The Washingtonian said it shouldn’t be built. The gallery’s East Building is now considered a triumph, and members of the American Association of Architects have voted it one of the best buildings of all time.

There is romance, the genuine glinting stuff, in typewriters, and not merely in their development from clumsy giants into agile dwarfs, but in the history of their manufacture, which is filled with raids, battles, lonely pioneers, great gambles, hope, fear, despair, triumph. If some of our novels could be written by the typewriters instead of on them, how much better they would be.

Faith is the final triumph over incongruity, the final assertion of the meaningfulness of existence.

In primary school, sports day was the one day of the year when the less academically gifted students could triumph… As if a silver in the egg-and-spoon race was some sort of compensation for not understanding how to use an apostrophe.

Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as FREEDOM should not be highly rated

The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow

The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

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.

It is a triumph of life that old people lose their memories of inessential things.

If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two impostors just the same.

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Not one of all the purple Host who took the Flag today can tell the definition so clear of Victory as he defeated dying on whose forbidden ear the distant strains of triumph burst agonized and clear.

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.

I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.

The harder the conflict, the greater the triumph.

Our worst fears, like our greatest hopes, are not outside our powers, and we can come in the end to triumph over the former and to achieve the latter.

Classes struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated. Such is history; such is the history of civilization for thousands of years.

Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery and triumph: a beginning, a struggle, and a victory.

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.