Triumphalist Quotes

#1. I didn't have a manifesto. I had some discontent. It seemed to me that midcentury mainstream American science fiction had often been triumphalist and militaristic, a sort of folk propaganda for American exceptionalism.

William Gibson

#2. We should never become despondent because the weather is bad, nor should we turn triumphalist because the sun shines.

Thabo Mbeki

#3. When it comes to my rights as an American citizen, and yours, I am a triumphalist and an absolutist. Anything less is an insult,

James Meredith

#4. People keep framing this as a religious freedom issue, but there's a difference between practicing your religion - which everyone has the right to do - and rubbing your religion in people's faces as a triumphalist political statement, which is what's happening here.

Pat Condell

#5. My biggest successes were mainly in the pop market during the 80s.

Juice Newton

#6. The English people, a lot of them, would not be able to understand a word of spoken Shakespeare. There are people who do and I'm not denying they exist. But it's a far more philistine country than people think.

Colin Firth

#7. For what is history, but ... huge libel on human nature, to which we industriously add page after page, volume after volume, as if we were holding up a monument to the honor, rather than the infamy of our species.

Washington Irving

#8. You weren't kidding, Chloe. That is one beautiful bastard. I wouldn't kick him out of my bed. Or car. Or dressing room. Or elevator, or-

Christina Lauren

#9. When we realize we can make a buck cleaning up the environment, it will be done!

Dennis Weaver

#10. The idiot was not a lot of thinking, which is an important move on. Smart people mostly think, consequently never stepped

Bob Sadino

#11. Wild things have restless wings that too often need to fly.

Michael Xavier

#12. I'm not a sad old hippie - I'm a joyous old hippie.

Robert Plant

#13. You cannot be President of the United States if you don't have faith. Remember Lincoln, going to his knees in times of trial in the Civil War and all that stuff.

George H. W. Bush

#14. And they fell. Together.

Susan Dennard

#15. What gets me pretty pissed off is the whole Monsanto engineered foods issue.

Alex Ebert