Throughout the world Dark Ages have scrawled finis to successions of cultures receding far into the past. — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
Age seldom arrives smoothly or quickly. It's more often a succession of jerks. — Jean Rhys Copy Share Image
Giant group events are distorting organisms: You can like and hate them in rapid succession. — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
My whole life has been merely a succession of miserable and unsuccessful denials of feelings or reason. — Mikhail Lermontov Copy Share Image
Poetry is a succession of questions which the poet constantly poses. — Vicente Aleixandre Copy Share Image
From a strictly articulatory point of view there is no succession of sounds. — Roman Jakobson Copy Share Image
Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
The universe, that vast assemblage of every thing that exists, presents only matter and motion: the whole offers to our contemplation, nothing… — Baron d'Holbach Copy Share Image
In the end, history, especially British history with its succession of thrilling illuminations, should be, as all her most accomplished narrators have… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
The historic ascent of humanity, taken as a whole, may be summarized as a succession of victories of consciousness over blind forces… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
Love the moment. Flowers grow out of dark moments. Therefore, each moment is vital. It affects the whole. Life is a succession… — Corita Kent Copy Share Image
To be forgotten is to sleep in peace with the undisturbed myriads, no longer subject to the chills and heats, the blasts,… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
My life will have been a succession of lives, as if I have had several lives, a multiplicity of stories and roles.… — Bernard Stiegler Copy Share Image
My job as an editor is to gently prod the attention of the audience to look at various parts of the frame.… — Walter Murch Copy Share Image
It seemed to me that one should make an effort to banish artificial classifications from chemistry and begin to assign to each… — Andre-Marie Ampere Copy Share Image
... The Anarchists' [national] anthem is an international anthem that consists of 365 raspberries blown in very quick succession to the tune… — Mike Harding Copy Share Image
Britain has had some very strong and successful queens throughout history, but, since the Act of Succession in 1701, they have only… — Penny Junor Copy Share Image
And so matching by itself is incapable of creating an art of reckoning. Without our ability to arrange things in ordered succession… — Tobias Dantzig Copy Share Image
Next Monday the Convention in Virginia will assemble; we have still good hopes of its adoption here: though by no great plurality… — George Washington Copy Share Image
For a few thousand years, women had no history. Marriage was our calling, and meekness our virtue. Over the last century, in… — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
While he has not, in my hearing, spoken the English language, he makes it perfectly plain that he understands it. And he… — Jean Little Copy Share Image
We are taught all this [the motion of the earth on its axis and around the sun] by the order of succession,… — Nicolaus Copernicus Copy Share Image
Palaeontology is the Aladdin's lamp of the most deserted and lifeless regions of the earth; it touches the rocks and there spring… — Roy Chapman Andrews Copy Share Image
To be hopeful in bad times is based on the fact that human history is not only of cruelty, but also of… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
For the machine meant the conquest of horizontal space. It also meant a sense of that space which few people had experienced… — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
Letting go all else, cling to the following few truths. Remember that man lives only in the present, in this fleeting instant:… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Religion exalts mystery as an unknowable secret that must be sealed in glass like the corpse of an enchanted princess and fearfully… — Lon Milo DuQuette Copy Share Image
A man's liberal and conservative phases seem to follow each other in a succession of waves from the time he is born.… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
I remember that one time Carl Sagan was giving a talk, and he spelled out, in a kind of withering succession, these… — Ann Druyan Copy Share Image
In a split second of eternity, everything is changed, transfigured. A few bars of music, rising from an unfamiliar place, a touch… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
“The only things known to go faster than ordinary light is monarchy, according to the philosopher Ly Tin Weedle. He reasoned like… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
![“... The Anarchists' [national] anthem is an international anthem that consists of 365 raspberries blown in very quick succession to the tune of Camptown Races. Nobody has to stand up for it, nobody has to listen to it, and, even better, nobody has to play it.” quote by Mike Harding](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/03f/mike-harding-29039_anarchist_the-anarchists-national-anthem-is-an-int_1025501.jpg)
![“We are taught all this [the motion of the earth on its axis and around the sun] by the order of succession, in which those phenomena (various planetary happenings) follow each other, and by the harmony of the world, if we will only, as the saying goes, look at the matter with both eyes.” quote by Nicolaus Copernicus](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/7ac/nicolaus-copernicus-10074_axes_we-are-taught-all-this-the-motion-of-the_741583.jpg)
