I will not be triumphed over.
CLEOPATRA
CLEOPATRA
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Nothing could part us in life, but now in death we are likely to change places, you the Roman lying here in Egyptian soil, and I, helpless woman that I am, being buried in Italy.
CleopatraCleopatra Leave the fishing-rod, Great General, to us sovereigns of Pharos and Canopus. Your game is cities and kings and continents.
CleopatraCleopatra All strange and terrible events are welcome, but comforts we despise.
CleopatraCleopatra Is he a good man?” “Define ‘good’.
CleopatraCleopatra In praising Antony I have dispraised Caesar.
CleopatraCleopatra My honour was not yielded, but conquered merely.
CleopatraCleopatra Be it known that we, the greatest, are misthought.
CleopatraCleopatra Fool! Don’t you see now that I could have poisoned you a hundred times had I been able to live without you.
CleopatraCleopatra And make death proud to take us.
CleopatraCleopatra
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Tyler Knott GregsonTyler Knott Gregson Nothing is permanent not even your pain.
Taj AroraTaj Arora Do not insist me to let you go, you come half hearted like a crescent moon, and you go heart-filled like a full moon which glows.
Nikita GandhiNikita Gandhi I want to fold you into my book, like a petal, so that you’d never leave.
Mira R. AridiMira R. Aridi It seems strange how we look in the same mirror, yet what stares back, is so painfully different.
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Bear GryllsBear Grylls I look at you and I see the final triumph of stupidity in the world!
Lorraine HansberryLorraine Hansberry Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.
B. C. ForbesB. C. Forbes Science is triumphant with far-ranging success, but its triumph is somehow clouded by growing difficulties in providing for the simple necessities of human life on earth.
Barry CommonerBarry Commoner At all times sincere friends of freedom have been rare, and its triumphs have been due to minorities.
Lord ActonLord Acton At all times sincere friends of freedom have been rare, and its triumphs have been due to minorities, that have prevailed by associating themselves with auxiliaries whose objects often differed from their own; and this association, which is always dangerous, has sometimes been disastrous.
Lord ActonLord Acton The greatest triumphs of propoganda have been accomplished, not by doing something, but by refraining from doing. Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.
Aldous HuxleyAldous Huxley We have known the bitterness of defeat and the exultation of triumph, and from both we have learned there can be no turning back. We must go forward to preserve in peace what we won in war. A new era is upon us.
Douglas MacArthurDouglas MacArthur