Quotes for All
The Hours is in fact a lovely triumph. Cunningham honors both Mrs. Dalloway and its creator with unerring sensitivity, thanks to his modesty of intention and his sovereignly affecting prose…. With his elliptical evocation of Mrs. Dalloway, he has managed to pay great but quiet tribute — reminding us of the gorgeous, ferocious beauty of … Read more
Of all things that can happen to us, triumph is the most difficult to endure when we are alone. Deprived of witnesses, it shrinks at once. Gabrielle Roy
It is a triumph of life that old people lose their memories of inessential things. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
[Regarding mathematics,] there are now few studies more generally recognized, for good reasons or bad, as profitable and praiseworthy. This may be true; indeed it is probable, since the sensational triumphs of Einstein, that stellar astronomy and atomic physics are the only sciences which stand higher in popular estimation. G. H. Hardy
Prayer is life passionately wanting, wishing, desiring God’s triumph. G. Campbell Morgan
Prayer is life passionately wanting, wishing, desiring God’s triumph. Prayer is life striving, toiling everywhere and everywhen for that ultimate victory. G. Campbell Morgan
The style of studied nonchalance is the psychological triumph of grace over order. G. Bruce Boyer
Obamas finest speeches do not excite. They do not inform. They dont even really inspire. They elevate. . . . He is not the Word made flesh, but the triumph of word over flesh . . . Obama is, at his best, able to call us back to our highest selves. Ezra Klein
To me, one of the greatest triumphs in doing a book is to tell the story as simply as possible. My aim is to imply rather than to overstate. Whenever the reader participates with his own interpretation, I feel that the book is much more successful. I write with the premise that less is more. … Read more
A typical triumph of modern science to find the only part of Randolph that was not malignant and remove it. Evelyn Waugh