Intellectually, as politically, the direction of all true progress is towards greater freedom, and along an endless succession of ideas. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
He hated to think of his own life stretching ahead of him that way, a long succession of days and nights that… — Robert Cormier Copy Share Image
One thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast withers as rapidly; and that which grows slow endures. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sad that our finest aspiration, Our freshest dreams and meditations, In swift succession should decay, Like Autumn leaves that rot away. — Alexander Pushkin Copy Share Image
The heart of man ever finds a constant succession of passions, so that the destroying and pulling down of one proves generally… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
I worked on three independent movies in close succession and I really learned from those directors how to stay on budget, make… — Michael Urie Copy Share Image
Writing is a perpetual choice between a thousand expressions, none of which satisfies me, none of which, above all, satisfies me without… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
The succession of thoughts appears in time, but the gap between two of them is outside time. The gap itself is normally… — Paul Brunton Copy Share Image
I was working with an extraordinarily successful company that was doing a CEO succession, and the board was discussing the threats to… — Justin Menkes Copy Share Image
I hold it to be one of the distinguishing excellences of elective over hereditary successions that the talents which nature has provided… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
If from one burning lamp someone lights another, then another from that one, and so on in succession, he has light continuously.… — Gregory Palamas Copy Share Image
And as he drove on, the rainclouds dragged down the sky after him, for, though he did not know it, Rob McKenna… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
All the forces that we see in nature, such as gravitation, attraction, and repulsion, or as thought, feeling, and nervous motion -… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Thus the brave and aspiring life of one man lights a flame in the minds of others of like faculties and impulse;… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
The most that one of Jewish faith can do - and some have gladly done it - is to say that Jesus… — Kenneth Scott Latourette Copy Share Image
An infinite number of real parts of time, passing in succession, and exhausted one after another, appears so evident a contradiction, that… — David Hume Copy Share Image
A woman's life can really be a succession of lives, each revolving around some emotionally compelling situation or challenge, and each marked… — Wallis Duchess of Windsor Copy Share Image
Reasons for anxiety will never be lacking, whether born of prosperity or of wretchedness; life pushes on in a succession of engrossments.… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
What goes on in this one little lifetime is not so important as you might like to think it is because you're… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
'Gossip Girl' came out in rapid succession over two years, so the endings always had to be suspenseful so that you couldn't… — Cecily von Ziegesar Copy Share Image
Therefore, if the gods are immortal and eternal, what need is there of the other sex, when they themselves do not require… — Lactantius Copy Share Image
SUCCESS is not about HERE and NOW. you must pass the TEST OF TIME. the litmus test is FIFTY YEARS from now.… — Mark Batterson Copy Share Image
Although I feel directing is a lot more challenging, fulfilling and satisfying, it is also far more stressful & consuming. This is… — Nandita Das Copy Share Image
Our sense of justice depends on our sense of time. Justice is a phenomenon only of consciousness, because time spread out in… — Julian Jaynes Copy Share Image
Nothing is more painful to the human mind than, after the feelings have been worked up by a quick succession of events,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I was interested in the idea of succession - showing a father and a son both in their own time and drawing… — Francis Ford Coppola Copy Share Image
Life appears in a vast variety and innumerable succession of individual forms, since the most salient character of the universe is just… — Joseph Alexander Leighton Copy Share Image
I always knew what I thought the theme was, the core, in one word. In 'The Godfather' it was succession. In 'The… — Francis Ford Coppola Copy Share Image
The lesson is that, No. 1, this management has to be at the highest class possible. No. 2, they have to have… — Al-Waleed bin Talal Copy Share Image
The Hollywood process is like trying to grill a steak by having a succession of people coming into the room and breathing… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Everything in the world may be endured, except only a succession of prosperous days. [Ger., Alles in der Welt lasst sich ertragen,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I was very influenced by the musicals and romantic comedies of the 1930s. I admired Gene Harlow and such, which probably explains… — Hugh Hefner Copy Share Image
The secret of the illusoriness is in the necessity of a succession of moods or objects. Gladly we would anchor, but the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Civilizations are built by the ceaseless toil of a succession of generations. With softness and sloth, civilizations succumb. Let us beware of… — Rajiv Gandhi Copy Share Image
I can't stand to sing the same song the same way two nights in succession. If you can, then it ain't music,… — Billie Holiday Copy Share Image
If there is something to permit the distinction between "solid" and "liquid" phases of modernity (that is, arranging them in an order… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
Students present themselves...like a succession of CDs whose shimmering surface gives no clue to their contents without the equipment to play them. — John Updike Copy Share Image
A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
My films generally center around thousands of pictures being flashed in rapid succession to create the illusion of motion. — Lars von Trier Copy Share Image
The film project has been “twenty years of constipation,” and he likens the Hollywood process to “trying to grill a steak by… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image