Triumphalists Quotes & Sayings

It is not just the vulgar, premature bawdiness of pro-war triumphalists which I find revolting. It is that they accuse anti-war people of being uncaring about the people of Iraq, and the lack of concern that these proponents of war show for the bodies of the killed and those maimed and injured by their invasion. — Yasmin Alibhai-Brown

Despite the walls she surrounded herself with, the thief had somehow let her own heart get stolen. — C.L.Stone

When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves. — Viktor E. Frankl

I've given up the looking glass; quicksilver has no sense of tact. — James Goldman

There's folks 'ud hold a sieve under the pump and expect to carry away the water. — George Eliot

Ant swarming City
City full of dreams
Where in broad day the specter tugs your sleeve
— Charles Baudelaire

I'm a big horror fan, but I don't enjoy a lot of gore and watching somebody cut their leg off for five hours. I like the older movies where it draws you into the suspense, that sort of shock and awe. — Jacqueline MacInnes Wood

A good ground rule for writing in any genre is, start with a form, then undermine its confidence in itself. Ask what it's afraid of, what it's trying to hide - then write that. — M. John Harrison

Through love one acquires renunciation and discrimination naturally. — Ramakrishna

Rather than being taught to ask ourselves who we are, we are schooled to ask others. We are, in effect, trained to listen to others' versions of ourselves. — Julia Cameron

It hurts," she whispered, wrapping her arms around a pillow and pulling it closer to her chest. Her eyes stayed closed, and I watched a few tears slip out. "Being left behind hurts. — Brittainy C. Cherry

It is organized violence on the top which creates individual violence at the bottom — Emma Goldman

God did not create woman from man's head, that he should command her, nor from his feet, that she should be his slave, but rather from his side, that she should be near his heart. — Myles Munroe

It can be very seductive to tell our story to others who will listen because, lets face it, who doesn't love to 'commiserate' (in this context, meaning to share their misery) with other likeminded people. It justifies our attachment to the drama. The interesting thing about telling our story over and over is that it becomes even more deeply ingrained in our minds each time we tell it, and the universe delights in keeping whatever we claim as our story alive. — Dennis Merritt Jones

I don't think you should have firearms where people are drinking. — Wayne LaPierre