Resounding Success Quotes & Sayings

In reality, at the end of World War II, America imposed democracy at the point of a bayonet on Japan and Germany, and it has proved a resounding success in both countries. The problem with liberals is that they never give bayonets a chance. — Dinesh D'Souza

Then came the lies. Her heart told her lies. Wicked, insidious falsehoods, resounding with every beat. He's a broken man. He needs you. You can heal him. Rationally, she knew better. Untold numbers of women had already tried their hands - among other body parts - at "healing his broken soul," with no success. — Tessa Dare

Petunia Temminnick's coming-out ball was pronounced a resounding success by all in attendance. There had been highly intoxicating punch, a variety of dances, good music, and intermission entertainment. No one knew why the beautiful Miss Pelouse had stripped, rolled about in the garden, and then chucked a cheese pie at the youngest Temminnick girl before being taken away in floods of tears, but it was surely the highlight of a most enjoyable evening. — Gail Carriger

My head's filled up with all the reasons it won't work. And I keep running the figures, over and over, but I can't seem to come up with an answer. — Megan Hart

To us, the high-resounding "isms" to which our contemporaries ask; us to give our allegiance, now, in 1948, are all equally futile: bound to be betrayed, defeated, and finally rejected by men at large, if containing anything really noble; bound to enjoy, for the time being, some sort of noisy success; if sufficiently vulgar, pretentious and soul-killing to appeal to the growing number of mechanically conditioned slaves that crawl about our planet, posing as free men; all destined to prove, ultimately, of no avail. — Savitri Devi

The elements of trial and error, similar to earth and sky, and fire and water, delineates the constituent modules of our lives. Living robustly includes more failures than successes. We achieve adeptness to living by exhibiting a willingness to make good faith mistakes and learn from each misadventure. Every effort that fails to achieve our expected result is understandably frustrating. The fact is that without ideas and dreams and devoid of occasional crash landings, a person can never hope to achieve any worthy acts to temper resounding personal disappointment. Meaningful success is ultimately defined when a person dies, when an entire life's work devoted to performing passionate and compassionate enterprises can be judge as a whole unit. — Kilroy J. Oldster

I don't think I'd have been in such a hurry to reach adulthood if I'd known the whole thing was going to be ad-libbed. — Bill Watterson

Getting sucked into other people's ego dysfunction & darkness robs you of your own light. — Oprah Winfrey

The more defects a man may have, the older he is, the less lovable, the more resounding his success. — Marquis De Sade

I think to be cut off from your heart is the greatest tyranny in the world. — Eve Ensler

I almost flunked first grade and also the second, third, forth, and fifth; but my younger brother was in the grade behind me and he was a brain and nobody wanted to have me be in the same grade as him, so they kept passing me. I never learned how to spell, graduated from eighth grade counting on my fingers to do simple addition, and in general was not a resounding academic success. — Robert Munsch

Who waits until the wind shall silent keep Will never find the ready hour to sow. — Helen Hunt Jackson

The Book of Revelation is such a dream landscape that you can plug any major conflict in it. — Elaine Pagels