Triumphalism Catholic Quotes & Sayings

We have flown the air like birds and swum the sea like fishes, but have yet to learn the simple act of walking the earth like brothers. — Martin Luther King Jr.

We're all frightened sometimes." Leo's voice was barely over a whisper. "But you don't run away. You never run away. — Elizabeth Hunter

Congealed fat is pretty much the same, irrespective of the delicacy around which it is concealed. — Clement Freud

Do not give up your dream because it is apparently not being realized, because you cannot see it coming true. Cling to your vision with all the tenacity you can muster. Keep it bright; do not let the bread-and-butter side of life cloud your ideal or dim it. — Orison Swett Marden

What is life without incompatible realities? — Ursula K. Le Guin

When we stand, the Azad Hind Fauz has to be like a wall of granite; when we march, the Azad Hind Fauz has to be like a steamroller. — Subhas Chandra Bose

When a single mom goes out on a date with somebody new. It always winds up feeling more like a job interview. — Brad Paisley

I believe that the short story is as different a form from the novel as poetry is, and the best stories seem to me to be perhaps closer in spirit to poetry than to novels. — Tobias Wolff

God did create a world without sin. We just screwed it up. — Wesley Miller

Secure against the designs of men, secure against the malignity of the Gods, they have accomplished a thing of infinite difficulty; that to them nothing remains even to be wished. — Tacitus

When you are the woman upstairs, nobody thinks of you first. Nobody calls you before anyone else, or sends you the first postcard. Once your mother dies, nobody loves you "best of all." It's a small thing, you might think, and maybe it depends on your temperament, maybe for some people it's a small thing, but for me [ ... ] — Claire Messud