American , born in 1751) keywords: abuses, alone, been, error, gained, humanity, indebted, oppression, over, press, reason, triumphs, which , world In the life of a singer, it's not all triumphs and happy memories; there are days you have to go out there when it's the last thing you feel like doing.
by Mireille Mathieu (Musician, French , born in 1946) keywords: days, doing, feel, go, happy, last, life, memories, out, singer, thing , triumphs Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
by Theodore Roosevelt (President, American , born in 1858) keywords: because, better, checkered, dare, defeat, enjoy, even, failure, far, glorious, gray, knows, live, mighty, much, neither, nor, poor, rank, spirits, suffer, than, things, those, though, triumphs, twilight, victory , win Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century.
by Bertrand Russell (Philosopher, British , born in 1872) keywords: achieved, almost, attributable, centuries, century, distinguishes, earlier, everything, modern, most, science, seventeenth, spectacular, triumphs, which , world I tend to think of action movies as exuberant morality plays in which good triumphs over evil.
by Sylvester Stallone (Actor, American , born in 1946) topics: Movies , Celebrity Quotes keywords: action, evil, exuberant, good, morality, movies, over, plays, tend, think, triumphs , which In pure literature, the writers of the eighteenth century achieved, indeed, many triumphs; but their great, their peculiar, triumphs were in the domain of thought.
by Lytton Strachey (Critic, English , born in 1880) keywords: achieved, century, domain, eighteenth, great, indeed, literature, many, peculiar, pure, their, thought, triumphs, were , writers I think the best American poetry is the poetry that utilizes the resources of poetry rather than exploits the defects or triumphs of the poet's personality.
by Mark Strand (Poet, American , born in 1934) keywords: american, best, defects, exploits, personality, poet, poetry, rather, resources, than, think, triumphs , utilizes
