There is nothing glorious about what our ancestors call history. It is simply a succession of mistakes, intolerances and violations. — Claude Vorilhon Copy Share Image
Remember Henry Adam's jest that the succession of presidents from Washington to Grant disproved the theory of evolution? — George Will Copy Share Image
We live in succession, in division, in parts, in particles. Meantime within man is the soul of the whole; the wise silence;… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Rulers always hate and suspect the next in succession. [Lat., Suspectum semper invisumque dominantibus qui proximus destinaretur.] — Tacitus Copy Share Image
A mother's life, you see, is one long succession of dramas, now soft and tender, now terrible. Not an hour but has… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
During my eighty-seven years I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the… — Bernard Baruch Copy Share Image
'The New Jedi Order' was a pure publishing project: a single massive story - virtually one huge novel spread across multiple volumes… — Matthew Stover Copy Share Image
You end up with this succession of periods when everything was marvellous - from King Arthur to the medieval times, Ivanhoe, chivalry,… — Ian Hislop Copy Share Image
Society is purely and solely a continual series of exchanges... And the greatest eulogy we can give it, for exchange is an… — Antoine Destutt de Tracy Copy Share Image
. .we would have to say that hereditary succession is harmful. You may say the king, having sovereign power, will not in… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
It is only by practicing through a continual succession of agreeable and disagreeable situations that we acquire true strengths. To accept that… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
To write the true natural history of the world, we should need to be able to follow it from within. It would… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
The truth is that the whole life of the worker is simply a continuous and dismaying succession of terms of serfdom -… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
“There is surely nothing other than the purpose of the present moment. A man’s whole life is a succession of moment after… — Rati Tsiteladze Copy Share Image
That’s the great illusion of travel, of course, the notion that there’s somewhere to get to. A place where you can finally… — David Gilmour Copy Share Image
How silent, how spacious, what room for all, yet without place to insert an atom--in graceful succession, in equal fullness, in balanced… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Illusion, Temperament, Succession, Surface, Surprise, Reality, Subjectiveness,--these are the threads on the loom of time, these are the lords of life. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The Self doesn't live forever in time, it lives in the timeless present prior to time, prior to history, change, succession. The… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
As an individual, I myself feel impelled to fancy ... a limitless succession of Universes… Each exists, apartand independently, in the bosom… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“"Eternity is without succession, a simultaneous possession of all joys. To those who live toward Eternity, it really is not something at… — Archbishop Fulton Sheen Copy Share Image
Because someone is a lama or is part of a monastic order or claims to be part of a succession, doesn't really… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I have said more than once, that I hold space to be something purely relative, as time; an order of coexistences, as… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
When I search for Man in the technique and the style of Europe, I see only a succession of negations of man,… — Frantz Fanon Copy Share Image
Why not make an end of it all?... My life is a succession of griefs and bitter feelings… What is death?... A… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
The industry has to learn how to do CEO succession well. If your definition of success is Intel or Microsoft or HP… — John T. Chambers Copy Share Image
By a series of violent shocks, the nations in succession have struggled to shake off the Past, to reverse the action of… — John Acton Copy Share Image
True creativity is characterized by a succession of acts each dependent on the one before and suggesting the one after. — Edwin Land Copy Share Image
The history of creation is but a succession of battles between amateurs of genius-inspired heretics- and orthodox professionals. — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
If you say that the history of the Church is a long succession of scandals, you are telling the truth, though if… — Gerald Vann Copy Share Image
Kitsch causes two tears to flow in quick succession. The first tear says: How nice to see children running on the grass!… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
The earlier truths are not expelled but absorbed, not contradicted but extended; and the history of each science, which may thus appear… — William Whewell Copy Share Image
Succession planning has been a major priority at Southwest for quite some time. We think we have come up with a winning… — Herb Kelleher Copy Share Image
Entropy theory, on the other hand, is not concerned with the probability of succession in a series of items but with the… — Rudolf Arnheim Copy Share Image
[To Parliament, when it urged her to marry and settle the succession:] You attend to your own duties and I'll perform mine. — Elizabeth I Copy Share Image
There is a cropping-time in the races of men, as in the fruits of the field; and sometimes, if the stock be… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
If from poetry we expect a succession of signals for the release of miscellaneous private emotion we are likely to find Tears,… — Raymond Williams Copy Share Image
A successful life does not result from chance; nor is it determined by fate or good fortune, but rather through a succession… — Ari Kiev Copy Share Image
He had, they said, tasted in succession all the apples of the tree of knowledge, and, whether from hunger or disgust, had… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Near the centre of that State of New York lies an extensive district of country, whose surface is a succession of hills… — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
...small too even the longest fame thereafter, which is itself subject to a succession of little men who quickly die, and have… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
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