Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Schwimmer

Our imagination often is more horrifying than being shown something.

Edward Gibbon

Active valour may often be the present of nature; but such patient diligence can be the fruit only of habit and discipline.

C. S. Lewis

When you are not feeling particularly friendly but know you ought to be, the best thing you can do, very often, is to put on a friendly manner and behave as if you were a nicer person than you actually are. And in a few minutes, as we have all noticed, you will be really feeling friendlier than you were.

B. C. Forbes

Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.

Alexander Hamilton

But might not his [the president's] nomination be overruled? I grant it might, yet this could only be to make place for another nomination by himself. The person ultimately appointed must be object of his preference, though perhaps not in the first degree. It is also not very probable that his nomination would often be overruled.

Abraham Maslow

We are dealing with a fundamental characteristic, inherent in human nature, a potentiality given to all or most human beings at birth, which most often is lost or buried or inhibited as the person gets enculturated.

Anatole France

Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue.

Claude C. Hopkins

The weight of an argument may often be multiplied by making it specific

Andre Norton

Rumor ... often is fathered and mothered by false reports.

Juvenal

Wisdom triumphs over chance.

Abraham Cowley

Poets by Death are conquer'd but the wit Of poets triumphs over it.

Clive James

Generally it is our failures that civilize us. Triumph confirms us in our habits.

Ameen Rihani

What is life without its angles of difficulty and defeat, and its tip of triumph and power?

David Byrne

I'm afraid that reason will triumph and that the world will become a place where anyone who doesn't fit that will become unnecessary

Kathie Lee Gifford

If I could learn to treat triumph and disaster the same, then I would find bliss.

Iris Murdoch

There is no triumph of good, and if there were it would not be a triumph of good.

Publilius Syrus

He is twice a conqueror, who can restrain himself in the hour of triumph.

Gunter Grass

When Satan's not in the mood, virtue triumphs. Hasn't even Satan a right not to be in the mood once in a while?

Carrie Fisher

I am someone who will rise to an occasion like that. Other occasions can defeat me.

Marvan Atapattu

We have also suffered similar defeats in our early years.

Anthony Cordesman

will end in snatching defeat from the jaws of uncertainty.

Brian Kapusta

I thought he wrestled a great match when he defeated Mark Brown. He wrestled smart.

Jim Bolla

We had considerable consideration, but we didn't get in.

Phil Mason

We have a track record of success in defeating moderates in the primary. No one else has done the job in that area.

Eduardo Najera

You learn more from defeat than you do from victory. We've been through a lot the last month, and we're finally learning how to make big plays down the stretch.

Henry Steele Commager

The fact is that censorship always defeats its own purpose, for it creates, in the end, the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion.

Kevin Tsujihara

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